What do you make of "Faction Before Blood"?
- NanoWasabi
- Posts: 98
- Joined: 10 Mar 2014, 12:42
- Favorite Book: Watership Down
- Currently Reading: Atlas Shrugged
- Bookshelf Size: 49
- Reviewer Page: onlinebookclub.org/reviews/by-nanowasabi.html
- Latest Review: "MXX: Agent Soldier" by Donald Schlising
Re: What do you make of "Faction Before Blood"?
-
- Posts: 53
- Joined: 11 Sep 2014, 21:54
- Bookshelf Size: 0
- Reviewer Page: onlinebookclub.org/reviews/by-anndj.html
- DHasel
- Posts: 4
- Joined: 06 Sep 2014, 19:06
- Bookshelf Size: 0
-
- Posts: 26
- Joined: 10 Jul 2014, 03:17
- Bookshelf Size: 0
- hollirm
- Posts: 66
- Joined: 19 Oct 2014, 00:49
- Bookshelf Size: 1
- Reviewer Page: onlinebookclub.org/reviews/by-hollirm.html
- lindac1_98
- Posts: 19
- Joined: 02 Oct 2014, 14:40
- Bookshelf Size: 0
- Reviewer Page: onlinebookclub.org/reviews/by-lindac1-98.html
-
- Posts: 69
- Joined: 09 Dec 2014, 00:53
- Favorite Book: <a href="http://forums.onlinebookclub.org/shelve ... 710">Pride and Prejudice</a>
- Currently Reading: The Snow Child
- Bookshelf Size: 59
- Reviewer Page: onlinebookclub.org/reviews/by-deah319.html
- Reading Device: B00JG8GOWU
- r2ya
- Posts: 1
- Joined: 12 Dec 2014, 17:12
- Bookshelf Size: 0
I wholeheartedly agree; placing limitations on your allegiances in such a way as to assume blind faith in ones "faction" (or family, religion, class, political party ect.) is ridiculous. There will undoubtedly be times where you disagree with your faction (or any other collective group bound by blood or otherwise), and placing them before anything knowing they are wrong reeks of injustice.stoppoppingtheP wrote:I do not agree with 'faction before blood', or indeed even 'blood before faction'. In either of these situations you are being told to choose a group and agree with the decisions of a group no matter what those decisions are.
I would rather choose "truth before anything else", if there is such a category.
- Aivlys
- Posts: 87
- Joined: 09 Nov 2014, 10:40
- Bookshelf Size: 0
- Reviewer Page: onlinebookclub.org/reviews/by-aivlys.html
The family that I was born into just happened. And family does not always mean loving and kind. They're not always the people you would trust to stand by you or even want to have anything to do with once you leave. I think the people you choose to be with, whether that's the family you're building with your spouse/partner or close friends or even distant relatives who are closer to you and more supportive than your family of birth is more important and says more about you than people who just happen to be closely related to you genetically. You can choose to be close to your genetic family of course, for whatever reasons, but I don't think doing that should be considered the default.
And I think part of growing up is sometimes saying, "I know you're my parents and I love you but we don't share the same beliefs about some things and I can't let you influence me anymore." That doesn't mean you don't love your parents but there comes a time when you start to set those boundaries. I think the faction choosing ceremony is meant to represent that time in a child's life. And just like a man sometimes has to draw a line with his mother so that she respects the place of his wife in her life, when they choose a faction other than their birth faction, they're drawing a line, making a choice.
- huntingmyths
- Posts: 7
- Joined: 16 Dec 2014, 13:04
- Bookshelf Size: 0
- Reviewer Page: onlinebookclub.org/reviews/by-huntingmyths.html
To me, this is actually quite a bit of truth as most of my family currently are those whom I get along with and push me to be my best. They're the ones who you trust beyond a shadow of a doubt when things get trust and you need someone to rely on. Just because you share blood doesn't mean that you are required to have them as part of your life.
It's saying that the person is choosing the faction that will help them expand and grow. It's saying that they're not going to let their family hold them back from being who they are. An example would be going to university for a major that your parents don't approve of because there aren't a lot of jobs in the field or it's not a high-paying field and they want you to be able to be secure. It's saying that you're wanting to take the risk because it's what gives you more joy than playing it safe by staying in what you know
- colemaba
- Posts: 148
- Joined: 07 Jul 2014, 17:06
- Favorite Book: <a href="http://forums.onlinebookclub.org/shelve ... 21844">the hinger games</a>
- Currently Reading: Enders Game
- Bookshelf Size: 39
- Reviewer Page: onlinebookclub.org/reviews/by-colemaba.html
- Latest Review: "Angel of Destiny" by T.L.Adams
- sventurino
- Posts: 5
- Joined: 02 Jan 2015, 01:10
- Bookshelf Size: 0
- Reviewer Page: onlinebookclub.org/reviews/by-sventurino.html
-
- Posts: 13
- Joined: 05 Jan 2015, 10:29
- Bookshelf Size: 0
-
- Posts: 28
- Joined: 27 Dec 2014, 19:59
- Bookshelf Size: 11
- Reviewer Page: onlinebookclub.org/reviews/by-gervaisk.html
- Kaitlin Lake
- Posts: 85
- Joined: 17 Jan 2015, 10:32
- Favorite Book: The Vampire Academy Series
- Currently Reading: The City Of Heavenly Fire
- Bookshelf Size: 23
- Reviewer Page: onlinebookclub.org/reviews/by-kaitlin-lake.html