Honestly, WF, simplification was not what your statements required; quite the reverse.
(And I really do apologise to everyone else that I'm having to go into this)
I understand what a metaphor is, I understand what a simile is and I understand that you were trying to say that NPAS (like a sunrise) would happen regardless of what we said.
There was no need to explain that further, really there wasn't.
I was merely asking who here had indicated that NPAS wouldn't happen?
We are all aware that it is happening, that's what we're debating, how it will affect us and the job that we do. Nobody doubts that the sun will rise on October 1st (see what I did there, that's a metaphor) but we still have a lot to discuss.
Mark Twain once said that you should never argue with an idiot because, from a distance, people won't be able to tell the difference and I really shouldn't have allowed myself to be dragged in but I just had to have one last go at explaining my frighteningly simple question. I feel like I'm banging my head against a brick wall, here. (That, in case you're wondering, WF, is a simile).
Who said that it wasn't going to happen and did you think that's what we'd been talking about?