Granny Does It: Vol IV More Morality, More Meaning

When we can’t walk, we’re carried. When we can’t cry, we’re allotted wings to soar. When we want to give up, we’re urged, instead, to rest and are given supernal hugs.

It’s extremely necessary to examine paradoxes arising from language’s ability to synchronously point to manifold loci. What might appear to be dysfunction is often courageous presentations of Truth.

We’ve succumbed to minutia of small worth, while backing away from difficult, important topics.

It’s tough to strongarm persons or nations who verbalize and hold to their limits. Bullies balk at restraints…Guarding ourselves from onslaughts is not only reasonable but necessary, though pleasing aggressors is neither reasonable nor necessary.

It’s impossible to be simultaneously dishonorable and ethical.

Whether we focus on interpersonal exchanges, rhetoric, or mass media, all levels of communication depend on social conventions for effectiveness.

Communication students rely on their instructors to frame student-based deconstruction as a portal to new insights.

Semantic screening is helpful in emphasizing the morality/meaning nexus. Words create or destroy worlds

Responses to goings-on that might seem fitting retorts, for powers arisen from Judeo-Christian morality, can’t influence entities whose starting points are completely disparate.