teenagefrank
07-12-2008, 02:04 PM
This is totally amazing !!! What do you think ??
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> A man is driving down the road and breaks down near a monastery.
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> He goes to the monastery, knocks on the door, and says, 'My car broke
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> The monks graciously accept him, feed him dinner, and even fix his car. As
> the man tries to fall asleep, he hears a strange sound; a sound like no
> other that he has ever heard. The next morning, he asks the monks what the
> sound was, but they say, 'We can't tell you. You're not a monk'.
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> The man is disappointed but thanks them anyway and goes about his merry
> way. Some years later, the same man breaks down in front of the same
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> The monks again accept him, feed him, and even fix his car.
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> That night, he hears the same strange mesmerizing sound that he had heard
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> The next morning, he asks what the sound was, but the monks reply,
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> 'We can't tell you. You're not a monk'.
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> The man says, 'All right, all right. I'm dying to know. If the only way I
> can find out what that sound was, is to become a monk, how do I become a
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> The monks reply, 'You must travel the earth and tell us how many blades of
> grass there are and the exact number of sand pebbles.
> When you find these numbers, you will become a monk'.
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> The man sets about his task. Some forty-five years later, he returns and
> knocks on the door of the monastery. He says, 'I have traveled the earth
> and devoted my life to the task demanded and have found what you had asked
> for. There are 371,145,236, 284,232 blades of grass and 231,281,219,
> 999,129,382 sand pebbles on the earth'.
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> The monks reply, 'Congratulations, you are correct and now you are a
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> 'We shall now show you the way to the sound'.
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> The monks lead the man to a wooden door, where the head monk says, 'The
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> The man reaches for the knob, but the door is locked. He asks, 'May I have
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> The monks give him the key, and he opens the door.
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> Behind the wooden door is another door made of stone. The man requests the
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> The monks give him the key, and he opens it, only to find a door made of
> ruby. He demands another key from the monks, who provide it. Behind that
> door is another door, this one made of sapphire. And so it went until the
> man had gone through doors of emerald,...
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> Finally, the monks say, 'This is the key to the last door'.
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> The man is relieved to no end. He unlocks the door, turns the knob, and
> behind that door he is astonished to find the source of that strange
> sound. It is truly an amazing and unbelievable sight...
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> . . But I can't tell you what it is because you're not a monk.
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> DON'T SWEAR AT ME; I'M STILL HUNTING FOR THE PERSON WHO SENT THIS TO ME!
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> A man is driving down the road and breaks down near a monastery.
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> He goes to the monastery, knocks on the door, and says, 'My car broke
> down. Do you think I could stay the night'?
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> The monks graciously accept him, feed him dinner, and even fix his car. As
> the man tries to fall asleep, he hears a strange sound; a sound like no
> other that he has ever heard. The next morning, he asks the monks what the
> sound was, but they say, 'We can't tell you. You're not a monk'.
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> The man is disappointed but thanks them anyway and goes about his merry
> way. Some years later, the same man breaks down in front of the same
> monastery.
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> The monks again accept him, feed him, and even fix his car.
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> That night, he hears the same strange mesmerizing sound that he had heard
> years earlier.
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> The next morning, he asks what the sound was, but the monks reply,
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> 'We can't tell you. You're not a monk'.
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> The man says, 'All right, all right. I'm dying to know. If the only way I
> can find out what that sound was, is to become a monk, how do I become a
> monk'?
>
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> The monks reply, 'You must travel the earth and tell us how many blades of
> grass there are and the exact number of sand pebbles.
> When you find these numbers, you will become a monk'.
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> The man sets about his task. Some forty-five years later, he returns and
> knocks on the door of the monastery. He says, 'I have traveled the earth
> and devoted my life to the task demanded and have found what you had asked
> for. There are 371,145,236, 284,232 blades of grass and 231,281,219,
> 999,129,382 sand pebbles on the earth'.
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> The monks reply, 'Congratulations, you are correct and now you are a
> monk'.
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> 'We shall now show you the way to the sound'.
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> The monks lead the man to a wooden door, where the head monk says, 'The
> sound is behind that door.'
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> The man reaches for the knob, but the door is locked. He asks, 'May I have
> the key'?
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> The monks give him the key, and he opens the door.
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> Behind the wooden door is another door made of stone. The man requests the
> key to the stone door.
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> The monks give him the key, and he opens it, only to find a door made of
> ruby. He demands another key from the monks, who provide it. Behind that
> door is another door, this one made of sapphire. And so it went until the
> man had gone through doors of emerald,...
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> ...silver, topaz, and amethyst.
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> Finally, the monks say, 'This is the key to the last door'.
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> The man is relieved to no end. He unlocks the door, turns the knob, and
> behind that door he is astonished to find the source of that strange
> sound. It is truly an amazing and unbelievable sight...
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> . . But I can't tell you what it is because you're not a monk.
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> DON'T SWEAR AT ME; I'M STILL HUNTING FOR THE PERSON WHO SENT THIS TO ME!
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