(January 7, 2021 at 10:33 am)The Grand Nudger Wrote: Performative language. Just as their "personal relationship with jesus" should not be taken to mean that they sit the fucker down for tea and have a chat.
They're identifying themselves and affirming their belief with the use of perfunctory utterances. The statement is not truth evaluable on it's own because it doesn't report what it purports to report..rather, it reports something else.
Maybe they just like having me on, but this is almost precisely the answer I get when I ask them in all earnestness. Minus the tea, of course, but they seem convinced (or at least they want to convince me) that they have a two way conversation. Oh, I've tried to puncture this façade, but many seem determined to keep it up. Maybe just so they can sleep comfortably.
Why is it so?
~Julius Sumner Miller
~Julius Sumner Miller