Re: Dialogue on Metaphor

Something intellectually stimulating to talk about on YouTube! How rare !

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VaR4HXDyVfo&feature=subtivity

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[JoePotato28]

i herd u liek mudkipz.

[ThermostatAgreeable]

Not my favorite, but they have their uses !!

[saskchic1011]

i really love your take on things... its very open and not closed minded like alot of people are now a days,,,,

[ThermostatAgreeable]

Thanks !! That's very sweet of you to say !

[rickyshore]

somebody (i forget who) said people don't understand metaphors anymore. oh well. great video!

[darkmarkrammstein]

THE BEST VID YET...

[2bsirius]

Smart sock

[EpifanesEuergetes]

I'm trying to resist the temptation to make a comment about this being a sock account...

There, I failed. Probably not the first time you heard that one.

[EpifanesEuergetes]

You said all that needed to be said about metaforas in just 4 short minutes and even managed to digress a bit which in my book is a positive thing (the digression). Faved and subbed.

[ChrysalisBound]

Oops! Bateson's conversation with Fritjof Capra continued thusly:

"Heraclitus knew that! ... And so did Lao Tzu."

"Yes, indeed; and so do the trees over there. Logic won't do for them."

"So what do they use instead?"

"Metaphor."

"Metaphor?"

"Yes, metaphor. That's how the whole fabric of mental interconnections holds together. Metaphor is right at the bottom of being alive."

[Blackcat0183000]

great vlog u have good opinions I always enjoy ur work!

[ChrysalisBound]

And then there's Jack Nicholson's take:

"People who speak in metaphors should shampoo my crotch."

[ChrysalisBound]

"Logic is a very elegant tool and we've got a lot of mileage out of it for two thousand years or so. The trouble is, you know, when you apply it to crabs and porpoises, and butterflies and habit formation, you know, to all those pretty things ~logic won't quite do because that whole fabric of living things is not put together by logic. You see when you get circular trains of causation, as you always do in the living world, the use of logic will make you walk into paradoxes." ~Gregory Bateson

[saskchic1011]

thats just me sugar.... :)