The Guardian for this meeting was Riddle Sideways. The comments are by Riddle Sideways.
Riddle Sideways: good to be quietly sitting
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Riddle Sideways: Rereading wiki-logs on Dualism
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Riddle Sideways: it has been several years now that the war on pronouns has been going on.
Riddle Sideways: not sure what actually started it
Riddle Sideways: nor which straw broke the pronouns back
Riddle Sideways: There was a noticing that every written sentence began with "I"
Riddle Sideways: There was the demand for every reference to include a gender pronoun
Riddle Sideways: There was the number of times one person in another room would yell "What is THIS"
Riddle Sideways: and not define 'This'
Riddle Sideways: expect the other to stop, get up and travel to nearby, identify 'This' and answer.
Riddle Sideways: Then there was the PaB discussion of the use of "We"
Riddle Sideways: sentences that included "We" when it was possibly not a universal inclusion.
Riddle Sideways: Only that way from one observers view.
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Riddle Sideways: To make a baby step toward non-dualism seeing.
Riddle Sideways: an experiment began to eliminate pronouns
Riddle Sideways: special attention to take the "I", "eye" out of
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Riddle Sideways: Only 3 years into it, but eliminating as many first-person, egotistic, ownership, separate, dualistic defining pronouns has made a baby step
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Riddle Sideways: being careful with every sentence is very time consuming
Riddle Sideways: re-writing, editing
Riddle Sideways: not sure how to report finding of this experiment
Riddle Sideways: is still on-going
Riddle Sideways: hardest and not done yet is the elimination of "You"
Riddle Sideways: that seems important, but also hardest
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Labeling with a male or female pronoun because an avi 'looks' a gender is over assumptive. Yet probably exactly what is desired. (BTW - SL makes it nearly impossible to be unisex). It would be worse to use a gender pronoun targeting the typist's gender due to some secret knowledge you have :)
Just seems easiest to put the name in a sentence and not include a pronoun.