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Parables Explained
Oct. 7th, 2007 01:00 amThe point of the parables was as follows:
The first was about Education. Because of limited time, teachers can only dispense small amounts of knowledge, and the people who know things are forced to explain things, so they put extra in for no benefit. One could see that as also applying to emotions and personal interactions, and this may be the better interpretation but that was not my original intent.
The second was a demonstration that loving someone and knowing them are different things, because it's clear the childless daughter loved her mother as much as her sister if not more, and that the mother was operating under a flawed notion of love.
Harvard went well, we had some fun, and now I've got a metric fuckton of papers to work on.
The first was about Education. Because of limited time, teachers can only dispense small amounts of knowledge, and the people who know things are forced to explain things, so they put extra in for no benefit. One could see that as also applying to emotions and personal interactions, and this may be the better interpretation but that was not my original intent.
The second was a demonstration that loving someone and knowing them are different things, because it's clear the childless daughter loved her mother as much as her sister if not more, and that the mother was operating under a flawed notion of love.
Harvard went well, we had some fun, and now I've got a metric fuckton of papers to work on.
