Pizzabeak
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Could it be possible, if it were to even matter on a big picture scale, that people whose second language is English don't know or misunderstand what "digest" means? In America there's a small magazine called "Reader's Digest", which is just reviews or summaries about shows for people in a hurry. Pretty much ignoring meanings that suggest you should pay little to no mind about how your actions affect the whole, I think digest means to spend time discussing, and thinking about, the material or show you watched, whether that means theorizing and hypothesizing about plotlines or characters, in order to facilitate intellectual stimulation in a forum like setting.
It doesn't mean you have to politicize everything, and type out letters revealing your intent to destroy people or ideas, in other words, it doesn't mean you have to be a fat fuck and "eat" things, nearly everything, metaphorically as if it makes you smarter or less threatened. Or maybe it does mean that? Smart or intelligent tends to mean problem solver or can figure things out. In life, such as in the wilderness, animals eat animals and/or kill each other, even members of the same pack when fighting for food, power, or the right to mate (as seen in various animal groups). So is that what smart means? At first it's the usually "dumber" animals that eat the other ones for feeling threatened about resource shortages in the future, such as the bigger, stronger animals who spend less time theorizing; etc. It's basically a game for more resources (seen as "valuable commerce" in potential upcoming apocalyptic scenarios). It is provoking responses to start a war out of their own insecurity and "foresight". I would say when push comes to shove fight back, except people will take the opportunity to assume I didn't mean it sarcastically or ironically just to prove a point, and instead will believe I was serious and will then see that as a declaration of war, or something, when, apparently, they can't or refuse to see that they manipulated the situation in the first place just to get to that point. Fallacy of Excluded Middle, anyone? Anyway, you have to watch what you say (apparently), because I don't think it's safe, right, or normal to have people get overexcited and read way too much into the messages you type just so they can see if they can learn anything new.
It doesn't mean you have to politicize everything, and type out letters revealing your intent to destroy people or ideas, in other words, it doesn't mean you have to be a fat fuck and "eat" things, nearly everything, metaphorically as if it makes you smarter or less threatened. Or maybe it does mean that? Smart or intelligent tends to mean problem solver or can figure things out. In life, such as in the wilderness, animals eat animals and/or kill each other, even members of the same pack when fighting for food, power, or the right to mate (as seen in various animal groups). So is that what smart means? At first it's the usually "dumber" animals that eat the other ones for feeling threatened about resource shortages in the future, such as the bigger, stronger animals who spend less time theorizing; etc. It's basically a game for more resources (seen as "valuable commerce" in potential upcoming apocalyptic scenarios). It is provoking responses to start a war out of their own insecurity and "foresight". I would say when push comes to shove fight back, except people will take the opportunity to assume I didn't mean it sarcastically or ironically just to prove a point, and instead will believe I was serious and will then see that as a declaration of war, or something, when, apparently, they can't or refuse to see that they manipulated the situation in the first place just to get to that point. Fallacy of Excluded Middle, anyone? Anyway, you have to watch what you say (apparently), because I don't think it's safe, right, or normal to have people get overexcited and read way too much into the messages you type just so they can see if they can learn anything new.