[quote=John McClane][quote=Yoda]If words matter enough for someone to say a thing, they matter enough for people to disagree with how it's said. Can't be one but not the other.[/quote]When is a door not a door? When it is ajar.[/quote]

[quote=doubledenim][quote=Yoda]I think I've had scrambled eggs something like 13 of the last 14 days. I'm in full-on January diet mode which usually involves finding some high-protein food and eating it almost every day. Eggs the last two years.[/quote]

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Quinoa, asparagus, peanuts and less than a cup of granola/kashi. Eury-day. 

The quinoa seems to be hearty enough that it hasn't grown old... yet. [/font][/quote]

[quote=Yoda]I think I've had scrambled eggs something like 13 of the last 14 days. I'm in full-on January diet mode which usually involves finding some high-protein food and eating it almost every day. Eggs the last two years.[/quote]

[quote=Yoda]If words matter enough for someone to say a thing, they matter enough for people to disagree with how it's said. Can't be one but not the other.[/quote]

[quote=John McClane]Great...now I want scrambled eggs... :licklips:[/quote]

[quote=John McClane]But man, we could ride this merry go round all day long.

I mean, you already know college scrambled my eggs, and we all know how hard it is to unscramble eggs.[/quote]

[quote=John McClane][quote=Yoda][quote=John McClane]Words don't matter. Our reactions to words matter.[/quote]
And our reactions are based on...what? What the words are intended to convey.[/quote]More like our previous interactions with the words. Or even just our life experiences.

[quote]You can't use words to say words don't matter. It's a self-defeating argument.[/quote]By that logic, you also can't use words to say words do matter, but I think in that context it would maybe be a self-preserving argument?[/quote]

[quote=Yoda]And our reactions are based on...what? What the words are intended to convey.

You can't use words to say words don't matter. It's a self-defeating argument.
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[quote=John McClane]At least that's my life philosophy these days. Working out swell so far. :yup:[/quote]

[quote=John McClane]Words don't matter. Our reactions to words matter.[/quote]

[quote=Yoda]Either words matter, in which case caring about how they're used is reasonable, or they don't, in which case there's no force to calling something evil, and also no force to being told you need to "reprogram your emotional reaction."

Obviously words matter, and obviously using stark words to describe increasingly less stark things dilutes them and inures us to the things that actually qualify.[/quote]