更新时间:2009-10-29
凡雨 • 虐童疑云:Rumor and other disasters
如果想要打发一个无聊的夜晚，看部电影放松心情，那么Doubt 绝不是一个好选择。然而它带给人的收获却是无法预料的。其中的一幕是Father Flynn在布道时说的故事，全文如实录入，如下：
"A woman was gossiping with a friend about a man she hardly knew, that night she had a dream.A great hand appeared over her and pointed down at her.She was immediately seized with an overwhelming sense of guilt. The next day she went to confession. She got the old parish priest, Father O'Rourke, and she told him the whole thing."Is gossiping a sin?" she asked the old man. "Was that the hand of God Almighty pointing a finger at me?" "Should I be asking your absolution? Father, tell me, have I done something wrong?" "Yes!" Father O'Rourke answered her. "Yes, you ignorant, badly brought-up female! You have borne false witness against your neighbor, you have played fast and loose with his reputation, and you should be heartily ashamed!" So the woman said she was sorry and asked for forgiveness. "Not so fast!" says O'Rourke. "I want you to go home, take a pillow up on your roof, cut it open with a knife, and return here to me!" So the woman went home, took a pillow off her bed, a knife from the drawer, went up the fire escape to the roof, and stabbed the pillow. Then she went back to the old parish priest as instructed. "Did you gut the pillow with the knife?" he says. "Yes, Father. " "And what was the result?" "Feathers," she said. "Feathers?" he repeated. "Feathers everywhere, Father!" "Now I want you to go back and gather up every last feather that flew out on the wind!" "Well," she said, "it can't be done. " "I don't know where they went. The wind took them all over. " "And that,"said Father O'Rourke, "is gossip!"
Most of us are involved in some kind of gossip, mostly harmless. I will always remember the feather pillow when I am about to pass on another gossip.
For all.
"A woman was gossiping with a friend about a man she hardly knew, that night she had a dream.A great hand appeared over her and pointed down at her.She was immediately seized with an overwhelming sense of guilt. The next day she went to confession. She got the old parish priest, Father O'Rourke, and she told him the whole thing."Is gossiping a sin?" she asked the old man. "Was that the hand of God Almighty pointing a finger at me?" "Should I be asking your absolution? Father, tell me, have I done something wrong?" "Yes!" Father O'Rourke answered her. "Yes, you ignorant, badly brought-up female! You have borne false witness against your neighbor, you have played fast and loose with his reputation, and you should be heartily ashamed!" So the woman said she was sorry and asked for forgiveness. "Not so fast!" says O'Rourke. "I want you to go home, take a pillow up on your roof, cut it open with a knife, and return here to me!" So the woman went home, took a pillow off her bed, a knife from the drawer, went up the fire escape to the roof, and stabbed the pillow. Then she went back to the old parish priest as instructed. "Did you gut the pillow with the knife?" he says. "Yes, Father. " "And what was the result?" "Feathers," she said. "Feathers?" he repeated. "Feathers everywhere, Father!" "Now I want you to go back and gather up every last feather that flew out on the wind!" "Well," she said, "it can't be done. " "I don't know where they went. The wind took them all over. " "And that,"said Father O'Rourke, "is gossip!"
Most of us are involved in some kind of gossip, mostly harmless. I will always remember the feather pillow when I am about to pass on another gossip.
For all.
