Comments by "roidroid" (@roidroid) on "James Geary, metaphorically speaking" video.

  1. Astrology and Tarrot are metaphor. They bring together metaphors for aspects of our lives, and shuffle them in random ways. The power of metaphor forces us to consider the interpretations as if they were real - even though they are random - and thus it can expand our minds to possibilities we never thought about. Possibilities that are so random that we would normally dismiss them as noise, this way we harvest this "noise" to inspire us to break outof a life funk, or writers block, etc.
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  2. As soon as he started delaying, the whole audience knew he was preparing to slap them with a name outof left field. It's an overused technique.
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  3. I think you could get away with saying that Metaphors are the collective unconscious of cultural groups. On a larger stage though, even a species wide collective unconscious contains metaphor. For example, everyone experiences mother's milk. Hell, i guess all mammals do. Also the fear of animals larger than yourself is common to many species. It all seems related, but it may be needlessly watering down the definition of collective unconscious and/or metaphor.
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  4. if penguins are so smart, why do they live in igloos?
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  5. Al Gore's estate has absolutely nothing to do with this TED talk
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  6. what is "ling class"?
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  7. Penguins in Igloos is an analogy to the topic of Al Gore's Estate. Both topics entirely unrelated to this video, or eachother. The reader is left wondering "Wait... why is that guy suddenly talking about penguins. Did i miss something?". Much like everyone is already wondering "wait... why is that guy suddenly talking about Al Gore's estate. Did we miss something?"
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  8. no u
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  9. you havn't given me anything indicating that, no.
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  10. mind fuck
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  11. metaphors love you too
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