#parable of the talents

[aberration13]

Tfw you're reading a book written in 1998 and the author starts describing the current president in the year 2032 who happens to be a bigoted extremist demagogue who came to power by playing into religious fundamentalist ideology and his campaign slogan is this

Book is parable of the talents by Octavia E. Butler

#parable of the sower #parable of the talents #octavia e. butler #donald trump #my stuff

[eleanor-arroway]

Lauren Oya Olamina is truly a protagonist of all time

she's very practical, she's an empath, she's a cult leader, she's learning to draw for fun, she's making acorn bread and adopting children into her community, she's obsessed with populating interstellar space even as societal order is collapsing, she's writing the bible but this time it's about how diversity and change are central to a thriving society, she's stocking up on weapons and caching supplies, and she's like twenty... no one is doing it like her

#earthseed #parable of the sower #parable of the talents #octavia butler #octavia e. butler #lauren olamina #lauren oya olamina #octavia #olamina #books #science fiction #dystopian books

[bistephs]

reading parable of the talents (published in 1998) and reaching the part about the election between a dull centrist former vice president decried as mentally incompetent by his opponents vs a populist texan senator who blames the country’s problems on religious and racial minorities, intentionally incites his supporters to violence while absolving himself of the actual violence they carry out in his name, describes said minorities as “seducers of our children, rapists of our women, drug sellers, usurers, thieves, and murderers,” and whose campaign promise is literally to “make America great again,” all on the backdrop of wide-scale social collapse due to climate change and unfettered exploitation of the poor while an ever-decreasing number of people grow ever-increasingly rich, does kind of hit different in 2023.

#hey ms butler. ms butler i just want to ask some questions please #book talk #parable of the talents #like yall this book was published the year i was born.

[nitewrighter]

Octavia Butler was really into something with Parable of the Talents because she demonstrates that even if Christians aren’t the “I use my beliefs to justify my prejudices and all violence that comes with it” types… they’re still going to be Like That (and by Like That I mean proselytizing in spaces that are meant for mutual secular respect).

#parable of the sower #parable of the talents

[dreaminginthedeepsouth]

“The child in each of us / Knows paradise. / Paradise is home. / Home as it was / Or home as it should have been. // Paradise is one’s own place, / One’s own people, / One’s own world, / Knowing and known, / Perhaps even / Loving and loved. // Yet every child / Is cast from paradise— / Into growth and destruction, / Into solitude and new community, / Into vast, ongoing / Change.”

— Parable of the Talents (Octavia E. Butler)

[via "alive on all channels"]

#children #Paradise #home #parable of the talents #change #Octavia E. Butler #live itself #alive on all channels #quotes

[genspiel]

was flipping through the parable of the talents recently and was like. omg it's a god of change, just like in in stars and time. the only difference is that one of these religions is mostly focused around the concept rather than a physical deity and was created by a teen facing a horrific climate dystopia, while the other religion worships [checks notes] a silly little lazy guy who uses too many kaomoji

#tre plays #in stars and time #change god #isat spoilers #tre reads #parable of the sower #parable of the talents #octavia butler #lauren oya olamina

[thebookishwallflower]

THIS IS FROM 1993 WHAT THE FUCK

- Parable of the Talents, Octavia E Bulter (Sequel to Parable of the Sower)

#parable of the sower #parable of the talents #octavia e butler

[rekhaa]

We're healing as best as we can. And, no, we're not normal. Normal people wouldn't have survived. If we were normal, we'd be dead.

Octavia E. Butler, Parable of the Talents

#octavia butler #parable of the talents

[hwayjino]

parable of the talents by octavia e. butler (1998)

#octavia e. butler #earthseed #parable of the talents #book tag

[myclutteredbookshelf]

If you see this, list three books that you think everybody should read at least once in the tags.

#bookblr #books #reading #book recs #as i lay dying #parable of the talents #lolita

[drackiszunk]

I’m reading Parable of the Talents and am just astonished at Octavia Butler’s frightening accuracy of the future. What she knew in 1998…. if she were only alive today to see it.

Just wild. Parable of the Sower was one of my favorite books I’ve read so far this year. Enjoying the continuation of this story.

