Analogy .....
Camel Monkey
13-05-2006, 23:43
what are youre favourite analogies. i just heard a great one in refrence to the war on terror.
to win the war on terroism we must drain the swamps of injustice in which the mosquitos of terroism breed. american foriegn policy is like shooting the mosquitos with shotguns, and if more mosqitos appear get more shotguns
Bodies Without Organs
13-05-2006, 23:56
what are youre favourite analogies. i just heard a great one in refrence to the war on terror.
to win the war on terroism we must drain the swamps of injustice in which the mosquitos of terroism breed. american foriegn policy is like shooting the mosquitos with shotguns, and if more mosqitos appear get more shotguns
Surely that is a metaphor during the first sentence, and a simile during the second, rather than an analogy?
EDIT: I'm now undecided whether the second sentence is a simile or an analogy, and could go either way at this point.
It might be a better analogy if mosquitos could actually obtain and use shotguns...
Tactical Grace
13-05-2006, 23:57
It's more like a war on noobs. You know, they godmode, say they n00k you, and you actually get drawn in and try to RP a war against n00b godmoders. Silly.
It might be a better analogy if mosquitos could actually obtain and use shotguns...Well, they can use malaria, so they do have something going for them..
Mooseica
14-05-2006, 00:10
'The bread is moist because the baker is moist'
Philosophy - we were talking analogies. Can't remember exactly how we got there - something about analogies for God being good... I dunno (unfortunate, what with exams coming up and all) but yeah - it was something like the bread is good because the baker is good, and it... got out of hand.
http://img131.imageshack.us/img131/8858/police7mp.jpg
Zavistan
14-05-2006, 00:41
http://img131.imageshack.us/img131/8858/police7mp.jpg
Hehe I love that strip...
H N Fiddlebottoms VIII
14-05-2006, 01:06
'The bread is moist because the baker is moist'
Were you doing Descartes at the time? That sounds like one of the arguments against his causal proof of God's existence (what with the business about formal realities and such, I can't remember any details as I dumped my philosophy-related memories as soon as the exam was finished).
Mooseica
14-05-2006, 01:09
Were you doing Descartes at the time? That sounds like one of the arguments against his causal proof of God's existence (what with the business about formal realities and such, I can't remember any details as I dumped my philosophy-related memories as soon as the exam was finished).
It may well have been. It was either Descartes or Philosophy of Religion, or one of the many overlaps between the two. I don't remember it all that well because they are my two less preferable modules (Descartes especially - he was going well up until about half way through Meditation 2. He should've stopped at 'I am, I exist' if you ask me). Theory of Knowledge, on the other hand, is the nuts.