In this garden dwelled not only birds, garden snakes, toads and worms, but also grey squirrels. Lying in her sickbed, she overheard that women at the far end of the world made one thousand-fold more money -- for one person -- than the money her entire hospice made in a year. January 12, 2008, excerpt from The Parables of Reason (Chapter 1, "Reality's Acceptance"), Copyright © 2008 by Frank H. Oft his pronouncements were droll, like, "The sun will rise earlier in the day starting in two weeks." Then into the night he went. Then the woman reached up and snatched off her harlequin mask, to reveal the beautiful, yet angry and sorrowful, face of the drunken man's wife. Op-Ed by: FRANK H. BURTON, The Circle of Reason | Updated Feb 2, 2013, 6:00 AM -----The Unimaginative, The ImaginativeNothing she created was novel. Thus, be the master of your emotions -- or the master of ruins. Op-Ed by JON STEWART (Speech Transcript from C-SPAN) | Updated Oct 30, 2010 His companion was a small spider, who spun enormous cobwebs to catch flies. She failed to scale that pinnacle of which both she and her mother had dreamed -- but still she was satisfied, for she had given her dream her very best. Burton.-----The Years, The MomentumYouth and elder, they found each other, joined by infirmity, sitting on a park bench. Burton.-----The Car, The Steering WheelExit the autobahn by the pine grove, and on the right is the blanched, empty shell of an auto repair shop. Not so much. Prison Rape To clearly go where no one has gone before? Baha'ism the master pointed toward the self-doubting student. Saying this, the boss gestured up -- at the vaulted, white cloud-painted blue dome above the main lobby. Thus, addiction dwells in the unreal. The caravan of the Gypsy King rolled on, into the blowing mountain pass, and disappeared from the Eastern Lands. Thus, even the most beautiful belief comes to naught if it stands not on solid earth. And each People converted, cowed and exterminated the other. Wildlife Fund Also in the same city lived another handy little man, who believed that the world owed him only what he could barter for his handiwork. The other children in the playground swarmed about him, yelling, "Oh, do it again! Thus, the true jihad is ijtihad. The senior detective walked into the kitchen for a glass of water, and, as he drank it, stared out the back window into the dark backyard. August 28, 2010, excerpt from The Parables of Reason (Chapter 3, "Emotion's Mastery"), Copyright © 2010 by Frank H. Burton. A girl whose granddaughter would one day lead a continent to outlaw land mines. Parable of the Week: The Ostrich, The Prairie DogFaraway lands sometimes have far and away the strangest of friends -- like the Ostrich and the Prairie Dog. Dionne Welcomes Jim Leach's Call for Civility") One lieutenant asked him, "Sir, your former compatriot and long-since foe has offered parley upon the plain of battle. The Rabbit scampered about the forest glen and ate of the tall grass and ferns. Reminiscing, as the old and ill are wont to do, the first man said, "My life was filled with wasted moments. The adventurer's mouth slowly fell open. Parable of the Week: The Human, The SentientOne day a human looked up into the zenith of the heavens, arcing above her blue and green-swathed Earth. She turned and walked back the path, to the spot where the new path sprang into the forest. Squinting, he looked around, his sparse strands of hair tossing about in the blowing sands, whose grains filled the creases of his face. he cried, stabbing his wooden sword into the ghostly bodies of men to come. Neda (2011), Martyr for Iranian Civil Rights (Mar 2011) The first old man needled him. But his brother preferred to spit, drool, scream, kick off his shoes, and leave his shirt unbuttoned -- for as long as he could get away with it. Parable of the Week: The Terns, The TurnFlocks of arctic terns took southerly wing with snowflake's fall. Both women held the same principles, as glorious as a butterfly -- yet, in one, as lifeless as an insect abandoned in a jar. "Maybe we can search for another way through or around?" O3B Networks (Internet Access for the Third World -- the "Other 3 Billion") Interview ("In 'Philomena,' Steve Coogan rejects comedy that is cynical and ironic") by: COLIN COVERT, Star Tribune | Updated November 30, 2013 But instead of moving off to the award ceremony and festivities, all the islanders, and even the racers, wanted to stay -- to see if the fat woman could really finish. They clarify -- or cloud -- thought and energize action, sometimes bringing out the better angels in our nature, sometimes lesser instincts." The man spent his aged years as the unloved master of an empty house. Amid howls of laughter, the king turned to her with a frown. The fish didn't listen. Then he held his hand up to his Pupil's face, illuminated in a wall's