#Zack reads #parable of the talents #octavia butler

[officialyourdailyinspiration]

The Parable of the Ten Virgins

1 “Then shall the Kingdom of Heaven be likened unto ten virgins, who took their lamps and went forth to meet the bridegroom.

2 And five of them were wise, and five were foolish.

3 They that were foolish took their lamps and took no oil with them,

4 but the wise took oil in their vessels with their lamps.

5 While the bridegroom tarried, they all slumbered and slept.

6 And at midnight there was a cry made: ‘Behold, the bridegroom cometh; go ye out to meet him.’

7 Then all those virgins arose and trimmed their lamps.

8 And the foolish said unto the wise, ‘Give us of your oil, for our lamps are gone out.’

9 But the wise answered, saying, ‘Not so, lest there be not enough for us and you; but go ye rather to them that sell, and buy for yourselves.’

10 And while they went to buy, the bridegroom came, and they that were ready went in with him to the marriage, and the door was shut.

11 Afterward came also the other virgins, saying, ‘Lord, lord, open to us!’

12 But he answered and said, ‘Verily I say unto you, I know you not.’

13 Watch therefore, for ye know neither the day nor the hour wherein the Son of Man cometh.

The Parable of the Talents

14 “For the Kingdom of Heaven is as a man traveling into a far country, who called his own servants and delivered unto them his goods.

15 And unto one he gave five talents, to another two, and to another one, to every man according to his several ability, and straightway took his journey.

16 Then he that had received the five talents went and traded with the same, and made them another five talents.

17 And likewise he that had received two, he also gained another two.

18 But he that had received one went and dug in the earth and hid his lord’s money.

19 After a long time the lord of those servants came and reckoned with them.

20 And so he that had received five talents came and brought the other five talents, saying, ‘Lord, thou deliveredst unto me five talents. Behold, I have gained beside them five talents more.’

21 His lord said unto him, ‘Well done, thou good and faithful servant. Thou hast been faithful over a few things; I will make thee ruler over many things. Enter thou into the joy of thy lord.’

22 “He also that had received two talents came and said, ‘Lord, thou deliveredst unto me two talents; behold, I have gained two other talents beside them.’

23 His lord said unto him, ‘Well done, good and faithful servant. Thou hast been faithful over a few things; I will make thee ruler over many things. Enter thou into the joy of thy lord.’

24 “Then he that had received the one talent came and said, ‘Lord, I knew thee, that thou art a hard man, reaping where thou hast not sown, and gathering where thou hast not strewed.

25 And I was afraid, and went and hid thy talent in the earth. Lo, there thou hast what is thine.’

26 His lord answered and said unto him, ‘Thou wicked and slothful servant, thou knewest that I reap where I sowed not, and gather where I have not strewed.

27 Thou ought therefore to have placed my money with the exchangers, and then at my coming I should have received mine own with interest.

28 Take therefore the talent from him, and give it unto him that hath ten talents.

29 For unto every one that hath shall be given, and he shall have abundance; but from him that hath not, shall be taken away even that which he hath.

30 And cast ye the unprofitable servant into outer darkness: there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth.’

The Sheep and the Goats

31 “When the Son of Man shall come in His glory and all the holy angels with Him, then shall He sit upon the throne of His glory.

32 And before Him shall be gathered all nations, and He shall separate them one from another as a shepherd divideth his sheep from the goats.

33 And He shall set the sheep on His right hand, but the goats on the left.

34 Then shall the King say unto them on His right hand, ‘Come, ye blessed of My Father, inherit the Kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world.

35 For I hungered, and ye gave Me meat; I was thirsty, and ye gave Me drink; I was a stranger, and ye took Me in;

36 naked, and ye clothed Me; I was sick, and ye visited Me; I was in prison, and ye came unto Me.’

37 Then shall the righteous answer Him, saying, ‘Lord, when saw we Thee hungering and fed Thee, or thirsty and gave Thee drink?

