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Originally Posted by desertgrandma
 Did you ever play that 'whisper' game? One person says something, who whispers it to the next one, and on down the line. By the time it gets to the end, it has no recognizable relationship to the original statement.
I'm just sayin'..........  |
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Originally Posted by brecklundin
hmmmm...anyone know of a very popular book that was created that way and eventually put on what, at the time, passed for paper?
I put the same stock in that book as well...it is completely funny when people don't make the very connection you mention!! |
OK .... I'm going to take a wild guess and say The Bible??
Hell, you know, for hundreds of years, even after the Gutenberg press was invented, those truly living in poverty could not afford books. What cracks me up is that this guy's attitude seems to be that, if the poor cannot afford a particular technology, then that technology should be stopped dead in its tracks.
Poverty or not, if a person has a real fire to learn, they will learn. If they really love to read, they will find a way to be able to do that. In today's economy, there are affordable ebook readers. A kid could earn the money to buy an ebook reader mowing about 10 lawns during a Summer. That's not something that is beyond their reach.
Not even by half.
I didn't grow up poor, however, I had a lot of friends (from school) who were dirt poor (and many from the reservation). Parents in our school donated money to make sure that every student in class could have their own text books, and they were all turned in at the end of the year for the next group of students. (Of course, they didn't change the editions every few months, thank Bast.)
Then, my mother did the one thing that corrupted me for life. She allowed me to join the Scholastic Book Club and gave me a blank check to order books as long as I read every book I ordered. So, once a month, I would order about 20 or 30 books, and then proceed to read them all. Generally 5-8 books every weekend. Mom kept saying she had made a "deal with the Devil" .....