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hitto wrote (edited )

Reply to comment by hitto in When you stand in a doorway, are you outside or inside? by hollyhoppet

the doorway is a liminal space, a boundary between two states of being, "inside" and "outside". to enter a doorway is to transition between these states, and for a brief moment one is neither inside nor outside, but in a non-state of profound uncertainty and ambiguity, where conventional order is dissolved into infinite possibilities - but sooner or later that ambiguity must coalesce into one of the predetermined states, and order is reestablished under new conditions: what once was outside is now inside, or what once was inside is now outside. the transition itself, or the ritual space reserved for it, however, cannot fully be encompassed by either state.

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mm_ wrote

Reply to When you stand in a doorway, are you outside or inside? by hollyhoppet

easy: inside. when construction workers are doing a room that has a door going to it but the room isn't yet enclosed, technically we are all 'inside' those rooms, right? so then normally being in the door way would be like 50% outside 50% inside? but the 'construction insides' that leak out, making the doorframe itself 'inside' those rooms, outweigh that to like 49% outside 51% inside imo

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emma wrote

Reply to When you stand in a doorway, are you outside or inside? by hollyhoppet

This depends entirely on the definition of 'you'. If your head was severed from your body, which of these counts as 'you'? What if both were 'alive' after the severing? Who is arbitrarily deciding which cells of the body count as one's soul? Why are some cells of your body assigned personality, while others aren't?

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