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Sanity Claws

(22,031 posts)
Mon Apr 22, 2013, 12:43 PM Apr 2013

The Universe picks metaphors or name plays to illustrate things

Well, that's how it seems to me.

The name of the case that resulted in miscegenation laws being found unconstitutional was Loving v. Virginia. Loving -- what a beautiful name to attach to a case that talked about love transcending race and ugly laws.

Sometimes the metaphor or name play is funny. Remember the female astronaut who drove cross-country to take a whack at her rival but was caught before she carried our her plan? Her last name was Nowak, pronounced as "no whack." She lost her chance to whack her rival! Or how about Bernie Medoff, whose last name was pronounced as "made off?" Bernie made off with a lot of moolah before things caught up to him.

This brings up the most prominent things that happened in the last week, at least in the US.

The Boston Marathon bombers used pressure cookers. The pressure cooker has some symbolic meaning here. I think many of us live our lives in a pressure cooker. Stress creates fractures, the fractures become weak points and an explosion finally follows along the fracture lines. I just feel there is something here of symbolic significance but have not quite figured it out.

Another major event was the fertilizer plant explosion in West, TX. A fertilizer is supposed to make the Earth verdant and abundant. However, the fertilizer here ended up killing life here, not helping any life form grow. Is this a way for the Universe to tell us that our ideas of fertilizing the earth are ass-backwards?

Somehow I think both events concern the Earth. This is Earth Day, after all. The Earth is under tremendous pressure, like a pressure cooker ready to explode. Our environment is hurt through global warming, floating plastic islands, acidification of the oceans, loss of ozone, etc. The Earth has had several earthquakes in the past week.

What do you think?



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The Universe picks metaphors or name plays to illustrate things (Original Post) Sanity Claws Apr 2013 OP
Interesting thoughts Sienna86 Apr 2013 #1
I have also been contemplating these same Tumbulu Apr 2013 #2
I also thought about "West" Sanity Claws Apr 2013 #3
Yes! Why Syzygy Apr 2013 #4
Another story that supports your Hypothesis; RainbowSuperfund Apr 2013 #5
That one is knee-slapping funny Sanity Claws Apr 2013 #6
Makes one think about one's name. n/t Knightraven Apr 2013 #7
My husband and I have pondered this often findrskeep Apr 2013 #8

Sienna86

(2,151 posts)
1. Interesting thoughts
Mon Apr 22, 2013, 05:54 PM
Apr 2013

Had not thought of the irony of the fertilizer plant - not nourishing life but taking away lives.

Tumbulu

(6,440 posts)
2. I have also been contemplating these same
Mon Apr 22, 2013, 09:29 PM
Apr 2013

ideas..... Also think that the town 's name "West" is significant.

I do hope that the real cost of the "cheap" chemical fertilizers is revealed to more, not just us in the "organic" farming world. Remember it all started with these chemical sources of nitrogen vs the organic sources.

I am pondering the symbolism as well.... The abusive husband raising a toddler making up bombs.... who was taking care of this child if he was actually caring for him/her? Anyone who cares for a child knows that they have no free moments.... Very odd story there, I am sure.

Anyway, thanks for starting this discussion.

Sanity Claws

(22,031 posts)
3. I also thought about "West"
Tue Apr 23, 2013, 05:13 AM
Apr 2013

Is it a symbol for the Western lifestyle that has been so destructive of Mother Earth?

Why Syzygy

(18,928 posts)
4. Yes!
Tue Apr 23, 2013, 11:16 AM
Apr 2013

Thanks for expanding on this. For me it became apparent last week as the story ratcheted up throughout the week. By Friday, it was on full boil.

I wrote my thoughts here:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1220&pid=14541

Sanity Claws

(22,031 posts)
6. That one is knee-slapping funny
Tue Apr 23, 2013, 02:41 PM
Apr 2013

Remember Anthony Weiner and his weiner problem?

The Universe seems to love puns.

findrskeep

(713 posts)
8. My husband and I have pondered this often
Fri Apr 26, 2013, 09:28 AM
Apr 2013

and marveled at the fact that more people weren't noticing the same thing. What about Neel Kashkari?? OR aka Neel "Cash Carry"...he was the guy who back during the beginning of the financial crisis was in charge taking tax payer money to put together the $700 billion dollar bailout of the big banks.

Here's another one albeit of a personal nature..several years ago we made a cross country move. Our house on the east coast didn't sell so we decided to rent it out. It was 4 days before Christmas and we get a call from our former neighbor saying our house is on fire!! So here's where it gets really interesting...the last name of the lady we rented it to was "Flamer"...AND she was a fire fighter! So that was either the universe saying "Pay attention people..none of this is real!!" (personally this is the reason I go with) OR, she was a pyromaniac.

We also notice the Bernie "Made Off" irony and especially Anthony "Wiener" hehe. I mean you just can't make this stuff up!!

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