With or without religion, you would have good people doing good things and evil people doing evil things. But for good people to do evil things, that takes religion.
The good life, as I conceive it, is a happy life. I do not mean that if you are good you will be happy - I mean that if you are happy you will be good.
Too much sanity may be madness and the maddest of all, to see life as it is and not as it should be.
I enjoy paying taxes. With them I buy civilization.
August 06, 2003 - 11:47 a.m.
I’m running out of patience with my friends and that’s making me run out of patience with me. So many people are getting on my nerves. Some things really are worth getting upset at but others aren’t. This is a real conversation I had with someone. I’ll call the other person Simplicio. (5000 Gordonpoints for the first person who gets the reference and posts a comment about it)
Simplicio: The New York Philharmonic is performing The Messiah I’m thinking of going.Me: Who’s singing?
Simplicio: I don’t know the names
Me: Do you know the choir?
Simplicio: I’m not sure there are singers, I don’t think there are.
Me: It’s an Oratorio, a choral piece, there has to be singers.
Simplicio: There doesn’t have to be.
He then checked and of course there are soloists and a choir. Why did this bug me so much? Yes it was stupid. Yes the idea of wanting to go see a production of the Messiah without knowing what you are seeing or even if there are vocals in a city where there are dozens of full productions is silly. But so what. It doesn’t affect me. Simplicio has plenty of redeeming qualities. This should just be part of the cost of doing business with him.
This is just one example, I could write more but I’ll resist.
Now I’m also going to be annoyed because this whiny entry will be up all day and people won’t read the happy one I wrote last night. I know, go read my last entry now. I’ll update tonight when I get home from seeing Christine Lavin and post another happy entry.
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