torchlight. "Yet our civilization seems to be in the grip of denial; a kind of paralysis. Patrick Kennedy (2012), U.S. Dedicated to General Vang Pao and his fellow Laotian-American Hmong freedom-fighters, who since the Vietnam War have never forgotten the truth -- that the people of Laos still live under Communist diktat; and in admonishment of the U.S. federal court for its politically convenient rebranding of the Laotians' long fight for freedom as "terrorism." She then poked her timid sister in the ribs. the old man chided the boy. He tossed down his coin for new women. "And you?" Dedicated in honor of the Midwest Flood sandbaggers -- and in warning to the Army Corps of Engineer's policy of stuffing gaps in levees and floodwalls with newspaper. The young woman kneeled before the Elder, plucked at the hem of her shift, and confessed. Thus, live on while your spirit is dead, or die while your spirit lives on. -- via Joey Cheek Thus was the first man the keeper of his own cage. "Where in the sod is that damnable pool!? In the twilight of her career, skimming over her dusty collection of blue movies, she confessed to her sister, "I desired fame in the world, and got it." Burton.----- Each was much smaller than the fat grey squirrels, and so were no match for them in hoarding nuts and seeds. Local Circles As the air swirled brown with flying grit, the Prairie Dog scuttled to a shallow hole and stuck his little body in it, with his head peeking out to keep a wary eye on the storm passing overhead. As he scrutinized the builder's bridge taking shape, and the eager prospective travelers climbing the hills to the ravine's edge to watch, he grew eager himself -- toward a darker purpose. "The prevailing economic systems, no matter what their ideologies, have no built-in mechanisms for protecting our descendants of even 100 years from now, let alone 100,000." A noise like spilling skulls and bones filled the air. But all I see is fear and hatred of you. The second bird of paradise, once identical to the first, had long since lost in a storm a single feather, leaving a tiny notch in his otherwise perfect golden plume. But it was too late. I became a fan of Ghosh after reading "Sea of Poppies." Its people voted to limit their representatives' campaigns to debates, and publicly fund all campaigns, as they had long funded education and medical care. Parable of the Week: The Pickpocket, The TailorHandy little man, he thought himself, believing the world owed him whatever it hadn't locked away or tied down. Greetings earthlings. ----- The wise woman's sad gaze broke away from her grandson and, growing radiant, swung toward her. Slowly, the heavy bar tipped back and gradually pushed the gilded door closed, once more. And so the wood ducks became his fast friends. I traveled to Paris -- and got sick. He stared into the slitted eyes of the runty boy. But I am lifted up by the winds and wisdom of the gods -- and will show all that Olympus is not the abode of gods, but of the courageous!" In his final day, his coin had scattered with those he'd called friend. And upon those loamy remnants of the great tree, the seed of a new tree alighted -- and grew great and tall. Dedicated to Pope Francis' "Urbi et Orbi" Easter speech calling for adoption of "peaceful attitudes" by extremists; but with the reminder that to call for "peacefulness" among those trapped in "aggressiveness" is to call for the unteachable consequence of a deeper practice, which can only itself be taught: To rationally question dogma, not unquestioningly accept it.----- The earth had swallowed him -- all he ever had been, all he ever could have been. The young genius, underemployed as a small college instructor, slowly grew to disbelieve her own ideas. As the boy thumped to earth in a billowing cloud of dust, he heard a merry voice reply, "You've the rest of the world, lad!" ______________________________________________________, "Marvelous Mia" Gerold and Coach Jerry Kill, Believers and Nonbelievers in Dialogue (BAND), Photo Credit: W. Fietzer, The Minneapolis Examiner, 2010, Other Voice (Promoting Israeli-Palestinian Dialogue), Secular Bible Study ("Theist + Atheist + Conservative + Liberal" Interbelief Reasoning Dialogue), First Minneapolis Circle of Reason (Interbelief Reasoning Dialogue), Circle of Ijtihad (Interbelief Reasoning Dialogue), Winnipeg Circle of Reason (Interbelief Reasoning Dialogue), Philadelphia Political Agnostics (Interbelief Reasoning Dialogue), NY Salon (Raising the Level of Discussion of Our Culture), True North Groups Institute (Endorsing Business CEO "Clarity Circles"), The Garrison-Martineau Project (Believers/Nonbelievers Empathetic Dialogues), Cirkel van Rede Power!" For the dark remainder of his days, this man relished only in abusing all who crossed his path. "In that box is the boon I obtained at the feet of a Wise One! One evening the Pupil, dismayed at his childish writings after a long day's lessons, pounded his fist on his robed thigh and asked, "Master, do our lives even matter? Both brilliant yellow, the Orchid meandered along a hedge, while the Dandelion bloomed from emerald grass. He peered at his skin in the torchlight, until he saw a tiny black speck -- the Flea, placed there by his Peripatetic mentor's touch -- digging into his skin. We need but a mustard seed of faith to create a new, peaceful world -- but it must be faith in each other.