(12-20-2025, 01:57 PM)Waterglass Wrote: I want the world to be a better place as you do? Right?
We all want the world – the bit of it we inhabit, at any rate – to be a better place.
The trouble is, our ideas of what ‘a better place’ should be rarely match one another’s.
That being so, the wise among us don’t waste their time trying to change the world. They try, like my friend in the avatar, to improve
themselves as best they can – reasoning that if everyone did as they do, the world would become a better place automatically. The theory remains unproven, but on the whole it does less harm than the alternative you support.
Do you know who else thought exactly the same as my friend? A sassy young feller named Jesus. ‘And why beholdest thou the mote that is in thy brother's eye, but considerest not the beam that is in thine own eye?’
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Speaking of quotes, I saw one on social media yesterday, attributed to George Bernard Shaw. I can easily believe the attribution is correct, because it is just the kind of stupid thing Shaw would have said, thinking himself clever for saying it. Here it is.
‘The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable man persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.’
Seems about right. Looking about me at the bloody hash the world is in, I can well believe that it was all the work of unreasonable, selfish people trying to make it a better place.
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Quote:Heres her link.
Whose link? That’s not my friend’s blog. She doesn’t have a blog. She lives up in the Himalayas.
Some New Ager from New Zealand has stolen a photo of her they found on the internet and is using it – unlike me – without her permission. Not that she’d care if she knew; she’s way beyond such worldly dross as this. But there are people who believe she is a goddess, and sometimes they post pictures of her online.