38 When saw we Thee a stranger and took Thee in, or naked and clothed Thee?

39 Or when saw we Thee sick, or in prison, and came unto Thee?’

40 And the King shall answer and say unto them, ‘Verily I say unto you, inasmuch as ye have done it unto one of the least of these My brethren, ye have done it unto Me.’

41 “Then shall He say also unto them on the left hand, ‘Depart from Me, ye cursed, into everlasting fire prepared for the devil and his angels.

42 For I hungered, and ye gave Me no meat; I was thirsty, and ye gave Me no drink;

43 I was a stranger, and ye took Me not in; naked, and ye clothed Me not; sick and in prison, and ye visited Me not.’

44 Then shall they also answer Him, saying, ‘Lord, when saw we Thee hungering or athirst or a stranger, or naked or sick or in prison, and did not minister unto Thee?’

45 Then shall He answer them, saying, ‘Verily I say unto you, inasmuch as ye did it not to one of the least of these, ye did it not to Me.’

46 And these shall go away into everlasting punishment, but the righteous into life eternal.” — Matthew 25 | 21st Century King James Version (KJV21) The Holy Bible; 21st Century King James Version Copyright © 1994 by Deuel Enterprises, Inc. Cross References: 1 Samuel 2:10; 1 Kings 2:19; 2 Kings 4:10; Job 31:32; Psalm 45:9; Psalm 49:7; Psalm 112:10; Proverbs 11:17; Proverbs 14:31; Proverbs 14:35; Proverbs 28:20; Isaiah 58:7; Ezekiel 18:7; Ezekiel 18:16; Ezekiel 34:17; Ezekiel 34:20; Daniel 12:2; Zechariah 14:5; Matthew 4:2; Matthew 4:10; Matthew 5:3; Matthew 5:6; Matthew 7:21; Matthew 7:23-24; Matthew 8:12; Matthew 10:41-42; Matthew 13:12; Matthew 13:24; Matthew 18:23-24; Matthew 19:16; Matthew 19:29; Matthew 21:8; Matthew 21:33; Matthew 24:42-43; Matthew 24:45; Matthew 24:47-48; Luke 13:25; Luke 19:12-13; Luke 19:23; Luke 19:38; John 3:15; John 15:2; Romans 14:6; 1 Corinthians 8:12; Ephesians 5:33; Hebrews 2:11; Hebrews 6:10; 1 John 5:11

#Parable of the Ten Virgins #Parable of the Talents #the sheep and the goats #Matthew 25 #Gospel of Matthew #KJV21 #21st Century King James Version Bible #Deuel Enterprises Inc.

[karinyosa]

from earthseed by octavia butler.

thinking about this excerpt because of this very very good video essay by dr fatima, and the fucking epic reading of it by thedaintyfunk that precedes the essay.

if that video essay interests you, i also highly recommend this one. be prepared to get emotional at some point.

#poetry #words #octavia butler #earthseed #the parable of the sower #parable of the talents #actions #(there are some inside the video essays) #video essays #dr fatima #thedaintyfunk #palestine #science fiction #id in alt

[commajade]

just started parable of the talents and octavia butler predicting covid but saying it started in 2013 is so wild

#parable of the talents #i related to young olamina so much i couldn't move on to the next book where she's dead and also a bad mom #but now i am ready lol

[goddess-of-alchemy]

#alchemy #quotes #octavia butler #parable of the talents #leadership

[dreaminginthedeepsouth]

David Horsey, Seattle Times :: [Scott Horton]

* * * *

“I have also read that the Pox was caused by accidentally coinciding climatic, economic, and sociological crises. It would be more honest to say that the Pox was caused by our own refusal to deal with obvious problems in those areas. We caused the problems: then we sat and watched as they grew into crises. I have heard people deny this, but I was born in 1970. I have seen enough to know that it is true. I have watched education become more a privilege of the rich than the basic necessity that it must be if civilized society is to survive. I have watched as convenience, profit, and inertia excused greater and more dangerous environmental degradation. I have watched poverty, hunger, and disease become inevitable for more and more people.”

― Octavia E. Butler, Parable of the Talents

#David Horsey #Seattle Times #Scott Horton #Climate change #quotes #Octavia E. Butler #Parable of the Talents