It is only natural to fear a shark; it exposes you, when it comes to psychology or to what philosophical ideal you possess if any.
When the shark attacks it is only attacking in “generalizations” though the guppies of the riff take it personal, become easily emotionally upset, and if you keep attacking the shark, it only feeds his generalization, that you are the guppies that he has made you to be.

Nothing I’ve seen has this guy done to me, though I had to attack as well, only to see if can I scare a shark? I see only one fish gone, though he was a just a bigger fish, not a shark. I don’t claim to be a shark, nor do I claim to be just part of the guppies, a different breed of man is needed, one that can recognize the sharks and the other guppies, who keep feeding him, with every blatant attack, you don’t realize you can’t hurt this guy, he is a cut above, that you don’t accept is your own failure, I don’t feel myself, inferior to admit that some one else may be smarter than I, hell this is one of the reasons I come to these boards, to swim and surf and keep a close look for a shark.

One can learn from a shark, I’ve already learned from this one, strike that, not learned but reminded of what it was like to struggle, out of the riff, and swim freely on my own. I’ve never over generalized nor have I intentionally tried to elevate my self-steem by reminding everyone I’m a killer whale, and the sharks can hardly touch me.

What is the point of this here post is to make you think, “are you a shark, or are you intimidated by them, if you are intimidated, the shark is right you but only guppies, or would you rather be an observer like the killer whale?.”

Godless.

who is the shark

The shark is what you do not know consuming what you do know. It is the thoughts that course through your head when the ruby slippers do not work. It is the cell phone ringing in your hand when you want be alone. It is realizing that their is no god while the preacher is in mid-sermon. It is living with a person who is no longer who you married. It is all those things and much more.

The shark is often regarded as one of the pinnacles of evolution. It feeds, and survives, as it has done for many millions of years, with few changes since its first appearance in the form we see today. It is near to perfect, though, only in its own environment.

The sharks you speak of, Godless, have set their own environment and are incapable of departing from it. If you take them on, you can only do so within the bounds already set by them. Their definition of what things are is set in stone, and the only way to get them to depart from their impression of you is to change it from within boundaries they have already set - whether those boundaries are correct or not becomes irrelevant the moment you choose to fight on his terms, and within the boundaries he has set for you. Do you fear sharks when you are not in the water? Do you feel the need to attack the shark when you are on land?

The shark will tell you that you won't swim with him because you fear to. He doesn't know, or want to know, that you won't swim with him because there is nothing in his ocean you need.

That you were upset by the shark only proves what he has already told you, godless. This is a smart shark indeed. He knows his prey. However, it does not take a man "a cut above" to take him on. That man has no need to. That man would barely take note of his existence. The shark feeds on carrion, mostly.

;) Funny that the only one who didn't know who the sharks are , was the theist..

J.Carl; The shark is pretty much any leader, who has charisma, were there he uses his power, for evil or good does not matter, that he feeds in the mindlessness of others, that he is supported, by those who know less, and see the leader as a great man, wether he be evil or good, benevolent to society or a great benefactor of humanity, the shark is a man that has learned to think for himself, that he may fool you by becoming a great religious leader, or that he claims to be a saint and a champion of god, that he may be a great innovator, and create industrie out of mere ideas.

A shark is a man that can think for himself.
The killer whale, is one that would recognize wether this man be good, or evil, that he also has studied psychology, philosophy, and he can figure out, by the ideals held by the shark wether this man be a benefactor or will be come another threat to human society.

Bush was a guppie in sharks clothing, here in the state of Texas, we don't know who the hell is in the White House, it is certainly not the man we knew down here, he is a guppie taken over by the sharks in Washington, this man has not had one original idea, of his! since he stepped in presidential office.

Plato, Aristotle, Socrates, Martin Luther King, MalcomX, Bertrand Russel, we can all consider these men of great ideas, sharks, in the mind of many they did set their own rules, and fed upon society, thus given plenty back as well, they intergrated humanity and what their needs are.
Ayn Rand, Simone De Beauvoir, are also in my list of women of ideals that have let humanity move forward define themselves, and aided for us to know ourselves.

Men of idustries, we have to look to the past, and one most recent of sharks, the biggest dandy of them all, Bill Gates, atacked for "unscrupolous buisness practices" by idiots that can't compete, Lee Iocaca, Michal Milken, The Hemsleys, amongs the sharks that I can remember of this era, the past is full of sharks of industries, The Rothshilds, Ford, DuPont, James J. Hill, Jay Gould rail road barons both, James & Jay, these are some of the examples, that I can remember, of the benefactors of humanity, sharks they were but over all they did good, for the advancement of man kind.

The malefactors, Jesus, comes to mind, not exactly the man, but what the religious dogmas made him out to be, Hitler, Napoleon, you can see where I'm going with this, Bush is working real hard to make it to this list, this is how we will remember the monster in the white house.

Godless.

I just wanted to see how much my interpretation was like compared to the your's(as the author, your interpretation is the true one.) Yeh I could've put my interpretation down and then asked for yours, but I didn't think about that. Anyways
I viewed the shark as anyone/thing who is opposed of your ideas. Typically, this would be a person who is slightly more educated/of greater intelligence than you. Not only this, this shark, to varying degrees, has class. He doesn't throw insults back toward his opposition, which are usually the guppies. I came to the conclusion that the guppies are those, from both your side and the opposing side, who travel/harass in groups and when they run out of legit arguments(which is usually the case), they commence with the mudslinging, oblivious to the fact that the shark shakes it off.
This brings us to the killer whale. This is the part of you that enjoys the challenge the shark would bring and the part of you that realizes that you can actually have a half-way intelligent discussion with him w/o the usual name-calling, etc. that arguing with the guppies bring.

I"m sure there's some stuff I forgot, but I am extremely tired right about....now