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# Saturday
- URL: https://thedailyeudemon.com/34158/
- Published: 2014-09-27T12:51:12.000Z
- Updated: 2014-09-27T12:51:12.000Z
- Author: Eric Scheske
- Tags: Miscellaneous, #wpChunk

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A Random Passage

My skepticism has made me a nicer person: not inclined to judge anything, I'm not inclined to get bothered by anything. It's been a remarkable shift in mental landscape for me, and I hope to foster it, but I have my lapses.

Too many lapses.

My biggest source of falling: noise. The loud talker, the person who constantly makes noise so others know he's around, the cackling middle-aged woman who doesn't realize demureness is made for her physical state, the flawed muffler, leaf blowers.

It's been annoyance of mine for many, many years ([link](https://thedailyeudemon.com/27296/)), but apparently my distaste has a revered tradition. I ran across this recently:

> Nothing is more becoming a man than silence. It is not the preaching but the practice which ought to be considered as the more important. A profusion of words is sure to lead to error. Talmud