What then is truth? A mobile army of metaphors . . . -- in short, a sum of human relations, which have been enhanced, transposed, and embellished poetically and rhetorically, and which after long use seem firm, canonical, and obligatory to a people. ~Friedrich Nietzsche
When we start warring over whose metaphors are almightiest, we’ve gotten carried away. An authentic metaphor – as opposed to what Nietzsche says later, a metaphor of “illusion” and “lie” – points to truth; for example, Tillich's phrase: "the God who transcends the God of the religions." Nobody has the market on the God. Hopefully, the God of the religions is pointing to the God (bold italics added). ~jpc
May we be open and hang loose. Namaste.
Tuesday, December 06, 2005
A Mobile Army of Metaphors
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