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Recently unearthed in Pompeii

These bodies are believed to be a wealthy man and his slave.

Vesuvius treated them in quite an egalitarian manner.

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Peppa · 31-35, F
Your the second person to have posted this or you've posted this the second time... Why?
DrWatson · 70-79, M
@Peppa I did not realize someone else posted about it.

The picture just struck me as a powerful statement about how our relative status in life means nothing in the end. Thus, it reminds me of the biblical message to focus on spiritual things, to amass wealth in heaven, rather than on earth.
Peppa · 31-35, F
@DrWatson I get that but also its a sad reminder that money and power can allow you to hold someone else's life in the palm of your hand
DrWatson · 70-79, M
@Peppa I understand how we bring different life experiences to this photo. I see it as a reprimand to slave owners. You see it as a reminder that slave owners have existed in the first place. I get that.