fables

My secular interpretation of Buddhism is that they used fables to codify knowledge before they had writing.

It does yourself and your listeners a disservice to spread fables as if they were truths.

Finally a popular press article wanting that digs deeper than the old fables about dopamine.

Also folklore.org is a nice collection of fables on how the sausage got made.

There are countless fables about record company executives dropping by the mastering studio to hear the new hit in its finished form.

Eastern cultures have fables that tend to celebrate being clever or manipulative (e.g.

Blanket statements all around, personal attacks, strawmen galore, just-so anecdotes as moral fables, and for what?

There are some distinct ideas that this article at times seems to conflate: - Obscurity, speaking in fables, non-clarity, indirectness.

After endless fables and allegories and precious little actual numbers.

Monks were trained to decode the knowledge from the fables.

For example, western cultures have Aesop fables (e.g.

I think people create too many fables around old tools.

The preaches of "saving for the rainy day" have been present in most fables/folk stories in many cultures.

Michael Stipe said in an interview that "Fables of the Reconstruction" was his least liked record.

Or any of Stanislaw Lem's books of "fables for robots" like "The Cyberiad".

In this regard, "holy" scripture is less of a strict historical record (though there are some elements of that as well, embedded within the fanciful depictions thereof) and more of an equivalent to Aesop's fables - stories which were meant to educate, and to convey abstract concepts difficult to succinctly and effectively communicate without such fanciful metaphors.

This kind of argument seems like it's only appealing through it's similarity to one of Aesop's Fables.

In Typing tests (granted Aesop's Fables, not programming) there isn't really that much difference.

Fables was also recorded in London, England[0], and iirc that wore on them.