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climbing = dating? 6-Nov-2008 At 3:03:51 PM anthonyk

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On 6/11/2008 Wendy wrote:
>To try and put all of my rant about subjectivity into context, think about
>when you write letters home. Do you write the same things, in the same
>way, to your mother, partner, best friend, climbing mates? We adjust things
>according to our audience, just as Watkin would have. And when you look
>at something, do you see the same things that all these different people
>in your circle see? Do you reach the same conclusions about them? We all
>notice and make sense of things in the light of our experiences, education,
>culture, interests, morals etcetc. Do you tell the same confidences to
>all people? What we are allowed to see and hear by other people is also
>affected by who we are and our relationship to them. Hence my concern about
>drawing conclusions from Watkin's writing.

in other words everything is questionable, therefore that paragraph is questionable, therefore I don't care about anything in it. its a very convenient argument, but doesn't really add much.

by the way i think the person who posted it was just trying to stir up trouble anyway