In which case, you may wish to consider why I'm saying what I am. Metaphors are "as if" statements, but people mistake the finger pointing at the moon as the moon itself. When a metaphor becomes a descriptor of reality, it becomes a "dead metaphor". When you understand that all of language is a pointer, a pattern we superimpose on something in order to attempt to understand it, you see that all of language itself is metaphor, not just certain phrases here and there. And that is the point in the "bigger picture" I'm getting at here.
If you care to understand a little more of why I'm saying what I am, you may take some time exploring that understanding in this discussion:
This assume that how we talk about reality can be understood by the human mind "as is", bypassing all the linguistic structures we use. At best, all of reality is still a "mediated reality" through these things. If you imagine we can actually figure it out with the mind and know it as is, then you'd have to explain how that is possible given the facts of the nature of language. When you say "This is the way it is", you now are pointing at your own mind and not the world.
The reason to do so is to be open to what lays beyond the current constraints of your adopted models of reality as reality itself. The reason is exploring reality beyond just your current conventions, like looking at the same diamond in a multitude of different light angles striking it. I prefer that over yet just another belief system we think represents reality as it is. That's a mistake of the mind to approach it with that goal that it can, and ends up missing what reality can be. That's why.
