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uriel1972

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10. I never said it was about the word

Reply to tama (Reply #9)

Wed Dec 21, 2011, 07:39 PM

Dec 2011

'Rape' I was using it as an example of an ugly word that no amount of 'redefining' would change. Maybe you can be dispassionate about it. Maybe you can empty out the word, that may make a difference to you, but it doesn't to me. The word with it's full attachments is waiting for the moment you actively stop depriving it of meaning.

When the horrors of the world come to visit, I doubt all the redefining in the world will be adequate to accommodate them.

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Natura naturata & natura naturans [View all] tama Dec 2011 OP

Thanks for that interesting post. Jim__ Dec 2011 #1

One side believes in God/s the other doesn't uriel1972 Dec 2011 #2

Just a word tama Dec 2011 #3

more than 'just a word' uriel1972 Dec 2011 #4

Perhaps so tama Dec 2011 #5

Eh why would I want to do that? uriel1972 Dec 2011 #6

Just out of curiosity? tama Dec 2011 #7

Look at it this way uriel1972 Dec 2011 #8

I look at it this way tama Dec 2011 #9

I never said it was about the word uriel1972 Dec 2011 #10

Horrors of the world? tama Dec 2011 #12

Who's side of the question are you inquiring into? westerebus Dec 2011 #11