I read this on someone's My Space blog and I keep coming back to it, I don't know why:
"Snowflakes are different...
than people...
that's a good thing!"
Any ideas? How are snowflakes different than people? Besides the obvious. I have some ideas, but I wanted another point of view. Be creative =)
Thanks!
2007-01-08 13:34:32 · 8 answers · asked by Just_a_Tedhead 2 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Philosophy
I'm not sure how snowflakes are different from people..... snowflakes are effervescent, but so are people by judge of the world...... snowflakes are fragile, their whole existence just a free-falling, to be dashed at any moment. they have no guarantee that they will fall safely or comfortable, at the mercy of the wind.... they might not land only to melt on your face... and eventually, they ultimately will melt.... so as far as i can see, people and snowflakes and peopl are exactly alike.... save for the fact that humans have the ability to steer their flight to some degree.... snowflakes have no control over their trajectory, their speed, their path at all... humans have the gift of free-will. Free-will, the ability to alter the course of your life for good or for ill, but still you never know how it will turn out, you are just falling, falling..... but as people, not snowflakes, we can make a decision to better our lives, as simply as smiling at the bank checker or tipping the pizza guy or not hanging yourself.......
free-will is all that separates us from snowflakes. we both fall with no idea where we're going.... we are both fragile and evanescent. but a snowflake cannot decide to fall against the tree and not the ground, whereas a person can....
2007-01-08 13:54:32 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
How can one possibly compare an inanimate simple object like a snowflake with the complex organism that is a human being.
Yes, each snowflake is unique with intricate design, but each human being is such a multi-faceted miracle of creation that needs to be celebrated by each and every one of us. tydg
2007-01-09 00:53:41 · answer #2 · answered by concernedjean 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think the metaphor is exactly false; the differences of people are as individual as snowflakes are presumed to be. Perhaps this person was not defining 'snowflake' as something universally different from its own kind (every snow flake peculiarly different from every other snow flake). If that condition is true, then the metaphor is exactly, but incompletely true.
2007-01-08 21:44:37 · answer #3 · answered by Psyengine 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Being yourself is good. That is what I take from it. It says that if a simple snowflake can be so complex why in the hell are all of us trying to be exactly the same.
2007-01-08 21:43:19 · answer #4 · answered by Immortal Cordova 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
To me each snowflake is different, no two alike. This seems to imply that people are alike. I don't agree. I think each person is the sum total of their experiences and each person has their personal load of baggage so that each person is different from another. You really never know exactly what another person is thinking or why. Each person is complex and interesting. I think that is a good thing. .
2007-01-08 21:45:59 · answer #5 · answered by towanda 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Snowflakes are said to be unique.
I believe the statement is that people are all alike.
I do not agree with the idea. I believe people are unique regardless of how hard they try to follow the crowd. I also think people will group people together in order to try to gain some sort of emotional prowess over them IMHO.
2007-01-08 21:45:34 · answer #6 · answered by Bye Bye 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It says people are snowflakes too...Think about it
2007-01-08 21:54:40 · answer #7 · answered by American Ego 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
They aren't, super amazing...they just may be a perfect metaphor for humans.
2007-01-08 21:46:48 · answer #8 · answered by someone 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