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LOL, NotThatGirl, Pio is a chemical engineer who gushes (an almost attractive quality in a man but not quite) who knows it will be very hot in Florida.
I was totally indifferent to Todd's post but I like the idea of the opposite of life being indifference and not death. I do not intend to die and am pleased I have an option.
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I am happy that someone understands it. It was like sitting on a cloud for me.
Let's see now: the opposite of love is not hate, but indifference.
Okay, I'll stop there. What does this mean? Of course the opposite of love is hate. Right?
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No the opposite of love is not hate. They are two separate emotions. You can hate without having loved and you can love without having hated. I think they are both extreme emotions which are very rarely felt. I don't think I've hated in my life. I have loved.
Indifference is the wonderful state (regarding the OM) in which I am now where it JUST DOESN'T MATTER any more. It's a state of "who cares".
The opposite of art being indifference and not ugliness. I don't think so. The opposite of art is not ugliness. A feeling about art is not that the opposite is indifference or ugliness. Art is in your inner being and even the ugly can speak to that.
I think that might be a metaphor. j/k. I don't know what it is.
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It is 123F outside and its not even noon. Define hot.
Actually I think love and hate are very closely related. Both are very strong emotions for something that you care very deeply about. When that dies, the emotions dies - indifference. So if you don't love someone, you are indifferent. If you like someone, you are different. If you love someone, you are very different.
Do I have to explain everything to you?
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Well, it's above my head because I am lost.
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A metaphor is like an analogy - or is that simile? I never can rememeber. Never read the old man and the sea but I did see the movie. Didn't see any metaphors though. it was tough to envision Spencer Tracy as a Cuban peasant fisherman. Not very well cast.
I will buy a copy of the old man and the sea in the USA and read it with my glass of Maker's Mark by my side - just for you ToddAC.
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A metaphor is not an analogy, neither is a simile.
Examples:
Metaphor: The road is a dark ribbon.
Simile: The road is like a dark ribbon.
Analogy: Can't think of one right now.
Todd, I am glad it's above your head because all that scientific stuff is so far above my head I can't even see it.
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So would:
A metaphor is not like an analogy
be a simile?
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It will be interesting to see if the MM or the booklet puts you to sleep first.
My money is on el libro.
la libro?
No wonder I never learned Spanish.
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Then what is an anecdote? I think I need an anecdote for my WW because of the bite marks she gave me. She may be diseased. Actually she IS diseased!
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Have you ever read "Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance" by Robert Pirsig?
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Jen,
Problem is, that's not the way authors write out their metaphors. They do it as symbolim. Well, maybe they do but take "The Great Gatsby" for instance. I read that book and rather enjoyed it. Fitzgerald is an economic word master, something I am lousy at. When my eleveth grade Lit teacher told me the book was about the elusiveness of the American dream, I nearly fainted.
Fitzgerald's metaphor for the dream was the green light off the end of the dock. But the rest of the book just told a story. How am I supposed to get that the book was about the American dream?
I hate to ask this but here goes: What in the world was "The Grapes of Wrath" about?
Or, to put it another way, why didn't Fitzgerald just write a one page summary and say simply that I believe the American dream is elusive for some. And then we could go drink a beer. Can you imagine how streamlined book reports would become for kids?
Hmm... maybe I should become a writer. Or a teacher. Oh, excuse me. We cannot call them teachers here anymore. They are "educators". Do you see the difference? They cannot be held responsible if a kid doesn't learn. It's the teacher's union hard at work.
I bet I get some hate mail for this one.
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Pio,
Before you go, if you wanted to be known as and by "head louse" and not "head lice" why didn't you user the user name Piojito, instead of Piojitos?
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She bit you? During the love note scuffle?
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I have multiple personalities - none of which is very interesting.
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I know that but why did WW bite you?
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She bit you? During the love note scuffle? HELLO! EARTH TO TODDAC! Yes she bit me. Where were you? Only skimming the posts again are we?
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She was biting my arms, wrists and hands trying to get me to release the notes. Her hands were busy trying to tear my testicles off. I am not joking. This really happened.
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No. I got my forearm under her chin in sort of a half-nelson so she could not direct her teeth where she wanted them. I just held her in about every bear hug position I could to keep her from doing me much harm. She still drew blood from various sites.
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