Shade Tree Wisdom
6/5/15
Right this morning the media warns
about a major storm that has entered the Golf and may bring much rain to this area.
Right how where I am sitting it is sunny and warm, but the media is doing its
job just fine.
(Excuse
me a minutes. The teck just stepped in with her scale and is doing the monthly
weighing. Wow,
gained a few pounds. Seem to be eating too well and exercising too little.)
Recently the WSJ was playing with a
word that caught my attention. The word is German, Schadenfreude whose usage in
English dates to the 1850’s. It refers to the feeling we have when something
goes awry for someone else, sort of gleeful feeling a their failure.
And the reverse is
:”gluckemerz”, which was invented by a ‘Wanda Tinasky’, which is also made up.
So the feeling described flies right
in the face of the Lord’s command, “Thou shall love thy neighbor as thyself.”
And the moral of this item is “be careful
what you speak”.
GPD 6/16/15
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