Story or Truth? - Naked Truth or Parable

Story or Truth

 Here is my response to a story I shared being FISHY.
(scan to the end to see one of the many versions I probably first heard decades ago in the 70s)

a warm story for today

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December 10, 2014
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 .29 fine? Humm, nice story however it 
sounds kinda fishy to me. The libraries I volunteer at charge .10-.30 per day late fees. Usually you can run up a “bill” to a certain amount before you’re denied checking out a book. It varies, from Library to Library but usually $5.00. Unless of course there are outstanding circumstances. Such as you’re habitually loosing books.


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Robert Alan Black Susan....perhaps it is not specifically accurate.

Stories and Facts do not always go together

the message is important part.

Have you ever read or heard the Yiddish story about

Story & Facts/Logic?

I could not find the classic tale with one Google search
here are some articles about the value and science of STORY 

https://www.google.com/search?hl=en&source=hp...


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the story about two friends coming into the village green one day:

Story and Logic/Fact

Story is always positive, upbeat, smiling and is loved by everyone

Logic/Facts is frustrated, angry, depressed

Story greets Logic/Facts with "Hello my friend. How are you this fine dah?

Logic/Facts responds "People do not listen to me. They listen to you and your fanciful stories. They will not listen to me when I warn them about the coming famine, that the Russians are coming...."

Story to Logic/Facts

"our life is very hard here, Perhaps if you put your Facts into your Logic into a story they will listen and remember more and learn from you."

this is off the top of my head.

I have told it many times in works, training programs and university courses when talking about ways of communicating effectively.

I heard it first at a storytelling festival.

Then I found it in a book about stories for ministers to tell or a book of Yiddish or Torah stories for Rabbis

Just looked at the 4 shelves in my living room that are all stories and storytelling books and could not find it.

It may be upstairs on a shelf or in a box that I have not relocated to my major collection of such books.

My early morning FUZZY Memory was just corrected by my hidden memory....I had been searching for the wrong title of the tale I was vaguely remembering

http://www.ala.org/aasl/sites/ala.org.aasl/files/content//aaslpubsandjournals/knowledgequest/kqwebarchives/v36/365/KQW36_5SturmRetellings.pdf

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My HIDDEN MEMORY just corrected my 
early morning FUZZY MEMORY 
and gave me the correct title for the tale to search to find this version of the many versions in print or being told.

NAKED TRUTH and PARABLE

like most stories passed down by word of word over the millennium there are many versions in print or still told audibly

Here is one similar to what I first heard told many years ago

Naked Truth and Parable

Naked Truth walked down the street one day.
People turned their eyes away.

Parable arrived, draped in decoration.
People greeted Parable with celebration.

Naked Truth sat alone, sad and unattired,

"Why are you so miserable?" Parable inquired.

Naked Truth replied, "I'm not welcome anymore.
No one wants to see me. They chase me from their door."

"It is hard to look at Naked Truth," Parable explained.

"Let me dress you up a bit. Your welcome will be gained."

Parable dressed Naked Truth in story's fine attire,
with metaphor, poignant prose, and plots to inspire.

With laughter and tears and adventure to unveil,
together they went forth to spin a tale.

People opened their doors and served them their best. Naked Truth dressed in story was a welcome guest.

-- A Jewish tale retold as a poem by Heather Forest




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