From: Bill.Carlson@p0.f18.n104.z1.FIDONET.ORG (Bill Carlson)
Newsgroups: alt.messianic
Subject: Knowing Hashem
Date: 29 Jul 92 04:12:01 GMT
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 PAB> From: pab1@quads.uchicago.edu (paul andrew braier)
 PAB> Date: 27 Jul 92 20:13:35 GMT
 PAB> Organization: University of Chicago Computing Organizations
 PAB> Message-ID: <1992Jul27.201335.20720@midway.uchicago.edu>
 PAB> Newsgroups: alt.messianic
          -=> Quoting Paul Andrew Braier Bill Carlson <=-
 PAB> In article <139362.2A720882@paranet.FIDONET.ORG>
 PAB> Bill.Carlson@p0.f18.n104.z1.FIDONET.ORG (Bill Carlson) writes: >
BC> A couple of my friends and myself are walking down a road...
 PAB> So you go to the man on the road and tell him about the diamond field.
 PAB> He replies that he is quite happy as he is, and his whole family is
 PAB> happy as well. But you can't take that for an answer, because you've
 PAB> seen the diamond field. So you plead with him to go to the field and he
 PAB> refuses. So you bind and gag him and drag him over to the field, you
 PAB> fill a sack with diamonds and lash it to his back. As soon as he is
 PAB> free, he tries to get rid of the bag, but you are too quick. You think
 PAB> "surely, this man is insane to refuse such riches as we offer!" You
 PAB> rush over th the man to prevent him from discarding the bag, and in the
 PAB> melee, you kill him.  Your friends comfort each other saying, "At
 PAB> least he died a rich happy man!"   THIS is evangelism.
     No.  That is "some" folks wrong attitude though, in that I agree.
     The second half of the "Midrash" I forgot to post...
          Aval oy gavolt!  Before these three men of Israel had even
     begun their journey; a group of evil men, robbers, had set out on
     the same road themselves; and likewise they'd heard of the
     treasure at the end of the road.  A very old Israelite, in a long
     robe, with a white beard had told them of the treasure at the end
     of the road, in the field on the right.  Now this wicked band of
     goyim/gentiles were more ignorant than most folks, not so much as
     even knowing their right hand from their left!  But they consulted
     amongst themselves, and considered themselves wise, that they
     should take the advice of the old man, and so go to the field and
     claim for themselves the entire treasure.  Unfortunately, (or
     fortunately, depending on your perspective), the group had not
     taken the time to inquire of the old man as to which side the
     right-side of the road fell on; before some from their company
     had taken the old man aside, and beat and murdered him, lest he
     should let someone else in on their secret!  But no matter, they'd
     already determined themselves wise enough, even without inquiring
     the difference between right and left, to be able to find the way
     of themselves. So they mounted their horses and swiftly sped away.
     On their way, ahead of them, they encountered many from the House
     of Israel.  Some they tormented, others they raped, and still
     others they slew by the edge of their sword.  A few they bound
     hand an foot, and threw them across the back of their horses, and
     sped on swiftly to their treasure.  When they came to the end of
     the road, the first thing they saw, off to the left, was a
     shimmering in the sun light.  They all with glee raced to the
     center of the field and beheld a huge mountain of stones, and a
     sign saying: These are the real diamonds.  And a man greeted them
     with a large pile of big sacks, and said: These diamonds are for
     anyone that can take them, and keep them as their own.  {Little
     did they know, that this heap of "diamonds" was really nothing
     more than cheap cut glass -worthless!}  Then they commanded the
     Children of Israel they'd forced to come with them, to fill their
     sacks full.  This they did; yet in order to carry their new found
     burden, they slew those captives they had taken and forced with
     them that they'd come across on the road; and loaded their heavy
     burdens on their horses, and sped off into the setting sun and the
     night....  Yet the lone man approached by the three men of Israel,
     in the beginning of this story on the road; -my friend, it is YOU!

... 012 Here; let me rephrase that for you :-) 210    ...end of the line.      
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