NationStates Jolt Archive

Flip over the tortoise

Sarkhaan
29-11-2008, 09:59
Okay. So this is based off an assignment I had in college.

Look at a tortoise...on the top, the have a dark, rocky-looking shell that is often rough. On the bottom, a shell that is light colors and smooth.

Apply this to a quote, symbol, or anything else you want. First, look at it from the standard point of view...then, flip it over and look at it a completely different way.


Mine: The quote "This too shall pass".

Top side: Life will move on. Your suffering will end, and you will progress to a new segment of life with new knowledge and understanding. Life will get better.

Bottom side: Your happiness is not permanent. At some point, this happiness will end. You will meet sadness. Life will continue, and cannot be eternal happiness.

Overall impact: life is short. It moves on, with or without you. You will need to move with it, or risk being left behind.
Ryadn
29-11-2008, 10:17
Mine: The quote "This too shall pass".

Top side: Life will move on. Your suffering will end, and you will progress to a new segment of life with new knowledge and understanding. Life will get better.

Bottom side: Your happiness is not permanent. At some point, this happiness will end. You will meet sadness. Life will continue, and cannot be eternal happiness.

Overall impact: life is short. It moves on, with or without you. You will need to move with it, or risk being left behind.

To paraphrase another quote: Pain is inevitable, suffering is optional. Suffering arises from attachment. Inner peace is only achieved when we free ourselves from attachment and accept the reality of impermanence.
Rambhutan
29-11-2008, 10:42
"Do you make up these questions, Mr. Holden? Or do they write 'em down for you?"

What do you mean, I'm not helping?
Brutland and Norden
29-11-2008, 12:03
Damn. I read the title and thought it was rap slang for anal sex with reptiles. Do tortoises have an anus?
Hell yes. They even breathe with it!
Daistallia 2104
29-11-2008, 13:19
Heh... thought this was gonna be a Blade Runner referrence....

To paraphrase another quote: Pain is inevitable, suffering is optional. Suffering arises from attachment. Inner peace is only achieved when we free ourselves from attachment and accept the reality of impermanence.

http://artfiles.art.com/images/-/cindy-curren/Japanese-Lotus-flower-Toren-Poster-C12009915.jpeg (http://www.katinkahesselink.net/tibet/flower-sermon.htm)
Zainzibar Land
29-11-2008, 19:23
An Iron fortress supported by a soft foundation
How's that?
Call to power
29-11-2008, 19:59
"Work sucks"

Top side: its better than being free
Bottom side: work sucks
overall impact: life sucks

did I do it right?
CthulhuFhtagn
29-11-2008, 20:08
An Iron fortress supported by a soft foundation
How's that?

Clearly it means that Dwarf Fortress physics are kooky enough that you can build a 20 story iron tower on sand with no difficulties.
Conserative Morality
29-11-2008, 20:14
Clearly it means that Dwarf Fortress physics are kooky enough that you can build a 20 story iron tower on sand with no difficulties.

You sir, have inspired me! Why? Because I love Dwarf Fortress!