20.3.10

Cross Swords

إِنَّ الَّذِي فَرَضَ عَلَيْكَ الْقُرْآنَ لَرَادُّكَ إِلَى مَعَادٍ قُل رَّبِّي أَعْلَمُ مَن جَاء بِالْهُدَى وَمَنْ هُوَ فِي ضَلَالٍ مُّبِينٍ 28:85
28:85 Indeed, He Who Imposed Upon you the Quran Responds to You as Promised (Will Take You Back as Appointed; Repeats you (Resurrects you as Promised); Say, "He (swt) Knows who comes to Him Guided and who is in Obvious Error/Clearly Lost."

مَّنِ اهْتَدَى فَإِنَّمَا يَهْتَدي لِنَفْسِهِ وَمَن ضَلَّ فَإِنَّمَا يَضِلُّ عَلَيْهَا وَلاَ تَزِرُ وَازِرَةٌ وِزْرَ أُخْرَى وَمَا كُنَّا مُعَذِّبِينَ حَتَّى نَبْعَثَ رَسُولاً 17:15
Whomsoever is guided, indeed he is guided for his own good, and whomsoever strays, indeed strays to his own loss; and no bearer of burdens is made to bear another's burden; and We do not Torment/Punish unless We Send/Raise a Messenger.

قُلْ كُلٌّ يَعْمَلُ عَلَى شَاكِلَتِهِ فَرَبُّكُمْ أَعْلَمُ بِمَنْ هُوَ أَهْدَى سَبِيلاً 17:84
17:84 Say: "Each (person) acts/does things in their own peculiar/particular/specific way (manner); but (know that) Your Sustainer Knows which among them is on the Right (Straight) Path (Correct Guidance)."

لِكُلِّ أُمَّةٍ جَعَلْنَا مَنسَكًا هُمْ نَاسِكُوهُ فَلَا يُنَازِعُنَّكَ فِي الْأَمْرِ وَادْعُ إِلَى رَبِّكَ إِنَّكَ لَعَلَى هُدًى مُّسْتَقِيمٍ 22:67
22:67 For Every (Each) Nation We Appointed Religious Rites they must follow; so do not let them dispute with you in the matter; and pray to your Sustainer (Call on God) that you are Guided on the Right Path (Straight Way)

وَلِكُلِّ أُمَّةٍ جَعَلْنَا مَنسَكًا لِيَذْكُرُوا اسْمَ اللَّهِ عَلَى مَا رَزَقَهُم مِّن بَهِيمَةِ الْأَنْعَامِ فَإِلَهُكُمْ إِلَهٌ وَاحِدٌ فَلَهُ أَسْلِمُوا وَبَشِّرِ الْمُخْبِتِينَ 22:34
22:34 And for Every (Each) Nation We Have Appointed a Religious Rite (Ceremonial Manner) by which to Pronounce/Remember God's name over what He Provides/Blesses them with of Beasts and Cattle; and your God is One God so Follow/Submit to Him; and give glad tidings to the humble/unassuming/respectful.

18.3.10

Kiss And Tell

Draft--I was working on Rings but nooo, I have to take a time out to deal with monkey business since it seems I woke up on the Planet of the Apes today...

A smart monkey never monkies with another monkey's monkey--Unknown

Never kiss a monkey!--Unknown

But why stop at monkeys...

Women are like elephants to me: I like to look at them, but I wouldn't want to own one.
--W. C. Fields


...this quote thrown in because Elephants love Nuts...

And the subject of kissing is only a dilemma if you are a monkey...

If you kiss her, you are not a gentleman
If you don't, you are not a man...
--Unknown


I would prefer not to have to post on this subject (the Law) but since I woke up on the Planet of the Apes this morning, I figured that's my queue ('cue' that is) to put an end to all the monkey business...I mean who makes this stuff up and how do they get so many people to go along with it...(ooohhhh, ILLITERATI!)

