I AM A METAPHOR LIVING IN A WORLD
OF METAPHORS (A WORLD OF WORDS, USEFUL FIGURES OF SPEECH). WITHOUT
METAPHORS, WITHOUT WORDS WE COULD NOT IDENTIFY AS SOMETHING OR
SOMEONE, COULD NOT DESCRIBE, COULD NOT NAME THINGS, COULD NOT JUDGE.
MINDS LOVE TO TORMENT YOU WITH METAPHORS. WHERE WOULD POLITICIANS,
LAWYERS, AND USED CARS SALESMEN BE WITHOUT METAPHORS, NOT TO MENTION,
PREACHERS, PHILOSOPHERS, AND COMEDIANS.
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A
USEFUL METAPHOR FOR THE UNIVERSE, IS AN ETCH
A SKETCH (A THIN RECTANGULAR BOX FILLED WITH SAND THAT HAS
TWO KNOBS, THAT MOVE A STYLUS, WHICH CREATES LINES THAT CONNECT WITH
EACH OTHER AND FORMS PICTURES. TO CLEAR THE ETCH
A SKETCH, SOMETHING SHAKES IT, AND THE PICTURE
DISAPPEARS).
BEFORE
THE UNIVERSE TURNED THE KNOBS, THERE WERE NO PICTURE, NO FORMS, NO
DUALITY, NO KARMA, NOTHING, NOTHING BUT POTENTIAL. BUT THAT DIDN’T
LAST LONG. THE UNIVERSE STARTING TURNING THE KNOBS AND HERE WE ARE,
TEMPORARY LINES THAT BECAME FORMS, THAT LAST UNTIL THE UNIVERSE
SHAKES THE ETCH A SKETCH AND
WIPES ITSELF OUT (CLEARS THE ETCH A SKETCH
SCREEN) AND STARTS OVER. TODAY, A USEFUL METAPHOR FOR THE UNIVERSE
(OR CREATION) IS COMPUTER, THE SCREEN UPON WHICH APPEARS PICTURES OF
YOU AND ME AND EVERYTHING ELSE, TEMPORARILY.
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ANOTHER
USEFUL METAPHOR, IS SPACE, A SCREEN, A PLACE, WHEREIN THE UNIVERSE
ETCHES TEMPORARY PICTURES TO VIEW ITSELF, TO SEE AND EXPERIENCE ITS
OWN POTENTIAL.
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YOU
ARE THE UNIVERSE. AND YOU ARE THE UNIVERSE TEMPORARILY BEING YOU,
AND ALSO BEING EVERY PERSON, PLACE, AND THING, TEMPORARILY. WHEN THE
UNIVERSE STOPS BEING THINGS, THERE’S NOTHING, NO THING BUT
POTENTIAL. SO YOU COULD SAY, “YOU” ARE POTENTIAL (POTENTIALLY
SPEAKING).
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WHEN
I (THE UNIVERSE)( AM IN A UNIVERSAL STATE OF MIND, I LOOK AT PEOPLE,
PLACES, AND THINGS AND I SEE MYSELF (THE UNIVERSE) BEING PEOPLE,
PLACES, AND THINGS.
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WHEN
I (THE UNIVERSE) AM IN A PERSONAL STATE OF MIND, I VIEW LIFE FROM A
TEMPORARY PERSONAL PERSONA PERSPECTIVE. WHEREVER I PUT MY ATTENTION,
WHATEVER I FOCUS ON, THERE I AM, AND I AM THAT. AND SOMETIMES, I
JUST AM, THE ETCH A SKETCH, THE
COMPUTER, THE SCREEN,
JUST POTENTIAL.
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SOMETIMES
I AM EVERYTHING, SOMETIMES SOMETHING, SOMETIMES NO THING, DEPENDS ON
MY MOOD.
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AS
FOR YOU (WHEN YOU THINK YOU ARE YOU BECAUSE YOU FORGOT YOU ARE ME,
THE UNIVERSE, BEING YOU) THE DILEMMA OF METAPHORICAL PRONOUNS BECOMES
VERY CONFUSING AND EXASPERATES WHAT IS ACTUALLY VERY SIMPLE, IF I DIDN’T EXIST, YOU WOULDN’T EXIST, AND SINCE I EXIST, YOU EXIST.
THE END.