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ninetyninenine ◴[05 Jul 25 02:32 UTC] No.44469687[source]▶

>Creation is not birth; it is murder. The murder of the impossible in service of the possible.

What a stupid quote. You know why it's stupid. Because murder is creation. It is the creation of death while destroying life.

Just use the word the way it's meant to be used. Don't come up with quotes that sound clever and trick the mind into thinking a statement is profound when really it's just more word trickery.

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1. jiriro ◴[06 Jul 25 13:03 UTC] No.44480475[source]▶

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> Just use the word the way it's meant to be used.

Ha ha, you are funny:-)

This is the whole point of a (natural) language – the meaning of words is inevitably floating.

Do not nail down a meaning of a word, it’s impossible. Instead, try to imagine there is no word;-)

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