The document is a critique of human greed and desire. It describes a hypothetical scenario where a person is given a small gift but then immediately demands more and more, wanting to possess everything. With each new stanza, the demands grow more excessive and unreasonable. The person wants to control all wealth, natural resources, means of production, and even demand the lives of others. The document argues that while humans can be greedy, it is this very greed that distinguishes people from the divine creator and allows for free will.
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The Good News, newsletter for June 2024 is hereNoHo FUMC
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Sole Plus Point
1. SOLE PLUS POINT
You bestowed upon him just the steering wheel; and the very next instant he
lecherously demanded for the entire showroom of glittering grandiloquent cars; to
drive on a fresh wheel every new minute,
You bestowed upon him just a minuscule stone; and the very next instant he
salaciously demanded for the entire mountain with astoundingly towering peaks; so
that he stood on the epitome to rule the whole planet,
You bestowed upon him just a tiny jewel; and the very next instant he barbarically
demanded for the entire wealth of this earth; to eat; walk and sleep on a platter of
unequivocal gold,
You bestowed upon him just a globule of water; and the very next instant he
insidiously demanded for the entire ocean of boisterously tangy salt; to solely
sail on its handsomely undulating waves,
You bestowed upon him just a robust fruit; and the very next instant he ruthlessly
demanded the entire forest of unfathomable delicacy; to placate even the
wholesomely dead bowels of his impudent stomach,
You bestowed upon him just a solitary roof; and the very next instant he tyrannically
demanded all the castles in this Universe; to harbor his unsurpassable plethora of
heinous misdeeds,
You bestowed upon him just a stringent voice; and the very next instant he
snobbishly demanded all the blissful melody on this planet; to indefatigably
appease even the most remotest of sordid wax; incarcerated in his bohemian
eardrum,
You bestowed upon him just a beautiful dream; and the very next instant he
invidiously demanded for the land of ravishingly bountiful paradise; profusely
titillating even the most infinitesimal chords; of his lackadaisically sensuous appetite,
You bestowed upon him just a stream of vital blood; and the very next instant he
dreadfully demanded the scalp of every other living being; to immortalize his so
called spurious of existence; to make him unequivocally; the strongest organism alive,
You bestowed upon him just a compassionate stone to sleep; and the very next
instant he sordidly demanded all mesmerizing fur and scintillating satin in this
world to be at his feet; so that he could indiscriminately trample and play with it,
2. You bestowed upon him just an inconspicuous fragrance; and the very next instant
he worthlessly demanded the fairies from the cosmos to descend down and
unrelentingly dance in front of him; so that he swayed in the aisles of voluptuous
desire for centuries immemorial,
You bestowed upon him just a tumbler of rain from the sky; and the very next instant
he diabolically demanded the entire entrenchment of rhapsodically vivacious clouds;
so that he could evolve the destiny of countless; while majestically sailing in free
space,
You bestowed upon him just a quintessential fabric; and the very next instant he
sardonically demanded the skins of all those fabulously impeccable and exotic;
so that he could appear ostentatiously beautiful for infinite more births yet to unveil,
You bestowed upon him just an impoverished smile; and the very next instant he
thunderously demanded every speck of tinkling laughter on this globe; so that he
could never ever plummet into the web of despicable doom; even after veritable
death,
You bestowed upon him just a wing to fly; and the very next instant he
domineeringly demanded the entire expanse of fathomless sky; to be heralded as the
most unassailable conqueror of all times,
You bestowed upon him just an inconsequential dream; and the very next instant he
senselessly demanded the memory of all intelligent beings on this earth; so that he
never forget his nonchalant identity; even if hell rained down torrentially from the
vast sky,
You bestowed upon him just an offbeat breath; and the very next instant he insanely
demanded the lives of all those immaculate existing; to pompously inundate his lungs
with unsurpassable carpets of air; to last him a countless lifetimes,
You bestowed upon him just a lackluster heartbeat; and the very next instant he
truculently demanded the perpetual fireball of love in this entire Universe; so
that he lived life like an unconquerable king; even as his grave of horrific despair
waited for him; on his every dwindling stride,
For although Man is such and even worse at times; eventually it is this very greed of
his that becomes his sole plus point; in distinguishing him starkingly and forever;
from the Almighty Divine.