"Jonathan B. Marder" wrote:
> Hi Squad,
>
> Proving the MoQ - A Parable
> ***********************
> A group of soccer players were sitting discussing how their game was the
> only true sport. This somewhat irritated a group of other sportsmen
> sitting nearby. They claimed that their sports of weightlifting, tennis
> and archery were just as "sporting". Surely true sports includes these
> activities too. Furthermore, they claimed to be better sportsmen than
> the soccer players.
> So the soccer players suggested a competition to settle the matter - a
> soccer match (of course). The others protested, but try as they did,
> they couldn't agree on an alternative sporting competition.
> Who do you think won?
>
> Jonathan
>
>
A better way to state the parable is that a group of soccer players have
decided that there is only one right way to play soccer. After all, we are
refining the Western system, not scrapping it for another.
One could tell the same parable about anything - bottom line is that if the
soccer players are running the world and the world is going to hell then
someone had better point out to the soccer players that there may be a
different (better) way of playing the game.
I sure as the dickens wouldn't stand idly by and watch them run the sport
into the ground if I cared about it at all. I think I'd want to make a
suggestion or two.
Or learn basketball ;-)
Don R.
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