emery@fluke.UUCP (John Emery) (11/26/85)
This is the story of a captain of a very large ship. This ship sails through many rough waters and endures countless stormy nights. The passengers are many and the room aboard is plenty. The people aboard are from every walk of life. Everyone on board has a one way ticket. The ship sails on day and night and the passengers have only heard of the destination. Yes, once long ago, the captain showed himself to the fathers of the passengers and told them face to face about the beautiful, wonderful place that the ship was heading towards. Since then the captain has not been seen because he is busy keeping the ship on course. Yet each passenger has his very own cabin with a speaker in it. That captain talks to each passenger over the speaker even though not all of the passengers listen. He speaks to the passengers to comfort them, especially during the storms and to give them hope and encouragement about the ships destination. The captain's father designed the ship and the captain himself helped his father build it. There is much room aboard the ship for the passengers to move about freely. Aboard the ship the passengers can do anything they please and go anywhere they wish. The captain's father built guard rails around the ship to prevent any passenger from falling into the waters below in case one of them went too far towards the edge of the ship. There is a sad part to this story. Many of the people aboard do not trust the captain. They ignore his voice over their cabin's speaker. Some feel the captain is lying to them about the destination, believing he is guiding them in the wrong direction. Others do not have faith that the captain is able to keep the ship on course. Still others believe that their fathers made up the story about the captain and that the ship is just sailing by itself. They believe this even though the ship survives countless stormy nights. "It is only by chance we survive," they claim. Some of the these passengers change. They start listening to the captain's voice and to the people aboard who trust the captain. Others eventually climb over the guard rail and jump into the waters thinking they can make it on their own, never to be seen or heard from again. One day the ship will reach its destination. By the time it gets there, only those who listened to and trusted the captain will be left. All the others will have jumped off the ship, lost forever. The captain will then show himself to the remaining passengers and take them by the hand off the ship into their new home. They will never have to worry about stormy waters again. They will finally meet the architect of the ship, the captain's father. John Emery fluke!emery
padraig@utastro.UUCP (Padraig Houlahan) (11/29/85)
This is the story of a leader of a very large party. This party went through many rough political storms. The members are many and are from every walk of life. Everyone had a one way ticket, and had only heard of the destination - it was called "Third Reich". and so on... Oh well, Padraig Houlahn.
ins_akaa@jhunix.UUCP (Kenneth Adam Arromdee) (12/02/85)
If I had never been off the ship and never even had any reason to believe that
the ship was going anywhere, and if I never saw the captain directly but
rather had several different people tell me different things about the captain
and where he's going, and if the captain was acting like a dictator and
doing things I'd consider evil if someone else did them (according to people's
stories about the captain) I certainly might have some doubts.
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If you know the alphabet up to 'k', you can teach it up to 'k'.
Kenneth Arromdee
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