I'm with ya 100%. There's even some cogsci stuff that's backing
   up its true power. You might like embodied cognition - george
   lakoff - metaphors we live by. Great stuff. Finally a position I
   can stand behind mostly. If I wasn't on my phone at the moment
   id write a tome on this right here and now. I'll do it later for
   sure. One of my favorite topics. Metaphor - and not just
   linguistic either but encompassing the very way we learn
   ANYTHING. Compressed patterns linking to similar patterns and
   noting the distinctions as well.