“A time is coming when men will go mad, and when they see someone who is not mad, they will attack him saying, ‘You are mad, you are not like us.’”
~~~ Abba Anthony, one of the Desert Fathers in the early centuries of Christianity
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Certainly does seem to apply to today’s world!
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Unfortunately so…
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Wow! I know “men” here means humans, but when I read this, I thought, and women will shake their heads and keeping doing the laundry (or keep trying to clean up the mess.)
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I hadn’t thought of the wo/men implications, but there are a lot of days where it seems to apply.
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This one surely did make me think, Joanne.
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Thinking is good! Thoughtlessness generally puts us on the road to trouble.
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