Thus it is written in Wirt's writ:

> donna writes:
>
> > ron seybold called me a 'john the baptist' once upon a time.  i'll take
the
> >  title :-)
>
> You know John the Baptist is generally portrayed as being a little wacko,
> don't you? (I mean literally. He wasn't said to be the sanest guy on the
> block).

If we dig a little deeper, there may be something of worth to find here.
John's sanity depended largely on who you asked. John was quite popular with
the general masses. They were eager to hear what he had to say and found him
compelling. John's sanity was never in question by this group.

On the other hand, he was quite unpopular with people who held positions of
common authority. This was mostly because he was honest in publicly
proclaiming the hypocrisy of some of these leaders and forcefully demanding
that they "walk the talk." Because he had the audacity to publicly criticize
these leaders, eventually to his own detriment, it would not be unthinkable
that those leaders assumed that he must be working with less than a full
deck.

Of course, John was motivated by working for a higher cause, and wasn't
particularly concerned with what the leaders thought of him.

>
> And that ultimately he had his head served to him on a platter (I mean
this
> mostly literally. He actually had his head served on a platter to Salome,
but
> the idea still holds :-).
>
> I don't know that this holds any relevance, but it is something to
consider
> :-).

Most prophets met a rather untimely end at the hands of the people who were
on the receiving end of their message. I guess it just shows that if you're
in the prophet business, you'd better have some pretty good life insurance!
:-) Naturally, proclaiming the coming of the Savior of the world is a
somewhat larger task than proclaiming the benefits of the HPe3000, so the
risks/rewards of that proposition are hopefully correspondingly greater than
what Donna would face. :-)

>
> Wirt Atmar
>

An interesting analogy.

Take Care,
Craig