I mean, how do we get out of the mindset that everything is a metaphor for something else?
I tried reading a book, but the story was a metaphor for part of my life.
I tried playing sports, but that was a metaphor for life itself.
I tried watching Jerry Springer, but that was a metaphor for everything that was wrong with life.
I tried having lunch, but then I sat down with a vegetarian, and everything became a metaphor for religious/cultural differences.
I tried having sex, but that became a metaphor for the battle between the Apollonian and the Dionysian.
I tried asking a question on Yahoo!(r) Answers, but that became a metaphor for making metaphors.
Help!
2006-10-27 04:30:40 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous in Arts & Humanities ➔ Philosophy
If you get the answer...please let me know. BAH!! to epistemological gaps!
2006-10-27 04:41:27 · answer #1 · answered by ULTIMATEMEANING 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Try just being. Meditate, do some hiking, concentrate on not thinking! Metaphors were created by authors painters and other artists as a way of getting an idea across. Life is life is life, metaphors are not real life - they're a tool.
2006-10-27 05:55:29 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Return to the idea of absolute truth, for example Mathematics. No self respecting post modernist would teach Math, because a triangle has three sides, absolutely. Aristotle in Metaphysics book 4, wrote, A is A; A cannot be A and B. A cannot be A and non-A. The Laws of Logic. If truth is relative to the person, then no post modernist can lay claim to having the truth, it is impossible if they are consistent in their thinking. Thus, post modernism sows the seeds of its own destruction.
2006-10-27 04:38:16 · answer #3 · answered by tigranvp2001 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Stop making metaphors, or just look at the word long enough and it will stop making any sense at all. Hey, check out the moon.
2006-10-27 04:47:55 · answer #4 · answered by ? 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
As long as we have no way to understand life absolutely, we can only know it relatively. Metaphors actually help us see what is otherwise invisible or unclearly seen.
2006-10-27 04:59:01 · answer #5 · answered by John 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
why do you want to escape? you only hurt yourself by asking too many questions. come, sit down and watch t.v.. yes, that's right keep changing the channels. would you like some pizza and soda. OK, now forget about any intellectual quests, thinking is bad, only common sense is right, the obvious is true. that's good your tuned to fox, you must be getting better. soon you will feel the urge to vote republican and our task will be complete and we can get back to our lotus's they must be getting cold by now. oh! the math thing, 'fraid your wrong there, see Godel's incompleteness theorem. math is only seems to be true.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G%C3%B6del%27s_incompleteness_theorem
2006-10-27 05:40:09 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
metaphor is suck, people who like talking about metaphor are bullshits, especially chinese, they always have metaphor of something for something else.
how can you say exactly which one is metaphor of which one? because you can imagine of 1millions metaphor for just one thing. I hate metaphor and who try to sound smart by saying metaphor. they are sumthing like fortune-teller+amateur scienctist at one.
Look at thing the way it is.
2006-10-27 04:39:52 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Try to peep a bit deeper inside, within self...... that self-awareness, take it deeper and deeper inside, and no more metaphors to encounter !
2006-10-27 04:57:15 · answer #8 · answered by Spiritualseeker 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I've found that conservative Republicans and conservative Christians have a very straightforward view of things.
2006-10-27 06:13:27 · answer #9 · answered by Chris P 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Get drunk and go have your palm read!
2006-10-27 05:15:11 · answer #10 · answered by Crystal A 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