On 2020-01-13 12:50 p.m., dsi1 wrote:
> On Sunday, January 12, 2020 at 8:13:23 PM UTC-10, Daniel wrote:
>> On 1/12/20 10:04 PM, dsi1 wrote:
>>> On Sunday, January 12, 2020 at 7:40:35 PM UTC-10, Leo wrote:
>>>> On 2020 Jan 12, , dsi1 wrote (in
>>>> >):
>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>
I don't consider it to be a lie. It's a rather apt description. You know
what
>>>>> it means, they know what it means, he knows what it means.
>>>>> When you think about it, most things that we name is a lie. A
>>>>> hunk of meat is not really meat. It's not anything that we
>>>>> choose to arbitrarily call it. It just "is."
>>>>
>>>> Existential deep stuff! Are you sitting with your legs crossed
>>>> and burning incense? Im going with a more descriptive and just
>>>> now appropriated Sheldon definition. Mystery meat.
>>>>
>>>> leo
>>>
>>> Somebody has to do the deep thinking in this group. Who's going
>>> to do it, you? As far as I know, there's no reason to call meat,
>>> "meat." One might get away with saying that a dog should be
>>> called "woof-woof" or a drum could be aptly named a "boom-boom."
>>>
>>> Most things in this world are just arbitrarily, named. If
>>> everything in this world were correctly named, different
>>> languages wouldn't exist. Evidently, being able to realize this
>>> requires extra heavy duty thinking skills. Don't hate me because
>>> I'm deep.
>>>
>> Different languages don't exist because words are improperly
>> labeled. That premise is certainly mislabeled as deep, however.
>>
>> -- Daniel
>>
>> Visit me at: gopher://gcpp.world
>
> Different languages exist because labels of persons, places, and
> things, aren't based on anything in nature. Viewing the world as a
> series of word associations is an inefficient way of experiencing
> life.


Yet, having a name to apply to something helps people to remember it.