Parables: Five Sentences or Less

[Cramulus]

These threads are like the microblogging of irreligious propaganda.  



Five times per week, Bung Fu the Fool took the train to work.

As the locomotive pulled into the station, he contemplated stepping off the platform and bringing his life to an end under its uncaring wheels.

"You should just do it," said the stranger behind him, "I'll even push you if you'd like."

"You're probably right, my day isn't going to get any better than this," said Bung Fu as he boarded the Sisyphus Express.

                       Luckily there was a trainwreck and everybody died.

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

I hereby declare the Five-Sentence Parable an Official Discordian Art Form.

Perhaps we could call it a Pentakoan?

[Cramulus]

"I want to change the world," said Golden Rod as he stood up.

    "Change it to what?" asked the monk Nopants, smirking.

    "That sounds really difficult," sighed Bung Fu the Fool.

Golden Rod nodded at what they were saying and sat back down.

[LMNO]

"I have found a new game to play."

[Richter]

A young idealist, by great trial, saved a way of life from ending.
The mass of humanity, tunnel visioned on daily minutia of this civilization, didn't notice, didn't care.
The idealist, frustrated, and convicned they should value what they had, turned off their Cable TV for a day.
He was jailed, convited, and recorded in history as a criminal