>>>>>I don't think He pays much attention to that. He just picks a side and helps out generally so that when they win, He can get one of those "God was on our side" accolades.
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>>>>Funny. I have a repro of a WWII poster, with a German soldier and the legend "Gott Mitt Uns"
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>>>They had that on their belt buckles, too. Now there's also another nation where they trust their money to the guy. Or the money has such a firm standing that they feel they need to call the guy or nobody would trust the bearer... or something to that effect.
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>>As in: "In God we trust. Everyone else must provide surety"?
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>As in "our trustee is a god"... for he holds our money :)
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>>On our banknotes is written "I promise to pay the bearer on demand the sum of ...", signed by the chief cashier of the Bank of England. Now I wonder what would happen if I went in there and presented him with it. Would he be obliged to give me its value in gold? Or would he just give me back a note or the same value?
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>>I've never quite understood that wording.
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>Sounds like an anachronistic ritual formula without much meaning nowadays. Specially "sum of metal" doesn't sound right - what's the numeric value of a molecule, I wonder, and how does that algebra work. Can you do the same math (i.e. sum, the only math there is) with, say, nitrogen or sulfur?
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>It may be interesting to try what it says - maybe the answer would be "how can you prove that you are The Bearer On Demand"?

Hey, commas are HARD to engrave