an interesting little analogy

Once apon a time (as all good stories start)...
There was a Frog and a Scorpion. The Scorpion was standing on one side of a river, and said to the Frog
"Hey... do you want to come over here, and give me a ride over the river to the other side?"
and the Frog said
"No, because you'll bite me before we get to the other side of the river"
The Scorpion replied
"Why would i bite you, when we would both drown?"
So the Frog agreed to give the Scorpion a ride accross to the other side of the river...

... and half way accross the river, the Scorpion bit the Frog... and the Frog said
"Hey, why did you bite me? now we're both going to drown!"
and the Scorpion replied
"I know that, and im sorry... but i couldnt help it, its in my nature"

just a little story...
do you guys ever find yourself doing things, or getting into situations that you know arent beneficial to yourself, or others, but it just keeps happenning that way?

sorry if ive re-started an old thread (Byron - be NICE, ok?)... but i just found this little tale somewhat amusing...

anyone got any others that are similar? (hehe... they dont have to contain a frog or a scorpion )

*food for thought*

- Mich

nope, sure don't.

I have heard that one many times, with various versions on the characters.

And yes, I often sabotage myself, for no apparent reason.

Here's another cool little story:

ANT AND THE GRASSHOPPER
__________________________________________________ ____________________

CLASSIC VERSION:

The ant works hard in the withering heat all summer long, building his
house and laying up supplies for the winter.

The grasshopper thinks he's a fool, and laughs and dances and plays the
summer away.

Come winter, the ant is warm and well fed. The grasshopper has no
food or shelter, so he dies out in the cold.

__________________________________________________ ____________________

MODERN VERSION:

The ant works hard in the withering heat all summer long, building his
house and laying up supplies for the winter.

The grasshopper thinks he's a fool, and laughs and dances and plays
the summer away.

Come winter, the shivering grasshopper calls a press conference and
demands to know why the ant should be allowed to be warm and well fed
while others less fortunate are cold and starving.

CBS, NBC and ABC show up to provide pictures of the shivering
grasshopper next to a video of the ant in his comfortable home with a
table filled with food.

America is stunned by the sharp contrast. How can this be, that in a
country of such wealth, this poor grasshopper is allowed to suffer so?

Kermit, the Frog, appears on Oprah with the grasshopper, and everybody
cries when they sing "It's Not Easy Being Green."

Jesse Jackson stages a demonstration in front of the ant's house,
where the news stations film the group singing "We Shall Overcome."

Al Gore exclaims in an interview with Peter Jennings that the ant has
gotten rich off the back of the grasshopper, and calls for an
immediate tax hike on the ant to make him pay his "fair share".

Finally, the EEOC drafts the Economic Equity and Anti-Grasshopper Act,
retroactive to the beginning of the summer.

The ant is fined for failing to hire a proportionate number of green
bugs and, having nothing left to pay his retroactive taxes, his home
is confiscated by the government.

Hillary Clinton gets her old law firm to represent the grasshopper in
a defamation suit against the ant, and the case is tried before a
panel of federal judges that Bill Clinton appointed from a list of
single-parent welfare recipients.

The ant loses the case.

The story ends as we see the grasshopper finishing up the last bits of
the ant's food while the government house he is in, which just happens
to be the ant's old house, crumbles around him because he doesn't
maintain it.

The ant has disappeared in the snow.

The grasshopper is found dead in a drug related incident and the
house, now abandoned, is taken over by a gang of spiders who terrorize
the once-peaceful neighborhood.

Yeah I was quite amused by that as well.

So true!

Thats some really funny shit driven...

cheers

hehe.... funny

but also has a ring of truth to it... which makes it sad

You make it sound like I am never nice. I am always nice.

Clever writing in this thread. Also frighteningly true.

Well told, Driven! (and so, so true)

I thought you were an Aussie, how did you get the current (yet sad) state of America down so well?

Because we Australians are great at being critical of America right, Driven?!

I thought that was the job of the French.

Ok- so what time are the trains?