زُيِّنَ لِلنَّاسِ حُبُّ الشَّهَوَاتِ مِنَ النِّسَاء وَالْبَنِينَ وَالْقَنَاطِيرِ الْمُقَنطَرَةِ مِنَ الذَّهَبِ وَالْفِضَّةِ وَالْخَيْلِ الْمُسَوَّمَةِ وَالأَنْعَامِ وَالْحَرْثِ ذَلِكَ مَتَاعُ الْحَيَاةِ الدُّنْيَا وَاللّهُ عِندَهُ حُسْنُ الْمَآبِ (3:14)

3:14...the desire for women...it's a good thing and no bans on it (there are guidelines, however, as to which women are permissible for such ardor--that's a homework assignment)

وَاللاَّتِي يَأْتِينَ الْفَاحِشَةَ مِن نِّسَآئِكُمْ فَاسْتَشْهِدُواْ عَلَيْهِنَّ أَرْبَعةً مِّنكُمْ فَإِن شَهِدُواْ فَأَمْسِكُوهُنَّ فِي الْبُيُوتِ حَتَّىَ يَتَوَفَّاهُنَّ الْمَوْتُ أَوْ يَجْعَلَ اللّهُ لَهُنَّ سَبِيلاً (4:15)

...punishment for totally overboard behaviour (al-fahishat==pornography or lewdness; nowhere is a simple kiss interpreted as lewd except on the Planet of the Apes) appears to be house arrest when it comes to crimes of passion....nothing about lopping off ears or noses (which would answer the question where do noses go when people kiss?)

وَالْمُحْصَنَاتُ مِنَ النِّسَاء إِلاَّ مَا مَلَكَتْ أَيْمَانُكُمْ كِتَابَ اللّهِ عَلَيْكُمْ وَأُحِلَّ لَكُم مَّا وَرَاء ذَلِكُمْ أَن تَبْتَغُواْ بِأَمْوَالِكُم مُّحْصِنِينَ غَيْرَ مُسَافِحِينَ فَمَا اسْتَمْتَعْتُم بِهِ مِنْهُنَّ فَآتُوهُنَّ أُجُورَهُنَّ فَرِيضَةً وَلاَ جُنَاحَ عَلَيْكُمْ فِيمَا تَرَاضَيْتُم بِهِ مِن بَعْدِ الْفَرِيضَةِ إِنَّ اللّهَ كَانَ عَلِيمًا حَكِيمًا (4:24)

...if you desire women (free, unmarried) court them openly (pledging a dower) and do not make them chattel (secret lovers for nothing)...(go over homework notes prior to engaging in this activity)

سَلْ بَنِي إِسْرَائِيلَ كَمْ آتَيْنَاهُم مِّنْ آيَةٍ بَيِّنَةٍ وَمَن يُبَدِّلْ نِعْمَةَ اللّهِ مِن بَعْدِ مَا جَاءتْهُ فَإِنَّ اللّهَ شَدِيدُ الْعِقَابِ (2:211)

...as opposed to misdemeanors like lapses in judgment when it comes to social mores involving sex (like kissing, petting, etc.) that do not have any punishment ascribed to them other than say house arrest until you get your hormones under control; and those doling out punishment are reminded to be merciful since that's how they would want to be judged, however, harsh punishment is incurred for Changing God's Laws- is Punishable to the Fullest Extent of His Reach (just ask B'nai Israel)...

...if the stoning, lashing thing comes up it applies to cases of adultery (infidelity by a married man or a married women) and it would seem the married ones get the full punishment but you need 4 honorable sober citizens to testify that they saw the act with their own eyes (Photoshop and Video special effects do not count) before imposing any punishment and again, it is reminded to temper judgment with mercy (and consider special circumstances like one spouse forcing the other to stay in a bad marriage by some coercive means, etc.) because God is Merciful and that's how you want to be doled out your own hard won punishment; and if the infidelity is with an unmarried partner they only get half what the married participant gets (or some other merciful sentence)...and if the adulterers are so careless as not to be aware of 4 sets of sober prying eyes following them around...but there is an out, if the cheated on spouse has no witnesses that the infidelity took place and swears to God 5 times that it did, and it turns out to be false, they incur damnation on the Fifth Swear...and if the contesting spouse swears by God they are innocent 5 times and it turns out to be false, they also incur God's damnation on the 5th Swear...so ultimately, best to leave such matters in God's hands... (Personally, I would not want to test this one out and best be sure not to bear false witness Five Times in the Sight of God, so don't say you were not all warned, best to go for counseling and divorce is always the less painful out.)

