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Catholics surely put great effort into bureaucracy and organization. "The devil and a friend of his were walking down the street, when they saw ahead of them a
by u1hcw9nx 28d ago
Catholics surely put great effort into bureaucracy and organization.
"The devil and a friend of his were walking down the street, when they saw ahead of them a man stoop down and pick up something from the ground, look at it, and put it away in his pocket. The friend said to the devil, 'What did that man pick up?' 'He picked up a piece of Truth,' said the devil.'That is a very bad business for you, then,' said his friend.'Oh, not at all,' the devil replied, 'I am going to let him organize it.'"
- saimiam 28d agoI don’t understand this story. What lesson/joke am I seeing here?
- mwillis 28d agoOrganizing information could be considered its own form of (self-inflicted) torment.
- saimiam 27d agoOhhh, that’s why Google gave up its “dont be evil” stance!
- u1hcw9nx 28d agoRaw truth is liberating. The moment people turn it into rigid systems, bureaucracies, political movements, or dogmatic institutions, it gets bogged down by ego, power struggles, hypocrisy, and rules. It starts to serve the evil.
- WorkerBee28474 28d ago> Catholics surely put great effort into bureaucracy and organization. My (completely unfounded) theory is that monasteries have historically been the refuge of those with autism and their comorbidities.
- joquarky 28d ago> A friend of mine (who’s a very brilliant mathematician) once told a story that, in the beginning of the ages, God was making up a dictionary of all the words that would be used in language. And one day he visited the Archangel Gabriel, and they left the dictionary in the taxi. And while he was in talking to Gabriel, the devil got into the taxi and wrote into the dictionary two words: “ought” and “should.” -- Alan Watts https://www.organism.earth/library/document/four-ways-to-the-center https://www.organism.earth/library/document/four-ways-to-the...