For example, if I talk about “magic”, most of you will tell me I’m wrong without even asking me what I mean. You might even insult me.

How common is this? How much of this conversation is actual communication vs just a string of triggering phrases that we react to?

How much of Lemmy is people just barking at their own echo?

  • fannin [he/him, he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
    19·
    6 months ago

    This is just obscurantist language, like Spinoza calling the material universe God. That is not what anyone using the term means outside of extreme edge cases.

      • fannin [he/him, he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
        15·
        6 months ago

        I live in the US. My cultural context is evangelical Christian fascism.

        If your idea of “magic” doesn’t entail the belief in the supernatural, fine, I don’t really have a problem with it, but that’s not what barely anyone means. Unless they’re talking about copperfield.