"There is an apostolic injunction to suffer fools gladly. We always lay the stress on the word “suffer,” and interpret the passage as one urging resignation. It might be better, perhaps, to lay the stress upon the word “gladly,” and make our familiarity with fools a delight, and almost a dissipation. Nor is it necessary that our pleasure in fools (or at least in great and godlike fools) should be merely satiric or cruel. The great fool is he in whom we cannot tell which is the conscious and which the unconscious humour; we laugh with him and laugh at him at the same time." - G.K. ChestertonNoOnesPerfect wrote: ↑Sun Jun 16, 2019 11:09 amMy mother used to call that a low tolerance for stupidity.chunkyfrog wrote: ↑Sun Jun 16, 2019 11:06 amHe does have a bit of a problem with those who like to troll and bully.
Nobody is perfect.
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Very good.ChicagoGranny wrote: ↑Mon Jun 17, 2019 5:25 pm"There is an apostolic injunction to suffer fools gladly. We always lay the stress on the word “suffer,” and interpret the passage as one urging resignation. It might be better, perhaps, to lay the stress upon the word “gladly,” and make our familiarity with fools a delight, and almost a dissipation. Nor is it necessary that our pleasure in fools (or at least in great and godlike fools) should be merely satiric or cruel. The great fool is he in whom we cannot tell which is the conscious and which the unconscious humour; we laugh with him and laugh at him at the same time." - G.K. ChestertonNoOnesPerfect wrote: ↑Sun Jun 16, 2019 11:09 amMy mother used to call that a low tolerance for stupidity.chunkyfrog wrote: ↑Sun Jun 16, 2019 11:06 amHe does have a bit of a problem with those who like to troll and bully.
Nobody is perfect.
You are a bottomless/endless fount of "Good Stuff".
This place would be much less interesting without your observations.
I learn.
JPB
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