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serpentfoot
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| Posted: Thu Jun 10th, 2010 08:19 pm |
Did anybody reading this ever check on where the symbol for a dollar ($) came from?
To me the symbol for a dollar looks like the medical symbol, the Caduceus, a serpent around a staff. If you know plese tell us. (Otherwise I will check it on the internet when I get more time.) Thanks.
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toosavoter
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| Posted: Thu Jun 10th, 2010 11:29 pm |
serpentfoot wrote:
Did anybody reading this ever check on where the symbol for a dollar ($) came from?
To me the symbol for a dollar looks like the medical symbol, the Caduceus, a serpent around a staff. If you know plese tell us. (Otherwise I will check it on the internet when I get more time.) Thanks.
and your point is?... That doctors make a lot of money?...
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serpentfoot
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| Posted: Mon Jun 14th, 2010 11:01 pm |
toosavoter wrote: serpentfoot wrote:
Did anybody reading this ever check on where the symbol for a dollar ($) came from?
To me the symbol for a dollar looks like the medical symbol, the Caduceus, a serpent around a staff. If you know plese tell us. (Otherwise I will check it on the internet when I get more time.) Thanks.
and your point is?... That doctors make a lot of money?...
They usually do, of course, but no, that is not my point. I do not usually try to make any point until I know what I am talking about. In this case I was only wondering about the similarity in the symbols, trying to understand the point or idea the ancient symbolists were trying to make, before I were further making any conclusions on it.
Here is a link to some others who have seen a relationship between the two symbols, but I would like to go back further to their origins:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dollar_sign
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serpentfoot
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| Posted: Tue Jun 22nd, 2010 04:53 pm |
Talking about dollar signs: Recently the North Georgia Conference of the Methodist Church decided it maybe should close down and sell the Livingston United Methodist Church property to private owners. I understand they have closed several other churches also because they did not have enough attendance, not enough money coming in. I opposed them selling that old church to private ownership--eespecially since the North Georgia Conference did not own the property it was deeded to trustees of the old church who lived in the community and I and others felt it should be maintained for a community gathering place even if preachers quit for lack of money. How do you folks feel about that?
PS: I particularly appreciate that old church, the oldest in Floyd County, and especially appreciate that they have saved the old cornerstones opn which Floyd County's first court house sat before the county seat was moved to Rome.
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Bob Mitchell
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| Posted: Thu Jun 24th, 2010 02:23 pm |
The Relationship Between the Dollar Sign and the Caduceus
Copyright by Serpentfoot 2010
Here are some of my last ideas on the relationship between the dollar sign and the Caduceus. If you use these ideas recognize where you got them because this is so good I'm copyrighting it:
To me the symbol for a dollar looks like the medical symbol, the Caduceus, a serpent around a staff. That serpent around a staff also looks like the word "IS", with the "S" wrapped around the "I", and it also says something: "Is" means in existence now, "reality". The serpent part (the S) usually lays flat, on the ground, wherweas the "I" is upright, together they are vertical and horizontal opposites of a cross. And it also shows what Jesus said:
"The lowest shall be highest and the first last" The "I" that looks like "Number 1" (the highest) is climbed by the serpent (the lowest). The serpent, like rain climbs towards the sun and comes back as rain, bringing life (and also destruction). Like "The lord giveth and taketh away."  or
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serpentfoot
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| Posted: Mon Jun 28th, 2010 02:50 pm |
On Etowah Street, off of S. Broad, I noticed a BIG BIG vine twined around a tree in the yard; it looked like a living caduceus (serpent around a staff). That reminded me of some old illustratiions I have seen, where the Church is seen a a vine entwined around government. I think it would be so much better if churches were sufficient to suvive on their own without the support of government and not only survive but be a help to those in need. Some are but many are not.
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serpentfoot
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| Posted: Thu Jul 1st, 2010 08:19 pm |
Stephen, Please send me that infinity symbol you were going to do with my name in it, or post it here. I would love to see some more of your good work. Thanks!
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serpentfoot
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| Posted: Sat Jul 3rd, 2010 06:35 pm |
Here is some info on some of the oldest symbols I found at the link below:
http://www.radioliberty.com/Symbolsandtheirmeaning.html
Attachment: serpent.jpg
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serpentfoot
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| Posted: Tue Jul 6th, 2010 05:48 pm |
The 11th Circuit has not yet ruled on my pending appeal. Indeed the defendants/appellees have not yet filed their responses so I guess it will probably be at least a month and a half before I get any ruling on that--and hopeful;ly it will be good enough that I do not have to take it further--to the U. S. Supreme Court.
Nevertheless, I am already contemplating the necessity to file a new suit because the Rome News Tribune has failed to respond to my demand that they publish a correction of the lie they reprinted from the recent Ridge family reunion, in which report they repeated that "Ridge and his son and nephew were "MURDERED" and by Ross supporters.
Ridge knew he was "signing his own death warrant" when he forged his unauthorized signature on the "Treaty of New Echota". He also "signed the death certificates" of thousands of other Cherokees who did not survive the forced removal from their homes. He knowingly signed his death warrant because he knew the Cherokees had a law giving the death penalty to anyone who sold any more of their land. That was a well deserved death penalty he got, NOT "MURDER", because he ruined the lives of so many others when he did it. He was also among the Cherokees who previously put Chief McIntosh to death for selling Cherokee Land after they had the law making that a crime punishable by death.
