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Originally Posted by Angela  I'm sorry, John, I don't see cylon being petulant or evasive or snide, particularly not his post I think you were referring to, the one with the music link. I see light-hearted playfulness and kind of a joke, not even a rib-nudging one, just sweet. I think there is room for that in rational discussion. It's not so much off-topic as just cryptic to someone who is holding tightly to his perspective. |
No, you probably missed them. It's ok. It was earlier, and everybody's moved on except me, of course: people like me hold tightly to our perspectives
. We're over-rationalzing, should lighten up (but take it all a bit more seriously at the same time - that's poetry for you) and just enjoy life instead of worrying about what's true. Cylon is sweet, you're sharp and I would put you all in straight-jackets given half a chance.
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Other than guiding folks to follow Steve's posted rules, I can't and don't want to control how people express themselves. That would only limit me.
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Of course. Well, no, it would limit them, but I see what you mean, I think.
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So, what do you mean by telling me "~~><::> ><;;>"? I'm not sure I understand, unless you're expressing petulance or snideness.  Is there something else in there?
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I typed that in a reply to cylon. I was working at lightening up, being cryptic and poetic. It wasn't to you. I saw it somewhere else earlier and thought it was interesting. I don't know whether it's a common thing - like a known cypher - but it could be. It looks like it could mean "Evolution", especially in the original where the second figure is underlined. It goes: fish with ripples after it, so swimming, to fishy-type thing on a flat surface, but now the rib colons are semicolons, representing the fins growing into legs. I imagine that's what it meant. The other thing it looks like is: fish, swimming again - fish caught and on a plate. Sgood innit? I like them things. I'll ask if I find it again.
I don't know why I said it to cylon, but it would be possible to construct meanings from either version that would be fitting. He may not know why he said
, but apparently that was addressed to you. D'oh, we're all at xd porpoises.