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Old 06-26-2011, 07:19 AM  
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Joseph Campbell made the following observation:

He asked do you know what a metaphor is?

Ex 1: John fights like a bear. (No, it is a simile)

Ex 2: John is a bear. (Yes, it is a metaphor)


He then observed that God is a metaphor for the great unknown mysteries of life: our purpose, our afterlife, our beginning, etc., and the metaphor predates modern science.

He then realized that there were basically two types of people:

Type 1: Those who accept the metaphor as fact, ie. "absolute truth". They are the religious believers.

and,

Type 2: Those who accept the metaphor as a metaphor. They are the agnostics who believe that any ultimate reality is unknown and probably unknowable.

If you are a Type 1, no scientific facts will ever change your mind as your beliefs are not founded in reality; but, belief in the reality of a metaphor.

At least I get to enjoy my Sundays off from work.

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