A good hatched job

A cry from the study…

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Sanagi: The chrysalis is empty.

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Mariposa: It’s hatched. Over here. Look.

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Sanagi: It doesn’t fly?

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Mariposa: It has to warm its wings. Slow flaps, see?

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Sanagi: So intervention worked.

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Voice-over

Like the starfish story, interventionism helped that one, anyway.

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Sugihara Chiune

Sugihara Chiune:
Japanese consul in Lithuania

A humane spirit…

Kristina: What did he do?

Noriko: It’s an amazing story of exponential leveraging. Sugihara Chiune issued 2193 visas, 6,000 people could escape the Nazis, and today there are 40,000 descendants now alive as a result of those visas.

1940 Sugihara Visa:
Russia to Japan to Curacao

Kristina: It reminds me of the Starfish Story.

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Voice-over

The Starfish Story:

A boy is walking along the beach and he sees thousands of starfish washed up by the tide. The boy sees a man who is throwing the starfish one by one back into the sea. The boy asks, “Why are you doing that, it won’t help, there are thousands of them stranded here.” And the man picks up another starfish and throws it into the water, and says, “Well, it helped THAT one.”

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Starfish story

Father O’Hara is going into parable mode with Elizabeth, an economics student.

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Father O’Hara: Do you know the starfish story, then?

Elizabeth: Aah… it’s got to be one with a metaphor or a moral to it, it’s probably a PARABLE, or you wouldn’t be setting out to tell me, right?

Father O’Hara: Just listen. There’s a boy walking along the beach and he sees thousands of starfish washed up by the tide. They’re stranded, see, and then the boy sees this man who’s throwing the starfish one by one back into the sea. And the boy asks, why you doing that, it won’t help, there are thousands of them stranded here. And the man picks up another starfish and throws it into the water, and says, “Well, it helped THAT one.”

Elizabeth: Something like what Zig Ziglar meant when he said, “You can have everything in life you want, if you will just help other people get what they want.”

 Father O’Hara: Not quite the same. What the man did in the starfish story was altruistic. What’s implicit in the Ziglar observaton is the idea that some people who you have helped might help you in the future.

Elizabeth: Possibly, possibly.

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Voice-over

There are more than 50 parables in the New Testament alone. That probably means there are thousands of parables from other reefs scattered along the Beach of Theology.

Parable: a story whose sum is greater than that of its parts?

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