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Re: Floppies

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On 27/09/2025 13:47, Stéphane CARPENTIER wrote:
> Le 21-09-2025, Jim Jackson <jj@franjam.org.uk> a écrit :
>>
>> Just so you know - I loved the post, and got to the end!
> 
> Thanks. It's good to know because if I was answering Marc's message,
> even if my message could look like I was speaking to him, I wasn't. As
> long as I'm writing here, I'm writing to everyone here.
> 
>> As you say language (and its evolution) is fascinating.
> 
> Yep, but I'm far from the ultimate truth. If I don't put random words, I
> can make mistakes. So what I wrote must be taken more like the basis for
> a (new? I hope so for some people) way of seeing things than a way of
> correcting people who see things differently. Or just people who use
> words without thinking about what's behind them.
> 
Words (and objects) are metadata that *point to* a different order of 
reality.

It's very important that you neither confuse the word for the reality it 
points to, nor think that you can change the underlying reality by 
changing the meaning of the word.


-- 
If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will 
eventually come to believe it. The lie can be maintained only for such 
time as the State can shield the people from the political, economic 
and/or military consequences of the lie. It thus becomes vitally 
important for the State to use all of its powers to repress dissent, for 
the truth is the mortal enemy of the lie, and thus by extension, the 
truth is the greatest enemy of the State.

Joseph Goebbels

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