"'The new guys I get off the farm nowadays, you just can't convince some of them machinery can't be treated like a horse.'"
-SM Stirling, The Sunrise Lands (New York, 2008), Chapter Nineteen, p. 468.
For this same problem with a Roman from Caesar's time, see here.
Father Ignatius thinks that things and time belong to God; waste and sloth are theft from Him. (p. 469) This is the karma yoga attitude. See here.
I am in some haste now but these issues can be discussed later.
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Kaor, Paul!
The kind of views expressed by Fr. Ignatius did not originate with him, of course. Or with practitioners of yoga. I remember how an exasperated St. Paul exhorted some early Christians who were freeloading off the kindness of other Christians, to either work or stop eating. And the Apostle made a point of declaring that wherever he went, he worked at his trade of tent making as much as he did in proclaiming the Gospel, so he would not become a burden on others.
Sean
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