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Jan 26, 2011, 04:28 AM
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 Gently1, Michah, wing
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Jan 26, 2011, 05:28 AM
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I use to have war/battle metaphors back 35+ years ago, my therapists would keep pointing them out. I guess I'm more process/travel/trip or adventure now
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Jan 26, 2011, 06:04 AM
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Sisyphean
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Jan 27, 2011, 10:10 AM
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Metaphors? Metaphors? We don't need no stinkin' metaphors around here!
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Now if thou would'st When all have given him o'er From death to life Thou might'st him yet recover -- Michael Drayton 1562 - 1631 |
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Jan 27, 2011, 10:38 AM
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A book or movie script. For me, this isn't necessarily a good thing, since it causes me to see the outcome as predetermined and I can't do a darn thing to change it. I also tend to see my own role in that book or movie as someone destined to experience the worst of everything. Even on my best days, I might see myself as the "Badluck Schleprock" character to whom bad things are supposed to happen, so that society can witness it and say, "That's bad. It shouldn't have happened. Let's not let it happen again." And changes are made so that others won't have to endure what I endured. Which may be kind of a noble reason for existing, but the whole "I can't fight fate" belief is damaging to me. I need a better metaphor.
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Jan 28, 2011, 02:49 AM
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The night sky... dark and empty but punctuated with points of light.
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| Anonymous29368, Michah, pachyderm
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Jan 28, 2011, 07:17 AM
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i used to have a buttload of irrational ideas/metaphors pertaning to self and experiences in life. therapy helped me rid myself of many of these but those lil' tapes like to pop up when i least expect them. so i have to rewind and remind myself they aren't truths.
one positive one is my outlook of life in general..it's going to be a good day in the neighborhood cause it's another new day full of adventure.
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Jan 28, 2011, 04:11 PM
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Here, Pachy, just for you: http://groups.psych.northwestern.edu...erBowdle02.pdf
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Jan 28, 2011, 04:24 PM
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Quote:
** I hate links that immediately produce downloads to your computer! ORIGIN late 15th cent.: from French métaphore, via Latin from Greek metaphora, from metapherein ‘to transfer.’ Or as Wikipedia says, the Greek is itself a compound of μετά (meta), “between” + φέρω (pherō), “to bear”, “to carry”. So there. ** Since I have a Scottish computer there should be no real danger, but it still startles me.
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Jan 28, 2011, 04:31 PM
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Sorry, all pdf's do that since they require the Adobe reader on your computer. I think it just goes into "temp" and gets deleted/erased/overwritten by the system later.
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Jan 28, 2011, 04:36 PM
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Now if thou would'st When all have given him o'er From death to life Thou might'st him yet recover -- Michael Drayton 1562 - 1631 |
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Jan 28, 2011, 04:38 PM
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 Her elevator doesn't go to the top floor!!
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Jan 28, 2011, 04:38 PM
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 Classic. Michah
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For all things Light and Dark.......http://thedemonrun.wordpress.com/  The only Truth that exists..... .........Is that there is no absolute Truth. |
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Jan 28, 2011, 04:54 PM
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Jan 28, 2011, 05:10 PM
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everything is a metaphor, from dawn to dusk. it's kind of maddening..
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Jan 28, 2011, 05:17 PM
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the lights are on but nobody's home.......!
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Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live. Oscar Wilde Well Behaved Women Seldom Make History - Laurel Thatcher Ulrich The road to hell is paved with good intentions. "And psychology has once again proved itself the doofus of the sciences" Sheldon Cooper
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Jan 28, 2011, 05:18 PM
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right church...wrong pew!!!
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Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live. Oscar Wilde Well Behaved Women Seldom Make History - Laurel Thatcher Ulrich The road to hell is paved with good intentions. "And psychology has once again proved itself the doofus of the sciences" Sheldon Cooper
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Jan 28, 2011, 07:20 PM
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ME is the metaphore...
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Jan 31, 2011, 08:05 PM
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You guys are sooo funny--I got my belly laugh for the day--thank you all!!!!!!!!!
----theo
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Feb 01, 2011, 03:59 AM
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When I am not feeling too well I am thinking in terms of battle and prison.
But usually and most of the time my metaphors are those of a mission and a classroom. Those are almost archetypical for me.
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Feb 02, 2011, 03:18 PM
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What a great springboard for thought...ty byz.
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