-----The One Side, The Other SideBestriding the fence bordering two men's lands grew a spreading pecan tree. So did the Otter savor the story of her life -- until a gator's maw snapped closed her final chapter. And, become an eagle at last, he soared over land and sea, soon to master all. I have spells to keep the Dragon in slumber, but they shall not avail you today!" Can you concentrate on digging, and on finding a big, fat huggly female mole, when old, chewed-up bug legs poke you in your soft pink belly, my friend?" "As a young man, I splashed through these puddles and crashed through these branches in my straight lines and unquestioned paths -- I never even considered their dangers as I barreled right through!" Our archive of past weekly aphorisms and excerpted parables & fables for pluralistic rationalists from The Parables of Reason ©2007-2013, by Frank H. Burton, Executive Director, The Circle of Reason. -----The Corner, The DuckCheap business suit frayed and tie askew, a morose young man jaywalked along the city streets. And, on that day when the invading armada tried to overrun his city-state, they were repelled by a well-set ring of traps and fires, and by a well-trained group of young warriors from his villa -- while he stood in command of all. Us Wings (Helping Third World Villages Help Themselves) Acclaimed for fiction, travel writing and journalism, his books include The Circle of Reason, The Shadow Lines, In an Antique Land and Dancing in Cambodia. Over the years, she grew cold and resentful of her coworkers' daily joys -- because her only joy was in returning home to her apartment. So did the girl throw down her opium pipe, and, shivering from fear as much as from withdrawal, run home -- to lock herself away until she became a human being once again, not a figment of a nightmarish dream. But then, one day, he heard, "Blah, blah, blah, blah...Darling, are you unhappy?" "You want me to worship you?" Instead, her parents sold her into forced prostitution to ensure her brothers would prosper. As youths, one quickly learned to hop on the toilet when the need arose -- but the other felt, "That's what diapers are for, aren't they?" She squatted and stared at the tracks, mostly human, that lay in the black dirt. Thus, the correct steps may well be halting and wavering -- not surefooted and straight. The Paragons of Reason and Unreason "Damn her hide," the man always intoned to his friends in his later years, staring angrily off to the distant mountains. But then one afternoon, he startled and darted to his feet, one hand still holding the telescope to a gawking eye. Dedicated in admonishment of Arizona's immigration law permitting and requiring local peace officers to detain, question and demand documentation papers from any person (including visitors, legal residents and American citizens) whom they "reasonably suspect" might be in the country illegally; and that allows appearance and race to factor into establishing such suspicion. Then there are various asides on cotton and weaving etc. (May 2014) The South will become cooler and wetter with the coming season. To make it the tool of our survival." You will most certainly lose -- indeed, you are likely to come in last!" The second citizen bought a daily newspaper with the headline, "Leaders Say Bombs Drop To Stop Terror" printed above the faces of politicians and army generals. "There lies the only pass to the West!" While flummoxed by the vocabulary (there is, thank God, a section in the end of Sea of Poppies) the scope of the story was massive and the interplay of characters fascinating. He ran to the fence, breathlessly shouting, "Stop! Yet both skimmed out into the churn and chum. The daughter, scraping away dirt from the stone with her foot, cringed and frowned. Burton.