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Has anyone ever stopped to consider how some folk may do certain things out of sheer instinct without regard?
The best I can illustrate what I mean is by using the allegory, used within Dojos of Shotokan Karate, of the frog & the scorpion; thus;
One day a frog was swimming in a river when a scorpion crawled up to the water's edge.
"Please", said the scorpion, "I wish to cross the river - Take me on your back".
The frog replied; "This I cannot do, for once you are on my back you will sting me & kill me".
"Kind frog", said the scorpion, "If you would but permit me on your back, I swear, on the graves of my ancestors, that I would never do you any harm let alone sting you. It is that I need your help as I cannot swim & will drown were I to enter the river. Again I promise you, by all that matters to me, I bear you no harm, seeking only safe passage across the water"
After much though, the frog decided he believed the scorpion & agreed to carry him across the river. So the frog swam to the river bank where the scorpion jumped jumped onto his back.
The frog set off for the opposite side of the river, with his passenger on his back. However, on reaching the opposite bank, the scorpion hopped off the frog's back &,quick as a flash, turned & stung him.
As the frog began to sink beneath the water, feeling the poison coarsing through his veins, he looked to the scorpion & pleaded; "You said you would not harm me. I believed & trusted you yet you stung me, despite you'r assurances that you would not harm me. - Why?
The scorpion turned to look at the frog, merely shrugged his shoulders, and said;
"I'm a scorpion"!
The best I can illustrate what I mean is by using the allegory, used within Dojos of Shotokan Karate, of the frog & the scorpion; thus;
One day a frog was swimming in a river when a scorpion crawled up to the water's edge.
"Please", said the scorpion, "I wish to cross the river - Take me on your back".
The frog replied; "This I cannot do, for once you are on my back you will sting me & kill me".
"Kind frog", said the scorpion, "If you would but permit me on your back, I swear, on the graves of my ancestors, that I would never do you any harm let alone sting you. It is that I need your help as I cannot swim & will drown were I to enter the river. Again I promise you, by all that matters to me, I bear you no harm, seeking only safe passage across the water"
After much though, the frog decided he believed the scorpion & agreed to carry him across the river. So the frog swam to the river bank where the scorpion jumped jumped onto his back.
The frog set off for the opposite side of the river, with his passenger on his back. However, on reaching the opposite bank, the scorpion hopped off the frog's back &,quick as a flash, turned & stung him.
As the frog began to sink beneath the water, feeling the poison coarsing through his veins, he looked to the scorpion & pleaded; "You said you would not harm me. I believed & trusted you yet you stung me, despite you'r assurances that you would not harm me. - Why?
The scorpion turned to look at the frog, merely shrugged his shoulders, and said;
"I'm a scorpion"!