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AI: Intelligence with a bow of no clue about words and you glowing in the dark.

By In Words, You

What has art got to do with intelligence?

I don’t know the answer to the question.

You?

However, I do know of artists less intelligent and more famous than I. I think that’s proof enough art and intel aren’t connected in any which way.

What do you think?

Energy, water, fire, air & earth

The energy, water, fire, air & earth together invented the Earth, cells, plants, animals, eyes, brains, word, and word-users — the last two 13,750 years ago, when the age was stone, the Sahara green, and Northern Europe under 1-mile-thick ice.

The energy, water, fire, air & earth together didn’t invent AI. They left that to the word-users and…

It clearly shows

AI — whatever that’s supposed to mean — got invented less than 100 years ago.

Neither then nor now does it have any clue about words* (https://go.schindlersword.com/w3I4uS) and about you (https://go.schindlersword.com/69rGfx)

But for all that we and AI pretend to know, we have now together arrived at the stupidest war ever since the invention of words 13,750 years ago.

  • Our war against nature.
  • Our war against ourselves.
  • If we win, we’re lost.

When we win — with some hoping sooner rather than later while others are hoping never — the energy, water, fire, air, earth, plants, and wordless animals will party for longer than we’ll know for the wordful animals that won the war will be no more, gone forever, extinct.

Our intelligence, AI included, got us here.

Do you think the two together will get us out of here?

Do you think they could?

Or do you think that 13,750 years after the invention of words, we’ve finally arrived at the point where more grass has grown in the valleys of stupidity than on the hills of wisdom?

PS

  • *Everything you have a word for and know, you included, is a word.
  • The 9 billion word-users’ IQ+AI doesn’t compare to the energy’s IQ, the water’s IQ, the fire’s IQ, the air’s IQ, and the earth’s IQ.

“The difference between stupidity and genius is genius has its limits.” – Albert Einstein

Chaos & fragility

By In Words, You

Chaos and fragility now command of the West, South, North and East.

If you’re a word-user that believes in anything worth having, you’re are, or pretend to be, now in disbelief at the daily headlines.

I’m on your side all the way.

The world as we know is going to hell in a hand-basket with everybody along for the ride like it or not.

Alternative?

The alternative to the fragility and chaos now reigning our world of words is to go within the energy, fire, air, earth and water that you are.

The five together are telling you that you knew what you are doing ever since you learned words from your parents, siblings, friends, preachers, and teachers.

Those words made it clear from the start that chaos and fragility are the only constant in this world of words you’re born in like the child thrown into the water to see if it can swim.

Those words make it clear now.

War

For far too many of us, war and refugee camps are a daily experience.

Now many more of us are engulfed in it which makes it that much more of an adventure.

The past is gone.
It wasn’t great, no matter what the make-it-great-again liars want you to believe.

What does the future have in store for us?
Everybody’s telling with nobody knowing.

I know where I’d go

Had I wings and I could fly, I know where I’d go.
But right now I’m just sitting here being the 70% water I am.

I’m watching my share of the water — like everybody else’s — going under the bridge and flow into the sea.
Yet the sea isn’t full.

A picture of me when I was 17

By In Words, You

It got me thinking.

If I knew then what I know now, what would I have told me when I was 17?

Well, I can’t turn back the clock, but I don’t have to think twice to see the one in the pic clearly is me. Therefore, first things first, it better be true.

I replaced lying with the truth years ago so I don’t have to remember anything anymore. Now the truth is as natural as I am.

“You did well beyond the shadow of a doubt. Without you, I wouldn’t be here. Thank you from the bottom of my heart!”…

…I say to the boy in the photograph, not just once but repeatedly so I hear it clearly now.

You could do better

Though I had been doing my damn best from the start, even before I was born, I entered and grew up in a world of could-do-better.

Could-do-better wasn’t just about me of course, it was about the weather too, to name a few.  Sure, I was a handful then but so was the weather. What isn’t when you’re young, eh?

My parents had been told I had learning difficulties. What that meant I didn’t have a clue, but I didn’t care for it was my key heaven-sent for hating school with a now perfectly legit excuse of which I took full advantage to say the least.

Everything about school was right. Everything about me was wrong, Not ideal for keeping the self-esteem of a kid where it belonged. But hey, I didn’t know then what I know now. I didn’t know we all go to school and get over it in the end. Isn’t that so?

