XPost: alt.philosophy.taoism, alt.buddha.short.fat.guy, alt.philosophy.zen   
   From: wudao@wuji.net   
      
   noname wrote:   
   > Tang wrote:   
   >   
   >> ... ... ...  But caricature is truer than   
   >> straight talk. (All the usual disclaimers ...)   
   >   
   >If the caricature is truer than straight talk, something's messed up.   
      
   Caricature is metaphor.   
      
   Myths often hold deeper truths than those of facts.   
      
   Being fluid, an individual may flow well enough.   
      
   Hyperbolic rhetoric often goes unchecked.   
      
   Some people are unconcerned with facts   
   as they see what is being caricatured as a form of truth.   
      
   To others, that's messed up for sure.   
   Some times facts actually matter.   
      
   Ways that are ways may work, to a point.   
      
   Tang may say all Ways point to the same point.   
      
   In some ways, I may agree.   
   An apple and an orange are both the same, fruits.   
   A pineapple upside down and a birthday are the same, cakes.   
      
   When an elephant and a rhino are seen as being forms   
   of the same form and are content, an elephino follows.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)