-----The Principled, The ImplementedVoting was their fix. But at night the highway was often calm. On days of rest and celebration, and on any day the Mayor addressed the townsfolk, the bell rang -- its clear, exalting peal calling villagers to put down their bridles, bread or books, and meander like a slow tide toward the square's battlements. On those nights he'd wipe a small peephole and stare in at the people laughing and dancing, and listen to the muffled music and drums. "The Vulcan Inaugural" As a man, the first sibling's heart raced when he spoke of risk. Thus, mediocrity is often mendacious. The second woman had no money for even a manicure, let alone a charm bracelet. Dedicated to the New Year's Day prediction for 2011 of Humanist Chaplain Greg M. Epstein (compiled by Dan Gilgoff, CNN Belief Blog Editor, January 1, 2011): "After years of increasingly contentious debates and billboard wars between religious believers and atheists, American secularists will begin to embrace a message of positive humanist community, gaining increasing acceptance as they organize cooperation between nontheists and theists for the common good." Those who walked this black ground were gentle and confident -- for all there long flourished. One young woman lived her life back turned, instead of face on. Then one day another storm fell upon them, and the first bird of paradise, his cascading golden tail caught in the wind, also lost a feather -- but a single feather -- and became in his own mind no longer perfect, although he was still as beautiful as the other bird of paradise. Talk Origins (Rebutting Creation "Science") Their philosophies remained underfoot like a faithful dog. And, as she sat in the dirt and looked up to see the little girl stare sadly back at her through a window of the receding trolley, she knew, knew, that she'd won a victory that day. Dedicated in admonishment of the Huntsville, Alabama, and Rowlett, Texas, City Councils' respectively "disinviting" a Wiccan congregation's clergy, and a local atheist organization's founder, to present an opening invocation, in contradiction of the U.S. Supreme Court finding in "Greece, NY vs. Galloway" that the town of Greece did not discriminate in inviting those to give invocations, but rather "made reasonable efforts to identify all of the congregations located within its borders and represented that it would welcome a prayer by any minister or layman who wished to give one...So long as the town maintains a policy of nondiscrimination, the Constitution does not require it to search beyond its borders for non-Christian prayer givers in an effort to achieve religious balancing." Until one day it shut up. She looked down at the black- and green-streaked stones and rotted wood posts, then slowly lifted her eyes to the many half-buried markers rising over the vine-overgrown hill. Dedicated in shared admonishment of Switzerland's newly-voted ban on the building of minarets on mosques -- and on Saudi Arabia's long-enforced ban on the building of churches, synagogues, or other houses of worship for non-Muslims. Op-Ed by: Editorial Board, Star-Tribune | Updated April 26, 2015 In the bedroom, he confirmed the man's clothes and suitcase were missing.But in the bathroom, two toothbrushes still lay on the sink. He reared, whinnying, and kicked at the wooden rails with the dawn light, and bucked high into the air. We are thankful for the gift of the Mind, through which our When the dog grew hungry, it barked. An oddly constructed novel with many interesting characters partially drawn. February 19, 2011, excerpt from The Parables of Reason (Chapter 2, "Assumption's Denial"), Copyright © 2011 by Frank H. Burton. Hence did the king call every advisor and courtier, and, before all the royal court, asked his favorite, "What, O great Royal Astrologer, will be our fate should we send excursions to harass the horde before they fully assemble to invade us?" Thus, the future will belong to those who believe in the rightness of their dreams. "Most of us are, after all, creatures of habit, my dear girl. One philosopher was a Bacchanalian, who encouraged all to follow their emotions wherever they led. One young woman lived her life back turned, instead of face on. Global Polio Eradication Initiative Living in an opulent palace with a mighty family crest emblazoned on its pediment, every day he hunted, golfed, or shopped for exotic tapestries and robes; and every night he hosted salons and balls. She refused to wear them at all. Voicing the words of God does not absolve the deeds of a criminal.-----The Bully, The FriendAhead lie many paths -- and but two paths. Thus, the true jihad is ijtihad. He decided to take a gamble. When next he returned, with a search warrant, the senior detective found the missing husband and his suitcase of clothes, spread beneath a bed of newly planted roses in the backyard. One day a prisoner was brought before the throne for judgment -- a man who'd stolen one loaf of bread to feed his sick child. After walking a half-hour, the path unfolded into a bright village, where she bought supplies and fresh water. The Chieftain glanced at the rich carpenter, who, surrounded by the villagers, genuflected deeply as he gestured expectantly at the gilded, three-legged stool in the shop window. Thus, plan your future -- but do not live in it. But a second young man noted the slitted eyes and the