Fins,
You KNOW you're asking me to open a can of worms. That's okay.
She was stating that my texts arrived out of order. That is true.
I was stating that the text with the image took a lot longer to arrive than the other ones did. That is true.
Her point of view was that the image text took a lot longer to arrive because the order of the texts was somehow changed. My point of view was that the order of the texts was changed by the image text being delayed.
She characterized this as something about my phone. I said the phone couldn't receive a text and then wait for some time before displaying it, putting a later time stamp on it. Instead, I said it was caused by the transmission system: the delay was caused either by AT&T, Verizon, or a combination of the two. Also, since we've never seen this before, it's not typical.
Note that I have to assume that the issue is a delay in order to express those possible reasons. If, instead, the issue is that order of the messages was changed, then one has to seek out the means by which the order was changed.
This shows why philosophers are still in business and why most people don't read philosophy. I just ran across something written by the guy I quote in my RC signature, George Bernard Shaw. The article is described as "
an excerpt from Shaw's preface to R.A. Wilson's 1941 book." (See
[Link: digitalcomposition.org].) The excerpt has indications showing that the entire thing was more than forty pages long -- and that was just the introduction! You've gotta wonder how long the book is!