did I get it right? do I get an A!

Oh, Man! I can't even keep up with the Monkey business on this here Planet...
Re; The talk show host sentenced to death for practicing sorcery in Saudi Arabia..

Predicting the future and all such is perfectly acceptable, even Moses has been documented as having practiced 'sorcery' , as did Solomon.

Unless the poor fellow caused some sort of dissension between bonded couples, what harm is there or are the Saudis given to changing God's Words and refuse to learn a lesson from B'nai Israel...
I really would rather be dealing with Rings right now...

13.3.10

AP History

"Those who cannot learn from history are doomed to repeat it".--George Santayana

{History 101 Recommended but not Required}

I still choose to remain apolitical, but I would like to help Hillary out with a new perspective:

Pulled from Saturday, March 13, 2010 The New York Times front page footer (yes, it did appear below the fold);



'Clinton Rebukes Israel'
"In a phone call to Israel's prime minister, Secretary of State Hillary
Rodham Clinton bluntly criticized a housing plan in East Jerusalem."


Our Secretary of State is tied up with Protocol, but here I suffer not from such pretensions, and can see the reason everyone was out to down my Spaceship was because theirs' are all so bogged down with their own massive doses of industrial-strength hypocrisy (and short memory).

Surah 61 Saff (Row, Qeue, Tier, Rank, Dilineated)كَبُرَ مَقْتًا عِندَ اللَّهِ أَن تَقُولُوا مَا لَا تَفْعَلُونَ 61:3
61:3 The Biggest Abomination in God's Presence (Sight) is that you say what you (yourselves) do not do (i.e., Hypocrisy).

And while it Holds True that God Loves His Creation, under such circumstances it is fair to say:

Surah 26 Shu'arah (The Poets)قَالَ إِنِّي لِعَمَلِكُم مِّنَ الْقَالِينَ 26:168
26:168 He Said, 'I Detest your conduct (Hate/Am Appalled/Repulsed/Utterly Disgusted by your works/actions/deeds)."
Does This Bit of History Sound Familiar? Do you see any Parallels?



· In Germany Jews were persecuted with growing intensity from April 1933 onwards.· In Israel Palestinians were persecuted by Israelis with growing intensity from 1948 onwards.· Most Jews were banned from working in the public sector, from higher education and from working in the media.· Most Palestinians are banned from working in the public sector; from higher education and from working in the media and regularly denied access to their places of worship (image right: so the kid gets detained for simply wanting to go someplace nice and quiet to genuflect).
· The Nuremberg Laws in effect deprived German Jews of citizenship.
· Since 1948 Palestinians are deprived of Palestinian or Israeli citizenship.· Jews banned from the professions; mass violence against Jews on 9-10 November (and longer in many parts of Germany).· Since 1948 Palestinians banned from professions; mass violence against Palestinians is condoned since the World view is shifted to believing Palestinian claims to their own homeland are subservient to the needs for a Jewish state (never mind that Jews were living freely and never persecuted in Palestine prior to 1948).· Jews forbidden to own businesses. Jews forced to live in designated apartment blocks marked with a huge J over all entrances.· Palistinians were forcibly expelled from their homes and businesses and forced to live in camps (Read Dir Yasin, Gang of Four, Sabraa and Shatilla).· Following the Nazi invasion of the Soviet Union (June), mobile killing units (SD-Einsatgruppen) went into action behind German lines, slaughtering the Jews
· Palestinian territories are invaded and mass killings ensue but somehow it’s okay because it’s done by the Israeli Defense Forces.· Jews forbidden to leave Germany and German controlled territory and ordered to wear a yellow Star of David.· Palestinians as the one pictured here are forbidden to leave ‘Occupied Territories’ and forced to ‘carry papers’ and banned from their own houses of worship.· Deportations of Jews from Berlin and other German cities to 'the East'. In practice, this meant that they were taken to 'killing fields' in Latvia and Belarus. Some were dumped in ghettos in Poland.· Palestinians are forced to flee their homelands due to escalating violence in order to have any hope for a better life; those who cannot are routinely terrorized by ‘Jewish Settlers’ to force them to move off their land; large population is dumped into refugee camps in surrounding countries where they are not welcome.· Routine mass gassings start at Chelmno. Start of the 'Final Solution’· Palestinian homes routinely bulldozed in order to clear out lots for illegal Jewish settlements in what is now called ‘Occupied Territories’; routine aerial bombings over civilian targets for a very quick ‘Easy Answer’ disguised as counterstrikes to terrorism; Israel seals off territories from media or harasses and sometimes executes third parties trying to bring balance to the situation because that’s the ‘Easy Answer.’

