[arachne] Re: The Bible says it's smart to be a dumb ass

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On Mon, 24 Oct 2005 12:00:07 -0500, Samuel W. Heywood wrote:

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> On Mon, 24 Oct 2005 09:57:03 -0400, L.D. Best wrote:

>> But how could something dumb speak at all?
>> ====

>> Samuel W. Heywood wrote:
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>>> See 2nd letter of Peter, Chapter 2, verse 16, where it says:

>>> "the dumb ass speaking with man's voice forbad the madness
>>> of the prophet".

> Interesting question.  For answers I turned to Numbers, Chapter 22,
> to read the story concerning the reported event to which St. Peter
> refers in the quotation above.

> In verse 28 of the story the Bible says "And the Lord opened the mouth
> of the ass, and she said unto Balaam . . . . ."  The equine creature is
> described as a female several times in the story.  The original report
> of the talking equine admonishing the mad prophet does not say that she
> spoke in "man's" voice.  It seems that St. Peter failed to do his homework
> on this account when he wrote and circulated his second letter.  When you
> arrive at the Pearly Gates to request permission to enter you will have an
> opportunity to flame him for that.  Give him hell, L.D.

> If you would do that for me you might get to go where I'm going.

The ass spoke in the voice of men, i.e. plain and comprehensible human
speech. They weren't so PC then. PML.
GST+NPT=JOBS

I.e., a Goods and Services Tax (or almost any other broad based production 
tax), with a Negative Payroll Tax, promotes employme
t. 

See http://member.netlink.com.au/~peterl/publicns.html#AFRLET2 and the other 
items on that page for some reasons why. 

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