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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=460431" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>0013 Sainthood via Automated Complaints</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Living saints seem to be an endangered species<br>though nobody complains</div><div style="margin:10px 0">so how about the ‘sustainable’ bit? <br>How To Be a Saint isn’t yet in that<br>expanding Idiot’s Guide series</div><div style="margin:10px 0">however</div><div style="margin:10px 0">there is a Path, a Way<br>right at the tips of your fingers<br>though have your blood pressure<br>checked first</div><div style="margin:10px 0">automated complaints</div><div style="margin:10px 0">and I’m sure I don’t need<br>to spell that out for you</div><div style="margin:10px 0">the one that you can’t even get through to make; <br>the options that don’t include yours; <br>the hanging on, because<br>we value your call; <br>the background music<br>like that loop from<br>Mendelsohn’s violin concerto<br>like a continuously thwarted orgasm<br>without a climax</div><div style="margin:10px 0">so here’s the perfect practice</div><div style="margin:10px 0">run through a checklist<br>of the required virtues; <br>western religions tend to run to<br>quite a few; but Indians<br>love enumeration – they’ve been at it<br>for thousands of years; and now<br>they’re Call Centre International<br>it could be a growth industry</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I’ve got a fine list here from the Jains<br>which is especially practical<br>since they don’t require subscribing<br>to a specific image of the god<br>who’s running all this, remember: </div><div style="margin:10px 0">you could take one virtue a day to practice<br>or just have the checklist there beside<br>the telephone – I guess<br>if this catches on, there’ll be<br>an illustrated poster to hang there<br>in exquisite medieval illumination</div><div style="margin:10px 0">so for when you get through to a human being, <br>or better, while you’re waiting, <br>here’s the first nine of the ten: </div><div style="margin:10px 0">forgiveness; <br>humility; <br>straightforwardness; <br>truth; <br>restraint from anger, abuse, etc; <br>penance; (you could settle there for patience..) <br>non-attachment; <br>indifference to any kind of gain or loss; <br>cleanliness of soul, mind, body; </div><div style="margin:10px 0">I guess by now you’re<br>either laughing or crying; <br>both have their uses<br>on the way to sainthood; </div><div style="margin:10px 0">oh yes, the tenth, <br>supreme sex-control; <br>not sure if that applies, apart from monks etc., <br>but it might somehow</div><div style="margin:10px 0">anyway, there’s nine<br>for you to practice on meanwhile; <br>I don’t need to advise you on<br>which institutions will help you most by their hindrance; <br>you already have that list? <br>if not, press…</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Michael+Shepherd">Michael Shepherd</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=460431" data-title="0013 Sainthood via Automated Complaints de Michael Shepherd" data-description="Living saints seem to be an endangered species though nobody complains so how about the ‘sustainable’ bit? How To Be a Saint isn’t yet in that expanding Idiot’s Guide series however there is a Path, a Way right at the tips of your fing..."></div> </div> </div>
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