History, can only take us so far, and we are eventually forced to look at the consequences of such monumental History:

Current Events:
The fastest-growing Jewish community in the world is in Germany, especially in its capital Berlin. Some tens of thousands of Jews from the former Eastern Bloc have settled in Germany since the fall of the Berlin wall. The experiences during the Nazi era, a cosmopolitan and anti-nationalistic post-war education, and the political movement of the Sixties have created an atmosphere of tolerance in Germany which is still missing in many post-communist states.






Given:


The above Current Event as the natural outcome of the Jewish History in Nazi Germany:


Guess:


What can we expect to be the natural outcome of the Palestinian History in Zionist Israel?

Lemma see if We Kant Solve for the Answer Just Hume...


Always remember to lead with the left, thusly:





Some like white meat, others
prefer dark, but according to my friend Dave, "Parts is
parts!"


Zionists believe they are 'God's People' and favored by Him to the exclusion of all Others because their Moms uphold tradition and cook Seder meals and light candles on weekends; for this reason God only acknowledges this side of Abraham's family and wants to give them exclusive rights to a land that has been historically co-inhabited by not only Jews but also all the Other kinfolk prior to the Hitler years.

Get_Fuzzy July 19, 2012  Horror Movie Pitch--Moving Furniture
You are a Jew if your Mom is a Jew, sometimes if your Dad is too, but none of the Others are special because their Moms are not Jewish and rather than lighting candles we have caught some of them moving about the furniture; the tables, the chairs and the lamps (we will not talk about the monuments or land parcels).

We think this is a story some guys cooked up over a game of backgammon but somehow it found its way into the Bible depending on which version you may be vaguely familiar with since it has been written and rewritten often enough to deter further investigation into the roots of this creative elitism (read biggotry, racisms, yada yada).


"Great wits are sure to madness near allied;
And thin partitions do their bonds divide."
--John Dryden, Absalom and Achitophel

The apparent trouble is rooted in the very fact that there is not to be a distinction or segregation at all because We have information that God loves the Moms that move about the furniture just as much as the ones that light the candles (and granted the one Mom with the furniture routine rights to a spaceship whenever He makes her think she's about to get whacked!)
Surah 90 Al-Balad (The Country, Soil, Land)

