Now, then, let's see, where were we?  OH, yeah. :)
JPH>BN>OTOH, if we proceed from the POV that none of it matters
JPH>BN>because it's all fictional, we might as well not even talk of it
JPH>BN>could say in yours that black is pink -- it'd totally obviate the
JPH>BN>point of even talking about the show to begin with. 
JPH>        Not at all.  If black is white in your fiction, then that's
JPH> interesting, and worth considering.  I can discuss it accepting it for
JPH> the sake of the conversation.  But it isn't *binding* to me.  If I
JPH> *like* the black is white idea then I'll internalize it.  If I don't,
JPH> then I won't.
And at that point there's no common frame of relative reference,
so if we're talking about a supposedly common basic subject we then
end up talking at cross-purposes, which can't possibly work. ;)
As Spock said about the whales, "Perhaps the words, but not the
meaning.  We would be speaking in gibberish." 
JPH>        Now you argue that *certain* people will say untrue things about
Nope, what I said was that some people take their _own_ version of
Trek as the One True Trek over everyone else's -- somewhat large
difference there. };)
JPH>BN>As well as missed points. 
JPH>        Those too.  What does "" mean?
Big  Eating Grin. }:)
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