Use it or lose it

In your skull you have a specimen of the most sensational information-processing engine in the known universe. Of your very own! And you'd better learn how to use it, beco's—if you don't—it won't go to waste . . . . . . . someone else will use it, and quite possibly not in a way that portends any good for you.

This is what I always tell my students. Something to do with the Parable of the Talents. Refusing to use the brain wot The Good Lord gave you is a much more serious blasphemy than making Visual Representations of the Prophet or Taking the Name of the Lord in Vain. Those are internal disciplinary matters for members of the religions concerned, and are of no concern for non-subscribers; they do not correspond to fundamental facts about the Human Condition. Squandering your talents is something that all of us need to avoid doing.
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