THE BALD-HEADED MAN
A long time ago, when the world was young and men and women were ill because an evil spirit possessed them, there lived a man and his wife who were very poor. A devil came and took possession of each of them and made them both sick. As they were not rich they couldn't invite a holy man to read prayers for them, so they invited someone else instead, a friend of a friend who was said to know a lot about such things.
After a while this man who was reading began to get very hungry. It was the custom to give the priests the best of food, but this man and his wife had no no fine things to eat. They had no horses, no yak and only one goat. So the reader began to think to himself that if they would kill this goat he'd have plenty to eat, as it was really pretty fat.
The man who owned the house was bald-headed and now he came up and sat on the roof near where the man was reading. He sat down in front of him and heard the man mumbling his prayers, "Om mani padme hum. Om mani padme hum," he was reading, and read right on in the same tone, "The god says if a man is bald-headed and will take the skin of a goat and put it on his head he will have hair."
The old man sat and heard him read this over several times and finally decided it was there in the book of prayers; so he killed the goat.
They all had some good eating for a while, and the old man put the skin on his head, wore it and wore it for days and days and kept feeling his head, but not a single hair would come. He finally concluded that the man had lied to him out of the book, and besides, he thought, "If I wear this too long, I fear all the skin will be worn off my head and there will be nothing but bone."
So he asked the man about it, whether he hadn't lied to him, and he said, "O, no, but if a man would have what the gods say come true, he must pray a great deal himself." And that's how he managed to get away with his lies and had goat to eat as well.
Originally posted by zm775dammit I was expecting a punchline...
THE BALD-HEADED MAN
A long time ago, when the world was young and men and women were ill because an evil spirit possessed them, there lived a man and his wife who were very poor. A devil came and took possession of each of them and made them both sick. As they were not rich they couldn't invite a holy man to read prayers for them, so they invited someone el ...[text shortened]... f." And that's how he managed to get away with his lies and had goat to eat as well.
This is a story like so many others in faith. Sad.
thanks for sharing.
Originally posted by orion25You can google it as well as me Orion, if you want the punchline.
dammit I was expecting a punchline...
This is a story like so many others in faith. Sad.
thanks for sharing.
The photo has already been posted and we know who the hat wearer and bald person is, so be like the world's press, make up your own story and punch line as they do.