There's nothing "mere" about symbolism.
Agreed. Yet there are people out there who don't know that symbols necessarily point to something. I was simply addressing them in-particular.
For example. Some twenty years ago, I on a tour of a Masonic temple. I asked the tour guide (a close friend of mine at the time), what all the masonic symbols meant. He kept dismissively repeating ad nauseam that they were "merely symbolic," as-if they had no real meaning at all.
That stuck with me for quite some time.
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