Theos-Talk Archives (March 2005 Message tt00765)

--- In theos-talk@yahoogroups.com, "M. Sufilight" <global-
theosophy@s...> wrote:

The problem is, that is was not a sugar-melon. I think!
JOKE


> Hallo all,
> 
> Here is one of my favorite stories one more time...
> 
> In the Land of Fools - alias the "Ugly melon monster"
> 
> Once upon a time was a man who strayed from his
> own country into the world known as the Land of Fools.
> He soon saw a number of people flying in terror from a field
> where they had been trying to reap wheat,. 'There is a monster
> in that field,' they told him. He looked, and saw that it was a
> water-melon.
> He offered to kill the 'monster'for them. When he had
> cut the melon from its stalk, he took a slice and began to eat it.
> The people became even more terrified of him than they had
> been of the melon. They drove him away with pitchforks,
> crying, 'He will kill us, next, unless we get rid of him.'
> 
> It so happened that at another time another man also 
> wandered into the Land of the Fools, and the same thing started to
> happen to him. But, instead of offering to help them with the
> 'monster', he agreed with them that it must be dangerous, and
> by tiptoeing away from it with them he gained their confidence.
> he spent a long time with them, in their houses, until
> he could teach them, little by little, the basic facts which
> would enable them not only to lose their fears of melons, but
> even cultivate the fruit themselves.
> 
> 
> 
> from
> M. Sufilight with peace and love.
> 
> 
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