"God made a huge mistake when he decided to get into real estate"

[undeterred]

That quote is from my father, who was an atheist (he passed many years ago). A really apt commentary for the times, I think.

[patdem]

1. and my Dad...the bible was written by the BEST marketer in the universe

he did not declare himself an atheist..we were in Catholic school at the time...but I do believe he was an atheist...MANY years ago. My only friend..and he died when I was 16 long before I could understand his wisdom!

[azurnoir]

2. There's a Jewish saying

"Moses should have walked another 40 years to where the oil is"

[patdem]

3. What a chuckle that wit and wisdom brings...!

Youda thought ..with all the foresight of God and all.they woulda known?

[undeterred]

5. If a woman were in charge she would have asked for directions

or at least looked at a map. :shrug:

[Fridays Child]

6. Uh...

:applause: :woohoo: :applause:

[warrior1]

4. Mark Twain...

http://paine.classicauthors.net/twainbio/twainbio62.html

Perhaps most of them were not always reverent during that Holy Land trip. It was a trying journey, and after fierce days of desert hills the reaction might not always spare even the holiest memories. Jack was particularly sinful. When they learned the price for a boat on Galilee, and the deacons who had traveled nearly half around the world to sail on that sacred water were confounded by the charge, Jack said:

"Well, Denny, do you wonder now that Christ walked?"

It was the irreverent Jack who one morning (they had camped the night before by the ruins of Jericho) refused to get up to see the sun rise across the Jordan. Deacon Church went to his tent.

"Jack, my boy, get up. Here is the place where the Israelites crossed over into the Promised Land, and beyond are the mountains of Moab, where Moses lies buried."

"Moses who!" said Jack.

"Oh, Jack, my boy, Moses, the great lawgiver--who led the Israelites out of Egypt-forty years through the wilderness--to the Promised Land."

"Forty years!" said Jack. "How far was it?"

"It was three hundred miles, Jack; a great wilderness, and he brought them through in safety."

Jack regarded him with scorn. "Huh, Moses--three hundred miles forty years--why, Ben Holiday would have brought them through in thirty-six hours!" --Ben Holiday, owner of the Overland stages, and a man of great executive ability. This incident, a true one, is more elaborately told in Roughing It, but it seems pertinent here.

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