Describe a decision you made in the past that helped you learn or grow.

“In the case of COVID-19, I made the conscious decision to ERR on the side of Wisdom and Scientific Method; rather than ERR on the side of reckless foolishness and fear-mongering. Which is my first major MISTAKE in a long list of MISTAKES I have made in the years since the initial crisis. My exceptional ability to recognize all of my own MISTAKES, as there is clearly more than enough blame to go around, most of which falls squarely on my own shoulders, as leader; bureaucrat in charge of managing the crisis, has largely allowed me to accept full responsibility for all my flawed nature and thus grow from it.” ~Doctor Anthony Schutzstaffel Mengele

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The Fisher of Mensis

“Milk for babes and meat for strong men”

~Hermes Trismegistus

parable (n.)

“saying or story in which something is expressed in terms of something else; allegorical or metaphorical narrative, usually having a MORAL FOR INSTRUCTION,” late 13c., parabol, modern form from early 14c.

Why did Jesus speak to the multitudes in parables?

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With many similar parables Jesus spoke God’s ·message [word] to the multitudes—as much as they were able to ·understand it [hear]. Indeed, He would not say anything to them without using a parable. But when he was alone with his own ·disciples [disciplined students], he explained everything. ~ Mark 4:33–34
(cf., The Parable of the Wheat and the Tares: Matthew 13:24-30; God favored Jacob over Esau ·UNCONDITIONALLY [Prior to moment of conception] — “not because of works but because of Him who calls” ~Romans 9:11).

amoral (adj.)

“ethically indifferent,” 1882, a hybrid formed from Greek-derived a- “not” + moral, which is from Latin.

1. Said of a person: Devoid of moral sense.

2. Said of a human work, especially artistic: That of purpose dispenses with the moral end.

The disciples, bewildered by Jesus’ parables and wanting him to speak more directly, came closer and asked Jesus, “Why do you speak to them in parables?” (Matthew 13:10).

This is why He spoke to them in parables:

“Though seeing, they do not see; though hearing, they do not hear or understand.” ~ Matthew 13:13

Jesus was revealing that they were indifferent legalists who did not understand the kingdom of God (cf., Matthew 12:10; Hebrews 5:11-14; Leviticus 5:17; Jeremiah 8:8).

Romans 2:13-16

13 For it is not the hearers of the law who are righteous before God, but the doers of the law who will be justified. 14 For when Gentiles, who do not have the law, by nature do what the law requires, they are a law to themselves, even though they do not have the law. 15 They show that the work of the law is written on their hearts, while their conscience also bears witness, and their conflicting thoughts accuse or even excuse them 16 on that day when, according to my gospel, God judges the secrets of men by ·Christ [the Way; the Truth; and the Life Eternal].

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Jesus told his disciples that—in an incredibly important sense—the world is divided into two groups: those who hear and understand the parables, and those who hear but do not understand
(cf., The Parable of the Wheat and the Tares: Matthew 13:24-30; God favored Jacob over Esau ·UNCONDITIONALLY [Prior to moment of conception] — “not because of works but because of Him who calls” ~Romans 9:11).
The Gospel of Mark highlights this division when Jesus told the disciples: “To you has been given the secret of the kingdom of God, but to those who are outside everything is in parables” (Mark 4:11).

The disciples must have been shocked by Jesus’ response, and if we are honest, we will feel that same shocking power today. Parables reveal and conceal simultaneously. They divide their listeners into two worlds. In one world, a parable reveals the secret of the kingdom of God. But in the second world a parable is still just a parable, nothing more.

We now see more clearly what is at stake in the parables and why Jesus used them practically every time he taught. It turns out that our response to the parables reveals everything important about us, with eternal consequences. Each of the parables is a shocking revelation of the kingdom of heaven, so if we hear the parables and all we hear is a bunch of “stories,” something is profoundly wrong with us.

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philistine

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A person devoted narrow-mindedly to material prosperity at the expense of intellectual and artistic awareness; or (as an adjective) ignorantly uninterested in culture and ideas. This sense of the term comes from the insulting label Philister applied by German students to their non-academic neighbours in university towns, likening them to the enemies of the chosen people in the Hebrew scriptures; it was given wide currency in English by the poet and critic Matthew Arnold in his book Culture and Anarchy (1869), which attacks the philistinism of the British middle class. Arnold usually applied the term ‘the Philistines’ to the prosperous bourgeoisie, especially to its nonconformist Liberal representatives.

Reference entries
philistine
in The Oxford Dictionary of Literary Terms (3) 
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