لَا أُقْسِمُ بِهَذَا الْبَلَدِ 90:1
90:1 I/We DO NOT Divide/Section/Partition In This Country/Soil/Land
وَأَنتَ حِلٌّ بِهَذَا الْبَلَدِ 90:2
90:2 And you are Free In This Country/Soil/Land
وَوَالِدٍ وَمَا وَلَدَ 90:3
90:3 And the Parent and Whatever Offspring
لَقَدْ خَلَقْنَا الْإِنسَانَ فِي كَبَدٍ 90:4
90:4 We Created Man (Humanity) in Pain
أَيَحْسَبُ أَن لَّن يَقْدِرَ عَلَيْهِ أَحَدٌ 90:5
90:5 He Figures/Thinks No One can Over Power him
يَقُولُ أَهْلَكْتُ مَالًا لُّبَدًا 90:6
90:6 He says/boasts, 'I have spent/decimated wealth/money to start.'
أَيَحْسَبُ أَن لَّمْ يَرَهُ أَحَدٌ 90:7
90:7 He thinks/calculates No One Watches/Oversees/Assesses him...

And then cross with the right-- try to follow:

According to an article by Ian Black, Middle East Editor, Doctoradmits Israeli pathologists harvested organs without consent which appeared in The Guardian, Monday 21 December 2009 (check it out, the lead Pathologist's name is Hiss):
"Israel has admitted pathologists harvested organs from dead Palestinians, and others, without the consent of their families – a practice it said ended in the 1990s – it emerged at the weekend...

The story emerged in an interview with Dr Yehuda Hiss, former head of the Abu Kabir forensic institute near Tel Aviv... specialists at Abu Kabir harvested skin, corneas, heart valves and bones from the bodies of Israeli soldiers, Israeli citizens, Palestinians and foreign workers, often without permission from relatives.

The Israeli military confirmed to the program that the practice took place, but added: "This activity ended a decade ago and does not happen any longer."Hiss said: "We started to harvest corneas ... whatever was done was highly informal. No permission was asked from the family."..."

According to the same article, Palestinian organs were also forcibly harvested from Palestinian prisoners. I shudder to think what else is going to be reported 10 years from now as to what else they’ve been up to these days...(no anti-Semitism involved in this story since both Jews and Palestinians are Semites).


But the point has to do with Parts and just how much more special the Jewish variety of Man is compared to the Non-Jewish counterpart that they can displace/oppress an entire population because 'God said so?'
Based on the evidence in this article apparently not so different since the dehumanized Palestinian human parts are perfectly acceptable organ substitutes for the Israeli Jew (Orthodox or Reform) in need of a cornea or some other organ they have harvested by some unsavory means.

And that's why from the Aerie Perch Over Your Heads if your brothers' parts are good enough to meld with your flesh, there is absolutely no reason not to hear the pitter patter of their little Palestinian feet running about in your dwellings--after all 'Parts is Parts!'; no reason to be so selective and He better not catch any Palestinian by-products in any non-Palestinian bodies or else 'You have some 'splaining to do Lucy!'
And the reason for the organ fest? Is it to improve the quality of life at the devastating cost to that of another or perhaps hope to prolong your life in a futile attempt to escape the inevitable Judgment.

How Judge You?



أَلَمْ نَجْعَل لَّهُ عَيْنَيْنِ 90:8

وَلِسَانًا وَشَفَتَيْنِ 90:9
وَهَدَيْنَاهُ النَّجْدَيْنِ 90:10

فَلَا اقْتَحَمَ الْعَقَبَةَ 90:11وَمَا أَدْرَاكَ مَا الْعَقَبَةُ 90:12

فَكُّ رَقَبَةٍ 90:13

90:8 Did We not Endow him (the Human) with Eyes (sight)?

90:9 And a Tongue (speech) and a pair of Lips?

90:10 And Gift him with Salvation?
90:11 (Does) Not Storm (rush into, break into) Into Difficulty (Obstacles); (or; Say: 'Break (through) the Obstacle!')


90:12 And Who Taught you what is an Obstacle/Difficulty? (Do you know what is Difficult?)
90:13 Freeing a Neck (Disengagement from Oppression)...


