While Jesus was having dinner at Levi's house, many tax collectors and sinners were eating with him and his disciples, for there were many who followed him. When the teachers of the law who were Pharisees saw him eating with the sinners and tax collectors, they asked his disciples: 'Why does he eat with tax collectors and sinners?'On hearing this, Jesus said to them, 'It is not the healthy who need a doctor, but the sick. I have not come to call the righteous, but sinners.'
the Gospel according to Mark, 2:15-17. NIV translation
💬 shall you know them by the company they keep?
💡 a man is in a room with three lepers. according to the Bayesian, there is a ⅘ chance that man is also a leper.
🔥 As the clock began its chime, the man closed his eyes, in a private disbelief of the outside world. If the clock chimed 3PM, he would awake as a doctor, here on his hourly rounds. If the clock chimed 3:30PM, he would awake as a patient, suffering from leprosy like all the others.
🔥 When faced with the life of a leper, would he pray for a cure? Or would he live his life in 接受. 人 are born and then they die. The young may struggle against this order for a while, but eventually the universe always wins.
⚔️ well, actually, if the man knows what leprosy and Bayes' theorem are, in what sense can he be imagined to have amnesia about his past?
⚙️ 接受 (普通话 JIE1 SHOU4) is translated as "acceptance"