Moral messages (and Hagrid)

[Geoff Bannister]

No: HPFGUIDX 128766

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Megan" <skater314159 at y...> wrote:

skater314159:
 
> This reminds me of a story one of my professors/Rabbis told me where 
> he said "Think of life as a banquet - there are all sorts of food on 
> the table... the only setback is that there are only utensils with 
six foot handles! People who are greedy and think only of themselves 
sit and complain that they can't feed themselves while those who share 
and think of others feed their neighbors with their fork and have their 
neighbors feed them".

Geoff:
This is also a well-known story in Christian circles and is used as a 
description of the difference between Hell and Heaven. Our version runs 
like this:

A man was taken by an angel to visit Hell and Heaven. When he visited 
Hell, he found that the residents were sitting at well-laden tables 
with six-foot long knives and forks which they had to use; they were 
all looking very sad and gloomy because they were unable to feed 
themselves. 

Then he visited Heaven and found a similar scenario but the residents 
appeared to be cheerful and well. On asking the angel why this was so, 
he was told, "Well, in Heaven, those present succeed by feeding each 
other."