So, the remedy for this particular situation is both the Punishment and the Salvation, which is to release others from their enslavement/oppression or disentanglement from a neck==tight spot/bottleneck/jam. Stubbornly continuing in the present vain is simply to remain in a stagnant log jam, but it is more difficult, yet expected on account of the God-Given gifts of Sight, Hearing, Speech (and all the other Parts), to Storm into the More Difficult choice which is to release the strangle hold on others and in so doing redeem oneself from their own contrived self-righteousness.
The next 7 Signs mention that it is also more difficult to feed the needy, care for the orphans and feel compassion, but that is what is expected from those on the Starboard side. As for those choosing the easy path and remaining on the Larboard side, they will experience the 'Fire' (ie., torment) encircle them since they are only postponing the inevitable.


يَوْمَ تَشْهَدُ عَلَيْهِمْ أَلْسِنَتُهُمْ وَأَيْدِيهِمْ وَأَرْجُلُهُم بِمَا كَانُوا يَعْمَلُونَ 24:24

24:24 A Day their Tongues and their Hands and their Skins Testify as to what they did

وَقَالُوا لِجُلُودِهِمْ لِمَ شَهِدتُّمْ عَلَيْنَا قَالُوا أَنطَقَنَا اللَّهُ الَّذِي أَنطَقَ كُلَّ شَيْءٍ وَهُوَ خَلَقَكُمْ أَوَّلَ مَرَّةٍ وَإِلَيْهِ تُرْجَعُونَ 41:21

41:21 And they ask their Skins, 'Why do you Testify against us?' and they say, "God enables us to communicate as He Gives speech to all things; and He created you at the first, and unto Him you are returned. "

تِلْكَ الدَّارُ الْآخِرَةُ نَجْعَلُهَا لِلَّذِينَ لَا يُرِيدُونَ عُلُوًّا فِي الْأَرْضِ

وَلَا فَسَادًا وَالْعَاقِبَةُ لِلْمُتَّقِينَ 28:83

28:83 That House of the Hereafter We Make it for those who do not desire superiority upon the Earth and do not cause corruption and the Final Outcome (Hereafter) belongs to the Watchful/Guarded/Vigilant.

قَالَ مُوسَى لِقَوْمِهِ اسْتَعِينُوا بِاللّهِ وَاصْبِرُواْ

إِنَّ الأَرْضَ لِلّهِ يُورِثُهَا مَن يَشَاء مِنْ عِبَادِهِ وَالْعَاقِبَةُ لِلْمُتَّقِينَ 7:128

7:128 Moses said to his People, "Believe in God and be patient; indeed, the Earth (belongs) to God and He Bestows it (gives it as an inheritance) upon whomever He Wills of His Servants, and the Hereafter (Final Outcome) belongs to the Watchful/Guarded/Vigilant."

PS So as to remove any doubt as to whose speaking voice this is, I will refresh with my interpretation of this post--this is me writing in my speaking voice; "There is just so much gefilte fish anybody can eat and sooner or later they're all gonna wanna run out for kebab!"

8.3.10

inside, it was another story....

ok, the above attempt at humor by coloring what actually transpired inside does not make me a liar, but rather reflects wide creative license; would you rather I tell how it really was when It All went down and make everybody cry?...let's start by saying I observed proper procedure and announced to Mission Control exactly who it was coming in...at least 3 times before You cut off the transmission...is there anyOne out there brave enough to repeat what they heard?

PS Posted 19.03.2010
There is always a young'un who likes to cry at the Movies, so since you asked:
يَتْلُو عَلَيْهِمْ آيَاتِنَا وَمَا كُنَّا مُهْلِكِي الْقُرَى إِلَّا وَأَهْلُهَا ظَالِمُونَ 28:59
28:59 And never does your Lord Destroy a City (Town) until He Raises in her Mother a Messenger to Reveal to them Our Signs and Never Do We Destroy the City Unless its denizens are (remain) Oppressive (Lost, Wrong-doers).
(You have the option to have a drink, I had to take the News stone cold sober and kept a lid on it from 1992 through 2007, by your reckoning).
وَزَيَّنَهُ فِي قُلُوبِكُمْ وَكَرَّهَ إِلَيْكُمُ الْكُفْرَ وَالْفُسُوقَ وَالْعِصْيَانَ أُوْلَئِكَ هُمُ الرَّاشِدُونَ 49:7
49:7 And know (be aware) that God's Messenger is among you and were he to follow you in your government (how you conduct your affairs), you would surely fail (be damned/accursed); but God has endeared the Faith to you and has beautified it in your hearts, and has made disbelief and lewdness and rebellion hateful to you; such are they who are righteous.

