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Soph0571

(9,685 posts) Sun Dec 30, 2018, 06:27 AM Dec 2018

Tell/Sell v Live/Give

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Tell/Sell v Live/Give (Original Post) Soph0571 Dec 2018 OP

Precisely Sherman A1 Dec 2018 #1

This is similar to 18th. century Chief Red Jacket. 3Hotdogs Dec 2018 #2

Excellent quote! MineralMan Dec 2018 #3

Sherman A1

(38,958 posts)

1. Precisely

Reply to Soph0571 (Original post)

Sun Dec 30, 2018, 07:10 AM

Dec 2018

I will have to keep that handy for the annual round of Easter 🐣 religious solicitations that pass through the neighborhood.

Had one nice jehova witness a few years back that asked me if I believed in god, told her I believed in the Constitution.

3Hotdogs

(12,405 posts)

2. This is similar to 18th. century Chief Red Jacket.

Reply to Soph0571 (Original post)

Sun Dec 30, 2018, 09:13 AM

Dec 2018

He got tired of different preachers coming to tell how their god is better than the native's.

R.J. listened politely and said he would watch how the preacher's God caused his followers to treat the Red Man. Then he would decide.

MineralMan

(146,325 posts)

3. Excellent quote!

Reply to Soph0571 (Original post)

Sun Dec 30, 2018, 10:43 AM

Dec 2018

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