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Everyone has their demons.

vonissk wrote: Yes a tare is worthless and has no function except to live and die in a short period of time.


You are correct!

 

There once was a man who would just stare.
Through the locks of His long, greasy hair.
Because false disciples recite Him,
By repeating His words ad nauseam.
Adding self gratifying meanings of "tares."

Tares (zizánia) -maybe we can put this to bed.  The significance in the parable is that the wheat and the tares occupy the same field, and are indistinguishable upon first springing; not until the harvest may they be separated.  In terms of biblical Christianity, an atheist bears little resemblance to a believer, a theme consistent throughout the gospels and other NT works.   Given the relatively homogenous social climate Jesus inhabited, and concurrent with his other teachings on "religion", it is far more likely that the reference is symbolic of the "church" body subscribing to similar beliefs.  Outside of this context, the reference would really make little sense.  Within this context, whether or not one is of the wheat or of the tares would depend entirely upon hermeneutics, many iterations of which have been completely bastardized over the years.
 

Everyone has their demons.

I saw less specificity, with the wolves allegorically representative of death itself.

All I saw was what I'd call a second rate movie (The Grey) with a lame plot, It was ok at best.

It had about as much spiritual content as our ole buddy shit head here, he lives for lame ass videos.

He might as well be a door to door god salesman, begging for donations along the way.

This is the most pathetic display of misguided religious beliefs that I can ever remember seeing.

 

BTW:  If you want a really realistic description of what it's like
to be marooned at sea in a small boat, read "Jamrach's Menagerie"
(Carol Birch).  Hideously graphic.
 

Hideously graphic? Hmm. I'll pass! How to survive being lost at sea really wasn't my motivation for reading the  Life of Pi . LOL One of the most graphic books I ever read, that haunts me to this day was a book simply called, "Aztec" by Gary Jennings. It was a gripping story about the Aztec civilization told through the eyes of a youngster who also happened to be in training as an artist. 

It was so graphic but compelling, I could barely force myself to read it, one excruciating, bloody chapter at a time. The thought to just not finish this book never entered my mind, it was like a test of myself to endure, like seeing a train wreck and I could not take my eyes away. Very, very long book, too, if I recall.

Funnily enough, Jamrach's Menagerie starts with 
a boy & a tiger, too ...

Aztec sounds intrigueing, will see if I can get a copy.