It uses figurative language instead of the literal meaning of words so it’s complete nonsense.

Those words are already lost.

“Heaven” originally meant “the visible sky” so this is fine.

This guy is trying to mop up the beach every time the tide comes in.

Heaven forbid someone use a colloquialism! How will they ever be understood?

(For the sake of clarity I feel I must point out that I do not believe Heaven should, in fact, forbid such a practice. I fear without this clarification my first sentence is impossible to understand.)

Or if musicians started playing random accidentals in their Bach performances, because they don’t feel it’s important to alter keys at their whim?

That would be the equivalent of a writer inserting bacon random words.

The musical equivalent would be a musician making a deliberate choice to alter the performance because they like how it changes the piece. I would be perfectly fine with that.

A writer once put the letter ‘s’ in ‘eiland’ in order to make the word look more Latin. This, despite the fact that the word ‘island’ has no Latin roots. It caught on and now that is the proper spelling of ‘island’ and you’d be a fool to try to force people to spell it ‘eiland’.

English is used by the unwashed masses and trying to get it to adhear to strict rules or not change will be as effective as trying to stop a flood by holding out your hand.

English was not exactly right when you were born with the spelling of ‘island’ and was wrong hundreds of years ago with ‘eiland’, nor is it wrong that dumb means stupid instead of mute, or literally can be used to mean figuratively.

Gif þū ne sacast for eftcyme to Eald Englisc, þonne is hit līcnessēocnes tō sacanne þæt sprǣc ne mæg wrixlan.

Z always points outwards

“you are constantly complaining to me about your boyfriend and he doesn’t seem to listen to you. Why are you still with him?”

People don’t want solutions, they want to bitch endlessly and have a horde of strangers agree with them. Then they can also bitch about nothing improving!

People in my life get the benefit of “are you looking for solutions or are you looking for empathy?” Randos on the Internet don’t get to use everyone else as free therapists.

I installed Mint on my MIL computer. I did not have to spend time teaching her anything. People are able to switch from Windows to Apple no problem but for some reason Linux is

learn a new OS, that’s a steep cost

“have you considered using Linux” can be said as someone genuinely trying to help. An OS isn’t a fucking agenda.

I just fundamentally disagree with the hivemind

Isn’t it funny how when a lot of people disagree with you it has become a hivemind, as opposed to a common consensus among individuals that you are wrong? What a fantastic term to avoid actually reconsidering your opinion or actually listening to someone else’s point of view.

“Could there be multiple people who disagree with me?
No, it’s the hivemind who is wrong.”

We know because the guy who wrote it told us.

The guy who first wrote “eiland” spelled it as such. Then some idiot put an ‘s’ on it as a stylistic choice to latinize a word that has no Latin root. Now if you spell it any way other than “island” you are wrong because that is the way to word is used and understood.

Or, to put it another way, if you want to insist language is set in stone let me translate for you:

Se mann þe ǣrest wrāt “eiland,” swā hine stæfode. Þā sum dysig mann an ‘s’ onlēde swā stīlcræft, tō Lǣden sprǣce þæt word þe næfþ nān Lǣden rōt. Nū gif þū hine stæfian on ǣnige wīsan būtan “island,” þū bist wōh, forþām þæt is sēo wīs þe þæt word is gebrocen and understonden.

I encountered someone who was foaming at the mouth certain about how I was saying it wrong

And here you are. The circle is complete.

That’s why you had to spell it wrong in order to communicate that.

I’m sorry, I see you just wanted to knock your straw man around and are unable to handle actual push back. I’ll leave you to it.

The Catholic Church

Catholics and Christians, while similar, go to different churches. So despite the fact that:

“Of their local church” is what [you] clearly stated

You are in fact associating them with people who do not attend “their local church”.

You think every church has pedos in it and you accuse me of building a straw man?

You are the people you associate with

Do they associate with people 2000 miles away? Or do they just like the same book?

Is everyone who enjoys Lord of the Rings responsible for the actions of other LotR fans?