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Message: <blockquote data-quote="AtulaSiriwardane" data-source="post: 3593850" data-attributes="member: 120286">It happened....  Two lions were in a zoo. One of them had been there for several years, while the second one was a newcomer.  At feeding time the new lion noticed that he received a few figs, nuts and bananas, while the older one was given a luscious, juicy chunk of meat.  After this had gone for several weeks the young lion plucked up courage enough to enquire why this was so.  'I know you have the seniority around here, but why do you always get the meat while I get fruit and nuts?' he asked.  'Well,' explained the older lion, 'the zoo manager is a philosopher and the zoo is so poor that he has only room for one lion, so he has listed you as a monkey.'    Now by listing a lion as a monkey, a lion does not become a monkey. But the old lion says, 'Because he is a philosopher.... He thinks that by labelling, things are finished. He treats you as a monkey.' That's what philosophy goes on doing. You go on labeling things. Once you have labeled them you start treating them that way.</blockquote>

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