>>Any religious connotations are probably wasted on me :). If there's any commandment in it, this could sum it:
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>I meant in the sense that Moses spent 40 years in the wilderness but was never to set foot in the "promised land".
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>(to tell you the truth, I wouldn't WANT a leader that took that long to get us from Egypt to Palestine!)

He'd be a good cab driver though... the fare would be a fortune.

Frankly, I think the major flaw in Western culture (and in many of the Eastern ones as well) is the leader cult. As if people are born sheep (and they aren't, that's nurtured).