Posted by Timne on July 3, 2009, at 20:19:41
In reply to Re: This may sound foolish. » Timne, posted by Dinah on July 3, 2009, at 6:14:04
> I see no reason to use definitions that could put anyone down. Words have generally agreed upon definitions that all can agree on,
Well, I'm not sure you're responding to what I said -- it seems more like some culture particular to this site, but the concepts don't come together like that. I'm shy, more like intimidated against honestly and maturely discussing the definitions people make up because people might claim my recognition of their definition as a made up definition not everyone shares might become part of their emotional landscape and they might blame me and ask someone to use rhetorical violence against me under color of this camp's authority.
I speak in riddles because the site is widely rumored to have a policy of putting people down or out or aside or something like that when administrators, who sometimes engage in conversations that I was told they sometimes end by wielding administrative powers, conclude something somebody said could make somebody feel "put down." try to define that, please. Is it like a street gang, and if you don't show enough respect i.e. if you wear your hat on the wrong side on the wrong street, you made your homies feel "put down". I grew past that when I was about 12.
Personally, I prefer people to take responsibility for their own feelings, and generally avoid situations where I am held responsible for others emotional behavior. But for some reason, I decided to post on this site and find myself writing in sawtooth language to try to explain things that for whatever reason I started writing about.
The "definitions" to which I refer are definitions of concepts. Not everybody agrees what "saved" means -- to me, it means rescued from some sort of peril. To others, it means some cosmic eternal thing. To me, Virgo means little more than folklore. In the occult world of religion and such, Virgo means a lot of things to a lot of people. Sometimes a knock in the walls is defined as a ghost -- those are the definitions I'm talking about, but if I use standard academic langauge to discuss them here as social constructs, I risk being attacked by somebody as "putting someone down," at least according to what people told me about this site.
So, if you say you see no reason to use definitions that "put people down," for me to have the slightest clue what you are talking about, I need to know quite a bit more about 1.) what you mean by "put people down" and 2.) what are your habits regarding personal use of force, rhetorical violence against others and authority in socially constructed settings. I don't think I'll learn enough about you, or that this is a safe place for me to engage in meaningful discourse regarding what you say you see reason to do or not do, so I'll otherwise just recognize that you said it.
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