I just heard and interesting history today: A toothpaste producing factory was having problems because many toothpaste boxes would come out of the production facilities empty and accidentally get sent to the shops. To solve this problem, the owners hired a team of enginners who projected and built a machine capable of detecting empty boxes by their weight. That costed millions, and the machine would have to be stopped ever time a empty box was detected for removal. The employees eventually got tired of having to stop the machine all the time and bought a big fan wich they put facing the treads, in a strengh sufficient to blow away the empty boxes but not the full boxes, and disabled the system.

So the question is: Can methodism become so strong a habit that it is not challenged even in the most obvious circunstances?