[reading] Bible studies

[piggymouse]

…There's a famous anecdote about a man who was depressed and randomly opened the Bible and found the verse that said, “and Judas went out and hung himself.”¹ That wasn't very helpful, so he opened another one and it said, “go out and do thou likewise”²; and that was even more depressing. Then he went on to find “whatever thou doest, do it quickly.”³

From “Things A Computer Scientist Rarely Talks About” by Donald E. Knuth.⁴

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¹ — Matthew 27:5.

² — Luke 10:37.

³ — John 13:27.

⁴ — Donald M. Duck ©ivan_ghandhi.

Comments

[bleys.livejournal.com]

Seems like the guy was using the New Testament instead of full Bible.

[piggymouse.livejournal.com]

Do you mean the guy who made up the story?

[oxfv.livejournal.com]

Yep. It's like using STL without runtime library.

[bleys.livejournal.com]

No, the one who should hang himself quickly.

[nine_k]

No wonder: try opening a book at a 'random place'. More often than not you end up opening it near the end, about half the thumb thickness from the back cover, just because it's convenient to grip it this way. In a typical size Bible (1.5 thumbs thick), you will constantly open the New Testament chapters.