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To: Maurice Winn who wrote (50558)	5/28/2009 12:11:40 AM
From: elmatador	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 218789

Geena (here is something for the cultured people) The Greek word for hell is geena (gheh'-en-nah). This place was a valley in Jerusalem where some scholars believe that dead corpses were thrown into. So geena is the place of the spiritually dead. When I was a boy I didn't have stuff to read, my mother gave a bibble. (I was 9) It and it was full of Jewish people doing terrible things to their enemies, (which happened to be other Jews they has accounts to settle with.) I read it as history. It taught me: how tough -for a man of intelligence at that period of time- it was make those donkeys become civilized. Gave me a glimpse on: How power works when people have power over a mass of people and are not the constituted government

To: Maurice Winn who wrote (50558)	5/28/2009 12:22:58 AM
From: elmatador	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 218789

Despising the rule of the law. I learned how ignorance works against the ignorant and in favor of the ones in power Since they (the tribes that create one of the first civilizations) did not know how to write, everything was oral-based. Since they may have a vocabulary of say, 150 words, the could interprete things any way they wanted. Deep inside them, they wanted something that was THE THING. For us mondern men we call that THING -the rule of the law- Somenthing that was simple for the ignorant to understand and at same time keep people living in a society. Today is easy because we have common sense, and had on our memories the examples on how lawlessness does not work. Plus we have education in a school system. Of course, if you write the rules, you can write the rules to favor you. (Is like this today when I get a contract to sign and is slanted towards the guy who wrote it) But then, the rule of the law -as opposed to lawlessness- is good, one would say. Yes. On paper. In reality is different. The rule of the law is good until you need to use it. You can be shafted in USDD1.000, and to claim it -as your right0- you would spend USD500 plus time and headache, found it is not worth the effort and wirte it off as acost of doing business. The guy who shafted you, knows that he can capture that USD1.000 unpunished. As such the rule of the law is useless.