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		<description><![CDATA[Jesus Christ taught in parables because we are story telling and hearing creatures. We love stories and learn much better from them than from cold facts. Advertisers know this and often use stories to sell their products.
Here is a teaching story from the Jewish tradition on parables:
Truth entered a village naked as the day he [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Jesus Christ taught in parables because we are story telling and hearing creatures. We love stories and learn much better from them than from cold facts. Advertisers know this and often use stories to sell their products.</p>
<p>Here is a teaching story from the Jewish tradition on parables:</p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;">Truth entered a village naked as the day he was born. The villagers had one look at the naked truth and were afraid of the stark harshness and drove him out in anger and malice.</p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;">Dejected, the Truth wondered in the desert. Without food and nourishment, he weakened and would have soon died of loneliness. One day he got to the home of the Parable.  She took him in, nursed him back to life. Soon the Truth was feeling well again. This time he returned to the same village clothed in a parable and was welcome and accepted with ease.</p>
<p>Short and sweet and coincidentally self-reflexive &#8211; refers back to itself &#8211; in this case it is truth clothed in a parable to teach you about teaching stories.
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		<title>Fried human brain</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Aug 2010 02:15:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This story was told to me by my uncle Dr. Djalal Abdoh, who was the United Nations Governor of British Cameroons for two years and conducted a plebiscite to decide how they should join upon decolonization. It is a true story in as much as my uncle told me. I&#8217;m retelling the story as my [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Jesus Christ taught in parables because we are story telling and hearing creatures. We love stories and learn much better from them than from cold facts. Advertisers know this and often use stories to sell their products.</p>
<p>Here is a teaching story from the Jewish tradition on parables:</p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;">Truth entered a village naked as the day he was born. The villagers had one look at the naked truth and were afraid of the stark harshness and drove him out in anger and malice.</p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;">Dejected, the Truth wondered in the desert. Without food and nourishment, he weakened and would have soon died of loneliness. One day he got to the home of the Parable.  She took him in, nursed him back to life. Soon the Truth was feeling well again. This time he returned to the same village clothed in a parable and was welcome and accepted with ease.</p>
<p>Short and sweet and coincidentally self-reflexive &#8211; refers back to itself &#8211; in this case it is truth clothed in a parable to teach you about teaching stories.
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		<description><![CDATA[Mullah Nasrudin immigrated to the USA and became a university professor. One day he arrived at the weekly university talk open to all the public. Typically these talks were given by visiting professors and attended by the university staff and their spouses, as well as few students and general public.
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Jesus Christ taught in parables because we are story telling and hearing creatures. We love stories and learn much better from them than from cold facts. Advertisers know this and often use stories to sell their products.</p>
<p>Here is a teaching story from the Jewish tradition on parables:</p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;">Truth entered a village naked as the day he was born. The villagers had one look at the naked truth and were afraid of the stark harshness and drove him out in anger and malice.</p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;">Dejected, the Truth wondered in the desert. Without food and nourishment, he weakened and would have soon died of loneliness. One day he got to the home of the Parable.  She took him in, nursed him back to life. Soon the Truth was feeling well again. This time he returned to the same village clothed in a parable and was welcome and accepted with ease.</p>
<p>Short and sweet and coincidentally self-reflexive &#8211; refers back to itself &#8211; in this case it is truth clothed in a parable to teach you about teaching stories.
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		<title>The truth and the hundred monkey phenomenon</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[So the story goes:
In the nineteen sixties or seventies some Japanese behavioral biologists were conducting a research project on a group of monkeys which lived around the shores on a series of islands off Japan.
They fed the monkeys some kind of tuber roots (yams. sweet potatoes or something similar). The roots were not washed and [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Jesus Christ taught in parables because we are story telling and hearing creatures. We love stories and learn much better from them than from cold facts. Advertisers know this and often use stories to sell their products.</p>
<p>Here is a teaching story from the Jewish tradition on parables:</p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;">Truth entered a village naked as the day he was born. The villagers had one look at the naked truth and were afraid of the stark harshness and drove him out in anger and malice.</p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;">Dejected, the Truth wondered in the desert. Without food and nourishment, he weakened and would have soon died of loneliness. One day he got to the home of the Parable.  She took him in, nursed him back to life. Soon the Truth was feeling well again. This time he returned to the same village clothed in a parable and was welcome and accepted with ease.</p>
<p>Short and sweet and coincidentally self-reflexive &#8211; refers back to itself &#8211; in this case it is truth clothed in a parable to teach you about teaching stories.
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		<title>Mullah Nasrudin the priest and the minister</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Mullah Nasrudin was walking in the countryside with a priest and a minister. It was a hot day and they were sweating  profusely. Nasrudin cried aloud, &#8220;Dear God, we are three of your hard working servants, please let us find solace from this heat.&#8221;
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Jesus Christ taught in parables because we are story telling and hearing creatures. We love stories and learn much better from them than from cold facts. Advertisers know this and often use stories to sell their products.</p>
<p>Here is a teaching story from the Jewish tradition on parables:</p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;">Truth entered a village naked as the day he was born. The villagers had one look at the naked truth and were afraid of the stark harshness and drove him out in anger and malice.</p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;">Dejected, the Truth wondered in the desert. Without food and nourishment, he weakened and would have soon died of loneliness. One day he got to the home of the Parable.  She took him in, nursed him back to life. Soon the Truth was feeling well again. This time he returned to the same village clothed in a parable and was welcome and accepted with ease.</p>
<p>Short and sweet and coincidentally self-reflexive &#8211; refers back to itself &#8211; in this case it is truth clothed in a parable to teach you about teaching stories.
