Comments on: Metaphor leads to truth, but is not truth. https://pukeko.net.nz/blog/2012/12/metaphor-leads-to-truth-but-is-not-truth/ Bleak Theology: Hopeful Science Fri, 05 May 2017 23:41:25 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.7.4 By: chrisgale https://pukeko.net.nz/blog/2012/12/metaphor-leads-to-truth-but-is-not-truth/comment-page-1/#comment-989 Fri, 28 Dec 2012 02:49:00 +0000 https://pukeko.net.nz/blog/?p=1357#comment-989 I was attempting at the end to say that you need discipline and teaching or kids will not stumble. A four year old going LALALALA is irritating but still a little cute. A ten year old doing it is irritating, and it is creepy and wrong when and adult does it.

So I agree with your point.

]]> By: CL https://pukeko.net.nz/blog/2012/12/metaphor-leads-to-truth-but-is-not-truth/comment-page-1/#comment-988 Thu, 27 Dec 2012 21:37:00 +0000 https://pukeko.net.nz/blog/?p=1357#comment-988 Funny you should use that “as a child” citation; I did the same earlier elsewhere with the thought that it is better to be a simpleton than a sophist. There are some things so stupid only an intellectual (or quasi-intellectual) would say or believe them.

You seem to be saying we should tread lightly with the childlike, but children also need discipline. This relates to my use of that scripture today in that untrained minds, no matter how intelligent, will stumble. By not discipling the child, we set him up to stumble.

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