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Nov. 20, 2024 - Clif High

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Connotation Collision

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	Hello humans.
	Hello humans.
	It's like 7 o'clock or something in the evening on Tuesday here.
	We're still having these the bomb cyclone drop in on us and still don't have power and stuff.
	But I wanted to talk real quick about this idea of connotation and denotation.
	Denotation is the definition of a word.
	So, and connotation is how you feel about that word, how you think about that word.
	It is what it connotes in you, right?
	Connotes means makes a rise.
	And so, you know, does it raise an emotion?
	Does it raise a particular image, et cetera, et cetera, right?
	So that's the connotation.
	And usually those things are somewhat joined to the denotation, but it need not be that way.
	And this is where you get into all of the emotional impact, the rising and, or the, yeah, the rising and falling building tension language or release language, okay?
	And those are connotatively based.
	The emotional response to words comes in from the connotation, how it makes you feel.
	Does it trigger emotions that raise hormone levels, etc., that sort of thing.
	Whereas the definition is relatively straightforward and bland.
	So we have real world examples of this happening all the time all around us.
	And you encounter these people and will interact with them that think differently than you about words.
	And where you're speaking to people and you'll discover that you're just not communicating even though you're using the same language, right?
	And it's because their connotation is radically different than yours or you're speaking, you know, denotatively, you know, definition, grammar, rhetoric, et cetera, very precisely, which is what happens with techies.
	And the other person has no frame of reference for thinking that way.
	And so thus is not understanding what you're saying.
	And so we have these real world things that happen all the time.
	And we get examples of this, right?
	So there's this guy out there, Bo Polney, and he's a, he claims to be a time analyst, which is really funny.
	But anyway, he's this religious guy.
	And he keeps saying that we're in biblical times.
	And, you know, so that's a connotation, right?
	He's expressing his emotion.
	He has no other word to tell you about the level of magnitude that he thinks of time that we're in in terms of the events and the changes at all, other than the word biblical, because in his mind, that's like the epitome, right?
	Because he's a religious guy.
	And so he has a connotation of the word Bible that I do not.
	When you say the word Bible to me, it means book, you know, biblios, extracted from the Greek.
	And so it just means book.
	That's all it is, is a book.
	And I have lots of books.
	And, you know, some books are more valuable than others.
	And the, you know, the Old Testament and the New Testament books are not that particularly valuable because they're fictions and their history has been totally distorted, right?
	Completely obscured and so on.
	And all of this shit's going to be coming on out.
	So this is part of the problem for the social order.
	Not only do you have the Wolconians out there, the Elohim worship cult, communist-inspired ideologues messing with language.
	That's their tool, by the way.
	They upset you by distorting your connotation versus denotation in your mind about specific words.
	So you have a connotation for a woman, which they messed with, right?
	And you have a denotation, and they don't want you to go to that denotation where a woman is defined as an adult human female.
	They want you to deal with the connotation they're trying to shove down your throat, which is this, you know, ugly trans fucker.
	Anyway, so not only do we have that, a deliberate assault on our language in order to destabilize the social order, but we also have naturally occurring effects that are destabilizing this social order.
	And these naturally occurring effects are the shift that we're going through as we move from one age to another, and we leave behind the paradigm of the gratology world and move into the paradigm of an ontology world.
	And this is going to radically alter our connotation and denotation on a lot of our language and will do so for hundreds of years.
	And it will be akin to what has happened in like, you know the move into the age of reason in the 1700s or the um the great flourishing in the 1200s when uh boscovich and all of his people did their work or the any of these ages where where there was a great shift in the underlying um understanding and structure of the general common lexicon and that's what goes on is so they the communists assault the lexicon you
	don't know what to think because your mind is confused because the social pressure is making you try to you know that are trying to make you believe that a woman uh you know can have a dong right uh so anyway uh so these kind of social order pressures are on us and they are not only deriving or coming from the Elohim worship cult trying to take over the planet.
	Although that's very, had been hugely ongoing for, you know, 300 years and it's come to, it's coming to a very abrupt end as all of their plans and plots fail, failing for a number of reasons I didn't want to go into.
	But anyway, so connotation and denotation, right?
	So you can think of any of these people that have this word biblical and they say it with a level of reverence and then they say it as though they're standing inside some giant cathedral or something.
	And they're meaning something more by it than people that see it as the word referencing, oh, out of a book, from a book.
	That's what biblical means, from a book.
	You know, so I've got a bunch of mathematics formulas that are biblical.
	You know, that sort of thing, right?
	Pornography is biblical if it comes from a book.
	So, you know, so the connotation is radically different.
	And they don't like it, by the way.
	The religious people don't like it when you mess with their connotations by insisting on discussing things on a denotive level in order that there might be some level of communication.
	I'm not saying it'll be, you know, good communication or fulfilling on either side, but it's a lot better than getting totally lost in the weeds when your denotation runs into their connotation or vice versa.
	Anyway, though, so that's just this little bit on that.

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