a fable....doing good....

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A woman baked chapatti (roti) for members of her family and an extra one for a hungry passerby. She kept the extra chapatti on the window sill, for whosoever would take it away. Every day, a hunchback came and took away the chapatti. Instead of expressing gratitude, he muttered the following words as he went his way: "The evil you do remains with you: The good you do, comes back to you!" This went on, day after day. Every day, the hunchback came, picked up the chapatti and uttered the words: "The evil you do, remains with you: The good you do, comes back to you!" The woman felt irritated. "Not a word of gratitude," she said to herself...

"Everyday this hunchback utters this jingle! What does he mean?" One day, exasperated, she decided to do away with him. "I shall get rid of this hunchback," she said. And what did she do? She added poison to the chapatti she prepared for him! As she was about to keep it on the window sill, her hands trembled. "What is this I am doing?" she said. Immediately, she threw the chapatti into the fire, prepared another one and kept it on the window sill. As usual, the hunchback came, picked up the chapatti and muttered the words: "The evil you do, remains with you: The good you do, comes back to you!" The hunchback proceeded on his way, blissfully unaware of the war raging in the mind of the woman.


Every day, as the woman placed the chapatti on the window sill, she offered a prayer for her son who had gone to a distant place to seek his fortune. For many months, she had no news of him.. She prayed for his safe return. That evening, there was a knock on the door. As she opened it, she was surprised to find her son standing in the doorway. He had grown thin and lean. His garments were tattered and torn. He was hungry, starved and weak. As he saw his mother, he said, "Mom, it's a miracle I'm here. While I was but a mile away, I was so famished that I collapsed. I would have died, but just then an old hunchback passed by. I begged of him for a morsel of food, and he was kind enough to give me a whole chapatti. As he gave it to me, he said, "This is what I eat everyday: today, I shall give it to you, for your need is greater than mine!" " As the mother heard those words, her face turned pale.


She leaned against the door for support. She remembered the poisoned chapatti that she had made that morning. Had she not burnt it in the fire, it would have been eaten by her own son, and he would have lost his life! It was then that she realized the significance of the words:

"The evil you do remains with you: The good you do, comes back to you!"

Do good and Don't ever stop doing good, even if it is not appreciated at that time.
 

PanfilodeVaca

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If the hunchback was hungry, why did he travel for a mile without eating the chapati?

If he wasn't hungry, why did he take the chapati rather than leave it for some other poor bastard?
 
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And why did Frodo not contact the Eagles to fly him from Mount Doom, thus avoiding all the problems with Gollum, giant spiders and indigestion from eating Elfin waybread?

Such are the mysteries one encounters in the Land of Fables, along with grape-eating foxes and racing tortises
 

dv8

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for the love of god, this is a clown bin, i'll have you know, not some dumbass chicken soup for the soul.
 

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And why did Frodo not contact the Eagles to fly him from Mount Doom, thus avoiding all the problems with Gollum, giant spiders and indigestion from eating Elfin waybread?

Such are the mysteries one encounters in the Land of Fables, along with grape-eating foxes and racing tortises

Gollum? Are you sure, not Goijim?:laugh:
 
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Did Gollum look Jewish to you?

He was sort of a materialist, what with all the "my precioussssssss" stuff.
 
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Tolkein was a nonreligious Jew as well as a scholar in medieval English literature. He grew up in South Africa, which was segregated into various communities: English, Boer, Cape Colored, Zulu, Xhosa, Bushman, and Indian. So his creating all the different actually different races (Men, Elves, Wizards, Orcs, Hobbits and such) in LOTR seems to have come from this.
 

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Tolkein was a nonreligious Jew as well as a scholar in medieval English literature. He grew up in South Africa, which was segregated into various communities: English, Boer, Cape Colored, Zulu, Xhosa, Bushman, and Indian. So his creating all the different actually different races (Men, Elves, Wizards, Orcs, Hobbits and such) in LOTR seems to have come from this.
Tolkien was a devout Roman Catholic and an influence in the conversion of former atheist C.S. Lewis (one of the greatest apologets of all times) to Christianity.
 
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Tolkein's parents were nonpracticing German Jews. There is not much Catholicism in his works. CS Lewis had oodles of Catholic imagery in his works.
 

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more like flying mccoys:

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PanfilodeVaca

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Tolkein was a nonreligious Jew as well as a scholar in medieval English literature. He grew up in South Africa, which was segregated into various communities: English, Boer, Cape Colored, Zulu, Xhosa, Bushman, and Indian. So his creating all the different actually different races (Men, Elves, Wizards, Orcs, Hobbits and such) in LOTR seems to have come from this.

Tolkien wasn't Jewish, his parents weren't Jewish, and he did not grow up in South Africa. He was born in the Orange Free State and lived there until he was three years old.