From owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Apr 17 01:07:20 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 580C737B401; Thu, 17 Apr 2003 01:07:20 -0700 (PDT) Received: from heron.mail.pas.earthlink.net (heron.mail.pas.earthlink.net [207.217.120.189]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id ADBDD43F85; Thu, 17 Apr 2003 01:07:19 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from tlambert2@mindspring.com) Received: from pool0126.cvx22-bradley.dialup.earthlink.net ([209.179.198.126] helo=mindspring.com) by heron.mail.pas.earthlink.net with asmtp (SSLv3:RC4-MD5:128) (Exim 3.33 #1) id 1964QQ-0000F1-00; Thu, 17 Apr 2003 01:07:19 -0700 Message-ID: <3E9E6065.20D2C608@mindspring.com> Date: Thu, 17 Apr 2003 01:05:57 -0700 From: Terry Lambert X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.79 [en] (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Doug Barton References: <20030416104202.7271aed3.flynn@energyhq.homeip.net> <3E9E1DBD.A5443B39@mindspring.com><3E9E536D.2D90D495@mindspring.com> <20030417004019.T601@znfgre.tberna.bet> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-ELNK-Trace: b1a02af9316fbb217a47c185c03b154d40683398e744b8a43b9fa94aadf2419706ee9bdd662c0898350badd9bab72f9c350badd9bab72f9c350badd9bab72f9c cc: Luciano Evaristo Guerche cc: CARTER Anthony cc: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org cc: Bill Moran Subject: Re: FreeBSD logo... X-BeenThere: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Non technical items related to the community List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 17 Apr 2003 08:07:20 -0000 Doug Barton wrote: > On Thu, 17 Apr 2003, Terry Lambert wrote: > > So, basically, Job's been charged, and he's put on trial over > > the charges, then acquitted. Sounds like God's "Attorney General" > > to me... > > Maybe I'm being too literal, but "The President's Attorney General" is > appointed by the president, to do the president's bidding. In Job, Satan > is acting on his own behalf, with the same kind of "lawsuit" that you'd > hear on an elementary school playground. :) "Yeah, I'm bad, but HE is > worse." Actually, that's not quite a correct interpretation; Job 1:8-12 specifically states that involving Job was God's idea, and he specifically deputizes Satan to act on his behalf (Job 1:12), to prove the rightiousness of his servant. In Job 1:16, he even lets Satan use "The fire of God", as his proxy (and again, in 2:6-7, with the Smiting, and all... goes on for a good 39 more chapters). So basically, the President lent Janet Reno BATF troops in order to test how American a taxpayer was, after swearing out an executive order making it all nice and legal... and there was a heck of a lot of collateral damage as a result. But that's OK, because the main suspect survived the arrest process in order to stand trial, remarried, and lived happily ever after. -- Terry