Live simply and prudently, with self-control and moderation. Seek simple pleasures, those that satisfy natural and necessary desires, chief of which are food, drink, clothing, shelter, friendship and love. The idea that Epicureanism sheer self-indulgence is nonsense, but it is perpetuated by the Roman Catholic church today. See their derogatory piece on Epicureanism: http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/05500b.htm
On January 21st the Washington Post carried a distressing article headed “A Librarian’s Lament,” by Thomas Washington. He said that librarians are no longer focused on books, but on information management, databases and research tools, and , indeed were not even called librarians any more. Meanwhile, according to the 2004 Reading at risk report by …
“When Arthur Balfour launched his scheme for peopling Palestine with Jewish immigrants, I am credibly informed that he did not know there were Arabs in the country.” W. R. Inge (!860-1954), from the London Evening Standard, quoted in This England, by M. Bateman, selections fro the New Statesman
A MESSAGE OF CONCERN TO ALL THE PALESTINIAN PEOPLE As Leaders of the Christian Churches in Jerusalem concerned at the present situation in the Palestinian Territories we feel we must voice our anxiety for all our people – Christian and Moslem alike – at the deteriorating relations between Fatah and Hamas leaders and the armed …
“Go thy way, eat thy bread with joy, and drink thy wine with a merry heart……. Whatever thy hand findeth to do, do it with thy might; for there is no work or device, nor knowledge, nor wisdom in the grave, whither thou goest.” Ecclesiastes Chapter 9 verses 7-10
