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Originally Posted by roachboy
but if the story is of "your life" and you imagined it--its just as much part of your "life" as eating an egg. where's the distinction? how does it work? seems arbitrary to me. doesn't it seem arbitrary to you? that what you think or imagine or make up is less part of your life than hitting a rock as you walk down the street, that your inner world is worth less than the most tiresome incident involving something external to yourself? well, an object--the category of rock is your plaything. well, a collective plaything that you take over--o but there's another problem, this silly boundary between collective and private when you start thinking about this language business...and then it just starts getting worse....
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I know that you prefer a more open type of categorization, but for most people, myself included, these people are trying to take credit for something that they never did. That's the line which is crossed. A lie is only arbitrary when considered subjectively. Objectively, usually lying is wrong.
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Originally Posted by roachboy
nb: can i just say that seeing ghandi staring down at my sentences like that freaks me out?
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He's staring at ALL my posts. How do you think I feel?
He's there to keep me honest and on track. A WWJD bracelet for an atheist.