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- From: racg8670@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Becca )
- Subject: Re: why
- References: <92321.175537LCM111@psuvm.psu.edu>
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- Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
- Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1992 07:10:34 GMT
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- LCM111@psuvm.psu.edu writes:
- > Hello,
- >I firmly believe that people who fish are a bunch of the most
- >warped people in the world...to catch a peaceful graceful
- >animal which is flowing through the life blood of this earth
- >as if a monitor of happiness...GET A LIFE!
-
- why do I fish?
- well I fish because it is as close to a practice of religion as I can
- get...
-
- before I was born, my grandfather and old ned the cabinet maker built
- me my first fishing pole...
-
- as soon as I was old enough to hold it, I was taken on my first fishing
- trip and that was the beginning of a series of coming of age practices,
- all marked by fishing trips...
-
- I learned about life and respect and duty and beauty and art and god
- and right and wrong on these fishing trips...
-
- When my grandfather died some years ago, I celebrated his death with
- a fishing trip...
- just as he celebrated the beginning of my life with one...
-
- as for those fish you think you guard...
- I sort of doubt you have done as much as we fisherfolx in guarding and
- caring for their lives...
-
- you are right about one thing...
- those fish have an awesome beauty...
- and they make some of the finest meals I have ever known...
-
- as for warped and twisted...
- if we are the twisted ones, then so be it...
- all I know is that I feel perfectly safe when I come upon a fisherperson
- deep in the forest...
- but I never feel that safe when I walk in your cities and meet your non-
- fishing friends...
-
- the best thing I can think of in regard to your post is that I won't have
- to worry bout your kind much...
- cause your kind don't mix with mine...
-
- so thanks for your post...
- but I think I'll keep right on fishing...
- me and my warped and twisted fisher friends
-
- (only thing I might mention is that I suspect the gulls and eagles
- and king fishers and ospray might take offence your remarks so you
- should probably be careful that the guardian of the birds doesn't
- get your number :)
-
- becca... another one of those warped fisher folx :)
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