The constant could-do-better led me to wishing for what the others had got. It also led me to experience boredom and panic, depending on circumstances, with back then no idea what Circum’s dances were supposed to look like.

Be it as it may, I loved hanging out with others like me which didn’t get me anywhere but felt like the safe thing to do and the best years of my being alive thus far.

However, the memories aren’t fun. On the contrary, I was alone and I was cold as ice when that photograph was taken long ago.

My existence is different now

Though some word-users keep telling me I could do better, my experience is different now. I understand they also have a motivation, just a different one.

The truth doesn’t exist. Each word-user has their own.

All there is to it is knowing what you want .

All I want is see the story of words told at school.

Why would I want that? Why would I want to be on mission impossible?

Because 13,750 years ago — when the age was stone, the Sahara green, and Northern Europe under 1-mile-thick ice — the word and word-user were invented, they revolutionised evolution.

They can do it again. I’m not saying they will. All I’m saying is give the word and word-users a second chance.

Takeaway

Pay attention to words.

Not later for later you’ll be dead.

Pay attention to words now.

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Understand vs. Be understood. Which of the two would you rather do?

By In You

  • Hear or be heard?
  • Care or be cared for?
  • Give or be given?
  • Understand or be understood?

Which would you rather do?

Which do you think describes you?

Which do you think describes the sun?

I spent a fair part of my existence

  • Looking without seeing
  • Listening without hearing
  • Learning without knowing
  • Fearing fear instead of danger
  • Saying yes to others
  • Saying no to me
  • Not keeping my word
  • Giving up
  • Avoiding confrontations

Do any of these ring a bell?
Can you relate?

If so, you know I was on the easy road most traveled.

Then I realised two things

  1. Going for the easy journey has you end up with not much of either.
  2. Learn so that you can then do is an anxiety reaction and avoidance behavior. You learn by doing, or you’ll never learn at all, or worse, you’ll abandon your calling altogether.

You might think easy is fun for a while, in the short run, but you’ll only find yourself regretting it in the long run, and if you don’t forgive yourself, to the end of your days.

When you take the easy road — not keep your word, give up, and lose your friends along the way — you’ll soon find yourself lying in bed thinking of the things that might have been.

Takeaway

“The key to wealth is gratitude.” – John Templeton
“Forgiveness is giving up all hope of having had a better past.” – Anne Lamott

Adventure and true friends are on your side when you say no, keep your word, don’t give up, stand up for yourself, and do it your way.

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What makes us word-users?

By In Words, You

“Words of course.”

I hear you and I wholeheartedly agree.

But how does that work? How do words make us word-users?

I don’t know and I’m obviously not the only one.

What I do know — seemingly the only one — is words didn’t exist when the world and you were born.

There wasn’t a word to be found 4.65 billion years ago.

When the world was born, 4.65 billion years ago, there wasn’t a word to be found.

Words are a recent invention from 13,750 years ago, in other words from a cosmic heartbeat ago when the age was stone, the Sahara green, and Northern Europe under 1-mile-thick ice.

When you were born, there wasn’t a word to be found either.

You learned words — from your parents, siblings, friends, at kindergarten or school — long after you started out as a single cell, between the ages of 1 and 6 (average) only.

There isn’t a word to be found now

We’re obviously not the only ones that haven’t got clue how words got into you and me.

None of the Earth’s other 9 billion word-users nor any of machines invented since the beginning of words are able to find a word in anything alive on Earth.

That’s because words are void of energy, hence void of matter. And matter doesn’t exist until it is observed by an instrument able to observe it.

Because this is a fact, neither the scientists at CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research, nor the word-users at Fermilab, the USA National Accelerator Laboratory — both of them among the world’s largest and most respected centers for scientific research — nor the LUX-Zeplin, the world’s most sensitive detector, are able to observe a word inside any of the Earth’s 9 billion word-users.

Takeaway

Words have even less electric charge than the neutrinos known as the ghost particles.

In other words, words don’t matter.

If things were different, if words did matter, it would transform our understanding of the universe.

As it is, things aren’t different and it’s hard to have an argument what is for you can’t win with a losing hand.

It’s easier to call words a dream for that doesn’t change anything.