Ridge was one of those folks who will do anything for money, even turn traitor, which is what he did. If the Rome News cannot print the truth about it I will sue them for libeling Chief John Ross and my other Scot/Cherokee kin, who were following Cherokee law, in support of the nation, not "murdering" the traitor Ridge.
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serpentfoot
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| Posted: Wed Jul 14th, 2010 02:31 pm |
Rome has a 60 acre park honoring the traitor Ridge because he signed the fraudulent treaty to make it look like Rome's theft of Indian land was legal. If it had been a legal treaty the Cherokees had agreed to they would not have had to be forced out with guns.
Neither was it any compliment to Rome's founders that Ridge excused his forgeries by claiming that the peaceful Cherokees could not survive around such folks as were moving in and that the wisest thing to do was to get out quick. It was ignorant insolence, and probably outright dishonesty for Ridge to assume he was wiser than Chief John Ross and the whole Cherokee Nation. (And certainly he had no right to assume the illegal authority to make their decisions for them--especially as he was not the chief.)
Chief John Ross (who was 7/8 Scot and who was Christian) knew a whole lots more about the "civilized" "Christians" who were moving in than Ridge did. And he almost defeated the illegal treaty. It passed the Senate by only one vote. It would not have passed at all if Ridge and his few friends had not put their unauthorized signatures on it.
Ross knew Christians well enough to know that even the most dishonest hypocritical of them do like to at least keep up the appearance of honesty and that no Christian would be seen publicly approving a treaty that did not have any signature on it.
With Ridge's forged signature they could at least pretend they thought it was legitimate; that they thought he had the authority to sign. Nevertheless the "Trail of Tears" speaks for itself; that the Cherokees did not agree to leave but were forced out at the point of guns by a bunch of crooks aided by the traitor Ridge et al. Rome needs a newspaper that will print the truth, not keep repeating lies.
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serpentfoot
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| Posted: Wed Jul 21st, 2010 05:14 pm |
This is the dog days of summer and time to look back at the dog God of Egypt.
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serpentfoot
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| Posted: Wed Jul 21st, 2010 05:14 pm |
This is the dog days of summer and time to look back at the Dog God of Egypt. The following is pasted in from the web site shown:
July 3-August 11
The Dog Days are known as the hottest days of the year in the Northern Hemisphere and usually occur in July and early August. In ancient times, the sultry weather in Rome during these months often made people sick, and they blamed their illnesses on the fact that this was the time of year when Sirius, the Dog Star, rose at about the same time as the sun. Because Sirius was the brightest star, it was thought to add its heat to the sun, producing hot, unhealthy weather. The ancients used to sacrifice a brown dog at the beginning of the Dog Days to appease the rage of Sirius.
Although there are many different ways of calculating which days in any given year are the dog days, and how long they last, it is impossible to be precise. Nowadays it is generally assumed that they fall between July 3 and August 11—slightly later than they occurred in ancient times.
Because of their association with the Dog Star, various beliefs have sprung up involving the behavior of dogs during this period. In the 16th century it was believed that dogs went mad during the Dog Star season. Another name for this time of year, the canicular days, comes from the Latin word canis meaning "dog."
From: http://www.answers.com/topic/dog-days
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DiNozzo, NCIS
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| Posted: Thu Jul 22nd, 2010 10:43 pm |
I'm the only Special Agent Anthony DiNozzo, NCIS. But I am NOT the only one who does not want to see or even think about someone like Anne "Serpentfoot" Otwell sitting in on government meetings NAKED!!! Do your own thing, believe how you want to believe, protest even ... but keep your d**n clothes on woman!! That just put a damper on your cause because the minute your clothes came off it became JUST a publicity stunt. You went for standing for your cause to just wanting attention. I for one don't think the judge should ban you from Floyd County though. I think you should be a lifelong member of Floyd County ... at 1305 Redmond Circle, affectionately called NORTHWEST GEORGIA REGIONAL HOSPITAL!!! But wherever you decide to end up, whatever populus you decide to disparage with your presence, just please keep your clothes on!!!
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serpentfoot
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| Posted: Wed Jul 28th, 2010 09:45 pm |
: Thu Jul 22nd, 2010 06:43 pm
DiNozzo, NCIS
I'm not going to spend much time replying to pretenders like DiNozzo claiming some association with NCIS. Lets hope NCIS agents can do a better job than he does stating someone's name. I no longer have my previous married name he cites. I also no longer have several other previous married names he has not yet discovered. My legal name is Serpentfoot since 1995 so let's hope there is no NCIS agent as behind the times and inaccurate as he is.
The only thing I'll bother to point out to him is that there is an old saying that "Those who look upon the Gods will die." Since you seem to hurt at even the thought of seeing me naked, you had better get out of the NCIS business. Go impersonate or pretend to be something else. Those folks have to be tough not easily disturbed. Good luck anyway, I hope you find a career more suitable to your frail or delicate sensibilities.
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serpentfoot
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| Posted: Wed Aug 4th, 2010 01:47 pm |
A friend of mine just told me some BAD NEWS, that her acoholic son urinated on the floor in his acoholic stupor and later was hostile denying he did such a thing. It would be so bad to have to put him in jail when he gets hostile with brothers and mom who do not like being in his mess, but maybe a stint in jail would sober him up. Oftentimes bad news is GOOD NEWS!
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