"I've got it!"

"What? What's going on?"

"I was taking my shower when it hit me right in the face!"

"Are you okay?"

"What? Yes. I am. Why do you ask?"

"You just said that your shower hit you right in the face."

"You misunderstood. It wasn't the shower that hit me in the face."

"Oh. Did you hit yourself in the face? You should know better than do this."

"No, I did not hit myself in the face."

"Well, you only mentioned the shower and you, so..."

"It is a metaphorical 'it' that hit me in the face. There was no physical impact. [Slap] Ouch! Why did you do this???"

"I'm not fond of metaphor and wanted to make the situation concrete."

#metaphor #microfiction

I use music and a ProTools example to illustrate the difference between duration and time. I even invoked the debate between Bergson and Einstein in 1922.

https://philosophics.blog/2026/04/02/why-protools-knows-more-about-time-than-physics-does/?utm_source=masto&utm_medium=social

Time doesn't exist. It's merely a useful heuristic that humans use for social structure. Duration is more intrinsic. Physics has created a space-time map and confused it with the underlying terrain.

#philosophy #physics #time #duration #blog #podcast #Einstein #Bergson #debate #music #metaphor #social #ClaudeAI

https://www.wacoca.com/games/1344993/ 「メタファー:リファンタジオ」が50%オフ,「ペルソナ3 リロード」が60%オフ。アトラスタイトルのSteam「Springセール」が開催中 ##GAMING ##ペルソナ5:ThePhantomX #Game #GameNews #games #GamingNews #metaphor #PC:ペルソナ3リロード #PC:ペルソナ5:ThePhantomX #PC:メタファー:リファンタジオ #PROJECTReFANTASY #steam #ゲーミング #ゲーム #ゲーム攻略 #ゲーム最新情報 #システム:プレイ人数:1人 #ジャンル:RPG #テーマ:ファンタジー #プラットフォーム:PC #メタファー:リファンタジオ #メタファーリファンタジオ #掲載日:2026/03/2318:02 #編集部:ルネ #記事種別:セール情報 #記事種別:ニュース
「メタファー:リファンタジオ」が50%オフ,「ペルソナ3 リロード」が60%オフ。アトラスタイトルのSteam「Springセール」が開催中

アトラスは本日(2026年3月23日),同社がSteamで発売しているダウンロード版タイトルを対象とした「Springセール」を開始した。期間は3月26日まで。Springセールでは,「メタフ?次Д螢侫.鵐織献?廚?0%オフになるなど,アトラスの人気タイトルが大幅な割引価格となる。

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I'm considering a new essay on Parsifal, Cassandra, and The Emperor (and his new clothes) as a metaphor for institutional silence.

https://open.substack.com/pub/brywillis634737/p/working-title-parsifal-cassandra?r=pvxh5&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true

I've got a working thesis and an abstract. This started as a commentary on The Fisher King, but it's expanded to all three

#philosophy #writing #metaphor #myth #legend #fairytales #parables #blog #podcast #substack #poll #society #institutions #structure #diagnosis #analysis #conformity #speaking #asking #silence

Goethe’s illness metaphor and Schiller’s chronic illness

In my conversation with my daughter about Germanophone literary history last night, I recalled a remark by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832) in an 1829 conversation with Johann Peter Eckermann (1792-1854): "Das Klassische nenne ich das Gesunde und das Romantische das Kranke" ("For me, the classic is healthy and the

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A quotation from Douglas Adams

   “Life,” he said, “is like a grapefruit.”
   “Er, how so?”
   “Well, it’s sort of orangey-yellow and dimpled on the outside, wet and squidgy in the middle. It’s got pips inside, too. Oh, and some people have half a one for breakfast.”

Douglas Adams (1952-2001) English author, humorist, screenwriter
Hitchhiker’s Guide No. 4, So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish, ch. 23 (1984)

More about this quote: wist.info/adams-douglas/82816/

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #douglasadams #hitchhikersguide #hitchhikersguidetothegalaxy #solongandthanksforallthefish #grapefruit #life #meaningoflife #metaphor

Adams, Douglas - Hitchhiker's Guide No. 4, So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish, ch. 23 (1984) | WIST Quotations

"Life," he said, "is like a grapefruit." "Er, how so?" "Well, it's sort of orangey-yellow and dimpled on the outside, wet and squidgy in the middle. It's got pips inside, too. Oh, and some people have half a one for breakfast." Ford Prefect speaking with a creature in his dreams.

