Parable of the Talents: winner of the Nebula Award (Parable 2)

“No, of course not. But someone does. I don’t know how I’m going to do it, Len, but the world is full of needy people. They don’t all need the same things, but they all need purpose. Even some of the ones with plenty of money need purpose.”

Beware: All too often, We say What we hear others say. We think What we’re told that we think. We see What we’re permitted to see. Worse! We see what we’re told that we see. Repetition and pride are the keys to this. To hear and to see Even an obvious lie Again And again and again May be to say it,

He was so good-looking, and a beautiful person, male or female, can get away with saying and doing things that would destroy a plainer one.

Beware: At war Or at peace, More people die Of unenlightened self-interest Than of any other disease.

It’s always been much easier to make war than to make peace.

When we have no difficult, long-term purpose to strive toward, we fight each other. We destroy ourselves. We have these chaotic, apocalyptic periods of murderous craziness.”

So much agony caused, so much evil done in God’s name.

As she smiled her delight at hearing such agreement with her own thoughts, I handed her the drawing.

Choose your leaders with wisdom and forethought. To be led by a coward is to be controlled by all that the coward fears. To be led by a fool is to be led by the opportunists who control the fool. To be led by a thief is to offer up your most precious treasures to be stolen. To be led by a liar is to ask to be told lies.