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stegoodie View Profile History	Food for Thought Posted : 15 Apr, 2011 06:21 PM I have this certain way of thinking about things that my friends often find amusing. It's just a quirk of who I am and I'm wondering if you all have similar quirks. You see, I often think about and picture things in cartoons and make points with analogies (both of which are often amusing). For instance, a fellow grad student and I were talking and he said something about the poo hitting the fan. I immediately imagined a horse floating up to a ceiling fan followed by a cartoony depiction of my grad student buddy standing there with his jaw dropped to the floor in typical cartoony style and capped by the word "SPLAT" in an impact bubble. In another example, several years ago I was giving relationship advice to one friend of mine about her relationship to another guy friend of mine (this is a little ironic because I'd never been in a relationship at the time...I'm just observant apparently). I pretty much told her she was like a guitar in a shop window and that he was like the guy who always stared at the guitar through the window and so on (it's been several years and I've forgotten all the details). In a final example, I once explained God and heaven in terms of chemistry just because it sort of came to me out of the ether (haha ether is a chemistry term so that's a tad punny). Anyway, do any of you have strange quirks like this? Post Reply
stegoodie View Profile History	Food for Thought Posted : 15 Apr, 2011 06:22 PM I forgot, I'm posting this in the girl's section but it's open to anyone. I just didn't want to post it multiple times. Post Reply
bcpianogal View Profile History	Food for Thought Posted : 15 Apr, 2011 06:51 PM I, too, come up with some interesting analogies. I don't know that they are all that weird, but sometimes I do get weird looks from people! For example, today I compared my piano student to a toddler. I told her that a toddler can't just sit down after taking the first two or three steps. He has to stand up again, walk a little farther the next time, get steadier on his feet, then gradually start running, and with enough years of practice, he will eventually be able to run a marathon. That's the mentality she needs for practicing the piano. She can't just stop once she can "get through the piece"...she has to take more steps and make it more accurate, then she has to get it up to speed, then polish it up, get the memory solid, and then keep working until the time she will run her "marathon": playing it flawlessly on her piano jury at the end of the semester. I told another piano student that her hands needed to look like a horse that is grazing. It made sense to her, and she immediately was able to correct her hand position! (Yes, a lot of my analogies are music-related...that's what happens when all-day-every-day is spent either playing or teaching piano!) Post Reply
Tulip89 View Profile History	Food for Thought Posted : 16 Apr, 2011 10:20 AM What DON'T I turn into an analogy? Most recently I compared the inability of increased taxation to pay for out of control federal spending to working out 4 days a week instead of 3, but not changing the fact that you eat 6000 calories a day. Because I make so many connections between things, it's easy to come up with analogies, illustrations, TV show references, etc. While they can all be incredibly helpful in getting people to understand your point, especially when talking about spiritual matters, an illustration without substantial scriptural backing can be incredibly dangerous. Post Reply
View Profile History	Food for Thought Posted : 16 Apr, 2011 02:25 PM I'm loaded with quirks....I'm 1 of the quirkiest people I know. I think it is quite helpful in becoming all things to all people - being able to meet people where they're at. My kids and I LUV 2 talk like different characters for hours on end e.g. Darth Vader talking 2 Sponge Bob, Mr T explaining the bible lol Jesus Himself spoke in analogies all the time. Post Reply