Couldn’t agree more. Words are important. Let us strive then to use them with accuracy and precision.
Author means from or of itself- autonomous, automatic, etc. Everything then is everyone’s opinion. Yes even "facts", as the choice whether or not to consider something a fact is itself a decision someone made. There is no getting around it. Never has been, never will be, any Divine providential entity posting from on high.
This being the case then it is redundant to be qualifying everything with "in my opinion" or anything to that effect. To be redundant is just plain sloppy writing. Only thing worse would be to apologize for doing nothing wrong.
Author means from or of itself- autonomous, automatic, etc. Everything then is everyone’s opinion. Yes even "facts", as the choice whether or not to consider something a fact is itself a decision someone made. There is no getting around it. Never has been, never will be, any Divine providential entity posting from on high.
This being the case then it is redundant to be qualifying everything with "in my opinion" or anything to that effect. To be redundant is just plain sloppy writing. Only thing worse would be to apologize for doing nothing wrong.