In some versions of the story, the argument is never resolved.
They argue over what the elephant is like, based on their experience of the animal. The other blind men touch the tusk, trunk, ear, and tail and believe that the elephant is like a spear, snake, fan, and rope respectively. Another blind man touches its leg and exclaims that the elephant is like a tree. One blind man touches the elephant’s side and claims that the elephant is like a wall. Not knowing what an elephant is like, each of them comes to a different conclusion based on his own experience. Each of them touch different parts of the elephant. The StoryĪ group of blind men encounter an elephant for the first time. Later, it became a part of the lore of many different cultures, each interpreting the story in its own way. One such famous parable or moral story is The Blind Men and an Elephant, which is believed to have originated in India. However, the basic theme and the message they carry is the same. Their versions vary across cultures, with slight changes in the characters and other details. Since childhood, we have heard several parables like The Emperor’s New Clothes, The Boy Who Cried Wolf, among others, that taught us important lessons.
Natalie Merchant sang this poem in her album Leave Your Sleep. The story of the blind men and an elephant became famous when John Godfrey Saxe, an American poet wrote The Blind Men and the Elephant. Here, we give you its interpretations in different religions. While it entertains us, it also teaches us an important lesson of life. We don't usually report them in case the FBI, CIA and other ne'er-do-wells try to capture them and turn them into Disney characters, and we only tell selected inhabitants of North America who might wish to spend squillions of dollars to see them and still not blab to their homegrown busybodies.Blind Men and the Elephant is an interesting story that originated in India in the 18th century. We don't have UFOs in Scotland we know what they are, they're FGEs though they are somewhat rarer than UFOs. (As you know, the airborne variety of pachyderm is an EPHELANT,but it easily confused with its landbound relative if you never observe it in flight.) They do pass over Aberdeen, usually at the same time as the Aurora borealis, hence the references to flying green ephelants. I had it specially inported from a far-off country, but am under an obligation never to expose it to the pollen I also had imported at enormous expense, until the first elephant migration has passed overhead. The only extant rhubarb tree in this country is in my back garden. Its original natural habitat has largely been spoiled due to the introduction of alien species, eg the bacon tree which bears an uncanny resemblance to the hambush. It's nice to know that some MPs are practically human, and endowed with a sense of humour!ĭaftweejimmy - The rhubarb tree has been put on the endangered species list, thanks to widespread deforestation. However, if i could produce scientific evidence that the two were connected, he would see if the Arts Council and the Department of the Environment would be prepared to back me. I did write a letter to my MP, lamenting the loss of rhubarb trees, and seeking his sponsorship to search the earth for more rhubarb trees, in the hope that I might also find the odd elephant or two intheir branches, but he appeared to think this would be a frivolous waste of tax-payers' money. It was meant to be a serious dissertation, but I don't think I could sustain seriousness for very long. It's a little bit of fun, and again it was written for a contest. Somewhere in my untidy collection, I have a pseudo-intellectual dissertation on the said beast and its natural habitat, along with a brief history of how the rhubarb trees in my garden were imported from foreign parts. This was specifically written for a contest to please children, and was judged by a six-year-old! Daftweejimmy - Thank you Karen, and by all means print it and distribute it to your grandchidren.
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