i am sparticus: The Parable of the Music Pirates

The Parable of the Music Pirates

"A sower went out to sow. I mean, no wait, you guys don't care about seeds do you? Alright, so this put loads of music up on the internet, and then e-mailed his friends about it. I mean im'd. I mean facebooked. And as as he sowed, I mean e-mailed, contacted, look whatever, some of the e-mail or whatever got flagged up as spam and so they never really saw it. Other e-mail got read, and they were all 'cool, free music' but then the hassle of going to the site and downloading it, and whatever was just too much for them and they got flustered and so gave up and since they didn't really like that sort of thing, their desire withered away. Other seeds, I mean, e-mails, whatever, where read and the music was downloaded, but then they got other new stuff and stopped listening to it and forgot they ever downloaded it and skipped it when it came up on shuffle. Other e-mails fell on good ears and they loved it and they told all their other friends to listen to it and it got redistributed a thirty, sixty a hundred odd times. Yeah."

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"Hear then the parable of the sower, I mean e-mails, I mean music downloading: When anyone hears the word of the kingdom and does not understand it, the evil one comes and snatches away what has been sown in his heart. This is what was caught by the spam filter. As for what was never downloaded, this is the one who hears the word and immediately receives it with joy, yet he has no root in himself, but endures for a while, and when tribulation or persecution arises on account of the word, immediately he falls away. As for what was downloaded but not really listening to regularly this is the one who hears the word, but the cares of the world and the deceitfulness of riches choke the word, and it proves unfruitful. As for what was read properly and downloaded, this is the one who hears the word and understands it. He indeed bears fruit and yields, in one case a hundredfold, in another sixty, and in another thirty. Yeah."

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"Uh, just before we break into small groups to discuss that, I just thought I'd clarify a few things. When I said download music, I didn't really mean music, well, I did, I just meant, legal downloads, like something you made yourself. Like Jesus made the gospel. So he could give it away. And so we could give it away. But you can't do that with real CDs. So it's a bit like our parable, but without the illegal bit. I mean, our parable isn't illegal. Just maybe don't download music."

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"Yes, the story we heard is like the parable of the seeds in the bible. Thanks for pointing that out."

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"Sorry, who just asked 'what's a parable?' "

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