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Originally Posted by Angela  Trying helping someone can be like trying a piece of cake. It can be an experiment to see how it works for the tryer that doesn't necessarily involve success/failure. |
What an interesting perspective: when trying to help someone, it is irrelevant as to whether or not you actually help them? And so, when doing this deed, you are merely evaluating how it turns out, with no concern for the actual results? I do not think I would wish to ask you to help me.
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Originally Posted by radeldude I always take it as a real miracle that people across the world, with *very* different backgrounds, very different languages, can communicate at all. |
I dislike taking things as miracles; it makes it difficult to subordinate them as tools.
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Originally Posted by radeldude I don't have this connection to 'try', probably because I have no english upbringing. |
I've always been under the impression that Star Wars was a little bit too well-known for its own good. Nevertheless, the point stood on its own without direct reference.
What word would you use for what I described?