The World is a Metaphor
posted by yellowseed | July 1, 2010
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The world is a metaphor.
All language is metaphor.
All myth, all science,
All knowledge is too.
The trick is to not take it literally.
To see that metaphor is real.
The very fabric of the universe,
That of which truth is made.
And we are the tools
Of the maker.
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Tell me lies, tell me sweet
— Jul 01, 2010
Tell me lies, tell me sweet little lies...
LANGUAGE, n.
The music with which we charm the serpents guarding another's treasure.
Another secret is that all words in themselves are inherently lies.
TRUTH, n.
An ingenious compound of desirability and appearance. Discovery of truth is the sole purpose of philosophy, which is the most ancient occupation of the human mind and has a fair prospect of existing with increasing activity to the end of time.
MAN, n.
An animal so lost in rapturous contemplation of what he thinks he is as to overlook what he indubitably ought to be. His chief occupation is extermination of other animals and his own species, which, however, multiplies with such insistent rapidity as to infest the whole habitable earth.
Kurt Gödel's Incompleteness Theorem implies that you'll never entirely understand yourself, since your mind, like any other closed system, can only be sure of what it knows about itself by relying on what it knows about itself.
Modern mystic Sadhguru points out that out of all things which are self-obsessed, the bear, the lion, the rock, the tree, etc, only man can make this distinction about himself.
"Seek not abroad, turn back into thyself, for in the inner man dwells the truth..."
small mouth noises
— Jul 01, 2010
unbelievable
— Jul 02, 2010
Love of wisdom
— Jul 01, 2010
" Discovery of truth is the sole purpose of philosophy, which is the most ancient occupation of the human mind and has a fair prospect of existing with increasing activity to the end of time."
Philosophy is not focused on the discovery of truth, Philo means love of sophy means wisdom. Philosophy means the love of wisdom. The soul purpose of philosophy is the loving of wisdom.
Okay, but why does one have
— Jul 01, 2010
Okay, but why does one have a love of wisdom?
http://www.philosophicalmisadventures.com/?p=45
PHILOSOPHY, n.
A route of many roads leading from nowhere to nothing.
LOVE, n.
A temporary insanity curable by marriage or by removal of the patient from the influences under which he incurred the disorder. This disease, like caries and many other ailments, is prevalent only among civilized races living under artificial conditions; barbarous nations breathing pure air and eating simple food enjoy immunity from its ravages. It is sometimes fatal, but more frequently to the physician than to the patient.
"Seek not abroad, turn back into thyself, for in the inner man dwells the truth..."
Love is much more then that
— Jul 01, 2010
Love is much more then that definition my freind. Much much more...
Why does one have a love of wisdom? love is all that is mon...
Of course, after all the
— Jul 01, 2010
Of course, after all the words are but the makings of metaphors and lies.
"Seek not abroad, turn back into thyself, for in the inner man dwells the truth..."
http://emergingvisions.blogsp
— Jul 02, 2010
http://emergingvisions.blogspot.com
You Can Be My Metaphor
Someday
my metaphor will find me
lonely, stooped in my
alcove room
How can I know for sure
this is my metaphor,
expressly fit to guide
my destiny?
Will the hand of fate
grab my metaphoric testicles
send waves of salty rippling
across my skin?
Will I awaken to a world in which
I win, consistently
(no painful taxation of tragedy)?
Dear Metaphor,
Please be good to me.
I so need a friend, not a judge.
Clear eyes I can depend upon,
strong arms urging hugs.
Somewhere's a wizard's spell
to kindly
focus my mind,
release valkyries
raw cacophony
into glorious song.
Someday my metaphor
swoops in on shaman's wings
scoops me up
takes me along.
July 10, 2009 Laurie Corzett/libramoon
I love it when people use
— Jul 02, 2010
I love it when people use their precious time to show how well they can use a dictionary. “An invasion of armies can be resisted, but not an idea whose time has come.”-Victor Hugo
I wish I shared your
— Jul 04, 2010
I wish I shared your enthusiasm. An inherent part of our social conditioning is the adoption of a language which is not our own and thus usurping the linguistic syntax (sin tax) from a foreign entity. Mathematically perfected to be confusing, It is then imposed on society en mass. While we argue amongst ourselves, those who taught us this language are robbing us of our birthright. Sadly, the only way to transcend it is develop a telepathic ability or earn it really well. From the very etymology and the legal to the Great English Vowel Shift of everyday words we only think we know what mean.
All are guilty when innocence is lost...
"Seek not abroad, turn back into thyself, for in the inner man dwells the truth..."
wow
— Jul 04, 2010
That's pretty morbid. How did you become convinced of that?
"Mathematically perfected to be confusing, It is then imposed on society en mass"?
I for one am infinitely grateful I had the chance to learn this language.
We're still learning.
— Jul 05, 2010
If you never learned the English language and had been conditioned on another would you not feel the same about that language as you do this one?
Language tends to reflect the condition of a society. The one dominated by English language is one of conflict. Who brings us this language? The British. The word British is noted that Berith is the Hebrew word for covenant, and Ish is the Hebrew word for man. By combining the two words, the word Berith-ish (Covenant Man) is formed , providing the basis for the word British. The basis for which the English language has been perpetrated. A covenant man is a man of contract. So the English language is a language of contract. Which has it's roots in ancient Roman Maxims. Why we have contract is paramount to why we have conflict.
