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| | | | | Why teach a man to fish when you can teach him to steal in an urban environment? |
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| | | | | I'll tell you why. Because anyone who goes fishing, for the purpose of catching fish...is completely ignorant of what it truly means to go fishing. The word "fishing" does not imply catching fish. If it were...it wouldn't be called fishing...it would be called catching fish. The idea of fishing is to create a certain degree of isolation that allows a person to completely immerse him or herself in the environment. It allows someone to let go of everything unimportant about life...which...is most everything. I can sit in a boat in the middle of the lake all day...casting and retrieving...or simply watch a bobber rise and fall on every little crest of water that passes beneathe it. Some of the best days I've ever had fishing...were ones where I didn't catch a thing. But those nights in NW Wisconsin...watching the northern lights from the pier at night...or that morning before sunrise in western Michican where a mallard couple paddled by with their school of little ones within six inches of my aluminum boat...now that's fishing. Besides...I release everything I catch anyway...so sometimes it's best not to be troubled with the triviality of catching something to begin with. |
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| | | | i quite agree with you, Rainbow. i could happily sit in a boat all day, and have done it, as long as it isn't too hot or cold, or wet. *l* my sister and i have gone for hours not saying a word, but simply enjoy each other's company, with the odd comment now and then. she was there for the neatest moment ever.
we were at the end of another day in an "invitational fishing derby", meaning a huge group of friends and family spending a weekend together, with a big fish fry at the end. it was a quiet evening, sun slowly going down, the lake like glass. we were bobber fishing, and suddenly noticed my bobber drifting in one direction, then the other, with the odd little dip, nothing big enough to know that the fish had grabbed the bait. this went on for 15-20 minutes, then stopped. i gave it another 5 minutes, then slowly reeled in. there was absolutely nothing left on the hook, the fish had delicately nibbled off the entire minnow. *chuckling* my sister and i were amazed, and we still talk about it, when it happened nearly 15 years ago now. it's a bonding moment that i'll never forget.
so why teach a man to fish? it teaches patience, and it the right environment, it strengthens us. |
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| | | | stealing is bad....but
fishing is first degree...premeditated murder!!!
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| | | | Catfish (12/26/2007)
stealing is bad....but
fishing is first degree...premeditated murder!!!
Wait. *L* WHAT? First of all...if you're going to eat what you catch...what makes that worse than buying a steak at the butcher shop? Secondly...I don't murder fish. I practice CPR on them. Catch. Photo. Release. |
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| | | | I'm afraid all of you missed the intended point, which was why should one spend time producing honestly when one can make a profit dishonestly (assuming that he/she gets away with theft)?
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| | | | RainbowSix (1/14/2008)Catfish (12/26/2007)
stealing is bad....but
fishing is first degree...premeditated murder!!!
Wait. *L* WHAT? First of all...if you're going to eat what you catch...what makes that worse than buying a steak at the butcher shop? Secondly...I don't murder fish. I practice CPR on them. Catch. Photo. Release.
I don't buy steak from Butch....I don't even know Butch!!!! and I don't eat beef...and if you're in the photos i'd like to see them *winks* |
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| | | | | Its only premeditated murder if you use stink-bait. |
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| | | | | all bait stinks silly *pinches you* |
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| | | | to the actual point of the thread: you don't actually have to teach a man to steal; it's part of his DNA. Honest production is the thing that requires teaching. Unfortunately, the crooked would seem to sleep just as soundly as the straight and narrow. Would seem to, but maybe not... trust is a frightening thing not to have.
to the whole sidetrack on literal fishing:
If you place such a high value on time spent pondering nature, why do you need the catch-a-fish props?
http://www.renewamerica.us
The depravity of man is at once the most unpopular of the Christian doctrines and yet the most empirically verifiable. - Malcolm Muggeridge |
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