by orchaeus | Jun 18, 2020 | Status Update
“What should be highlighted is the ‘spin’ of the S in Snake… and this… is far more useful (only if properly understood) than the passage (note this word) that highlighted this property of words (i.e. to hide a real meaning by spinning it...
by orchaeus | Jun 18, 2020 | Status Update
That wasn’t merely a dream… it was a new way of being human… in skin.
by orchaeus | Jun 18, 2020 | Status Update
“We, we keep using these words… like time and length and… and all of these things… that become… we don’t recognize that in that one ‘innocent’ decision to break off »one degree of freedom and »treat it differently…...
by orchaeus | Jun 17, 2020 | Status Update
Saw a post asking about whether or not Hate was useful. We have this idea that words mean things. But they don’t. What actually happens is that »people use words to mean things». In other words: meaning is the result of context + intent + interpretation…...
by orchaeus | Jun 17, 2020 | Status Update
“•So, if I have this at least partly correct, the difference between the knowledge-reception-verb ideas of Discovery (colonial) and that of Transfer (indigenous) could be said to (respectively) resemble the difference between Rape and Lovemaking? ∞ Yeah,...
by orchaeus | Jun 17, 2020 | Status Update
I have heard that in Blackfoot linguistic traditions, one does not say ‘I know (something)’. They may say he knows, she knows or they know, but to declare that I myself ‘know’ is a taboo that will result in severe derision. They have many...
