Most of my life
Has been played in a minor key.
His Majesty was snorting at his newspaper when I brought him his pancake this morning.
His Majesty is taking the campaign more seriously than I thought. I’m worried about him. Time was he never would have wasted his powers on a journalist.
You have a new member in your ward.
Snip. Snip. … Snip-snip.
His Majesty is pleased.
Brandon Sanderson recently published Shadows of Self, which is another book in his Mistborn series, this one with the gunslingling frontier lawman and nobleman, Lord Waxillium and his rouge assistant, Wayne. It was quite good, but there was an exchange that caught my eye. This is potentially a little spoilery, but I have edited the names to minimize this as much as possible.
His Majesty has been somewhat sullen at breakfast lately. Part of it was the widespread perception in the media that Cthulu did better than His Majesty in the last debate. Part of it was the season of the year: I think His Majesty suffers from a touch of SAD (Sith Affective Disorder), which flares up around this time of year, but usually passes around early January. And I figured part of it was that the Imperial tummy has been unhappy. For several days, His Majesty could hardly choke down his meals, which left him feeling bloated and suffering with heartburn for hours afterwards. He convinced himself that it was gastroparesis, which he knows has been making life miserable for a young friend of mine.
36 Master, which is the great commandment in the law?
37 Jesus said unto him, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind.
38 This is the first and great commandment.
39 And the second is like unto it, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.
40 On these two commandments hang all the law and the prophets.
We are instructed to love God first, because that is the necessary first step to understanding God’s ‘system’ – that is we must first acknowledge that God is loving towards us, well-intended, doing His best etc.
The second commandment reinforces that that this is a system in which love is primary – and we must understand our situation in that light.
In sum – the two great commandments describe the ‘metaphysics’ of Life: the basic organization and principles of reality. (more…)
Matt Walsh, writing at The Blaze.
There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, Than are dreamt of in your philosophy. – Hamlet (1.5.167-8), Hamlet to Horatio.
