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Unfolding Nature Shop: Unfolding Nature: Being in the Implicate Order

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Language as imitation
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I suggest that language is imitative.  When we go beyond this, we are merely :stonedjerk:  What I'm saying now only imitates the actual nature of what I'm taking my observations from.


Discuss.

Edited by xFrockx (01/30/10 05:21 PM)

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Re: Language as imitation [Re: xFrockx]
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duh


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"Don't believe everything you think". -Anom.

" All that lives was born to die"-Anom.

With much wisdom comes much sorrow,
The more knowledge, the more grief.
Ecclesiastes circa 350 BC

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Re: Language as imitation [Re: Icelander]
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Language is an imperfect form of telepathy.


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We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.

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Re: Language as imitation [Re: deCypher]
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deCypher said:
Language is an imperfect form of telepathy.


Yep.  A more advanced form of music, dance, art ect ect. IMO.  I guess which is more "advanced" is up for debate.


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L'enfer est plein de bonnes volontés et désirs

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Re: Language as imitation [Re: xFrockx]
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Look up Alfred Korzybski's work...


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Re: Language as imitation [Re: deCypher]
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No.

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Re: Language as imitation [Re: Mufungo]
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Why?

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Re: Language as imitation [Re: xFrockx]
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xFrockx said:
No.


Great argument.  :congrats:


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Re: Language as imitation [Re: xFrockx]
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xFrockx said:
Discuss.

What is your point? :archiebunker:


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Well I try my best to be just like I am, but everybody wants you to be just like them. --  Bob Dylan
fireworks_god said:
It's one thing to simply enjoy a style of life that one enjoys, but it's another thing altogether to refer to another person's choice as "wrong" or to rationalize their behavior as being pathological or resulting from some sort of inadequacy or failing so as to create a sense of superiority or separation as yet another projection of a personal fear or control issue.

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Re: Language as imitation [Re: deCypher]
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Same to you

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Re: Language as imitation [Re: Poid]
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What is a point?

Edited by xFrockx (01/30/10 06:47 PM)

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Re: Language as imitation [Re: xFrockx]
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Purpose.


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Well I try my best to be just like I am, but everybody wants you to be just like them. --  Bob Dylan
fireworks_god said:
It's one thing to simply enjoy a style of life that one enjoys, but it's another thing altogether to refer to another person's choice as "wrong" or to rationalize their behavior as being pathological or resulting from some sort of inadequacy or failing so as to create a sense of superiority or separation as yet another projection of a personal fear or control issue.

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Re: Language as imitation [Re: Poid]
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What's my purpose?

I don't know.

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Re: Language as imitation [Re: xFrockx]
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xFrockx said:
What's my purpose?

I don't know.


I thought this was fairly straight forward...

Become parents, raise kids, then die.


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