*Just a few thoughts, put down belatedly since I didn't blog yesterday*

So "parable" comes from "parabola", a mathematical concept which is better explained drawn then talked about. Despite my being mathematically dyslexic, this actually helps me understand the idea of the parable better. What you expect to happen does not, and what you don't expect to happen does. Hence the officers of piety(the priest and Levite) walk on by, and the Samaritan(a half-breed heretic)stops and is kind.

And if someone bitches to me about how "people always have to read into things blah blah blah" then I can counter with this: what else can we do but read into things? I do believe what was mentioned yesterday, about how there is no way of communicating truths without stories.

And what the hell IS with that naked man in Mark 51-52? Perhaps it simply falls into the category that Harold Bloom apparently classifies the original ending of Mark, that of genuine enigma. Because there are such things as genuine enigmas.

And now I know that the Doors took their name from a book by Aldous Huxley, who took the name of his book(The Doors of Perception) from William Blake. I did not know that.