The most frightening sentence this side of a Stephen King novel

[BlueinOhio]

87. A Parable

This thread made me think of a Jewish parable I read. It is about a man who lived in the mountains and knew nothing about the city. He ate raw wheat kernels. He went to the city and was given bread to eat and he asks what it was made of and was told wheat. He then was given cakes and asks what it was made of and was told wheat. Finally he was given pastry and he asked what it was made of and they told him wheat. Then he told them he was the master of all of these because he ate the raw kernels of wheat. Because of that view the delights of the world were lost to him. Same with those who grasp the principle but do not know the delights deriving and diverging from the principle. They are missing a lot and now they want to make sure their future generations will also.