really.

My vote goes to the candidate who acknowledges religion
but does not base ANY policy upon it…

NO PACs or Special Interest Lobbyist scum either…

I think I’ve heard somewhere that the best leaders are those
who don’t actually want the power…

I agree.

Then why the bumper stickers? I don’t know…

Anyway he has a family… he doesn’t want to be president.
that’s fine… Then how about we clone him and download
his consciousness into the clone… and the clone could run
for president.

I signed all the petitions…. bought the bumper stickers
because I KNOW he’d be the best man for the job…

simple as that… I’ve been trying to get him to run since ‘04

He doesn’t want the job and that’s ok

Much love and respect Jesse V and family…

You are the best man for the job… let things happen as they may…
You can’t force someone to run for president.

I wouldn’t want to even if I could.

That’s my take on the 2008 presidential election
the best candidates won’t or can’t (Arnold) even run.

So what’ve we got???

Leftover wannabe kings and queens who couldn’t effectively govern
if the world depended on it.

Well Jess… I did spend nearly $5 on a bumper sticker…

And, if you don’t run… well… I respect that, but Hillary??? Barack??? Rudy???
(I’ve got nothing against Barack…)

Who are these characters? It’s like a bad Beetle Bailey comic strip nightmare…

Oh well you can’t say I didn’t try.

If he isn’t THAT why don’t he run for president.

huh, jesus… huh?

wtf

“An ophan (plural Ophanin, Ophannin or Ophanim) is one of a class of celestial beings described in the Book of Enoch[1] with the Cherubim and Seraphim as never sleeping, but watching (or guarding) the throne of God.”

and : http://www.angelfire.com/pe/ophanim/

it was weird to read the rest of this post after that, the word ‘lion’ popped into my head immediately upon encountering that first paragraph.

Ha ha ha!

also, where did the ophanim image render come from?

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it was weird to read the rest of this post after that, the word ‘lion’ popped into my head immediately upon encountering that first paragraph.

also, where did the ophanim image render come from?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3SvqEIKP4t8

I had no idea this movie came out

Also interesting is that the terabinth plant contains tannin which is an anti-toxin for hemlock…

Couple interesting quotes there:

Tennyson says in The Princess, “Though the rough kex break the starred mosaic,”

And

‘If Asses chance to feed much upon Hemlock, they will fall so fast asleep that they will seeme to be dead, in so much that some thinking them to be dead indeed have flayed off their skins, yet after the Hemlock had done operating they have stirred and wakened out of their sleep, to the griefe and amazement of the owners.’

Reminds me of Socrates, as well as the theories that Jesus took a drug to make him appear dead and then came magically back to life.

It’s quite interesting how every plant that is classified by us today as “poisonous” was heavily used throughout history for other things besides poison.

Then there’s the King/Jesse/Jesus referenced (never actually read the Bridge to Terabithia - but I did mention the BridgerFisher above):

In that day the Root of Jesse will stand as a banner for the peoples; the nations will rally to him, and his place of rest will be glorious.² Leave it to the Lord to make an unsightly root his banner, the flag at which all kings will be silent and all nations will bow. Roots are best left unseen, underground, invisibly drawing up nutrients from the soil, feeding the branches which produce leaves and fruit. Expose the root and the whole tree dies. But cut down the tree even to a stump and it will return, as long as the root is alive.

I have more stuff about roots posting later, not surprisingly…

O Root of Jesse, you stand as a sign for the peoples; before you kings shall keep silence and to you all nations shall have recourse. Come, save us, and do not delay.

Isaiah 52:13, 15; 53:2: “See, my servant shall prosper…So shall he startle many nations, because of him kings shall stand speechless. …He grew up like a sapling before him, like a shoot”.

http://www.nccbuscc.org/nab/bible/isaiah/isaiah11.htm

I remember seeing handmade banners in church growing up talking about the Root of Jesse and I had no idea what they were talking about. But now I am starting to grasp it.

Matthew 3:10 - And now also the axe is laid unto the root of the trees: therefore every tree which bringeth not forth good fruit is hewn down, and cast into the fire.

And a Bob Marley reference I didnt realize:

http://homepage.ntlworld.com/davebulow/wow/lyrics_bob_marley_-_roots.htm

“The name of Terabithia, the imaginary kingdom, sounds very much like Terebinthia, a Narnian island, created by C. S. Lewis for both Prince Caspian and The Voyage of the Dawn Treader. Katherine Paterson acknowledges that Terabithia is likely derived from Terebinthia.

“I thought I had made it up. Then, rereading The Voyage of the Dawn Treader by C. S. Lewis, I realized that I had probably gotten it from the island of Terebinthia in that book. However, Lewis probably got that name from the Terebinth tree in the Bible, so both of us pinched from somewhere else, probably unconsciously.”[12]

Bridge to Terabithia makes a direct reference to The Chronicles of Narnia, with Leslie lending the stories to Jesse so that he can learn to behave like a king.”