7
edits
Changes
Jump to navigation
Jump to search
no edit summary
<br />
I am a [[United States Marine Corps|United States Marine]] (Lance Corporal). My nickname is "Per the Reference." I am a History major. I am a Disciple of Christ. What more is there?[[Image:Sunol Flag Hill and Valley.jpg|thumb|300px|left|A picture I took at [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sunol_Regional_Wilderness Sunol Regional Wilderness]] featuring Flag Hill]]
*"Now therefore thus says the Lord of hosts: Consider your ways and set your mind on what has come to you. You have sown much, but you have reaped little; you eat, but you do not have enough; you drink, but you do not have your fill; you clothe yourselves, but no one is warm; and he who earns wages has earned them to put them in a bag with holes in it.Thus says the Lord of hosts: Consider your ways (your previous and present conduct) and how you have fared. Go up to the hill country and bring lumber and rebuild [My] house, and I will take pleasure in it and I will be glorified, says the Lord [by accepting it as done for My glory and by displaying My glory in it]. You looked for much [harvest], and behold, it came to little; and even when you brought that home, I blew it away. Why? says the Lord of hosts. Because of My house, which lies waste while you yourselves run each man to his own house [eager to build and adorn it]. Therefore the heavens above you [for your sake] withhold the dew, and the earth withholds its produce."'''—Haggai 1:5-11'''
*"You say that it is your custom to burn widows. Very well. We also have a custom: when men burn a woman alive, we tie a rope around their necks and we hang them. Build your funeral pyre; beside it, my carpenters will build a gallows. You may follow your custom. And then we will follow ours."'''—General Sir Napier'''[[Image:Pleasanton Ridge.jpg|thumb|300px|right|A picture I took at the [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pleasanton_Ridge Pleasanton Ridge]]]]
*"We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. — That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, — That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness...And for the support of this Declaration, with a firm reliance on the protection of Divine Providence, we mutually pledge to each other our Lives, our Fortunes, and our sacred Honor."'''—Thomas Jefferson and the Continental Congress'''
