From: oldernow@dev.null
On 2025-03-29, Richmond wrote:
> oldernow writes:
>
>> On 2025-03-29, Richmond wrote:
>>
>>>>>>> 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.
>>>>
>>>> Reader wonders if the poster will ever feel moved to post
>>>> and let post.
>>>
>>> Reader wonders why the writer wonders why the reader
>>> doesn't let the writer post. The reader doesn't stop the
>>> writer posting.
>>
>> Reader wonders how the writer doesn't understand that the
>> phrase "live and let live" (from which the phrase "post
>> and let post" was inspired) is probably more often used
>> as a short form for "live and let another/others live as
>> the latter wishes/wish without restriction or judgement
>> or persecution from the former" than in an absolute
>> living versus not living sense.
>
> Reader wonders at loaded words 'restriction, judgement, persecution'.
Reader reminds the writer that they bring their own
meanings and/or significance (e.g. "loadedness") to words.
> Reader wonders if writer feels restricted, judged, or persecuted.
Reader reminds the writer that the writer wondered whether
the reader might ever feel moved to write about something
other than what the reader wants to write about.
> Reader remembers subjective pronounds with fondness.
Reader wonders if abandoning subjective pronouns might
at least somewhat dissolve the illusion of personal
subjectivity.
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