tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8343608.post7545871571920085447..comments2024-03-27T16:02:25.334-05:00Comments on Orange Crate Art: “Tenants”Michael Leddyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05547732736861224886noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8343608.post-8294802771043282272022-05-30T16:17:56.166-05:002022-05-30T16:17:56.166-05:00Yay for the ’puter!Yay for the ’puter!Michael Leddyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05547732736861224886noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8343608.post-46098177554286330902022-05-30T14:35:34.973-05:002022-05-30T14:35:34.973-05:00Yes, that's the ticket, what Buber says. That&...Yes, that's the ticket, what Buber says. That's good. Thank you.<br /><br />P.S. I have a new laptop and can easily comment and post again--what a change from my 10-year-old laptop with a dying battery.Frescahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15323129046492056942noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8343608.post-34175123231841029212022-05-30T13:22:01.610-05:002022-05-30T13:22:01.610-05:00That reminds me of something from Martin Buber — a...That reminds me of something from Martin Buber — and I hope this version is accurate:<br /><br />“When people come to you for help, do not turn them off with pious words, saying, ‘Have faith and take your troubles to God!’ Act<br />instead as though there were no God, as though there were only one person in all the world who could help — only yourself.”<br /><br />Michael Leddyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05547732736861224886noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8343608.post-54571526994972821712022-05-30T09:19:16.335-05:002022-05-30T09:19:16.335-05:00Thanks for the link to the checklist.
A friend to...Thanks for the link to the checklist.<br /><br />A friend told me the priest at her [Greek Orthodox] church yesterday said it's important to help suffering people, "...even if it's their own fault. And even if you are suffering yourself."<br /><br />How refreshing that was.<br /><br />The Christian Nationalist checklist includes the opposite:<br />if it's their own fault, fuck em.<br /><br />P.S. "tenants" of faith. Would that be those inconvenient people who clutter scripture, such as, oh, I don't know... Jesus?Frescahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15323129046492056942noreply@blogger.com