Classic Comments on the Quote

[LaynaLyn]

"There is a difference between Moses and Paul. Moses was the great Law-giver to the nation of Israel, while Paul is the great dispenser of Grace to the Church, the Body of Christ."
— Henry Grube

LLapp
March 16, 2019, 2:47 am
Thanks Viktoria, what you wrote is exactly the distinction that I see between embracing the teachings of Jesus, which I do, and believing he was a savior, which I don't. I believe the human condition, not sin, is at the base of human suffering, and that salvation, if there is such a thing, lies in the work we all do, in our own private ways, to be at peace with being human.

Persephone59
October 2, 2021, 3:01 am
Is being a Grace dispenser anything like being a Pez dispenser? Sorry, not in a serious mood just now. Well, actually I'm not sorry.
Fudi
October 15, 2022, 5:16 pm
Paul was the cute one. Everyone knows that.

[LaynaLyn]

"He who has never envied the vegetable has missed the human drama."
— E.M. Cioran

agatha
January 1, 2011, 3:30 pm
Well, I hath lusted after the young asparagus stalk. Doth that count?
universalmom
July 18, 2012, 5:40 am
Okay, what on earth does envying a vegetable mean??
Queethebean
August 8, 2012, 11:08 pm
I guess one's life could be so chaotic that one might wish one were a zucchini.
Allen
December 12, 2013, 2:01 am
I envy vegetables--they're so...grounded!

haverwench
July 5, 2015, 3:41 am
I suspect we're about to beet this pun to death.

maradnu
January 23, 2018, 3:24 pm
All we are saying is give peas a chance

montyb
April 28, 2019, 4:20 pm
I think more people than we realize are envious of vegetables. Go to any beach and see all those poor saps futilely trying to photosynthesize.

[Eureka]

"Humanity is acquiring all the right technology for all the wrong reasons." — R. Buckminster Fuller

montyb
January 25, 2013, 11:16 pm
In fact, the buckminster fullerene ("bucky ball") is the most sperical naturally occuring molecule known.

chopstix
July 31, 2013, 7:15 pm
well darn if ya don't learn something new every day from this site! thanks montyb!

montyb
November 2, 2013, 1:01 pm
I hope you learned that I meant "spherical", chopstix.

chopstix
May 29, 2014, 6:20 am
hah, I must have! I guess it could be taken as a typo for spiritual...

slow1
April 7, 2016, 8:09 am
What a coincidence - that chopstix and montyb would both get this quote twice!..fascinating.

montyb
June 22, 2020, 4:07 pm
It certainly is!

darkyr
December 11, 2020, 3:32 pm
Perhaps montyb and chopstix are the same person and this was all just an elaborate ruse to distract us from something astonishingly more sinister and sperical.

montyb
February 4, 2021, 10:58 pm
Well, it's true that Chopstix and I have never been seen at the same time.

abra
May 31, 2022, 1:36 am
Good work, darkyr. The mysteries of the Crypto Universe are revealing themselves thanks to solvers like you.

montyb
October 17, 2022, 11:01 pm
During my youth and shortly after acquiring Silly Putty and Flubber, my mother let me know that allowing each to flow deep into the pile of the living room carpet was definitely a wrong reason.

Elephino
April 5, 2024, 12:07 pm
I have to confess that in order to distance myself from montyb (due to circumstances I cannot disclose here), I changed my name a few years ago. chopstix is my dead name. But in order to confirm my ongoing camaraderie with monty I am adding a wiki link to elaborate on his original comment: (link). and an excerpt: "...The discoverers of the allotrope named the newfound molecule after R. Buckminster Fuller, who designed many geodesic dome structures that look similar to C60 and who had died in 1983, the year before discovery...."