If we outgrow our propensity for conflict. Contract becomes obsolete as co-creative communication in relationships become superfluous.
"Seek not abroad, turn back into thyself, for in the inner man dwells the truth..."
No...
— Jul 08, 2010
English is my second language.
And if that's so, it makes me appreciate the language even more! For in Hebrew, the covenant is with God. (How is contract equivalent to conflict?)
And actually, Hebrew is next on the list for me.
Why do we have contract at all?
— Jul 09, 2010
Why do we have contract at all? What was the reason Adam and Eve were expelled from the non-commercial zone that was the Garden of Eden? God said, if you live here it is by such and such conditions, but eat the forbidden fruit, (which was probably a psychedelic mushroom) and I shall surely destroy you. Of course they went ahead and did the thing anyway. Perhaps there was property involved who knows. Why put a restriction on one item in all the Garden? Could be that early man while free to walk the Garden and consume freely of most of what Garden provided. If a particular food were to become scarce. Well now we have hording.
What resulted was they had acquired volition, the knowledge of, and ability to decide for themselves what is right and wrong. This is mans first lesson in ethics and morals as when they did that thing God did not destroy them. If you want your children to learn why would you destroy them for every little thing they did wrong? You can't learn that way can you? Of course God knew that so he provided a scapegoat so that he would not have to destroy them. He extended to them grace and mercy, but now they owed a debt. Allegedly this was paid in fig leaves as they used them to cover their debt and cover up their shame. We can't be mature, responsible, and honorable grown-ups so we've been given a game to play called Commerce which is strikingly like Monopoly which will hopefully teach us how to grow-up and live in honor.
Contract is not necessarily equivalent to conflict, but it is out of conflict in which contract must be enforced. IMHO it's too late to go back to the Garden, as you can't not know that which you have already accumulated so now everyone must learn to contract. It is this contraction which will give birth to the new age of peace.
The language used to contract matters not. What matters is the mathematical certainty of sentence structure in our contracts. A quantitative syntax protocol which reads the same forwards and back. As well as present tense terminology for a now-time jurisdiction. If you look at any man made law on the books today it's all past tense future tense terminology; it's never present in the now. This is why the now is so very important and powerful. A living covenant would be the code by which you live your daily life in the present tense. In the now is where all the magic is, as it's the only place where anything happens.
Since all language is metaphor. Giving rise to mystery and lies. A true language would be a language to behold. Forged in the minds of the brave and bold...
"Seek not abroad, turn back into thyself, for in the inner man dwells the truth..."
I don't think I'm getting your point.
— Jul 14, 2010
There's nothing wrong with language being metaphor. It's its nature.
The only problem is how we relate to that metaphor.
The Meaning and the Methaphor
— Jul 04, 2010
It is likely only the mind itself that distinguishes metaphor from meaning.
In Sanskrit {all language really} the syllable pronunciation ... or "sound representation" is self-expressive meaning ... similar to the "Do-Re-Mi" in music.
The potency of language exists within it's correct "sounding out" of reality itself ... the voice but a vehicle for such tuning into direct meaning ... similar to a tunning fork tunning us into tone itself.
The whole causal field of principled ideology, which exists before the manifest mind, is primordially composed of sound.
'Tis only the mind itself that distinguishes metaphor from direct meaning.
Hence the whole science of "Mantra" ... literally "mind-freeing" .. sound being our most intimate and confidential knowledge acquiring sense.
Only those Vedic priests with the highest level of skill in pronunciation were allowed to perform "yajnas" or enlightening ceremonies .. virtually evoking eternal living principles directly via sound vibration.
Similar to how specific combinations of "Do Re Mi" will naturally evoke principled emotional responses as a natural "science of sound"
It is really only a question of being able to consciously hear {"sravana" - Sanskrit} that determines ones actual realization .. as all metaphor is really but the mind gradually falling victim to it's own inertial sloth .. trying to view all things as merely relevant to it's own previous conclusions.
Hence language, over the millennium, has literally become a dying art form.
Direct meaning 'but anyones guess, now lost to mental supposition.
very interesting
— Jul 08, 2010
Thanks.
"All words, then, belonging to the inner world of the mind...are originally poetic words. The better, however, any such word is fitted for the needs of humanity, the sooner it loses its poetic aspect by commonness of use. It ceases to be heard as a symbol, and appears only as a sign. Thus thousands of words which were originally poetic words owing their existence to the imagination, lose their vitality, and harden into mummies of prose. Not merely in literature does poetry come first, and prose afterwards, but poetry is the source of all the language that belongs to the inner world, whether it be of passion or of metaphysics, of psychology or of aspiration. No poetry comes by the elevation of prose; but the half of prose comes by the "massing into the common clay" of thousands of winged words, whence, like the lovely shells of by-gone ages, one is occasionally disinterred by some lover of speech, and held up to the light to show the play of colour in its manifold laminations."
http://www.george-macdonald.com/etexts/nonfiction/the_imagination.html
(thanks LionKimbro)
“I am the spirit who
— Jul 06, 2010
“I am the spirit who intends evil but does good.”
http://jackmeier.wordpress.com/2010/01/26/the-devil-you-say/
"The world is a metaphor, Kafka Tamura."
http://www.qlrs.com/critique.asp?id=490
"Babylon is not a metaphor for the world; the world is a metaphor for Babylon"
Caribbean culture: Soundings on Kamau Brathwaite
