The virtue of idleness

[Otto]

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From: "Terrance" <lycidas2 at earthlink.net>
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Subject: Re: The virtue of idleness


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> Otto wrote:
> >
> > "From the Bible on, moralists and nags have promoted the benefits of
hard
> > work and early rising. They are mistaken, argues Tom Hodgkinson.
>
> The Bible? Does the Bible promote the benefits of hard work and early
> rising? So what happened to Cain? Sounds like Ben Franklin to me.
> Doesn't this Puritan work ethic come after the Reformation? Isn't it
> absent from Jewish and Catholic Theology?

You're correct:

"early to bed and early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise"?
http://www.guardian.co.uk/weekend/story/0,3605,1276787,00.html