You’re not going to start drinking out of the toilet again are you?
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The Good Samaritan story works on various levels. Jesus was asked the question, “Who is my neighbor?” and he told the story of a Good Samaritan.
A man was attacked and left for dead on the side of the road. The religious people - the very ones you would expect to help - did not help him. They walked by on the other side of the road. At that point the story is a condemnation, from Jesus, of people with a hollow religion. He is speaking primarily to the Pharisees and teachers of the law in the first century, as that is an ongoing theme in the gospels, but his words are applicable to religious people today, especially the ones who say they have faith but their actions do not show it.
The person in the story who was not expected to help - the Good Samaritan, a man from a different tribe, a despised group - actually went out of his way to help. It cost him, personally, to do that. He embodied something important in the message of Jesus, even though he was perceived as an outsider.
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Exactly. He wasn’t of their tribe or religion, but had strong morals and a social conscience.
It’s one of the most appealing of the stories in the bible and is one that has, sadly, been too often ignored.
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You have a new classic there, mate.
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This is remarkably clearheaded. It will be interesting to see if he will be so clear after having been elected actual pope.
Remarkable video clip:
https://x.com/PaxCatholicom/status/1921161379043528997
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New?
I’ve been saying it for decades. 
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Do you ever experience existential angst and doubt to go with your existential nihilism; or do you manage to grind through life with absolute certainy ?
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Absolute certainty.
But it isn’t a grind: just accept that life is meaningless, and that people are fuckwits, and everything becomes much easier.
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Then you are a very religious person 
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We need a 
reaction on here.
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I agree. Often wanted that one actually ! 
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I heard the physicist, Brian Cox, describe the heat death of the universe as being “very funny”.
When asked about this, he said that it amused him that dictators and oligarchs would erect statues to themselves, trying to somehow confound their own mortality. Whereas in reality, the universe will turn to eternal darkness, there will be no one around to remember, and nothing of them to exist in the death of the universe. Their existence is one of fundamental futility in a fleeting material world.
Brightened my day up, anyway.
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Sounds like he takes great comfort in much the same way as here:
LYRICS:
Awake ye scary Great Olde Ones, let everything dismay.
Remember great Cthulhu shall rise up from R’lyeh
To kill us all with tentacles if we should go his way.
Oh tidings of madness and woe,
Madness and woe,
Oh tidings of madness and woe.
In Yuggoth and in Aldebraan the Great Olde Ones were spawned.
Imprisoned by the Elder Gods to wait for long aeons.
Enticing humans to release them, chanting dreadful songs.
Oh tidings of madness and woe,
Madness and woe,
Oh tidings of madness and woe.
An Arab said “That is not dead which can eternal lie,
And in strange aeons you will find that even death may die.”
The Great Olde Ones will rule once more and all will be destroyed!
Oh tidings of madness and woe,
Madness and woe,
Oh tidings of madness and woe.
Me, I have not so strong nihilistic convictions, but I struggle with lack of hope quite often..
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Eh, back to being serious from now.
Abdul Alhazred, that was.
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It was indeed !
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I can now relate, the very important information it is, that my own old mother just now; commented that she thought dictators and oligarch had more wisdom than the high IQ individual that said those words.
“Nuggets from mother of Magnus”.
Ps. Notably, she is not a nihilist.
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Sounds like a good title for her upcoming podcast series.
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Please don’t ever leave us…
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