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Belshazzar's Feast
I am not a Christian, I am a Buddhist. Even so, I find many stories in the Bible to be very instructive. Lately the whole saga of Trump's endless saga of sorry scandals has reminded me of the story of Belshazzar's feast, as told in the book of Daniel.
Mene mene tekel upharsin, which roughly translates as "You have been weighed and measured and found wanting."
If you don't know this story, see https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Daniel+5&version=NKJV
Here's Rembrandt's painting of the Feast of Belshazzar
