From: dnomhcir@gmx.com   
      
   oldernow  writes:   
      
   > 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.   
      
   I wonder if the writer will ever feel moved to consider why, and then   
   write it, and having written, move on, in a fingery writing sort of way.   
      
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