multiple languages : when being raised with one, there tends to be a disconnect between emotion and the veracity of words ; what is school, if not an adult consistently talking down to you ?
Christianity attempts to re-establish the connection between heart , mind , soul ; jungian integration ?
science is one big language game as well - is the atom bomb real , for instance ?
i do not have the math to prove or disprove it's existence, so is it real (or fear) ?
tell a good enough story , and one can get people to be-lie-ve almost anything ;
accept when confronted with truth.
The law is also a different language - Mark 13:11
[final nod to the movie Joyeux Noel on the power of Christianity in re war]
"I also unironically think this is the psychological drive of the western anime appreciation phenomenon."
"Put another way: for everyone to understand, it must be intelligible to the dumbest person in the room"
Or just put it in an anime. I swear, put it in an anime and everyone will work at warp speed, with preternatural haste, to understand what was said.
Sophism? *Deceit*? Nah, siree, we are translating that waifus or that shonen hero's moonspeak in order to delve the depths of her or his psychology *right now*! And the only losers in that interaction are localizers.
Was trying recently to read more about this 'philosophy of language'. the idea that they are all translating somethng on an incomplete way, etc, but don't have any idea bout where to start. Any book recomendation?
Ludwig Wittgenstein, people say tractatus is difficult to get into and to start with "philosophical investigations" but I disagree. Like all things that get a bad Rep, it's over hyped
Correction: Greek and Aramaic
Makes me think of this story of St Paisios: https://www.orthodoxpath.org/saints-and-elders-witnesses/saint-paisios-speaks-the-language-of-the-pentecost/
the passion of the mist
multiple languages : when being raised with one, there tends to be a disconnect between emotion and the veracity of words ; what is school, if not an adult consistently talking down to you ?
Christianity attempts to re-establish the connection between heart , mind , soul ; jungian integration ?
science is one big language game as well - is the atom bomb real , for instance ?
i do not have the math to prove or disprove it's existence, so is it real (or fear) ?
tell a good enough story , and one can get people to be-lie-ve almost anything ;
accept when confronted with truth.
The law is also a different language - Mark 13:11
[final nod to the movie Joyeux Noel on the power of Christianity in re war]
"I also unironically think this is the psychological drive of the western anime appreciation phenomenon."
"Put another way: for everyone to understand, it must be intelligible to the dumbest person in the room"
Or just put it in an anime. I swear, put it in an anime and everyone will work at warp speed, with preternatural haste, to understand what was said.
Sophism? *Deceit*? Nah, siree, we are translating that waifus or that shonen hero's moonspeak in order to delve the depths of her or his psychology *right now*! And the only losers in that interaction are localizers.
The fourth global language has got to be anime.
uhh
Do you recommend deleting Twitter (I already did).
depends on why, but as a general rule probably yeah
Love this and your work.
Was trying recently to read more about this 'philosophy of language'. the idea that they are all translating somethng on an incomplete way, etc, but don't have any idea bout where to start. Any book recomendation?
Ludwig Wittgenstein, people say tractatus is difficult to get into and to start with "philosophical investigations" but I disagree. Like all things that get a bad Rep, it's over hyped