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I will continue to use the slippery slope arguments, for example against AI, as a metaphor.

Literalists - look away now

#slipperyslope #metaphor #literalism #Aislop

I am writing an open #letter to all #political sides as an #introduction to #hope I wish to turn #hurt away from and closer into as such through #affirmative #action accordingly if at all possible.

Let me start out by saying, that I #believe in the #power of real human prayer as #unbound #energy finding its way through us. And in turn, I'm no #religious #person by and large, but I am going to send this #prayer out there anyways because I feel it needs to be #said as is.

This will be a prayer covering several #topics of conversation that I #feel are important and significant enough to relay as one broadcast.

#extremism

To all #people I #pray that:
You realize living on your own #political #island sounds great in theory, be it on the #left or the #right of the spectrum. Or even at the #top or #bottom of it as well. But being unable to find or care for the #center of it, leaves you #vulnerable to #attack more so than anything else. And that is not a state of things I #desire for you to have to #live by.

#awareness

I pray that:
As #individuals you #collectively and #personally #understand that there are differences between the #perception of how you come across to others, and how others #perceive you in turn. It is okay to have a #difference of opinion, but to be #blind sighted by this, leaves you open to being #weaponized and I do not #wish that for you to have to #experience at all.

#sovereignty
I pray that:
You can #recognize how someone wants to be able to experience #respect without having to diverge or divulge your #interest in a #potential #conflict as such. In order for us to be able to #trust each other, we have to #remember how to #treat one another as #equals rather than constantly #competing for #dominance based on denying that there #exists a spectrum of #agreeability at play that we are all apart of.

#CommonSense
I pray that:
We keep building upon #frameworks that do not need to become a totally separate #foundation that exists just to serve you. But rather, exist as #modular #blocks that can join and detach from one another as already built #structures full and complete. This way, we are not trying to conflict over what block we have to share space with someone else in prioritizing. Because the entire thing is ours to shape in our own way. And so as a #metaphor, I feel it is #important to attach to the idea of having a sense in common, as opposed to a common sense where applicable, of things that cause us to #fight over how #relevant it is to most of us around the #actual or #planned #change currently in motion.

#battles
I pray that:
We are able to tell when to be #still and when to #move upon any #focus that #captivates us in part. Whether it exists as apart of a #whole or not. Doing so will help us make the best #impact #possible for the change we want to make a #reality for the #cause we are #concerned for.

And ultimately, I pray that we can move past the blatant need to have an #existential #crisis be on full display at the #crossroads of #agendas being carried out as they are each in turn, #instigated by #georegional #tribalism that serves nobody accept to put #humanity as a whole last, not first, as I intend to do.

All of these things are #real and can be #fixable and #doable as such. And I want to make sure, that this reality does not have a chance to get far out of #control the way it currently has.

For it is #outcomes like this, that #incomes should never have appropriately #manifested into #place that I want to #avoid and keep #preventable from ever #happening again.

To me, I find it very #unfortunate that we are living through #times of such blatant #hardship that should not have to be so unnecessary in today's day and age. For in this latest #protest #style #news #video we see this very inteersection of mounting, preventable #activities #culminating all at once in a display of #violent #behaviour best #repurposed for other #interests in my #opinion acordingly.

#posted by #YouTube #reactor and #media #podcaster #RebelNews

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KjT3kK5lHKk

In #America #israel and #Canada or anywhere else in our #world we should not have to worry about #migration #problems at home #effecting the #symptom of #indifference at the #core of #ineffective #deference as such. Rather, if we simply #agree to #adapt our time towards #focusing on the #things we can #bear #witness to as our own #personal #legacy then I say we have done enough for our #community be it or we tied to a particular #faith or not.

I say this, in my own #human name for all it is worth. Because that is who I am now, and if any #guardian #angel believes this to be #true then all I ask, is that you add yours to this prayer and pass it forward.

Thank you for your #attention to this #matter as such. I #appreciate it and you very much for the #blessing that you are.

‘F*CK WHITE PEOPLE’ Palestinian refugee confronted in Montreal

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When I mentioned outlandish metaphor, I mean this kind of thing. Sentences that take you in gloriously unexpected directions even in gratuitous asides

#books #metaphor #writing #Gormenghast #MervynPeake #literature