full pockets of the townspeople who'd warded them off -- and saw how they had crept hurriedly up the foothills that morning. The second sister strove not for money, but the momentous. Dedicated in admonishment of each majority citizen of Maine -- you blocked the right of your own openly or secretly gay parent, son, daughter, brother, sister, cousin, friend or colleague to marry the one they love. These people soon hastened across the street away from the woman, whenever she left her home. A storm is coming! Chased from Bengal to Bombay and on through the Persian ... Read full review Then he cleared his throat and, in a tremulous voice, said, "Uhmm, you may, O Great King, be victorious by decisive attack! "You're in." Dedicated to the post-Katrina aldermen of Long Beach, Mississippi, who fought moneyed interests and high-rise developers to ensure responsible, balanced residential and commercial beachfront redevelopment after the 2005 destruction by Hurricane Katrina.-----The Final War, The Final PeaceThe two Peoples were descendants of the same father and mother. Tolerance Security to the bridge!" In pain from labor, she crouched in a stony shelter among lowest cliff caves -- where she soon gave birth to a twin child, a female. The starting pistol fired, and instantly the racers leapt into motion. Thus, drive or be the passenger in your life's journey. So did the mechanic lie to the car owner's face, "You're all fixed," then stand back and brim with vengeful glee. But as the lieutenant reached out to take the second almond, the commander closed his palm around it into a fist -- which slowly reared back and then suddenly loomed in the lieutenant's surprised face. The honest man began his own small company, setting up measures to objectively assess and reward the productivity of his own workers. When his thoughts drifted back to the red mud and copper stink of distant battlefields, his hand drifted to his side -- and picked at his wound. Thus, your path in life will mirror your spine. Then, dipping his brush into them, he closed his eyes tightly shut, flicked his wrists and spattered the paint all over the canvas. Big Brothers Dedicated in admonishment of the Texas State Board of Education, which chose to instruct American History textbook publishers to rename America's former "Transatlantic Slave Trade" as the "Atlantic Triangular Trade." Although it itched and although he still rubbed it, the wound had sealed -- and never bled again. As the green flag fell, he gunned his engine, shifted into first, and leapt down the racetrack, rubber burning behind him on the road. Now wealthy in body and soul, she walked the garden paths surrounding her family home, a small grandchild's hand in hers -- and paused to look within, through the reflection of her granddaughter's lucid eyes. Over many years, her land indeed became that which she'd sought in her wanderings, and in her dreams, so long before. The story of Nachiketa Bose, known throughout the narration as Alu because of his misshapen head, is related from his arrival at his uncle Balaram’s house in the Bengali town of … But one day the Cog was picked up by a young gypsy, spit-scoured and oily hair-polished to a burnished silver sheen, and a leather string knotted over the gap in its teeth. Nechama "Human intelligence is imperfect, surely, and newly arisen. -- via Parker Palmer The town doctor -- cotton jacket frayed but washed bone-white and carefully ironed -- was a gruff man and a poor talker. Reality's Acceptance (Morally choosing Factualism over Denialism to source knowledge) Burton.----- This day, the elder boy's father had told his son to stop hammering nails and go out and play -- while the younger boy had, once again, sneaked away from his father's demands, to join his friend and pipedream. "Why say you so, sir?" Zooming into the shop, gunning his engine and spinning his wheels on the gravel, a rich man also once approached the mechanic for a minor repair. And with one calm eye the Octopus waited upon the exasperated barracuda until it gave up circling and swam away -- to find a prey much less smart. "You will probably turn the barbarians away without a single blow of a sword." The runty boy stared up into the sweaty pallor of his playmate's face, and in that moment knew they would be parted forever. They lashed the backs of their neighbors who didn't wish fervently enough or, even more maddeningly, didn't even agree with them about what was true. "Are not our 'Truths' really opinions, opinions we beat into others who reasonably could believe otherwise? October 22, 2011, excerpt from The Parables of Reason (Chapter 3, "Emotion's Mastery"), Copyright © 2011 by Frank H. Thunk!! October 31, 2009, excerpt from The Parables of Reason (Chapter 2, "Assumption's Denial"), Copyright © 2009 by Frank H. 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