From: oldernow@dev.null   
      
   On 2025-03-28, Richmond  wrote:   
      
   >> FWIW, beer is beer too.   
   >   
   > And sarcasm is sarcasm.   
      
   Whoa! Faster learner!   
      
   >> They might *represent* aspects of an alleged objective   
   >> reality, the way shadows represent alleged objects, but   
   >> are in fact the contrast of light blocked by an alleged   
   >> object (i.e.  absence of light) with light not blocked   
   >> by the same alleged object.   
   >>   
   >> The shadows are not the objects, most certainly can be   
   >> taken to be the objects by an observer whose perspective   
   >> hasn't risen above their belief that the shadows are   
   >> the objects.   
   >   
   > Why 'risen above' and not 'fallen below'?   
      
   Because it's what the writer wanted to type at the time.   
      
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