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Old 05-06-2008, 06:22 PM
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Originally Posted by The Cloud View Post
I think it's the difference between giving a man a fish and teaching him to fish. Sometimes a man that knows how to fish just needs a little extra food to sustain him when he's not catching anything. Other times the man needs to be shown how to bait the hook and put it in the water. Simply disproving or deconstructing the belief issue may be all that is necessary for the man that knows how to fish. But the man that keeps sticking his thumb on the hook might need to be shown how to think before realizing they can do it themselves.
Smiling at your elaboration of that saying, that I'm a fan of.

That saying usually ends with - (regarding teaching someone to fish) then you "feed him for a lifetime". So then we all would hope that is possible - to either show or explain that one shouldn't stick the hook in their fingers. lol
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