Because I didn\u2019t actually feel like working, I looked into the history of the Great Wall of China. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Yeh \u2026 that<\/em> Wall. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Fascinating factoids: the Great Wall of China stretches from the Gobi Desert to the Yellow Sea (\u2018bout 13K miles \/ 21K kilometers wat, round-bout \u00bd the distance of the EARTH\u2019S EQUATOR) [the natives call it \u201cthe Endless Wall\u201d] and was built, in part, to keep out Genghis Khan \u2026 a-hem<\/em> \u2014 \u201cthe Northern Tribes on Horseback\u201d \u2014 and took generations, round\u2019bout 2400 years, to complete. Also bankrupted the Ming Dynasty, led to the downfall of round\u2019bout 300 years of monarchistic (yeh I seddit) rule.<\/p>\n\n\n\n And, supposedly \u2026 rumoredly \u2026 at one point 1\/3 of the male working class was conscripted into construction of the Wall, and their bodies are buried within the structure. Nice, but not for them<\/p>\n\n\n\n Oooo\u2014time to take a trip! Nah nevermind. Passport<\/p>\n\n\n\n Another few tasty bits: it\u2019s irregular, comprised of about 16 separate walls, not made of the same stuff all over (first: gravel&reeds; second: rounded\/pounded earth; third: bricks fortified with sticky rice \u2013 wat\/yeh), and construction began round\u2019bout 220 years before the birth of Christ (what is this BCE nonsense ohyeh the debbil<\/em>)<\/p>\n\n\n\n During the 17th<\/sup> century, famine, plague and (you guessed it) debt incurred in building the Wall brought down the Ming Dynasty.\u00a0 The people got sick and tired of being sick and tired, but rather than let the people rule, the Chinese military joined forces with the Manchurian warriors and overthrew the people \u2013 back in your place, plebe! \u2013 in 1644 until 1912, when a bunch of other stuff happened.\u00a0 Moving on<\/p>\n\n\n\n The point? Gotta put a wall (heh-heh) around your finances. Protect them from incursion and intrusion by outside forces. The inside? Food clothing shelter healthcare and purpose \u2026 gets us handily back to GOD\u2019s instruction: Don\u2019t spend, and if spend, spend wisely. 7Q\u2019s of spending before spending \u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n {Ecc. 9:18<\/em>}<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Because I didn\u2019t actually feel like working, I looked into the history of the Great Wall of China. Yeh \u2026 that Wall. Fascinating factoids: the Great Wall of China stretches from the Gobi Desert to the Yellow Sea (\u2018bout 13K miles \/ 21K kilometers wat, round-bout \u00bd the distance of the EARTH\u2019S EQUATOR) [the natives … <\/p>\n