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If the World Doesn't Make Sense, Maybe You Should Change Your Perspective BRAND NEW! My blog — The Elephant's Tale. Check it out!
Why "Quit Fondling the Elephant's Ass"? It comes from the story of several blind men examining an elephant. Each man has ahold of a different part of the elephant, and he draws conclusions from what he feels. So far, so good. The problem comes in when each man tells the other that he and he alone knows the "truth" about the elephant, and the others are wrong. The man who holds the elephant's trunk maintains that the elephant is a snakelike creature. The man who has his arms wrapped around the elephant's foot says that the first man is wrong; the elephant is obviously shaped like a large oak tree. The story of the blind men and an elephant appears to have originated in South Asia, but its original source is subject to debate. It has been attributed to the Sufis, Jainists, Buddhists, and Hindus. The version best-known in the West is the 19th Century poem by John Godfrey Saxe. Why is this pertinent to us? Our society is divided today, with each group maintaining that it knows the "truth" and anyone who disagrees with them is wrong. It seems ludicrous that there can be an even bigger "truth" that incorporates all the other points of view. It is to finding that perspective that Quit Fondling the Elephant's Ass is dedicated.
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