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Jakes Progress

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Sat Sep 30, 2017, 10:42 AM Sep 2017

A Knight's Tale

Could someone, who knows how, include a link to the video from "A Knight's Tale" with Heath Ledger where Count Adhemar is told:

You have been weighed,
You have been measured,
And you have absolutely
Been found wanting.


It think that with Puerto Rico, this is the final evaluation trump and the fiasco of an election that put him in office.

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A Knight's Tale (Original Post) Jakes Progress Sep 2017 OP
Here you go... Ellipsis Sep 2017 #1
...great flick. Ellipsis Sep 2017 #2
Thanks. That is the perfect message to trump. Jakes Progress Oct 2017 #3
Well, I think the original Bible quote is more appropriate, since that's to a king muriel_volestrangler Oct 2017 #4
Very apt Jakes Progress Oct 2017 #5

muriel_volestrangler

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4. Well, I think the original Bible quote is more appropriate, since that's to a king
Sun Oct 1, 2017, 05:50 PM
Oct 2017
King Belshazzar gave a great banquet for a thousand of his nobles and drank wine with them. While Belshazzar was drinking his wine, he gave orders to bring in the gold and silver goblets that Nebuchadnezzar his father had taken from the temple in Jerusalem, so that the king and his nobles, his wives and his concubines might drink from them. So they brought in the gold goblets that had been taken from the temple of God in Jerusalem, and the king and his nobles, his wives and his concubines drank from them. As they drank the wine, they praised the gods of gold and silver, of bronze, iron, wood and stone.

Suddenly the fingers of a human hand appeared and wrote on the plaster of the wall, near the lampstand in the royal palace. The king watched the hand as it wrote. His face turned pale and he was so frightened that his legs became weak and his knees were knocking.
...
“But you, Belshazzar, his son, have not humbled yourself, though you knew all this. Instead, you have set yourself up against the Lord of heaven. You had the goblets from his temple brought to you, and you and your nobles, your wives and your concubines drank wine from them. You praised the gods of silver and gold, of bronze, iron, wood and stone, which cannot see or hear or understand. But you did not honor the God who holds in his hand your life and all your ways. Therefore he sent the hand that wrote the inscription.

“This is the inscription that was written:

mene, mene, tekel, parsin

“Here is what these words mean:

Mene: God has numbered the days of your reign and brought it to an end.
Tekel: You have been weighed on the scales and found wanting.
Peres: Your kingdom is divided and given to the Medes and Persians.”
Then at Belshazzar’s command, Daniel was clothed in purple, a gold chain was placed around his neck, and he was proclaimed the third highest ruler in the kingdom.

That very night Belshazzar, king of the Babylonians, was slain, and Darius the Mede took over the kingdom, at the age of sixty-two.

https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Daniel+5&version=NIV
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