{"id": "card_n_34d672ea36f4", "kind": "note", "title": "A parable — Addiction drink", "body": "The wine looked red in the cup, and moved itself well, and went down smoothly. The wise man wrote it down, then warned: do not even look. At the end it bites like a serpent and stings like an adder. Those who only watched it from a distance still remembered the bite.\n\nAsk yourself: Are you watching it from a distance — or holding the cup?\n\nFLOOR — protect what cannot recover. Look not on the wine when it is red (Prov 23:31). The bite comes later.\n\n(A Narrow Highway original teaching parable — not a parable of Jesus; a made story that carries a true edge.)", "source": {"label": "Narrow Highway — original parable", "url": "", "ref": "scripture_prov_23_31", "authority_tier": "operator"}, "shelf": "codex", "box": "parables", "bands": ["parable", "original", "witness", "teaching", "physical_substance", "time_sequence", "FLOOR"], "connections": [], "author": "operator", "created_at": "2026-07-10T21:00:05.284658+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-07-10T21:00:05.284658+00:00", "visibility": "public", "lifecycle_stage": "public", "volatility": "permanent", "surface": "witness", "metrics": {"paperclips_count": 0, "helpful_count": 0, "not_helpful_count": 0, "cite_count": 0, "walks_through_count": 0, "flagged_count": 0}, "source_hash": "ab17c60c2ff605dae5ffbc091dfbcbd47aae4fc96daceb9d95ad356e1280a321"}