MINUTES of a MONDAY #115
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Slán - Niall☘️ **
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BRAIN FOOD: The Goodish Seminarian
“One of the nastiest experiments in the history of social sciences was conducted in December 1970 on a group of students at the Princeton Theological Seminary, who were training to become ministers in the Presbyterian Church. Each student was asked to hurry to a distant lecture hall, and there give a talk on the Good Samaritan parable, which tells how a Jew travelling from Jerusalem to Jericho was robbed and beaten by criminals, who then left him to die by the side of the road.
After some time a priest and a Levite passed nearby, but both ignored the man. In contrast, a Samaritan - a member of a sect much despised by the jews - stopped when he saw the badly beaten man, took care of him and saved his life. The moral of the parable is that people’s merit should be judged by their actual behaviour, rather than their religious affiliation.
Meanwhile, the eager young seminarians rushed to the lecture halls, contemplating on the way how best to explain the moral of the Good Semaritan parable. But the experimenters planted in their path a shabbily dressed person, who was sitting slumped in a doorway with his head down and eyes closed. As each unsuspecting seminarian was hurrying past, the ‘victim’ coughed and groaned pitifully. Most seminarians did not even stop to enquire what was wrong with the man, let alone offer any help. The emotional stress created by the need to hurry to the lecture hall trumped their moral obligation to help strangers in distress.
Human emotions trump philosophical theories in countless other situations.”
An extract from the book 21 Lessons for the 21st Century by Yuval Noah Harari.
SOUL FOOD:
“It’s hard to beat a person who never gives up.”
Babe Ruth
LOL:
Hugh Grant on his parents support, or lack thereof, for his career choice:
APPENDIX:
“To be alive is to escape from the
dungeon of dead dogmas
and decrepit creeds and to
yield to the subtle whispers of the
neglected part of your
secret essence.
To be alive is to plunge into the
medieval depths and recapture
that authentic LIGHT of your
own BEING, to unmask your divine
madness and dance
once again with unimaginable
rapture in the vast muck-heap
of this fallen world.”
Extract from the poem ‘To Live is to Be Madly Alive’ by Erik Rittenberry. You can read it in full here.
A.O.B.
That’s it for #115 amigo.
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Until next Monday, mind how you go out there - Niall