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		<title>Mullah Nasrudin the Calvinist</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Jul 2010 04:34:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Most of these Mullah Nasrudin stories I remember from my childhood. I heard them in Iran from oral traditions. I recreated them from my memory into English (not translation but recreation since I do not always remember the original Persian stories). Others I have got from a few Persian books I have gathered over the [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Jesus Christ taught in parables because we are story telling and hearing creatures. We love stories and learn much better from them than from cold facts. Advertisers know this and often use stories to sell their products.</p>
<p>Here is a teaching story from the Jewish tradition on parables:</p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;">Truth entered a village naked as the day he was born. The villagers had one look at the naked truth and were afraid of the stark harshness and drove him out in anger and malice.</p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;">Dejected, the Truth wondered in the desert. Without food and nourishment, he weakened and would have soon died of loneliness. One day he got to the home of the Parable.  She took him in, nursed him back to life. Soon the Truth was feeling well again. This time he returned to the same village clothed in a parable and was welcome and accepted with ease.</p>
<p>Short and sweet and coincidentally self-reflexive &#8211; refers back to itself &#8211; in this case it is truth clothed in a parable to teach you about teaching stories.
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		<title>Insincere story of sincere</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Jul 2010 18:44:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I heard one of my heroes in the field of self-improvement tell this insincere story of sincere:
The etymology of sincere is that the word comes from the Latin sine cera (without wax). It derives from the fact the the Romans loved marble statues. These were very difficult to sculpt without breakage. So the typical sculptor [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Jesus Christ taught in parables because we are story telling and hearing creatures. We love stories and learn much better from them than from cold facts. Advertisers know this and often use stories to sell their products.</p>
<p>Here is a teaching story from the Jewish tradition on parables:</p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;">Truth entered a village naked as the day he was born. The villagers had one look at the naked truth and were afraid of the stark harshness and drove him out in anger and malice.</p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;">Dejected, the Truth wondered in the desert. Without food and nourishment, he weakened and would have soon died of loneliness. One day he got to the home of the Parable.  She took him in, nursed him back to life. Soon the Truth was feeling well again. This time he returned to the same village clothed in a parable and was welcome and accepted with ease.</p>
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		<title>Question of truth</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Jul 2010 17:58:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I was talking to a friend yesterday about seminar leaders and self-improvement gurus who use untrue stories to back up their point. I told the story of one of the most popular (and hence richest) of these authors and how he claimed that the word desire comes from the Latin roots &#8220;De Sire&#8221; meaning of [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Jesus Christ taught in parables because we are story telling and hearing creatures. We love stories and learn much better from them than from cold facts. Advertisers know this and often use stories to sell their products.</p>
<p>Here is a teaching story from the Jewish tradition on parables:</p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;">Truth entered a village naked as the day he was born. The villagers had one look at the naked truth and were afraid of the stark harshness and drove him out in anger and malice.</p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;">Dejected, the Truth wondered in the desert. Without food and nourishment, he weakened and would have soon died of loneliness. One day he got to the home of the Parable.  She took him in, nursed him back to life. Soon the Truth was feeling well again. This time he returned to the same village clothed in a parable and was welcome and accepted with ease.</p>
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		<title>I felt the earth move</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Jul 2010 07:14:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This afternoon we had one of those typical Southern Californian earth quacks. It reminded me of a time about twenty five years ago when there was another Lakers/Celtics rivalry. Those were the times of Magic Johnson and Kamal Abdal Jabbar on our side and Larry Bird on theirs.
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Jesus Christ taught in parables because we are story telling and hearing creatures. We love stories and learn much better from them than from cold facts. Advertisers know this and often use stories to sell their products.</p>
<p>Here is a teaching story from the Jewish tradition on parables:</p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;">Truth entered a village naked as the day he was born. The villagers had one look at the naked truth and were afraid of the stark harshness and drove him out in anger and malice.</p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;">Dejected, the Truth wondered in the desert. Without food and nourishment, he weakened and would have soon died of loneliness. One day he got to the home of the Parable.  She took him in, nursed him back to life. Soon the Truth was feeling well again. This time he returned to the same village clothed in a parable and was welcome and accepted with ease.</p>
<p>Short and sweet and coincidentally self-reflexive &#8211; refers back to itself &#8211; in this case it is truth clothed in a parable to teach you about teaching stories.
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		<title>even idiots can be right at times</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Jul 2010 06:42:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[My family spent the summer of 1960 in Geneva Switzerland. The apartment we rented for the summer overlooked Lake Geneva and one could see Mont Blanc from the same window too.
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Jesus Christ taught in parables because we are story telling and hearing creatures. We love stories and learn much better from them than from cold facts. Advertisers know this and often use stories to sell their products.</p>
<p>Here is a teaching story from the Jewish tradition on parables:</p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;">Truth entered a village naked as the day he was born. The villagers had one look at the naked truth and were afraid of the stark harshness and drove him out in anger and malice.</p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;">Dejected, the Truth wondered in the desert. Without food and nourishment, he weakened and would have soon died of loneliness. One day he got to the home of the Parable.  She took him in, nursed him back to life. Soon the Truth was feeling well again. This time he returned to the same village clothed in a parable and was welcome and accepted with ease.</p>
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