Isaiah and Julie:
Perspective, indeed. And I think it’s a very deep kind of perspective. The question is: how many men are speaking in the cartoon? Two separate men, separated by a river?
Or is this one experience involving two different places through two different minds and bodies? Are the distinctions apparent or real? At the very least isn’t he indirectly using the eyes of another to informed him of his location from another POV? And how can you “go” where you are? Where can you go?
Delurking alert: I’ve read this site occasionally since your “Catholic” days, Jon; it’s been fascinating to follow your pilgrim’s progress as I went through my own.
The joke is one of my favorites — I first heard it as a story about Nasrudin, the slightly apocryphal Sufi teacher popular in Turkey and other parts of the Muslim world. Changing our viewpoint cannot change everything, but it sometimes astonishes us how much it *can* change.
I don’t get this…is it like trying to read between the lines but
gets carried away by the river.One don’t know he’s there and the other
one knows he is there??=)
11 Responses to “The Other Side”
By Johnny on May 31, 2007
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Very interesting picture which makes me think of the little price.
People seem to be easy to be dissatisfied
By Darrell Grizzle on May 31, 2007
Great cartoons, Jon - I’ve already added one to by blog!
Also: I’ve tagged you to play “Random 8″ - details at my Blog of the Grateful Bear (May 31st entry).
By isaiah on May 31, 2007
“Change the way you see the world and the world changes.”
This cartoon is proof!
By anonymous-julie on May 31, 2007
Perspective, eh?
By Jon on May 31, 2007
Welcome, Johnny!
Darrell, I’ll do the Random 8 thing soon. Thanks.
Isaiah and Julie:
Perspective, indeed. And I think it’s a very deep kind of perspective. The question is: how many men are speaking in the cartoon? Two separate men, separated by a river?
Or is this one experience involving two different places through two different minds and bodies? Are the distinctions apparent or real? At the very least isn’t he indirectly using the eyes of another to informed him of his location from another POV? And how can you “go” where you are? Where can you go?
By Irving on Jun 1, 2007
I love it
Poignant and cutting and true.
Peace and Blessings!
By anonymous-julie on Jun 1, 2007
Cute
By Sopholator on Jun 16, 2007
Delurking alert: I’ve read this site occasionally since your “Catholic” days, Jon; it’s been fascinating to follow your pilgrim’s progress as I went through my own.
The joke is one of my favorites — I first heard it as a story about Nasrudin, the slightly apocryphal Sufi teacher popular in Turkey and other parts of the Muslim world. Changing our viewpoint cannot change everything, but it sometimes astonishes us how much it *can* change.
Peace –
By Ned on Aug 6, 2007
I don’t get this…is it like trying to read between the lines but
gets carried away by the river.One don’t know he’s there and the other
one knows he is there??=)
By Jon on Aug 6, 2007
Ned, you’re not who you think you are. Finding out who you really are… well the drawing takes on a whole new meaning.
By Ned on Aug 7, 2007
I see…;?)Thanks!=)