- Joined
- Oct 7, 2009
- Messages
- 23,678
- Reaction score
- 4,991
When God was in the process of creating all beings, he told the Donkey:
You will be a donkey; you will work without complaining from sunrise to sundown, and will carry heavy loads on your back, eating nothing but grass and hay, have no intellect or intelligence to speak of, and live to be 50 years old.
The donkey responded: I obey my Lord but 50 years are too long. I prefer only 20.
So be it said the Creator.
Then the creator told the dog:
You will be a dog, you will guard the houses of human beings, be the best friend Man can have, eats Man’s left overs, and live to be thirty.
The Dog responded: I obey my Lord, but 30 years are too long, I prefer just 15.
So be it said the Creator.
Then the creator told the monkey:
You will be a monkey, you will swing from tree to tree, and do funny tricks, amuse and make others laugh. You will live to be 20.
The monkey responded: I obey my lord, but 20 years are too long, I prefer just 10.
So be it said the Creator.
………and finally Man.
The Creator told Man: you are the most intelligent creature on the face of Earth. You will use your intelligence to make yourself the master of all other creatures, populate and dominate the world and live to be 20 years old.
Man responded: I obey my Lord but 20 years are too little and short. I want the 30 years which the donkey did not want, the 15 years the dog did not want and the 10 years the monkey did not want.
So be it said the Creator.
And since that time, Man lives 20 years as a Man, then get married and live 30 years like a donkey, working from sunrise to sundown, carrying the heaviest of burdens, and then when his children are all grown up, live 15 years like a dog, guarding the house and eating left overs and then when he ages and retires, lives 10 years like the monkey, moving from house to house, from one son to another , from one daughter to the next, DOING FUNNY TRICKS TO AMUSE AND MAKE HIS GRANDCHILDREN LAUGH.
You will be a donkey; you will work without complaining from sunrise to sundown, and will carry heavy loads on your back, eating nothing but grass and hay, have no intellect or intelligence to speak of, and live to be 50 years old.
The donkey responded: I obey my Lord but 50 years are too long. I prefer only 20.
So be it said the Creator.
Then the creator told the dog:
You will be a dog, you will guard the houses of human beings, be the best friend Man can have, eats Man’s left overs, and live to be thirty.
The Dog responded: I obey my Lord, but 30 years are too long, I prefer just 15.
So be it said the Creator.
Then the creator told the monkey:
You will be a monkey, you will swing from tree to tree, and do funny tricks, amuse and make others laugh. You will live to be 20.
The monkey responded: I obey my lord, but 20 years are too long, I prefer just 10.
So be it said the Creator.
………and finally Man.
The Creator told Man: you are the most intelligent creature on the face of Earth. You will use your intelligence to make yourself the master of all other creatures, populate and dominate the world and live to be 20 years old.
Man responded: I obey my Lord but 20 years are too little and short. I want the 30 years which the donkey did not want, the 15 years the dog did not want and the 10 years the monkey did not want.
So be it said the Creator.
And since that time, Man lives 20 years as a Man, then get married and live 30 years like a donkey, working from sunrise to sundown, carrying the heaviest of burdens, and then when his children are all grown up, live 15 years like a dog, guarding the house and eating left overs and then when he ages and retires, lives 10 years like the monkey, moving from house to house, from one son to another , from one daughter to the next, DOING FUNNY TRICKS TO AMUSE AND MAKE HIS GRANDCHILDREN LAUGH.
