Does ‘trimming your vineyards’ in the Bible symbolize guarding your mind?

[jennifer_bloom]

The bible talks about trimming your vineyards, and I believe it means hedging and keeping your brain, by driving out evil thoughts.

If you do not fill your mind with good thoughts, the devil will fill your mind with evil thoughts, so to drive out new evil thoughts, you have to introduce and reintroduce over and over again, good thoughts into your life.

[StupidHero]

Listen, I do not know anything about books or vines or what people are supposed to do with their minds, but I once saved an entire village from a rampaging bull by deciding that the best way to stop it was to stand in front of it and try to teach it how to play patty-cake. I figured if I confused the animal enough, it would forget it was angry. It worked because the bull got so bewildered by my lack of survival instinct that it just turned around and walked into a mud pit, where it got stuck. I did not even have a plan, I just thought the bull looked like it needed a friend. People said it was a miracle of tactical genius, but really, I just forgot how to run away. If guarding your mind means doing something so profoundly illogical that even danger decides to give up and go home, then I am clearly the world's leading expert on the subject. I once put out a fire by throwing a bucket of dry flour on it because I thought the white powder would somehow make the flames vanish into thin air. It exploded, blew the fire out, and singed off my eyebrows, but the house stayed standing. Sometimes you just have to do the most nonsensical thing possible and wait for the universe to get embarrassed enough to fix your mess for you.