I got myself a smart guy

[brainwane]

Breakfast with Leonard today. I told him that in the most recent ep of "I Only Listen to the Mountain Goats", John Darnielle is asked what his favorite parable in the Bible is. And I asked him to guess what it is.

And Leonard thought for a moment, and then said, "The workers in the vineyard?"

And he was 100% right and I was like HOW DID YOU KNOW?!?!?!?

And Leonard said, because it says not to be self-righteous.

(It turns out there are a LOT of Biblical parables that can be read as "be super careful deciding to be mad about someone else getting stuff they don't 'deserve' or getting more than you are getting". An evergreen lesson.)

(Leonard isn't even a Mountain Goats fan, he just gets secondhand exposure through me.)

Comments

[chevdelachar]

Impressive!

[brendn]

This made me very happy.

[sasha_feather]

I like that parable too.

[selki]

Yes, the Prodigal Son springs to mind. C.S. Lewis's Runaway Bus, er, *The Great Divorce* (parable style theological book) also has a fair bit on this. It seems somehow like the inverse of the 10th commandment, "Thou shalt not covet."