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Subject: Parable Upload Experiment
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[This is from the Silent Talk Conference]

Jay, here is a parable I tried to upload before but did not
seem that I succeeded. It is a bit paraphrased as the
original is rather long.

One day a farmer walked through the woods. He saw an eagles
nest high in tree. He decided to climb the tree and in doing
so, found an eaglet. He took the eaglet home and put among
his chickens. For five years the eagle grew up among the
chickens and behaved as a chicken.

One day a man who knew birds came by to visit the farmer. As
they stood in the barnyard, the chickens came to feed. Among
them was the eagle. The man said, "That is an eagle!" The
farmer said, "Not so it is a chicken. It was an eagle but now
it is a chicken." The man who knew birds said that it was an
eagle and to prove it, he would make it fly. The farmer
laughed.

The man lifted the eagle and said, "You are an eagle, fly!"
The eagle looked at the man. It looked at the chickens
feeding on the ground. It jumped down and commenced to feed
with the chickens. The farmer said, "See, I told you it was a
chicken.
The man said it was not a chicken, but an eagle. "I will
try again."

The man took the eagle to the roof of the house. "You are an
eagle and not a chicken. Fly!" The eagle looked down from the
and saw the chickens feeding. It jumped down to join them. As
the man who knew birds descended the rook, the farmer
laughed. "You see, it is a chicken now."
"No, let us take it to the mountains where it belongs. I wish
to try again." They put the eagle in the truck and drove to
the base of the mountains. The took the eagle out and set it
on the ground. "Eagle, you are an eagle and not a chicken,
fly!" The eagle trembled as if new life was coming into its
body, but it did not fly. The farmer gloated, "I told you it
was an eagle!" The man who knew birds turned the eagle's face
to the sun. Suddenly, with the screech of an eagle, the great
bird lifted into the sky and soared ever higher. It
disappeared into the sky and never returned. Though it was
raised as chicken, it had the heart of an eagle.

THE FARMER= Hearies who insist on trying to make deafies
hearing.
THE MAN WHO KNEW BIRDS= Deaf people who know that the deaf
people need a solid first language to develop a base for all
other learning to take place.
THE EAGLE= The deaf

Morale: Though educated to be like the hearing, deaf children
grow up to be deaf adults.

Maybe that's why deaf people abandon SEE and other
Englishizing sign system once we begin associating with our
own, we are who we are.

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