“Speaking Metaphorically…”
Metaphors, parables, and a warning about climate change, systemic racism, guns, masks, diversity, the pandemic, and religious karma.
All of us know this: we put the fate of the world on a train (which we built) and the train is racing down tracks (which we built) and that this train will soon crash into a wall (which we built). However, we are capable of building brakes to stop this train. But we don’t. Therefore, all of us don’t know this.
Every day a rich man buys another house and paints it white. When asked why, he says, “That’s how the system works.”
In a parallel Universe, people rejoice when a Bill of Responsibilities is added to the Bill of Rights in their Constitution – which means that the next time people are out bearing their arms and a deer prances across the field right in front of them, they can raise their guns and make an informed choice. They can: Shoot it. And then respect its existence.
Respect its existence. And then shoot it. Or just respect its existence.
The exclamation, “No one can tell me to wear a mask!”, is translated from English into another language and from that language into another language, and this is done one hundred times until the exclamation is translated back into English and becomes “We must be unified!”
So one day every bird in the world is trained to sing the same song. So eventually no one hears the song because it is so monotonous. So when a bird dies, no one misses its voice.
Once upon a time a germaphobic King ruled his Kingdom without knowing anything. He ruled with a smile and a laugh, and his people believed everything he said, even though everything he said was a joke. His rule ended only because there came into his Kingdom a germ who did not have a sense of humor.
God is a White Man. But not for long.
Rick Doehring
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