Originally posted by rider
Why?
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cus the scorpion was going dieing anyway and thought that if hes going to go at least go with a good meal?
This is something said by Friedrich Nietzsche that tells us alot about whats wrong with the world today where most people are either lambs or birds of prey.
There is nothing very odd about lambs disliking birds of prey, but this is no reason for holding it against large birds of prey that they carry off lambs. And when the lambs whisper among themselves, "These birds of prey are evil, and does this not give us a right to say that whatever is opposite of a bird of prey must be good?"
There is nothing intrinsically wrong with such an argument - though the birds of prey will look somewhat quizzically and say, "We have nothing against these good lambs; in fact, we love them; nothing tastes better than a tender lamb."
This next one is an African Folk Tale which tells about the bitter realities of life.
The Snake, The Farmer and the Heron
A snake chased by hunters asked a farmer to save its life. To hide from its pursuers, the farmer squatted and let the snake crawl into his belly. But when the danger had passed and the farmer asked the snake to come out, the snake refused. It was warm and safe inside.
On his way home, the man saw a heron and went up to him and whispered what had happened. The heron told him to squat and strain to eject the snake. When the snake snuck its head out, the heron cuaght it, pulled it out, and killed it.
The farmer was worried that the snake's poison might still be inside him, and the heron told him that the cure for snake poison was to cook and eat six white fowl. "You're a white fowl," said the farmer. "You'll do for a start." He grabbed the heron, put it in a bag, and carried it home, where he hung it up while he told his wife what had happened.
"I'm suprised at you," said the wife. "The bird does you a kindness, rids you of the evil in your belly, saves your life in fact, yet you catch it and talk of killing it."
She immediately released the heron, and it flew away. But on its way, it gouged out her eyes.