Apples and Snakes

Evidently, Megan and I have an affinity towards reliving past arguments and poking fun at how silly we were at the time. This has recently led to the creation of one of my more notable similes. Often times arguments between Megan and myself can be dissolved into a simple disagreement on how to compare attitudes, events, or punishments for wrongdoing. I have to accept a lot of blame for this type of fallacy because my mind works on a fairness principal, the caveat is that in-order to consider something fair or unfair the events much be comparable. I have come to realize that subjective perceptions of events are absolutely incomparable no matter how intense the argument. A rather simple example is when I looked disapprovingly at Megan while she let her dog Sammy lick clean a bowl she had just been eating out of. She immediately noticed by glare and retorted that this instance is comparable to House (my cat) walking on the kitchen counter. I looked at her in disbelief as I find these two events utterly without similarity. It has come to my attention that Megan does this constantly. I solidified my suspicions when I was attempting to make an example of this odd behavior by telling her that making these comparisons is as silly as comparing apples to snakes and saying that apples were better because they were red. To me this was a simplified simile that couldn't be misunderstood. Megan responded by saying "Well aren't some snakes red?". She did this intentionally because it angers me when she understands the point I'm trying to make but points out a flaw in the technical speech of the metaphor. In classic form though, she didn't stop there. Megan went on to explain that apples were "better" than snakes because they had no venom and couldn't bite you. At this point I tried using my one semester of philosophy training to inquire how she defined "better" but she simply laughed at me. I wish I had some in-conclusion wisdom to impart or perhaps some insight I have personally gained but all this experience has shown me is that Megan doesn't play by the same rules of conversation as I do.


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Welcome and My Take on This Blog

As I stated in the description portion of this page, Megan (my girlfriend) and I have noticed that we have a tendency to perceive the same set of circumstances in distinctly different ways. This blog is our attempt to compare and, God-willing, resolve our less than synchronous attitudes towards the events that happen to us.