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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>Nasrudin the rats, crow and the dog</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Dec 2009 06:28:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Nasrudin and the rats


A friend complained to Nasrudin that he had fifty pounds of wheat and before he knew it the rats had come and eaten all his wheat.
Nasrudin replied, “I too had fifty pounds of wheat and before the rats knew it I had eaten all my wheat.”
Since that was a short story two [...]]]></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 and the sea water</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Three short Mullah Nasrudin short teaching stories:
Nasrudin and the sea water

Note in those days no refrigerators so they would smoke the fish to preserve it.  These were extremely salty.
They asked Nasrudin why is the sea water salty?
The Mullah replied, “Haven’t you eaten fish? You know it’s so salty. It’s obvious if you throw so [...]]]></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>Nasrudin and the coffin</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Mullah Nasrudin was walking with his son when a funeral procession came by.
The mullah’s son pointed to the coffin and asked him, “What is in that box?”

Nasrudin replied, “A man, my son.”
The son continued, “Where are they taking him, father, and why are they so sad?”
“They are sad because they take him to a place [...]]]></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 and snoring</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Nasrudin and snoring

Mullah Nasrudin’s wife kept complaining that he snored. The Mullah said, “It is absolutely impossible. I have awakened myself a few times in the middle of the night and I was never snoring.”
Since this was short I’ll include a few other short Mullah Nasrudin teaching stories.
Heaven and hell:

They asked Nasrudin how long will [...]]]></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>The wise physician and the pomegranate</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Dec 2009 07:10:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the olden days there was a wise physician who had an eager apprentice.  This student kept asking the master if he could prescribe for on the patients.  The teacher kept repeating that the student was not yet ready.
The pupil kept importuning and pleading to serve a patient.  Eventually the teacher said, &#8220;Soon a patient [...]]]></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>Maybe it&#8217;s good</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Nov 2009 02:27:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the ancient days in China there was a villager who had a strong handsome son and a strong white stallion. Every one talked about this man telling how lucky he was.
He would always answer them,  &#8220;Maybe, it&#8217;s good. Maybe, it&#8217;s bad&#8230; You never know!&#8221;
One day the stallion ran away. All the villagers came to [...]]]></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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		<description><![CDATA[A storm had thrown thousands of starfish onto the sea shore.
A little was picking the starfish one by one and returning the dying beached animals to their watery habitats.
An adult came by and said, &#8220;It&#8217;s hopeless. You cannot make any difference to all these starfish.&#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>
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		<title>Pigs and time</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Oct 2009 06:21:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Time, what is it? It&#8217;s like when I don&#8217;t think about it I know what it is and when I think about it I&#8217;m clueless. That&#8217;s what Saint Agustin or Saint Paul or saint Thomas Aquinas said about something or other or was it a supreme court justice said about pornography.
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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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		<title>The usurious money lender and the young lady</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[There was once an evil usurious money lender (you know the type who charged one tenth the interest that modern banks charge us)&#8230;.
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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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