XPost: alt.religion.christian, alt.religion.jiffyism   
   From: sniff@sniffle.inv   
      
   On Mon, 07 Feb 2005 02:06:02 +0000, SoT wrote:   
      
   > The name is irrelevent?  If you only knew how totally wrong that is.   
   > The name is everything.  Do you remember the answer Moses received   
   > when he asked the burning bush what its name was?  It was a basic   
   > none of your business type of answer.  Why do you think not even   
   > Moses was counted worthy to know that name?   
      
   duuno; don't care.  here's why:   
      
   moses "cool, a burning bush!"   
   bush "hey, wanna free your people from slavery and rule them yourself?"   
   moses "sure, what do I have to do?"   
   bush "go tell the pharoh to release your people or you and I will rain on   
   his parade"   
   moses "works for me so far; what exactly does each side get out of   
   this?"   
   bush "I promise to make sure you all get away, and get to this land   
   here.  you guys all follow my 10 rules."   
   moses "hmm...   okay, my part is to free my people and lead them to this   
   promised land.  on the way we pick up your rules, after we're free.  we go   
   from slaves of a man, to freedom, to being slaves of a voice and a   
   bush; but I'm in charge after you, until I die, right?"   
   bush "that's about the size of it.   
   moses "okay, sounds good.  hey, what's your name?"   
   bush "uhh.  let's not go there.  consider me a means to an end."   
      
   the exercise of power is both good and bad.  it is for me to decide if it   
   was good or not.  moses was perhaps a better ruler than pharoh.  matters   
   not how he got there.  maybe the voice behind the bush had evil intent,   
   maybe not.  maybe all moses achieved was just parlor magic.    moses   
   didn't seem to have an evil intent, except to another man who had made   
   slaves of people. that's what matters, IMO.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)