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Title: The Legend of the Great and Wonderful Turtle
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Published: Feb 22, 2009
Author: Turtle's Brain
Post Date: 2009-02-22 09:19:51 by Turtle
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Near to a Chippewa village lay a large lake, and in this lake there lived an enormous turtle. This was no ordinary turtle, as he would often come out of his home in the lake and visit with his Indian neighbors. He paid the most of his visits to the head chief, and on these occasions would stay for hours, smoking and talking with him. The chief, seeing that the turtle was very smart and showed great wisdom in his talk, took a great fancy to him, and whenever any puzzling subject came up before the chief, he generally sent for Mr. Turtle to help him decide. One day there came a great misunderstanding between different parties of the tribe, and so excited became both sides that it threatened to cause bloodshed. The chief was unable to decide for either faction, so he said, "I will call Mr. Turtle. He will judge for you." Sending for the turtle, the chief vacated his seat for the time being, until the turtle should hear both sides, and decide which was in the right. The turtle came, and taking the chief's seat, listened very attentively to both sides, and thought long before he gave his decision. After thinking long and studying each side carefully, he came to the conclusion to decide in favor of both. This would not cause any hard feelings. So he gave them a lengthy speech and showed them where they were both in the right, and wound up by saying: "You are both in the right in some ways and wrong in others. Therefore, I will say that you both are equally in the right." When they heard this decision, they saw that the turtle was right, and gave him a long cheer for the wisdom displayed by him. The whole tribe saw that had it not been for this wise decision there would have been a great shedding of blood in the tribe. So they voted him as their judge, and the chief, being so well pleased with him, gave to him his only daughter in marriage.
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#1. To: James Deffenbach, Cynicom, tom007 (#0)
See how wonderful Turtle is?
they said "fence-straddling bastage." ahaha.
Liberty is not a means to a higher political end. It is itself the highest political end. They said "we wasted good tobacco on this? Here, take my ugly daughter and don't come back"
Money problems do not come from a lack of money, but from living an excessive, unrealistic lifestyle
LOL! Yeah, that too.
Liberty is not a means to a higher political end. It is itself the highest political end. They said, "Turtle speaks with forked tongue and straddles fence like politician. Heap bad medicine."
Liberty is not a means to a higher political end. It is itself the highest political end.
No place is better than Turtle Island.
#2. To: Turtle (#0)
When they heard this decision,
Lord Acton
#3. To: James Deffenbach (#2)
When they heard this decision
#4. To: purpleman (#3)
Lord Acton
#5. To: Turtle (#1)
When they heard this decision,
Lord Acton
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