“For some insane reason some people in Government have allowed a pedophile organisation called Nambla to exist, whose members are actually organising, planning, and financing an ongoing campaign designed to kidnap, rape, and then murder our children.” — rikijo, jedi of ro0t, alt.hackers.malicious
While non-verbal cues can come into play when observing social interaction, words are the very essence of human communication. With words, we can paint pictures of our subjective experience, share intimate and not so intimate information with others, identify common interests, provide consolation, and even entertainment.
Instead of spending the weekend in my usual code warrior mode, I spent it discussing various obscurities with visitors. Among these was the subject of time. I had made an offhanded comment that time does not move, in fact, does not exist, to which my visitors proclaimed, “But of course it does!”