7.3.10

Fell? Fall? Fallen?

Masonic Symbol
All Seeing Eye
I took the elevator.
Surah 28 Qasas (Stories)
28:68 And your Lord (Sustainer) Creates Whatever He Wills and Chooses what is Best for them (Creation); All Praise Is Due to God (Almighty); He Is Above what they associate with Him (ascribe to Him as partners).
Matthew 10:34 Think not that I am come to send peace on earth: I came not to send peace, but a sword. (The Sword of Truth...which can be rather unsettling)

4.3.10

Naval Ordnance Labs FDA

More Poor Spelling, I Gather...Making a Stronger Case for Literacy NOL White Oak, MD. Buildings Situated To Read In Hebrew: Led On From In.Tel.

Why I bother:

9 Surah Taubeh (Repentance)
9:122 وَمَا كَانَ الْمُؤْمِنُونَ لِيَنفِرُواْ كَآفَّةً فَلَوْلاَ
نَفَرَ مِن كُلِّ فِرْقَةٍ مِّنْهُمْ طَآئِفَةٌ لِّيَتَفَقَّهُواْ فِي الدِّينِ
وَلِيُنذِرُواْ قَوْمَهُمْ إِذَا رَجَعُواْ إِلَيْهِمْ لَعَلَّهُمْ
9:122 And the believers (are) not (to) go on expedition as a whole (take
to the field
or venture forth/go abroad in their entirety) without a
person/soldier of each/every range (squad/brigade/command/squadron/choir)
of them to (stay behind) to learn/understand (expatiate/jurisprudence) of the
faith/religion/persuasion (so that) to portend/warn their people if/whether/as
long as they return to them; that they might perhaps bewarned/mindful/vigilant/safe/alert/forewarned/become wiser.

(But I do draw the line at being called a liar--not nice.)

I had to look up 'expatiate' and according to Encarta Dictionary it means 'to speak or write about something at length.' See? I have been doing exactly what I was supposed to be doing all along--what have You been up to?

On a lighter note, here is one man's take on Sign 9:122:

A man's got to believe in something. I believe I'll have another drink. --W.C. Fields

And here is the practical take on it from personal experience of what I believe:

'Ya know, the kids are not likely to believe those 'blue' flashes in the sky are meteors or their neighborhood substation shorting out forever.
Lunch was interesting today, having a handsome young American male of African heritage stare at me fixedly from behind his dark sunglasses the entire time. I know I am not his type so what could bring on such interest?
Then the 'blue' flash on my way home from work and some guy in a white SUV and some kind of police sticker in his driver's side window and a big ol' Star of David hanging from his rear view mirror powering by past me--I've driven under more hazardous conditions.
I still made it to the shop in time to complete a transaction and then wend my way to a coffee-tasting focus group, where they let me go early and paid me generously for my 20 minutes of time and my digital collage (and while I know Michael specializes in entirely different media, and he is quite accomplished at it, must I see the artwork, hmm?).
Then back to my neighborhood to deposit the welcomed stipened and trek through the mall to sample my favorite See's candy to distract myself from (what I have come to euphemistically call) the headache I had all day, only to see the kids on their way somewhere and ask me for some chocolate of their own (they gave me a hug because they were thrilled to see me, or they really wanted that chocolate).
And then shop the groceries since it appears, no matter what happens or what level I'm on, I am still on the hook for dinner--so, What else Ya got?--oh, and I do remember; where's that book You borrowed?'