Posted by yabba on October 13, 2003, at 15:07:32
In reply to Frogs -- A parable, posted by madwand on October 13, 2003, at 12:27:57
> A bunch of frogs were hopping their way through the woods. Suddenly the ground gave way out from under them and, although they scattered quickly, two of them tumbled into a deep pit.
> The two frogs in the pit began hopping madly, trying to get out of the pit. The frogs up above, seeing the futility of this effort, kept calling out to the ones in the pit to stop making it harder on themselves -- that there is no way they could hop out of that pit.
> Finally they managed to get through to one of two frogs, who stopped hopping and laid down and died. However, the other frog continued to hop.
> He hopped higher and higher and finally gave one tremendous hop and hopped all of the way out of the pit!
> The other frogs were astounded, and asked him why on earth he kept hopping like that when kept telling him it was hopeless.
> It turned out that he was a bit hard of hearing, and the all that time he thought they were cheering him on.
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haha
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