Post by midcan5 on May 9, 2007 18:34:03 GMT -5
The Tortoise and the Hare.
One day the Hare comes out of his hole full of bluster singing that he has just finished Atlas Shrugged. I am the master of all I survey. I alone am important. The Tortoise looks at him confused and asks what is it about and the Hare tells him that his own happiness is the most important value.
The Tortoise puzzled says but don’t we need each other sometimes to mend a dam or move the earth. And doesn’t that make us happy too? Bragging loudly the Hare says no Tortoise, I am a free, self sufficient rabbit and you a lowly, slow footed tortoise.
The Tortoise thinks for a moment and says if that is true then surely you will be able to beat me in a race. The Hare laughs loudly. Why of course I can beat you any time, name the time and place and I will destroy you. Tomorrow Hare meet me in the field and we shall see who is fastest. The Tortoise hurries home and tell his brother a near look alike his plan. He will stay at one side of the field in a furrow and when the Hare arrives say ‘I am here already.’
Next day the two meet and they wager the Hare’s new car. The car has made the hare very happy but he has no fear of the outcome of the race. So are you ready to lose asks the Tortoise, the hare laughs loudly and says I will even give you a head start, go. The tortoise starts and soon ducks down as the hare races by. But when he gets to the other side the brother looks up and says, ‘I am here already.’ The hare can’t believe it, he wants to race back, the tortoise obliges and soon he is greeted with, ‘I am here already.’ This can’t be says the hare and so he tries again and again and soon exhausted admits defeat. Unhappy he crawls back to his hole.
Sometimes happiness comes in twos and reason can trick us. btw the tortoise never took the car as he cheated but he proved his point.
with apologies to Grimm
“My philosophy, in essence, is the concept of man as a heroic being, with his own happiness as the moral purpose of his life, with productive achievement as his noblest activity, and reason as his only absolute.” Ayn Rand
One day the Hare comes out of his hole full of bluster singing that he has just finished Atlas Shrugged. I am the master of all I survey. I alone am important. The Tortoise looks at him confused and asks what is it about and the Hare tells him that his own happiness is the most important value.
The Tortoise puzzled says but don’t we need each other sometimes to mend a dam or move the earth. And doesn’t that make us happy too? Bragging loudly the Hare says no Tortoise, I am a free, self sufficient rabbit and you a lowly, slow footed tortoise.
The Tortoise thinks for a moment and says if that is true then surely you will be able to beat me in a race. The Hare laughs loudly. Why of course I can beat you any time, name the time and place and I will destroy you. Tomorrow Hare meet me in the field and we shall see who is fastest. The Tortoise hurries home and tell his brother a near look alike his plan. He will stay at one side of the field in a furrow and when the Hare arrives say ‘I am here already.’
Next day the two meet and they wager the Hare’s new car. The car has made the hare very happy but he has no fear of the outcome of the race. So are you ready to lose asks the Tortoise, the hare laughs loudly and says I will even give you a head start, go. The tortoise starts and soon ducks down as the hare races by. But when he gets to the other side the brother looks up and says, ‘I am here already.’ The hare can’t believe it, he wants to race back, the tortoise obliges and soon he is greeted with, ‘I am here already.’ This can’t be says the hare and so he tries again and again and soon exhausted admits defeat. Unhappy he crawls back to his hole.
Sometimes happiness comes in twos and reason can trick us. btw the tortoise never took the car as he cheated but he proved his point.
with apologies to Grimm
“My philosophy, in essence, is the concept of man as a heroic being, with his own happiness as the moral purpose of his life, with productive achievement as his noblest activity, and reason as his only absolute.” Ayn Rand
