Do lambs hate lions?

[KrazyHorse]

But to what purpose, KH? This is the first time I've seen anyone extrapolate a metaphor like this and turn it into an esoteric discussion without much clear correspondence to anything real (you're just adding metaphors onto metaphors... filing down teeth mean what exactly?)

The correspondence is quite clear. Unfortunately, you're too stupid to understand it.

[KrazyHorse]

What if the lions lays down with the lamb? Then we'll have lion-lamb hybrids!

We've tried to (at least pretend to) lie down with the lambs.

Unfortunately for you, it's the stupidest lambs with the loudest bleats which are running the show right now.

When the smart lambs come back into power we can work with them to ensure that lions continue to slaughter lambs, as is the natural order of things.

[Al B. Sure!]

The correspondence is quite clear. Unfortunately, you're too stupid to understand it.

There you go! And why do metaphors exist, KH? Not what they are, like you answered before, but WHY do they exist? So that stupid people can easily understand something by allusion to a simpler or more relatable analogy.

[KrazyHorse]

No, that is one possible application of metaphors. Another is to illuminate to more intelligent people a principle, while leaving the vulgus in the dark.

[SlowwHand]

One other aspect of this I haven't commented on is that without teeth, we will be forced to gum lambs to death. It seems an altogether more painful way to die.

Someday, I want to tell you about this girl I knew when I was in the service. Seriously.

[Al B. Sure!]

gums... pretty soon, Sloww, you can get that same experience with a woman your age!

[Asher]

This is why hockey players are a good catch, BTW.

[SlowwHand]

She may have been some older, but not all that much. I didn't know the story behind why, and I didn't care.

[Al B. Sure!]

Probably she had bad dental hygiene and couldn't afford crowns so she just had extractions.

[SlowwHand]

This has certainly strayed away from the lamb and lion dilemma. At any rate, in the end, they're supposed to get along OK.

[ricketyclik]

Of course the smart lambs hate lions. The stupid ones buy the line that having lions is for their own good, and that they too will one day be lions.

The lambs ought to herd up all the lions and send them off to a malaria-infested swamp to live on slime, while the lambs get on with creating a lamb Nirvana.

[BeBMan]

Lamps

[The Mad Monk]

Of course the smart lambs hate lions. The stupid ones buy the line that having lions is for their own good, and that they too will one day be lions.

The lambs ought to herd up all the lions and send them off to a malaria-infested swamp to live on slime, while the lambs get on with creating a lamb Nirvana.

You mean, like those rabbits?

[dannubis]

Well, since lions eat zebras and wolves eat lambs I think the allegory is not entirely valid...

[Kuciwalker]

But to what purpose, KH? This is the first time I've seen anyone extrapolate a metaphor like this and turn it into an esoteric discussion without much clear correspondence to anything real (you're just adding metaphors onto metaphors... filing down teeth mean what exactly?)