Chapter 28 Economics - 23

I, by the way, don't spend any money on curtains either, since there are no other voyeurs to keep out but the sun and the moon, and I'd like them to come and see me.The moon does not sour my milk, or stink my flesh, nor the sun mar my furniture, nor fade my rugs; Why add another curtain to my housekeeping when it is economically more economical to go behind the curtain that nature provides.A lady once offered me a floor mat, but I couldn't find a space for it in the house, and I didn't have time to clean it inside and outside the house. I didn't accept it. I would rather wipe the soles of my feet on the grass in front of my door. .Evil should really be avoided at the very beginning.

Shortly thereafter I visited the auction of the chattels of a deacon whose life was not without success, but:— "The evil that people do is passed on after death." As usual, most of the stuff was flashy and had been hoarding since his father.Among them, there is also a dried tapeworm.Now, these things, which have been lying in the attic and other dusty caves of his house for half a century, have not been burned; instead of burning them, or cremating them, they are auctioned off to Extend their lifespan.Neighbors gather in droves, look eagerly, buy them all, and carefully move them into their garrets and other dusty dens, to lie there until the estate needs to be cleared again, at which point they'll be drawn once more. Door.When a man dies, his feet kick into the dust.

Perhaps there are some customs of savage countries, which are worth learning, and are instructive, for they at least seem to shed their skin once a year; and though they cannot actually do this, they do it symbolically.Wouldn't it be nice if we had a celebration like the one Baltram described about the customs of the Mokras Indians, and the sacrament of the first fruits? "When a tribe celebrates a sacrament," he said, "they first prepare themselves new clothes, new altars and pots, new dishes, new utensils and new furniture, and then collect all the worn out clothes and Other old things that could be discarded, cleaned their houses, squares and all dumps, and dumped the garbage together with the bad grains and other old grains that had been saved on a common pile, and burned it with fire. After taking the medicine and going on a hunger strike for three days, all the fires were turned off. During the hunger strike, they forbade their appetite and the satisfaction of other desires. The amnesty was announced; all sinners can return to the village.”

"On the morning of the fourth day, the High Priest rubbed the dry wood, and a new flame was kindled in the square. Every household received this new, pure flame from here." So they ate new grains and fruits, sang and danced for three days, "and for four consecutive days they were visited and celebrated by their friends from neighboring tribes, and they purified in the same way, and they were ready .” Mexicans also hold a purification ceremony every fifty-two years. They believe that the world ends once every fifty-two years. I have never heard of a more sincere sacrament than this, as the dictionary says, is "the outward and visible ceremony of inner spiritual beautification", and I have no doubt that their customs are directly transmitted by Providence Yes, although they didn't have a Bible to record that revelation.

For more than five years I maintained myself merely by the labor of my hands, and I found that by working only six weeks in a year I could meet all the expenses of living.All winter and most of summer I read a little freely and briskly.I have run a school with all my heart, and I have found that the benefits are at best worth the outlay, or even less, because I have to dress, groom, and needless to say think and believe like other people, and this business I lost a lot of time and suffered a lot.Since I teach not for the good of my fellow beings, but just for a living, this fails.I tried business too, but I found it took ten years to be good at it, and maybe by then I was falling into the arms of the devil.I was really worried that my business would be booming by then.In the past, when I was looking here and there for a way of earning a living, I had some sad experiences in trying to conform to the wishes of some friends, which forced me to think more in my mind, so I I often seriously think that I might as well pick some berries; of course I can do it, and the small profit is enough for me,—for my best skill is to need very little,—I think so foolishly, it only takes Very little capital, and very little resistance to my consistent emotions.While those I have known did not hesitate to enter into business or employment, I think my profession comes closest to their example; Dispose of them; as if guarding Admiraltes' flock.I also dreamed that I could collect some idle flowers and weeds, and use a hay truck to transport evergreen trees to some villagers who love woods, and even transport them to the city.But since then I have learned that commerce curses everything it deals in; even if you deal in the gospel of heaven, you can't get rid of all the curses that commerce has on it.