"Self" wrote this piece about a father fixing his angry son by having
him hammer a nail in the fence every time he got angry. After that he
had him remove one every time he went a day without getting angry. Then
he points to all the holes and says apologizing is pointless because the
holes still remain, basically punishing the child for reforming. So I
wanted to mock the piece, but she removed it. Here is my response anyway
(for your entertainment.):
Why I am not a Buddhist:
[I wish I had the original here to show you what I am mocking, but
Buddhists write in sand and then erase their answers in a sort of
passive-aggressive egolessness.]
variant 1:
A father saw his son getting angry all the time so he told him to put a
nail through their front fence every time he got angry. But the "father"
was a woman author who didn't realize that boys LOVE to hammer nails!
variant 2:
The father told his son, every time you sit in judgement on another, put
a nail in the fence. The boy noticed that right away his father put his
millionth nail in the fence for his remarks to his son. Self and Hiram
were right next to him hammering in their nails.
variant 3:
The boy removed the last of the nails once his anger had subsided and
his father said "See, the holes are still there. You cannot remove the
hurt by apologizing. So the boy hammered in another two nails, one for
his father's annoying and insulting exercise and one for his anger at
the results.
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