From: Amara Graps (amara@amara.com)
Date: Sat Jul 13 2002 - 08:21:59 MDT
Harvey Newstrom wrote:
> I often wonder this myself. I know that we hope the masses will provide
> public opinion support and monetary support for our goals, but I don't
> really envision this happening. There seems to be a mindset that is
> very engrained in people to accept or not accept our ideas. I really
> don't know if people can be convinced if they aren't already.
Nasrudin was wandering in a graveyard.
He stumbled and fell on and old and decrepit grave, and began to
visualize how it might feel to be dead.
Suddenly he heard a noise. It flashed in his mind that the Angel of
Reckoning was descending upon him; though it was only a caravan of camels
passing by.
The Mulla leaped up and fell over a wall, stampeding several camels.
The camelteers beat him severely with sticks.
He then ran home in quite a distressed state. His wife asked him what
had happened, and why he was late.
"I have been dead," said the Mulla.
Interested in the situation in spite of herself, she asked him what it
was like to be dead.
"Not bad at all, unless you disturb the camels. Then they beat you."
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