Analogies are Analogous to Analogies.

I find it appropriate to make my first blog entry about the operating mechanism of the verbiage promised:

Analogies.

Have you noticed that the more you learn about something, the more you are able to relate that something to something else?

There exists a sort of hierarchy of all "things," or to use the most simple (read: accessible) comparison, a very massive tree. It just so happens that we tend to live our lives in the canopy of the hierarchy, where the tree has branched outward the most. You know, to be fair, a tree isn't an entirely accurate description; we might think of a skyscraper (....and it begins!).

So the LifeScraper has uncountable floors and a very peculiar construction: there are no elevators, you can only exist on the roof, and it is cone-shaped, standing with amazingly stability on its infinitesimal point.

The LifeScraper is built of all things which are, and every floor is a progression of the floor directly below it. With more and more education and life-experience, we acquire pictures of the lower floors, and we say, "That's funny....there is something on that floor below which is shaped just like this thing here, on the roof." The more pictures we find, the more similarly-shaped things we see. In fact, we start to see things that are similarly-shaped existing on multiple floors as well as the roof.

It seems that people tend to view analogies (such as "pretend like you have a balloon inflating in your stomach" or "imagine that you are a thoughtless machine when you exercise") as convenient ways of tricking our brains. The trick is really on us, because our brains actually recognize the inherent similarity, if applicable (and there are some bad analogies!), and act accordingly.

In reality, the ground-floor of the LifeScraper contains only the most simple and basic components of everything that will follow above it. The entire universe and every single thing that exists in it is a product of the smallest components possible. In fact, examples like the LifeScraper, or the balloon referenced above, are the really only drawn from the very top of the LifeScraper.

In this blog, if you find that I tend to constantly draw comparisons, it is because there are infinitely many from which to draw. Keep searching for the pictures of floors below the roof, because they help to simplify and consolidate ideas and actions.

If life is the set of all things, then analogies, included within the set, are analogous to themselves.