Comment on Everybody talks about beliefs like they're this big important thing.

• DarkDarkHouse@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  If you’re drawing authority from it, that’s on you. Sometimes you just like the turn of phrase and are giving credit.

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  • DominatorX1@thelemmy.club ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Which is more important to you, the phrase or the credit?

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    • DarkDarkHouse@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Uh, what? I’ll use a quote when it neatly captures what I was thinking, and credit it to the original author. The phrase is the important part I guess, but fair play to the author.

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      • DominatorX1@thelemmy.club ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Is the phrase diminished if you leave out the author’s name?

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• bitcrafter@programming.dev ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I was definitely not standing on the authority of Elliott, merely making use of his words and crediting him for it, so you are simply wrong.

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  • DominatorX1@thelemmy.club ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    You are totally standing on that famous name.

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    • bitcrafter@programming.dev ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Okay, fair enough, you got me: I wrote his name on a piece of paper and was standing on it when I wrote that comment in order to absorb his authority. You win this Internet argument.

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    • Gradually_Adjusting@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Quotation isn’t high art perhaps, but it sure beats bickering pointlessly. What the hell lol

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    • zalgotext@sh.itjust.works ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I’m laying down actually

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