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Je crois que c'est l'un autre de mes petits péchés mignons, les gens qui, au plein milieu d'une action collective, font leur kif perso.
Idem ce mec qui faisait la circulation, juste avant que les véhicules de police s'emboitent #bestlife
(humans being humans)...
I keep finding out that what most people think parables are about is wrong
In other words
Often, the Standard & Obvious Plain Meaning of the Story, is directly the opposite to what Jesus probably meant or how his first listeners probably would have understood it
OMG A THREAD
In other words
Often, the Standard & Obvious Plain Meaning of the Story, is directly the opposite to what Jesus probably meant or how his first listeners probably would have understood it
OMG A THREAD
PARABLE OF THE TALENTS
(this Sunday in the RCL)
Master gives three slaves money. Two of them make more money. One buries it. The one who buries it is punished.
Moral of the story:
Use the gifts that God gave you. Don't bury your talent in the dirt. #BestLife #Blessed
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Or...
(this Sunday in the RCL)
Master gives three slaves money. Two of them make more money. One buries it. The one who buries it is punished.
Moral of the story:
Use the gifts that God gave you. Don't bury your talent in the dirt. #BestLife #Blessed
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Or...
So, 1st of all, Nikky was reading Herzog on parables as Pedagogy of the Oppressed, and in that framework the master is NOT GOD, but rather the present system of economic injustice in which landlords & slave owners profit by the work of others, "reaping what [they] did not sow...
