Darth InSidious

Oh, Darathy, that bit about coptic monks in the books thread was interesting. I looked on wiki and found this:

A hermit saw someone laughing, and said to him, "We have to render an account of our whole life before heaven and earth, and you can laugh?"

Which reminded me of:

"I read: 'No man can say that Jesus is the Lord God, but by the holy ghost.' [1 Cor 12] - And it is true: I cannot call him Lord; because that says nothing to me. I could call him 'the paragon', 'God' even-- or rather, I can understand it when he is called thus; but I cannot utter the word 'Lord' with any meaning. Because I do not believe that he will come to judge me; because that says nothing to me. And it could say something to me only if I lived completely differently." (Wittgenstein, Culture and Value, 33e)

It seems to me the first quote is just that kind of distinction: the hermit says "Lord" and means it; the other could not mean "Lord" even if he wanted to...