[Serious] The Trinity

[John 6IX Breezy]

It's as I said, in order for you to break it down for me, you have to simplify it so much that it changes what it is.

All your questions are valid. Metaphors are inherently limited, and solely provide templates by which you can organize and comprehend more complex ideas. In cognitive linguistics these are known as the source domain and target domain. The metaphor Time is Money undoubtedly changes what time is, and yet it allows us to comprehend what it means to spend time or waste it.

The atom, the triangle, the mirror, each provides frameworks by which the concept of a Trinity becomes coherent and familiar. Whatever the nature and specifics of the Christian Trinity actually are, these metaphors allow us to see that they are nevertheless built on something comprehensible.