Richard, if it's all just an appearance then I guess there's no one to reply to. And no one replying either! Is everything a metaphor for everything else? (-:
On Thursday, December 12, 2013 6:21 AM, Richard Williams <pundits...@gmail.com> wrote: The problem here is that there's no blonde on either side - it's all just an appearance. In reality, there's nobody to be blonde, no sides at all, and no going over either. We talk as if there was another shore on the other side and a boat that takes us over, but those are just conventions of speech- a metaphor.And, what's a meta for? A metaphor is for dummies that don't understand and can't experience directly the way things really are. Go figure. On Thu, Dec 12, 2013 at 2:53 AM, TurquoiseB <turquoi...@yahoo.com> wrote: > >--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Richard J. Williams" wrote: >> >> That's like a zen koan: >> >> "You need a boat to cross over to the other side. But, once you cross >> over, you find that there is no other side and no crossing over. This >> being so, you would look foolish carrying a boat around on top of your >> head." > >I prefer the version of the koan in the Blonde Joke Sutras: > >A brunette on the shore of a river sees a blonde on the other side of the >river and shouts out, "Hey...how do I get to the other side? > >The blonde shouts back, "You *are* on the other side." > >:-) > > >
