Thursday, April 12, 2007

The Church vs. The Flea Circus?

Sony created an ad a few years ago for their Play Station 2. Here's what it says:

"Training fleas requires a glass jar with a lid. The fleas are placed inside the jar and the lid is then sealed. They are left undisturbed for three days. Then, when the jar is opened, the fleas will not jump out. In fact, the fleas will never jump higher than the level set by the lid. Their behavior is now set for the rest of their lives. And when these fleas reproduce, their offspring will automatically follow their example. Escape the circus and live beyond the limits of the imaginary lid."

See any similarities between the church and the flea circus?

4 comments:

FleaCircusDirector said...
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FleaCircusDirector said...

The technique for training is true but fleas do not educate their offspring in the same way as more intelligent animals so you have to train each generation the same way.

Mike Fortune said...

fleacircusdirector said: "The technique for training is true but fleas do not educate their offspring in the same way as more intelligent animals so you have to train each generation the same way."

So their children would naturally jump out of the lid if the lid wasn't there even though their parents wouldn't? Interesting...

mothpete said...

ohhhh that's a trip down memory lane. I remember using that flea analogy in my first church talk/sermon in 1989