How To Catch Wild Pigs

LEARNING THE LESSON:

THE PARABLE OF  

"HOW TO CATCH WILD PIGS" 

-Author Anonymous-

AND THE STORY BEGINS...

There was a chemistry professor in a college, who had some exchange students in the class.

One day.......

The Professor noticed one young man (an exchange student) who kept rubbing his back and stretching as if his back hurt.

 

The professor asked the young man what his problem was. The student told him that he had a bullet lodged in his back. He had been shot while fighting the Communists in his native country, who were trying to overthrow his country's government and install a new Communist government.

In the midst of his story, the exchange student looked at the professor and asked a strange question. 

He asked him, "Do you know how to catch wild pigs?"

 

The professor thought it was a joke and asked for the punch line.

 

The young man said this was no joke.

                                

You catch wild pigs by finding a suitable place in the woods and putting corn on the ground. The pigs discover it, and begin to come everyday to eat the free corn.

 

 

When they are  used to coming every day, you put a fence down one side of the place where they are used to coming. When they get used to the fence, they begin to eat the corn again, and you put up another side of the fence.

 

 

They get used to that and start to eat.

 

And again, you continue until you  have all four sides of the fence up with a gate in the last side.

The  pigs, who are used to eating the free corn, start to come through the gate to  eat.

 

WHEN THEY DO, you slam the gate shut on them and catch the whole herd.

Suddenly the wild pigs have lost their freedom.

 

They run around and  around inside the fence, but they are caught. Soon they go back to eating the free corn. They are so used to it, that they have forgotten how to forage in the woods for themselves.

And so they accept their captivity.

 The young man then told the professor that this is exactly what he sees happening to America........ 


Peace, Avops





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