27 Mar 10
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Originally posted by mikelomWarmer+: 'Toolmaker' (who also uses others as tools). Your firemaker and blacksmith qualify
Then it's the toolmaker. Then the firemaker. Blacksmith next, who needed to harden the iron with fire.
for the 'Ice Cold' category because their professions are honest and they produce what's real.
Nite...
27 Mar 10
Originally posted by Grampy BobbyProfession is a novella by Isaac Asimov. The story first appeared in the July 1957 issue of Astounding Science Fiction.
[b]world's oldest profession?
please take at least two guesses, since your first one will probably prove wrong.[/b]
Okay, now for guess number two...
27 Mar 10
I base that second guess on this:
"A profession is a vocation founded upon specialised educational training, the purpose of which is to supply disinterested counsel and service to others, for a direct and definite compensation, wholly apart from expectation of other business gain".
Since training is required for a field to be considered part of the professional field, when those members of the first family offered acceptable sacrifices, they were necessarily participating and passing on the profession of a priest.
27 Mar 10
Originally posted by FreakyKBHQ.E.D God!
I base that second guess on this:
"A profession is a vocation founded upon specialised educational training, the purpose of which is to supply disinterested counsel and service to others, for a direct and definite compensation, wholly apart from expectation of other business gain".
Since training is required for a field to be considered part of the p ...[text shortened]... ble sacrifices, they were necessarily participating and passing on the profession of a priest.