alt Hacker NewsCatholics 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.'"
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I don’t understand this story. What lesson/joke am I seeing here?
> 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...
> 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.