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Issue 35 |
Living Water Newsletter
for August 30, 2008 |
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Albert Einstein
"The most beautiful thing we can experience is the
mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science. He
to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause
to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead: his
eyes are closed."—Albert Einstein, What I Believe
(1930)Einstein Also
Said
"Curiosity has its own reason for existing. One cannot help
but be in awe when he contemplates the mysteries of
eternity, of life, of the marvelous structure of reality. It
is enough if one tries merely to comprehend a little of this
mystery every day. Never lose a holy curiosity."
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A Story With a
Moral |
Because of economic conditions, some friars were not getting
their usual offerings and so decided they must find some
commercial source of income. After much thinking they
decided to open a small florist shop in a nearby village.
They reasoned that they could grow most of the flowers on
the monastery grounds, and what they couldn't grow, they
could likely pick from the surrounding countryside.
Naturally everyone liked to buy flowers from the men of God
and their little business flourished. So much so that the
man whose family had always had the sole florist business in the
village thought the competition was unfair, and asked the
friars to close their shop. But their florist business was
providing them with more money then they ever had before and
they refused.
The man went back time and again, finally begging the
friars to close, but they ignored him—and once even pushed
him from their shop. So he sent his mother to ask the friars
to get out of the florist business, but they ignored her
too, and treated her rather rudely. Then he sent his wife
and daughter together to try to convince them, and they
ignored them also.
By this time, the florist was nearly bankrupt, so in
desperation he hired Hugh MacTaggart, the roughest and
toughest thug in the village, to persuade the friars to
close their florist shop. Being a man of few morals and even
fewer religious convictions, Hugh had no ethical problems
with his assigned task and promptly gave the friars a
thorough trashing and trashed their store.
When Hugh left the frightened friars, he sternly warned
them that he would be back if they did not close their
florist shop for good. Terrified, the friars did so
immediately.
The moral of this story?
Only Hugh can prevent florist friars. |
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Something to Think About |
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In 1787, about the time America established its independence
from Britain, a Scottish history professor at the University
of Edinburgh named Alexander Tyler made the following
comment about the fall of Athens: "A democracy is always
temporary in nature; it simply cannot exist as a permanent
form of government. A democracy will continue to exist up
until the time that voters discover they can vote themselves
generous gifts from the public treasury. From that moment
on, the majority always vote for the candidates who promise
the most benefits from the public treasury, with the result
that every democracy will finally collapse due to loose
fiscal policy, which is always followed by a dictatorship." |
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