Tradition: Reflective of the Pentecostal Mindset?

[Carpenter]

Originally Posted by RandyWayne

"Come off it, Mr Dent,", he said, "you can't win you know. You
can't lie in front of the bulldozer indefinitely." He tried to
make his eyes blaze fiercely but they just wouldn't do it.

Arthur lay in the mud and squelched at him.

"I'm game," he said, "we'll see who rusts first."

"I'm afraid you're going to have to accept it," said Mr Prosser
gripping his fur hat and rolling it round the top of his head,
"this bypass has got to be built and it's going to be built!"

"First I've heard of it," said Arthur, "why's it going to be
built?"

Mr Prosser shook his finger at him for a bit, then stopped and
put it away again.

"What do you mean, why's it got to be built?" he said. "It's a
bypass. You've got to build bypasses."

-small excerpt from chapter 1 of the Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy


Such is the logic found in most older traditions.

Douglas Adams really was onto something!

Blast, I though this was going to be that wonderful account of Bucky Dent hitting that home run to beat the Red Sox for the Pennant!