Míshlê Robin

[packbat]

So I was pounding away at the grading, and my mind started to drift, and, well...

Raise not hypocrisy to the stature of a Great Sin! To prove hypocrisy is to prove moral failing, but to prove moral failing is nothing if it is not done to correct, and to prove hypocrisy corrects nothing. Instead treat each hypocrite as herself, and ask: which of the three hypocrites is she?

The first hypocrite is she whose professions are righteous and acts are unrighteous. To you, I say: praise her! Hard is the road of righteousness, and many will stumble from it - praise her for her noble words, and commiserate with her when she falls short of them.

The second hypocrite is she whose professions are unrighteous and acts are righteous. To you, I say: praise her! Rare is the soul whose instincts are so pure, and that she has been confused in her thoughts is no fault. Praise her for her noble deeds, and teach her to praise and take pride in them herself.

The third hypocrite is she whose professions are unrighteous and acts are unrighteous. To you, I say: take pity, for what all of us fear and strive to avoid, she suffers from, and teach her as you teach all who have lost their way.

Does anybody else find themselves writing their own personal scriptures in their head?

Comments

[kirabug.livejournal.com]

Yes, but not nearly as eloquently.

[packbat.livejournal.com]

Thanks - I thought I might not be the only one. (And thanks for the complement!)

[happydog.livejournal.com]

Sometimes. And why not?

Are you sure you're not Pagan? ;D

[packbat.livejournal.com]

Oh, I'm all for new scriptures. Glad to hear I'm not alone. ;)

Am I Pagan? I don't know, and at some point* I really stopped caring - now I'm just trying to be good. :P

(I am a thoroughgoing metaphysical naturalist, however - that's not exactly part of the Pagan template. I do like Pagans - and small-p pagans! - anyway, though.)

* I believe last Tuesday, but it might have been several days either way.

[happydog.livejournal.com]

thoroughgoing metaphysical naturalist

on the contrary, if I understand what you mean by this term, it's inherently pagan.

[packbat.livejournal.com]

All right by me! (You almost certainly do understand what I mean - I mean the term in it's most common sense.) I suppose I have a bit of a confused sense of what "pagan" means - which on reflection is unsurprising, its referent is out in the Isles (http://siderea.livejournal.com/201206.html), it's apt to get mischaracterized.

Um. I think I meant to have a point in there somewhere. Err, Go Pagans!