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Re:Dystopia Is What Results from the Attempt to Create Utopia by kerbalspacepro on Wednesday February 20, 2019 @05:07PM (#19212513)
Saying "the world is fallen" implies that the world fell from something. It didn't. The same rules of physics, as far as we can tell, have been plugging away since the very beginning.

If you mean "The world sucks" then say that instead of saying "the world is fallen". Fallen has a very specific meaning, and using it as a poetic slush word is enough to make me not take the OP seriously.

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Re:Dystopia Is What Results from the Attempt to Create Utopia by coldtea on Wednesday February 20, 2019 @05:58PM (#19212969)
>Saying "the world is fallen" implies that the world fell from something. It didn't

Welcome to the magic world of metaphors and symbolism...

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Re:Dystopia Is What Results from the Attempt to Create Utopia by SiempreViernes on Wednesday February 20, 2019 @08:11PM (#19213659)
Dude, way to xkcd 169.
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Re:Dystopia Is What Results from the Attempt to Create Utopia by sigstoat on Wednesday February 20, 2019 @06:35PM (#19213185)
> If you mean "The world sucks" then say that instead of saying "the world is fallen".

If you mean that you don't like the author's choice of words, then that that instead of saying "the entire article [is] essentially meaningless".

> Fallen has a very specific meaning

Which of the four definitions in WordNet, or dozens of other possible dictionary meanings, is that very specific meaning?

> and using it as a poetic slush word is enough to make me not take the OP seriously.

"Slush" has a very specific meaning, involving partially frozen materials. I feel that your use of it here has rendered your entire comment essentially meaningless.

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