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Solomon. He's one of the good guys, right? (Original Post)
Cartoonist
Feb 2019
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Hey, he didn't mean it!! It was a test to see which woman was the real mother
bobbieinok
Feb 2019
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uriel1972
(4,261 posts)1. Why a guy...
who advocated cutting a baby in half is one of the good guys is beyond me.
bobbieinok
(12,858 posts)2. Hey, he didn't mean it!! It was a test to see which woman was the real mother
That's what we learned in SoBapt Sunday School in te 40s and 50s!
uriel1972
(4,261 posts)5. They overlooked the obvious backfires
Like, the woman backing down not being the birth mother, both women backing down and the nasty one, neither woman backing down.
So easy to be up excrement creek with that one. Solomon had no idea about human nature, obviously.
a metephore.
Bretton Garcia
(970 posts)4. Like Trump, he married foreign wives
Last edited Tue Feb 12, 2019, 06:07 AM - Edit history (1)
And was therefore implicitly accused of collaborating with an enemy.
He also had concubines.
Unlike Trump, he was said to be wise. Not just a wisenheimer.
Still, Trump's willingness to split America in half, recalls Solomon's risky, traumatic baby strategy.