You've likely heard the phrase out of the frying pan and into the fire.

What you may not know, I mean, I didn't until I looked it up, is where that phrase came

from.

There are these three old poems in the Greek anthology, I tell the story of a hare being chased

by a pack of hunting dogs.

The hare runs and runs nearly being caught, but finally eludes the dogs by running into

the sea, where it is an eaten by what the poet refers to as a sea dog.

I mean, come on.

If you don't think that, there's a true story, well I think maybe you need to reexamine

what your thoughts are about.

What true means?

Because I mean, have you ever experienced something like that?

You know, a time when you were trying to escape one thing, a relationship, a group, a religion,

a constriction of some kind, only to find yourself in a new situation, but with a similar

or maybe even worse problem, you know, escaping living in a home only to find that one roommate

on earth who's even more annoying than your dad, or leaving one system of restrictive beliefs,

only to find another restrictive set of beliefs on the opposite end of the spectrum.

I mean, I know I'm not the only one who's had experiences like this, given the fact that

out of the frying pan and into the fire is a phrase, and the fact that it goes back thousands

of years to these poems about hairs and sea dogs, but it seems to me that this predicament

of trading out one set of chains for another is a pretty universal human experience.

And that's what we're going to be talking about today in the podcast, swapping fundamentalisms.

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