User:Fasten/YHVH/Dictionary/flying
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The following interpretations are not contradictory, so flying may describe any one of them, depending on context.
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[edit] Interpretation #1
- Metaphor: Flying: Going down is easy while going up takes a concious effort. The metaphor is meant to explain that it's easy to go down but you have to spread your wings and fly (an arduous task) to go back up.
- Metaphor: Eternal life: One intepretation is that humanity as a species can exist for an idefinite amount of time if it adopts high ethical standards which match its scientific maturity.
- Contradictory Interpretation: Eternal life can also refer to failure to die.
- Metaphor: Angel: A human with wings can fly.
- Contradictory Interpretation: A person with an angel, somebody with limited sight. In the movie Dogma the protagonist Metatron is one of the Arsch angels.
- Metaphor: Wings: Altruism, Ethics.
- (Swing in the Java programming language is a mutation of wings)
- Metaphor: Devil: A fallen angel, clever but without altruism.
- False dilemma: heaven & hell
[edit] Interpretation #2
Making an effort to stay away from a potential well and (fly) up a potential hill. This would be a metaphor for resisting a force or system inherent attraction that deteriorates ethics or draws society away from something perceived as a higher standard or ethically higher ground. This is a broader interpretation than number #1 but leaves away any attempt to specify a global maximum or minimum as heaven and hell and without restricting the metaphor of flying to a single area (e.g. ethics or environmentalism).
[edit] Interpretation #3
Making an effort to stay (flying) in between extreme positions or attractors, like maintaining Social market economy as a choosen position between Capitalism and Communism, if that's your choice. This is a broader interpretation than #2 in that it doesn't reduce the metaphor of flying to a one dimensional problem of going up or down.
Possible observable effects could be:
- Not doing anything to extremes.
- Not taking extreme positions where there is no justification for an extreme position.
- Not following trends without a logical analysis of the motivation and the consequences.
- Maintaining a rational and well-considered position when the position is challenged.
[edit] References
Daedalus warned Icarus not to fly too high, because the heat of the sun would melt the wax, nor too low because the sea foam would make the wings wet and they would no longer fly.
