an overlap of current interests...

[alchimie]

Airplane tomorrow, so I ought to be packing, but a cat is asleep in my lap and I am loath to disturb him.

I finished 3.4 of The Good Place last night and am continuing to enjoy it, although I think I see where this season is going and it is less of what I am interested in -- but the show keeps surprising me and I will certainly keep going.

Meanwhile I was reminded by skygiants post on The Six that I had been meaning to read Maxwell Anderson's play Anne of the Thousand Days -- I am very fond of the wives of Henry VIII and have many strong opinions upon them, and the ebook was available from the library, so why not?

Which led to my great amusement when I came across Anderson's version of Sir Thomas More saying:

Still, men do seem to get what they deserve—in a rough way—over a long period. [...] Well, it’s my guess. There’s no proving it. Nobody’s ever made up the accounts. Think of the accounting system they’d have to have in heaven to reckon our follies and sins and good deeds, and decide what we should get. Think of the decisions they’d have to make—and revise. And reverse. Think of the good deeds that turned out badly—and of the murders that turned out to be a good thing.

Oh really, Sir Thomas?

Comments

[graydon]

Pretty much all human ethics reduces to not knowing the future.

Some people are unquestionably of a net benefit to some defined group, and some people are unquestionably of a net cost. The human folly is in deciding that you can certainly tell which group is which.

The hypothesized nature of God requires that God certainly does know which is which. God can even pick the group definition optimally.

Humans, though; we still can't comprehend the accounting.

[enemyofperfect]

I think season three of The Good Place did not delight me in the same way as the the first season, but it always defies my expectations, so it isn't simple for me to say whether that's a disappointment. In any case, I look forward to your getting caught up!

[cmcmck]

Given that he committed a fair few judicial murders.........

I always have found him a bloody odd saint!