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The reason birds can fly and we can’t is simply because they have perfect faith, for to have faith is to have wings.

— J.M. Barrie

Is that why fish can live underwater too?

Wandrin;1400049 wrote: Is that why fish can live underwater too?


Well yeah ... that and gills.

Nowadays he would be a very strange man who wrote about little boys who didn't grow up and odds are it would not get published.

Birds don't have opposable thumbs, primates win.

Faith is good, but to fly, wings help immensely.

jones jones;1400040 wrote: The reason birds can fly and we can’t is simply because they have perfect faith, for to have faith is to have wings.

— J.M. BarrieAm I being stupid or does anyone else understand what this means?

K.Snyder;1400306 wrote: Am I being stupid or does anyone else understand what this means?


It's a metaphor.

gmc;1400355 wrote: It's a metaphor.


Yes, metaphor it is, but it is fun to fly across the mats in TKD.........

K.Snyder;1400306 wrote: Am I being stupid or does anyone else understand what this means?


Ever heard this quote: "Faith can move a mountain?" Well its like similar only we using birds here Kev. Go watch a documentary on birds or better still go out into the wild and find a birds nest with chicks in it who are about to leave the nest. They like stand on a branch and flap their wings and then .... voilà! They launch themselves off the branch into the unknown ... why? Cos they have faith ... and they fly away!

Wings and the genetic disposition help Kevin

jones jones;1400452 wrote: Ever heard this quote: "Faith can move a mountain?" Well its like similar only we using birds here Kev. Go watch a documentary on birds or better still go out into the wild and find a birds nest with chicks in it who are about to leave the nest. They like stand on a branch and flap their wings and then .... voilà! They launch themselves off the branch into the unknown ... why? Cos they have faith ... and they fly away!They have wings. I have yet to see a gorilla jump from an equivalent height compared to body mass/distance.

K.Snyder;1400611 wrote: They have wings. I have yet to see a gorilla jump from an equivalent height compared to body mass/distance.


Gorillas have no faith in their ability to fly.

Of course they don't have wings either.

So I guess it's faith in your wings that really matters.

LarsMac;1400622 wrote: Gorillas have no faith in their ability to fly.

Of course they don't have wings either. I prefer "Gorillas have no faith in their ability to fly because, of course, they don't have wings"

K.Snyder;1400632 wrote: I prefer "Gorillas have no faith in their ability to fly because, of course, they don't have wings"


Do you reckon that the gorilla makes the connection?

Ostrich has wings, but doesn't fly.

Wings, but no faith.

Hmm. Perhaps the man was right.

LarsMac;1400633 wrote: Do you reckon that the gorilla makes the connection?

Ostrich has wings, but doesn't fly.

Wings, but no faith.

Hmm. Perhaps the man was right.The ostrich is irrelevant because you cannot fly without wings. I have nipples but I've yet to know why. One would never attempt to fly if they didn't have wings so having faith is perhaps better left up to those that feel it's worth something beyond what exactly? How does one find out if they have faith? A bird knows it can fly before it leaps, I think the metaphor is *** backwards.

To have faith is to not know why

K.Snyder;1400637 wrote: The ostrich is irrelevant because you cannot fly without wings. I have nipples but I've yet to know why. One would never attempt to fly if they didn't have wings so having faith is perhaps better left up to those that feel it's worth something beyond what exactly? How does one find out if they have faith? A bird knows it can fly before it leaps, I think the metaphor is *** backwards.
Ostrich has wings.

K.Snyder;1400637 wrote: To have faith is to not know why


That is a common misconception.

LarsMac;1400638 wrote:

That is a common misconception.Despairing of the fairies, he resolved to consult the birds, but now he remembered, as an odd thing, that all the birds on the weeping beech had flown away when he alighted on it, and though that had not troubled him at the time, he saw its meaning now. Every living thing was shunning him. Poor little Peter Pan, he sat down and cried, and even then he did not know that, for a bird, he was sitting on his wrong part. It is a blessing that he did not know, for otherwise he would have lost faith in his power to fly, and the moment you doubt whether you can fly, you cease forever to be able to do it. The reason birds can fly and we can't is simply that they have perfect faith, for to have faith is to have wings. Literature.org - The Online Literature Library


Monty Python - Dead Parrot - YouTube

K.Snyder;1400637 wrote: . I have nipples but I've yet to know why.


We all start life in the womb as females. Unless there is an introduction of the male chromosome then we continue to develop as female. So we are all born with certain common characteristics ie nipples

Why do Adam and Eve have navels in every painting in existence?

SnoozeAgain;1400658 wrote: Why do Adam and Eve have navels in every painting in existence?


Because the painters were all using modern human models?

Snowfire;1400650 wrote: We all start life in the womb as females. Unless there is an introduction of the male chromosome then we continue to develop as female. So we are all born with certain common characteristics ie nipplesI'd also read that men, who are alcoholics, can grow bigger breasts and produce milk.

K.Snyder;1400672 wrote: I'd also read that men, who are alcoholics, can grow bigger breasts and produce milk.


Yeah but they are for the sort of sites you and me dont want to visit:yh_sick

But seriously, I think we all as males, have the mechanics in place to lactate but thankfully not enough to be of any use

Reminds me of the time a neighbour asked me to take a look at his puppy because he was really worried about some warts he had developed...



Told him.... errrrm male dogs also have nipples you know..

LarsMac;1400623 wrote: So I guess it's faith in your wings that really matters.


It's a metaphor you'll do your head in if you take it literally. Another way of putting it might be if you believe you can do something you will achieve it - as an American you must have heard that one all your life.