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Fisherman;Beware of your intent - 4/17/2006 7:13:02 PM

ignitexx

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This girl is fishing for opinions on this piece that she wrote:

Fisherman; Beware of your intent

On beautiful days plenty of starving fish seek their feast. Many different kinds of fish lurk beneath the water. Some are enjoyable by the searcher some are simply more trouble than they are worth. As varied as the fish are also the intents of the fisherman. For some men fish purely for the thrill of the catch and others fish to savor the meal for all it’s worth. Still others fish expertly taking all aspects of their effect into consideration. The last type leave the shores and waters better for all those that pass that way after them. If only the difference could be known before the hooks are cast out, baited and waiting for their prey. If only the true intent of the fisherman was known before the fish took the bait. Would some fisherman choose not to cast out their line? Would some fish choose not to seek a meal? It is a possibility.

Here is a warning to those that choose to fish only for the thrill of the catch. Once those hooks are set damage will be done to not only to the skills and tools you claim to enjoy but also to the fish that you catch and the water that surrounds them. For if you choose never to reel in and cherish your catch the hooks will soon rust breaking loose and leaving a deadly poison coursing through the veins of the fish and the waters that you enjoy. If you choose to reel in and toss the fish carelessly to shore, in neglect it will soon stink up the shores that surround it and rot before it can be savored.

So Fisherman; consider carefully your desire and intent. Mull over your true yearning to perform the task correctly and accept your responsibilities in the game you choose to play. Take great care of the tools and skills you choose to fish with. For those around you will soon know what kind of fisherman you actually are and they will either spread respect and reverence for you and the expert skills that you show or they will leak disdain and forewarnings to the other fisherman and the fish lurking in the waters in which you seek to play.

Are you a worthwhile and respectful fisherman?
Are you a pleasing and happy fish?

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RE: Fisherman;Beware of your intent - 4/17/2006 7:41:10 PM

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Personally, I prefer to spear them. Why let the fish decide who will be my dinner guest, when I can make the decision myself.

[multiple meanings on this one]

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RE: Fisherman;Beware of your intent - 4/18/2006 5:43:44 AM

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I like the piece. It's nicely done. Then again, I'm partial to analogies.

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RE: Fisherman;Beware of your intent - 4/18/2006 7:39:36 AM

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Mm. It's well-written, and I see what you're getting at. That said, as an allegory for the D/s search, it suffers from the uncomfortable truth that the 'intent' of your responsible fisherman is presumably to yank the 'pleasing and happy fish' out of its natural environment, let it suffocate and die, then take it home and eat the corpse.

Something to think about, maybe.

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RE: Fisherman;Beware of your intent - 4/18/2006 8:29:52 PM

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ORIGINAL: JohnWarren

Personally, I prefer to spear them. Why let the fish decide who will be my dinner guest, when I can make the decision myself.

[multiple meanings on this one]

John you're so bad. Can't let a good metaphore go to waste though

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RE: Fisherman;Beware of your intent - 4/19/2006 3:29:57 PM

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ORIGINAL: JohnWarren

Personally, I prefer to spear them. Why let the fish decide who will be my dinner guest, when I can make the decision myself.

Funny, I had no interest at all in fishing until I took up scuba diving. And once I discovered that local law bans all spear-fishing except for hand-throwing spears at arctic char, I lost interest again. And it's largely about the fact that the fish decide not only who, but when!

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RE: Fisherman;Beware of your intent - 4/20/2006 5:57:14 AM

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Welcome to the boards and a nice analogy----it's interesting I was thinking of something very similar the other day---just because we take the fish out of the water and put them in a nice new home--is no guarantee they are going to survive, no matter how much attention we give them---this is a nicely written piece----it should make one take pause and think I would hope.

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RE: Fisherman;Beware of your intent - 4/21/2006 2:14:24 AM

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Well done it is lovely and also clever.

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