(March 26, 2021 at 1:53 am)The Grand Nudger Wrote:(March 26, 2021 at 1:28 am)Ferrocyanide Wrote: ==You mean to say that we use metaphors when were are communicating with each other?
If that is what you mean, that doesn’t seem unusual. Yes, it does happen. It’s pretty common.
Sometimes it is obvious that it is a metaphor and sometimes it is not.
The obviousness of the metaphor would have been assumed (and credibly so) with a contemporaneous reader. If i make a comparison between a nation state that's about to roll me and a dragon......
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“The obviousness of the metaphor would have been assumed (and credibly so) with a contemporaneous reader. If i make a comparison between a nation state that's about to roll me and a dragon......”
==What do you mean by contemporaneous reader? Which year are you talking about?
I didn’t understand your second sentence.
Does your statement have something to do with the book of Genesis?
“Not at all. The speaker is discussing a very intelligent problem with a brain. Other people. Also, a dragon. The one is like the other. Though, it's worth pointing out that..yes, we could conceive of a hole in our ship that way, and clearly, many religious people have done so.”
==Are we still talking about these lines of the Bible? Please quote the Bible so that I know what exactly you are referring to. Which people?
Psalms 74:13 KING JAMES VERSION
Thou didst divide the sea by thy strength: thou brakest the heads of the dragons in the waters.
{74:14} Thou brakest the heads of leviathan in pieces, [and] gavest him [to be] meat to the people inhabiting the wilderness.
Isaiah 27:1 KING JAMES VERSION
In that day the LORD with his sore and great and strong sword shall punish leviathan the piercing serpent, even leviathan that crooked serpent; and he shall slay the dragon that [is] in the sea.
“So, there is conversation going on between 2 sides where one side says my god can do this and that and the other side disagrees with them and they claim that it is their god that can do this and that.”
==Who is “we” and which lines of the Bible are you talking about?
“A few centuries after the fact, yeah...but not by his literal ancestors. By people who manufactured an entire alternate history out of the thematic elements of their grievances with their own very canaanite past.”
==That’s possible.
--Ferrocyanide
