At one time, the Exalted One was living in Jeta Grove. A certain diety of astounding beauty approached the Exalted One and said:
Many dieties and humans
have pondered on blessings.
Tell me the blessings supreme.
The Buddha replied:
To associate not with the foolish,
to be with the wise,
to honor the worthy ones
this is a blessing supreme.
Convincing ‘Game of Thrones’ Fan Theory. Image from Cracked.com
WARNING:
This is likely to actually turn out to be true. This could be a legitimate spoiler, so don’t say I didn’t warn you.
Revelation 22:11-15. “Four Horsemen of Apocalypse,” by Viktor Vasnetsov. Painted in 1887. (Image credit: Wikipedia)
Revelation 22:11-15
New International Version (NIV)
(11) “Let the one who does wrong continue to do wrong; let the vile person continue to be vile; let the one who does right continue to do right; and let the holy person continue to be holy.”
John Reinhard Weguelin, Horatius defending the Sublician bridge, from the 1881 edition. Credit: Wikipedia.
Lord Thomas Babington Macaulay
“Lays of Ancient Rome” (1842)
I am so relieved that this is one of the “salvage survivors” in my comic book collection.
I mourn the ones lost, such as X-MEN #30 (The Wedding of Scott Summers and Jean Grey), The Uncanny X-MEN #300, and the gate-fold cover issue/version of X-MEN #1. FML.
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