#Metaphor

Thread:Our metaphors matter. All metaphors highlight some truths & hide others. When we talk of love as a journey (“look how far we’ve come”), we hide other ideas of love.

I think I have mentioned this before but war as a metaphor doesn't work for me. This thread might be disjointed.https://www.vox.com/culture/2020/4/15/21193679/coronavirus-pandemic-war-metaphor-ecology-microbiome I grew up in the suburbs. Middle c

Bernard Ferguson (he/him)

i think the problem i have most with poetry school is this idea that there is only one way of seeing a thing as correct. the canon is not a

kelp #IBelieveTaraReade

Thinking of Nietzsche’s birds of prey vs lambs metaphor and how there’s no way to really know what he meant by it because it yields so many different analyses. It’s

arothmanhistory

It is tragic that the only language our society seems to have for the collective effort to survive is "war." What a failure of political imagination. This is what provoked

God promised Abraham his descendants would be as "numerous as the stars" (Genesis 22:17 NIV).There are more than 100,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 stars. About 100,000,000,000 people have lived on Earth.At least 99,999,999,999,900,0

Maximilian Schulz

#roamcult How do you handle aliases in @RoamResearch?My current system:I only create pages for nouns in singular form(no verbs ,adjectives or plurals).This means that I use aliases to link verbs,

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i keep writing and rewriting this tweet but 2 be incomprehensible: i love lgbt themes in horror a lot! i love the idea of examining fears through metaphor! u can

1)As human beings we live in the language of metaphors (we don't simply live in "language" we live in the language of metaphor). We don't simply live in "words". The

There's a tree with animated limbs standing next to another tree with animated limbs. Each of them is holding an ax & each wants to fell the other. Who will

twistopherrobin

Speaking of other divides and hardening of the categories: As some of you know (because of my pinned thread and the strange story), I've been spending quite a bit of

Touching belts, hems, etc. have different metaphoric & symbolic meanings. For now, we’ll look at hems & note that in this type of 'I grab you' scenes, men & women

The Claremont Run

The defining attribute of the X-mansion as a setting is the concept of sanctuary. The mansion provides the team with a pre-existing fulfillment (on the micro scale) of what they’re

Subtweet about writing advice: you really need context of a specific text to give any advice that is meaningful For example, advice on metaphors (or similes). A weird sounding metaphor

Here’s some comical questions about a theme I’ve been hearing a lot lately.“Taking on VC Investors is like a marriage”If this is the case let’s talk kids, divorce and other

I saw a spate of Christians, over Easter weekend and holy week more broadly, talking about the resurrection of Christ as a literal, historical, material event and the importance of