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From: AMuzi <am@yellowjersey.org>
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Subject: Re: Montana: "Let's make stupidity mandatory!"
Date: Thu, 16 Jan 2025 19:12:52 -0600
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On 1/16/2025 5:46 PM, Catrike Ryder wrote:
> On Thu, 16 Jan 2025 16:53:36 -0600, AMuzi <am@yellowjersey.org> wrote:
> 
>> On 1/16/2025 4:16 PM, Catrike Ryder wrote:
>>> On Thu, 16 Jan 2025 15:37:21 -0600, AMuzi <am@yellowjersey.org> wrote:
>>>
>>>> On 1/16/2025 3:19 PM, Zen Cycle wrote:
>>>>> On 1/16/2025 4:14 PM, AMuzi wrote:
>>>>>> On 1/16/2025 3:09 PM, Zen Cycle wrote:
>>>>>>> On 1/16/2025 3:15 PM, AMuzi wrote:
>>>>>>>> On 1/16/2025 2:05 PM, Catrike Ryder wrote:
>>>>>>>>> On Thu, 16 Jan 2025 11:27:20 -0500, Frank Krygowski
>>>>>>>>> <frkrygow@sbcglobal.net> wrote:
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> On 1/16/2025 4:39 AM, Catrike Ryder wrote:
>>>>>>>>>>> On Wed, 15 Jan 2025 21:28:08 -0500, Frank Krygowski
>>>>>>>>>>> <frkrygow@sbcglobal.net> wrote:
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>> I'm reminded about a parable about a poor widow
>>>>>>>>>>>> contributing two tiny
>>>>>>>>>>>> coins, a trivial amount, but “Truly I tell you, this
>>>>>>>>>>>> poor widow has put
>>>>>>>>>>>> more into the treasury than all the others. They all
>>>>>>>>>>>> gave out of their
>>>>>>>>>>>> wealth; but she, out of her poverty, put in
>>>>>>>>>>>> everything —all she had to
>>>>>>>>>>>> live on.”
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>> So she starved? WTF? Are you really OK with that?
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> Good point: WTF!
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> I'll bet you think the guy who told that tale should
>>>>>>>>>> have been
>>>>>>>>>> crucified, right?
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> Good grief, Krygowski, you have no idea who made that
>>>>>>>>> story up.
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> -- 
>>>>>>>>> C'est bon
>>>>>>>>> Soloman
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> [raises hand]
>>>>>>>> Uh, Mark?
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> https://www.kingjamesbibleonline.org/Mark-12-42/
>>>>>>>> https://www.kingjamesbibleonline.org/Mark-12-43/
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> As one godless heathen to another, I say "well-played
>>>>>>> sir, well-played"
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Merely not being a Christian is no excuse to ignore
>>>>>> English lit!
>>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> ?
>>>>>
>>>>> I wouldn't exactly call the bible english lit.
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> It's absolutely fundamental, and a gargantuan outsized
>>>> influence on everything which follows, from Shakespeare to
>>>> Lincoln.
>>>>
>>>> (The King James anyway. If you read it in the original
>>>> Hebrew (Part I) and Greek (Part II), then I have no opinion
>>>
>>> I understand that the Book of Mark was originally written in Greek.
>>>
>>> --
>>> C'est bon
>>> Soloman
>>
>> Right, or possibly Aramaic. People who don't ride bicycles
>> enough have time to argue about that.
> 
> My biblical research happened a long time ago before I was out of high
> school. For a long time I believed I was an athiest even though my
> family was very religious. I've moderated that belief and now admit
> that I have no idea what the reality might be. I'm comfortable not
> knowing. It has no effect on how I live my life and I get along fine
> with people on both extremes by generally not professing any religious
> beliefs.
> 
> --
> C'est bon
> Soloman

Ditto to that. I was a Stoic for a good long while before I 
adopted the label while re reading Marcus Aurelius:

"I just want to be a good man, a good Roman, a good Stoic."

What better life could I have?

-- 
Andrew Muzi
am@yellowjersey.org
Open every day since 1 April, 1971