Hi,
i would like to make a suggestion: to write our posts in E-prime.
(Please read the post before discarding it as not connected to this forum. Also please give a couple of minutes to read the link to Wiki below. I think a connection exists, considering the topics discussed on Beyond Dreaming)
Anyway, it seems a good idea to give short intro to E-prime. From Wiki:
"E-Prime (short for English-Prime, sometimes denoted E′) is a version of the English language that excludes all forms of the verb to be. E-Prime does not allow conjugations of to be (am, are, is, was, were, be, been, being), archaic forms (e.g. art, wast, wert), or contractions ('s, 'm, 're). The E-Prime versions communicate the speaker's experience rather than judgment, making it harder for the writer or reader to confuse opinion with fact."
One can use these words though:
* become;
* has; have; having; had (I've; you've)
* do; does; doing; did
* can; could
* will; would (they'd)
* shall; should
* ought
* may; might; must
* remain
* equal
For a better intro follow the link to Wiki:
E-Prime - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Why i, you may ask, have to hassle to write in such a weird way? Well, one answer taken from Wiki :
" “To be” prevents us from experiencing a shared reality; something we need in order to communicate in a sane way. If someone sees something completely different than another, our language prevents us from acknowledging the other's point of view by limiting our perception to fixed states. For example, if I say “Star Wars is a shitty movie,” and my friend says, “Star Wars is not a shitty movie!” We have no shared reality, for in our language, truth lies in only one of our statements and we can forever argue these truths until one of us writes a book and has more authority than the other. If on the other hand I say, “I hated Star Wars,” I state my opinion as observed through my own senses. I state a more accurate reality by not claiming that Star Wars “is” anything, as it could “be” anything to anyone."
Now then, the idea for that suggestion came to me while reading all these lengthy threads about Shared Dreaming for example. Another type of posts exist as well where people state what they think and try to convince us in the truthfulness/uniqueness of their experience. But the SD threads hold the first place in awesomeness As the quotation from above states "to be" creates a problem in communication and we can see that in all these numerous threads. Furthermore if according to the above excerpt, 'to be' prevents us from experience shared reality, what about the Shared Dream reality? As some very patient members of the forum many times stated - many realities exist. Some just cant be easily proven to the people who really want them to be proven to them. So when we share our dream reality experiences we should learn to respect and learn from every possible source(here meaning post) and not just fight over something we can not solve.
So i think in the light of the above said E-prime could help the users in conducting better and more senseful communication without needless fights. It could create a more fruitful environment for all, where all personal experiences become valid and true and people could actually start learning.
I would like to say that i as well fall into the category of people who create mess and fight over things we should not.
Lastly, I want to apologize to everyone who felt insulted with this post or some of my previous ones.
Please, leave your comments and thoughts about that idea! I would especially like to see what the moderators think about it.
Be happy!
PS: By the way, in this post i have tried to avoid the verb 'to be'. But as my first attempt in e-prime it may still contain 'errors' Excuse me for that. I would like to recommend the book by R. A. Wilson: 'Quantum psychology'. Written in E-prime and discusses it as well but it contains other very interesting and useful info about our perception and reality.
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