A puddle wakes up one morning and thinks: “This is a very amazing world I find myself in. It fits me very perfectly. In fact it fits me so absolutely perfectly… I mean its really precise isn’t it? If the hole was just one millimeter smaller or larger I wouldn't fit… It must have been designed to have me in it.”
2007-03-23 12:03:25 · 16 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Great metaphor...
Puddle = Creationist, for those who don't understand...
2007-03-23 12:09:55 · answer #1 · answered by Shinkirou Hasukage 6 · 3⤊ 0⤋
The puddle is assuming that the hole was designed for it. Therefore the puddle is thinking of itself as the center of exsistance. It's the ME ME ME attitude. Like when people use to believe in old times that the sun rotated around the earth or that the earth was the center of the universe. The puddle doesn't see where it has been designed by nature to fit the hole. Not the other way around.
2007-03-23 19:12:26 · answer #2 · answered by Praire Crone 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The puddle seems to believe in manifest destiny. It thinks it was destined for that hole because the fit is so exact. It says, "If the hole was just one millimeter smaller or larger I wouldn't fit" therefore asserting its divine right to exist in it. Well, it doesn't actually invoke a higher power, but what is to say it would not resort to that kind of thinking to justify its rightful place in that hole? Basically, the water believes it should be there and one would be hard pressed--I am certain--to convince it otherwise.
2007-03-23 19:29:47 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
it's too bad the puddle only sees the hole it is in. There is a whole world around it, sustaining it in being. To reduce its thinking to the hole would be like saying 'since I can't see God I don't believe He exists'. Good analogy!
2007-03-23 19:43:25 · answer #4 · answered by a 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Maybe because the puddle feels that the world is inferior and has built itself around it instead of the puddle is probably caused by wear and tear from the world hahaha did my head in that question......
2007-03-23 19:10:20 · answer #5 · answered by Leah 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I know exactly what you mean. Perhaps it's an inherent principle of the "puddle's" psychology to view himself as the center of the universe. A flaw in understanding, maybe a flaw in "its" perception itself.
2007-03-23 19:11:32 · answer #6 · answered by Praetorian 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
they wont get it, you know...
"It must have been made to have me in it.” And the sun rises, and it’s continuing to narrate this story about how this hole must have been made to have him in it. And as the sun rises, and gradually the puddle is shrinking and shrinking and shrinking— and by the time the puddle ceases to exist, it’s still thinking— it’s still trapped in this idea that— that the hole was there for it.
2007-03-23 19:09:26 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Excellent point, and very well made. I would like to use that one myself if you have no objections.
Have you heard Mark Twain's version, about the Eiffel Tower being built just so they could put the coat of paint on the top?
2007-03-23 19:10:03 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋
The puddle subscribes to the anthropic principle.
2007-03-23 19:09:15 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
The amazing thing is that either way it needs to have a mode of perception in order to categorize the structure of itself and its hole.
2007-03-23 19:07:56 · answer #10 · answered by Julian 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