When you stand in a doorway, are you outside or inside?
Submitted by hollyhoppet in ask
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devtesla wrote
no don't
hollyhoppet wrote
Too late
Alessia wrote
if a door wore pants would it wear them like this or like this?
hitto wrote
the answer is no
hitto wrote (edited )
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.
emma wrote
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?
Presidential_Afro wrote
u are
Fangren wrote
Inside, as you are no longer outside.
hollyhoppet wrote
what if i were to say that actually you're outside because you're no longer inside?
Fangren wrote
You'd be wrong. The doorway is part of the building, and by entering it you are thus entering a part of the building. Meaning, technically, you are inside.
mm_ wrote
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
flabberghaster wrote
You do know a ton about architecture so i must defer to you on this matter.
musou wrote
hmm... could be
missingno wrote
yes
rizzines wrote
Neither. You are in the way.
Emily wrote
i think even for a doorway leading to the outside world yr still a little more inside than outside, even if you are pausing before leaving, yr still pausing like in the Inside World ready to take the perilous journey Outside
MissJenna wrote
I think that it is important that we allow the invisible hand of the market to decide this.