One of the most adventurous things left us is to go to bed. For no one can lay a hand on our dreams.
- E. V. Lucas
“So he waited, listening for a moment longer to the tuning-fork that had been struck upon a star.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby
@edgarblythe,
I love sleep. My life has the tendency to fall apart when I'm awake, you know?
- Ernest Hemingway
If you're going to do something tonight that you'll be sorry for tomorrow morning, sleep late.
- Henny Youngman
Matthew 5:43-44 Ye have heard that it hath been said, Thou shalt love thy neighbour, and hate thine enemy. But I say unto you, Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you, and pray for them which despitefully use you, and persecute you;
@edgarblythe,
Strange coincidence. Got up at about 4:30 a.m. this morning. Couldn't get back to sleep so decided to browse the Bible for a bit. And what did I read? Matthew, Chapters 5 and 6. Amazing.
@Lustig Andrei,
Great minds often think alike.
@Lustig Andrei,
Quote:Couldn't get back to sleep so decided to browse the Bible for a bit.
Talk about being short of reading material! Holy ****.
“There warn't anybody at the church, except maybe a hog or two, for there warn't any lock on the door, and hogs likes a puncheon floor in summer-time because it's cool. If you notice, most folks don't go to church only when they've got to; but a hog is different.”
― Mark Twain, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
@edgarblythe,
Do people actually dote on tripe like that ed?
“The pitifulest thing out is a mob; that's what an army is--a mob; they don't fight with courage that's born in them, but with courage that's borrowed from their mass, and from their officers. But a mob without any MAN at the head of it is BENEATH pitifulness.”
― Mark Twain, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
@edgarblythe,
It's certainly "beneath pitifulness" that a grown man felt the necessity of writing that down thinking it worthy of being typeset, printed and distributed to the wider world.
@spendius,
The book has been in constant republication since the first edition hit the stands, as you well know. I don't have to defend one of the best loved books of all time.
@spendius,
Another empty assertion, Spendius.
Do you understand the meaning of hypocrisy?
@edgarblythe,
Quote:The book has been in constant republication since the first edition hit the stands, as you well know. I don't have to defend one of the best loved books of all time.
So you rate the Bible after all?
@JTT,
You're the bloody hypocrite JT raving about the beastly crimes of the US government whilst wallowing in the luxuries and privileges they have brought you.
@spendius,
spendius wrote:
Quote:The book has been in constant republication since the first edition hit the stands, as you well know. I don't have to defend one of the best loved books of all time.
So you rate the Bible after all?
I had a great time reading the Bible when I was young. Some of the stories are very interesting. I loved Job and the wandering Jews and Noah's ark. Of course millions of copies of the Bible are printed by organizations and given out. We cannot be certain how many of those free books are read. I have a Gideons Bible on a shelf, the pages of which have never been cracked, after fifteen years. Buyers of Huck Finn generally get a copy to read. Recipients of Bibles think it is good to have one, but possibly millions keep it for prestige, not reading.
