Why is it now okay to say “see from a higher perspective” but horrible to say “level,” “dimension,” “realm,” “height,” “depth”?

“Egotism!” is the catch phrase du jour for any linguistic usage that unsettles one’s present complacency.
DrRobinStarbuck

“I wish I had known 40-50 years ago some very simple truths that could have put me on track for a powerful love journey, dismissing world hypnotism and inspiring others through my example many years ago.”

So many people have said this to me. Regret serves no good purpose but it does point to the fact that people want to be told the truth. Back then my popularity level soared as I made sure to always consider human feelings and ego-stroking.

Now I only wish to be used by the Christ to communicate with those few people who are ready to unlock themselves from an hypnotic complacency in which ear-tickling is valued over the simplest course of effecting a permanent awakening.

People are like sheep, dubbed ‘sheeple’! But nobody needs to stay that way if they’ll only come out from this extremely tempting mindset. Any person – no matter what their walk in life, no matter what their education, reading and writing skills, economic level, etc. – can determine to take the plunge now, and be a huge blessing to countless others.

Your attachments to this world – if you have the courage to identify them – will cease controlling you. You’ll stop making excuses and discover your unique way, your ever- present teacher and guide FOR THE FIRST TIME EVER!

You thought you had it before: THAT’S the hypnotism. Miracles will happen with such regularity that you’ll know just how to be able to expect them as the norm. You’ll defend your friends when they are under attack and surprise yourself with new-found integrity.

Please don’t ever hate the brother or sister who loves you so much as to stick their neck out to include you among the truly awakened. If they don’t want your money, your allegiance, even your following but just to see you truly strong and free in Spirit, God, simply graciously receive the gift!

There are two rather different ways of doing fb: keeping one’s friends list relatively small or building it up to around 5,000. The first method keeps people who basically share the same interests and opinions without too much dissent while the latter prefers a more varied group of Interlocutors.

Sometimes a mixture of the two types of fb users can be unsettling. I can’t tell you how many times I’d say something and no fewer than 10-12 people assumed it was written to them personally! On the other hand, someone with about 300 ‘friends’ has only about 30 people at any one time to consider and sometimes feels slighted when a person with nearly 5,000 plus 2,000 followers doesn’t see their posts!

No commentary, no judgement, no advice – just an observation.

I EARNESTLY MAINTAIN that whereas a good book affords the reader an ample number of pages – even chapters – to develop the point that is on a writer’s heart and there would be no need for occasional introductory CAPITAL LETTERS, in a relatively and mercifully brief social media post, they can serve a most effective purpose. They can inform the reader that the REALLY URGENT point is here (not 70-80 pages to come)!
I tend to shy away from posts written in all caps because it defeats the whole purpose of using them for emphasis but being super-sensitive to the point of being offended by any use of capital letters for the sake of brevity ought to be re-examined.
I hold a B.A., M.A. and Ph.D. in English and I can tell you that placing an *asterisk before a word does not tell billions of prospective readers that this is the CRITICAL PART that the author is leading up to.

HEAR YE !! HEAR YE !!
I put out a “list” of Christian terminology that is undergoing an upgrade. Being a multi-linguist myself (and please don’t tell me they have an ointment for that!), I am painfully aware of secular language glitches that just won’t quit! “I am sure”, It must be” “It has to be” “I know it is” all denote tentativeness, uncertainty! How in the blazes can we ever be sure? Leave out the adjectival phrases altogether, and simply state your case.
Then we need to take into consideration cultural differences. I wanted to thank a guy for his thoughtfulness, and started to write “you’re so sweet”. Then I worried that it might not be perceived like Jonathan Swift’s Sweetness and Light in Nigeria.
Woe is us. Communication is getting more and more complex despite all the shortcuts that telegraphic, internet language and pictographs afford. Haven’t you done the same thing: write – delete – write – delete, and finally go to your gallery and send them a pic instead?