Useful advice if taken with humility

A whip for the horse, a bridle for the ass, and a rod for the fool's back. Answer not a fool according to his folly, lest thou also be like unto him.

Let it be said that I do not object to the judicious application of the rod if I should ever deserve it.

les fleurs

La planète suivante était habitée par un buveur. Cette visite fut très courte mais elle plongea le petit prince dans une grande mélancolie:
--Que fais-tu la? dit-il au buveur, qu'il trouva installé en silence devant une collection de bouteilles vides et une collection de bouteilles pleines.
--Je bois, répondit le buveur, d'un air lugubre.
--Pourquois bois-tu? lui démanda le petit prince.
--Pour oublier, répondit le buveur.
--Pour oublier quoi? s'enquit le petit prince qui déjà plaignait.
--Pour oublier que j'ai honte, avoua le buveur en baissant la tête.
--Honte de quoi? s'informa le petit prince qui désirait le secourir.
--Honte de boire! acheva le buveur qui s'enferma definitivement dans le silence.
Et le petit prince s'en fut, perplexe.
Les grandes personnes sont decidement très très bizarres, se disait-il en lui-même durant le voyage.

ATTN: UPSING INFIDEL WHO TRIED TO DELIVER MY PACKAGES ON APRIL 17TH

YOU SUCK.

I had two packages due to come on April 17th: a couple shirts that were on sale and a book I need to prepare for my second actuarial exam about a month from today. I also had orders delivered almost every other day that week to the exact same address because they were ordered from the same vendors. YET, the delivery man on the 17th said an exception occurred, the address I am at does not exist or something, so he'll send a postcard to that address (which doesn't exist? I never received it) with instructions on what to do and then return my packages to the sender! So here I am, it'll be two weeks after I was supposed to get my packages when I finally do get the book I need, two weeks of precious studying time. I had packages delivered by UPS to that very address every other day that week! Is the problem with my address? I AM THINKING NO. IT IS WITH THE MAN WHO TRIED TO DELIVER MY PACKAGES ON APRIL 17TH. I AM POSTING THIS ON ALL MY BLOGS BECAUSE HE SUCKS SO HARD.

Him that cometh to me...

...I will in no wise cast out.

I opened the foreword of Wisdom from Mount Athos and that was the first sentence. An appropriate quote for Palm Sunday, I should say.

Happy Annunciation!

Time to celebrate in the proper way! That and reconsidering the relation of God to man, reconciliation to the fallen world, etc etc. OK I love sandwiches.

ATTN: BLOGGER SOFTWARE INFIDELS

YOUR LOGGING SOFTWARE SUCKS. It did not let me put footnotes in my comment on Gabriel's web-log. Here is the comment I would have posted on his log:

Fortunately, I think most modern readers¹ will read The Ladder quickly, pick up a couple good moral lessons in each chapter, and end up with something interesting to say². All things considered, a profitable read. Maybe not the best use of the book, but not the worst use of their time³. Then again, I can definitely see that there are some pathological sorts who aren't terminally shallow but rather terminally emo for whom the prohibition would do some good, lest they fall into despair⁴. I'll never understand them, I suppose, so I guess I'll just have to call them interesting and leave it at that.

1: Myself included. I'm pretty shallow.
2: This is crypto-Protestantism, perhaps not in spirit, but labelled as such because it's what Protestants do whenever they sniff around the boutique.
3: Unless they write a log about the interesting tidbits and post it to the internets.
4: Or, worse, one of those schismatic groups that can only be found 1000 miles away from their present location, so they become too pious to go to church.