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[edit] Metaphors
[edit] Golden calf
The golden calf is a metaphor for the relationship between god, humanity and animals: The relationship between humans and animals (including other humans) creates the precedent for the relationship between god and humanity.
- Complement: The Golden calf is not an image of god, it is an image of humanity: "You are the gods (the rulers) of the animals".
- Homophone: You are to god as a calf is to you. / You (the species) is god's calf (or herd).
- Association: "Consumption of animals coincides with killing of humans." (Causality is not explained):
- Moses ground up the golden calf, mixed its powder with water, and forced the Israelites to drink it.
- Then he gathered the sons of Levi, and set them to slaying a large fraction of adult males.
- Aspect Orientation: "Raising (the statue) of an animal": You should hold animals in higher esteem.
- Metaphor: What you are consuming (literally gold, metaphorically meat) comes at a price.
- Mutation / Homophone: "Nevertheless the Lord stated that he would one day visit the Israelites' sin upon them.": One day you will get the meaning ("Sinn" {de}).
The Mutation is actually just placing the apostrophe down, as a comma:
"Nevertheless the Lord stated that he would one day visit Is-ra's-elite, Sinn {de} upon them."
[edit] World Youth Day 2005
[edit] Airship
The World Youth Day 2005 has an airship with a DHL logo next to the World Youth Day 2005 logo.
What is meant is DHL -> GLS General Logistics Systems¹ -> GLS Gemeinschaftsbank.
The GLS Gemeinschaftsbank flies because it is an example of a bank that is a cooperative with ethical goals that outweigh the goal to make money. A sufficient number of small cooperative banks like this and an ethical currency system between them would be a significant step towards a mountain society.
The same is true for Gepa (Fairtrade labelling) aka One world shops². This scheme could be extended much beyond its current proliferation, both in customer numbers and products that are traded under Fairtrade labelling. Cooperative shops that cooperate on a larger scale, e.g. as a franchise association with common ethical goals, could keep their economy ethically clean by using an ethical currency and could still offer all products their customers ask for. If a product did not fulfill the ethical requirements of the association an inferior product could be sold instead but with the expected price of the ethically acceptable product. The price difference could be made available to development aid organizations willing to establish cooperatives to provide the ethically untainted products.
- ¹) the logo of General Logistics Systems is an upward arrow, this refers to GLS Gemeinschaftsbank, however (a mutation).
- ²) Oneworld is also an airline alliance.
Interesting side note: The speaker of the board is Mr. Jorberg -> Jo, Berg {de} -> Yes, mountain.
[edit] Marienfeld
From 1952 to 1986 the Marienfeld has been an opencast pit. For the World Youth Day 2005 a hill called "Berg der 70 Nationen" (mountain of 70 nations) has been erected. This creates an association between Bergbau {de} and building an actual mountain. The name probably implies that in the time of globalisation you want an internationally organized plan¹ for a mountain society. Also, there is/was viel los on the Marienfeld.
- ¹) maybe something not entirely unlike the Global Marshall Plan.
[edit] Opening Ceremony
For the opening ceremony of the World Youth Day 2005 the smallest city, Bonn attracted as many visistors as the two larger cities Köln and Düsseldorf together. That translates to: "You want to do something counter-intuitive". Only there was nothing to be gained by doing something counter-intuitive with the number of visistors of the opening ceremony.
[edit] World Youth Day 2008
World Youth Day 2008 will take place in Syndey, Australia.
[edit] Not on someone's back
Animals climb on each other's back. (-> "exploit each other")
[edit] Star Trek
- Metaphors: Star Trek (part 1)
- Metaphors: Star Trek (part 2)
[edit] St. Martin's Day
On St._Martin's_Day children go by the doors with paper lanterns and candles, and sing songs about St. Martin and about their lantern in return for a treat.
- "If you want children to make music you have to offer them a treat" (-> motivate them)
- "Every child follows a lantern".
- A refrain on St. Martin's Day is (you might want to refrain from that):
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YHVH language description: Metaphors