The purpose of words

By In Words, You

The word-using animals have the wrong impression of the not-word-using animals.

With this result: We have the equally wrong impression of ourselves.

In the beginning is the word

Fact, the children of all animals — whether word-using or not — arrive into this world wordless. After that, they communicate wordlessly until the age of 1 and 6 (average).

It’s only after the age of 1 and 6 (average) that our children begin to communicate with the words learned from their parents, siblings, friends or smartphones, or at kindergarten and school.

Once they’ve added words to the mix of the many wordless means of communication — which of course we also possess — we’re able to develop the most advanced technology in the universe, or so it gets told at school.

But to believe our tech is second to none is a mistake because it doesn’t even begin to compare to the technologies of the energy, fire, air, earth and water, to name a few.

Words are a mirror

Words are a mirror and when a moron looks in, you cannot expect a sage to look out.

With only a few sages around, we — internet, smartphones, and AI included — have the wrong impression of what we are.

Thanks to our technology, we have arrived on top of the food chain. That means we are exempt from the eat-or-be-eaten rule in the world of the wordless animals.
Every word-user knows we’re not eaten by wordless animals anymore, with the exception of the occasional shark, crocodile, and tiger of course.

13,750 years

The words and word-users have been invented 13,750 years ago. In those 13,750 years we’ve not stopped to kill, or slaughter, or eliminate by means yet to be invented, the wordless animals.
When that’s not good enough, we use pesticides or put them in cages or parks

To stay on top of the food chain, we tell ourselves the only thing that counts is victory. Efforts have become a means to this end and failures and mistakes things to feel sorry about.

Victory alone counts

But at closer look we still behave like the animals we are.

With an exception we ought to pay attention to: We behave worse than the wordless animals.

We are currently in a war against nature.

If we win, we lose.

Is this the purpose of words?

Unforced blunders

By In You

Perhaps because we began to use words only 13,750 years ago, which is but a cosmic heartbeat ago, perfect is elusive for us word-users.

I could be wrong as I’ve been many times before.

The best

The best we can do is accept the perfect world created since 13.8 billion years ago with no end in sight by the wordless energy, sun, planets, stars, moons, fire, air, earth, water, cells, wordless animals  (too many to count but getting fewer by the day), eyes, brains, colors, scents, feelings, and by the organs of anything alive today, word-users included.

The wordless  never spent a day at school, where words are taught, which means they’ve communicated among themselves wordlessly for the past 13.8 billion years — to perfection. Unless you believe the energy from the sun has done a shoddy job you with words would have done better.

With words on our side

The contrary is true among the 9 billion animals with words on their side since 13,750 years ago. By now we’re used to the irony of giving advice on how to live while often failing to follow our own advice. I should know this is far from perfect. What knows better than I?

For more years now than I care to remember, I’ve advocated conscious living, setting boundaries, and focusing on the first things first, to name a few, while at the same time getting lost in distractions such as social media or overcommitting to getting things done, sometimes several times a day. What I’m saying is the challenge of making my dream come true is ongoing. I acknowledge the irony of getting lost in distractions while promoting the importance of self-care. My writings are self-therapy in disguise that remind me of the values I strive for, not necessarily the ones I’ve mastered, showcasing everything except the perfected existence.

I struggle with following my own advice. Regardless of my failures and successes, everything I do is a work in progress. My social media presence reflects my aspirations rather than what I have achieved. I embrace the imperfections of my effors to make the world a better place. My writing is a vision board of the ideals I work hard to achieve and not a documentary of what’s going on within me and without me. A successful word-user that reads about working only several hours a day while often still grinding away till the crack of dawn, I’m a constant work in progress, no matter how successful I am or appear.

All figured out

Nobody has it all figured out, not even the ones giving advice. Writing about the word-life balance doesn’t mean living it perfectly, it’s merely a way of aspiring to it. Missed takes, also known as mistakes, including overworking, bad habits, and misaligned commitments, to name a few, are part of the journey.

The secret to always be on your journey is knowing you always are.

Being alive isn’t about being flawless, it’s about having direction.

I don’t aim to be a perfect example. What I am is an honest reflection of my pursuit of a better existence — one failure,  one lesson, and one small victory at a time — while not learning less and not blaming the radio for playing music I cannot stand.

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The least optimistic word-user you’ll meet

By In Words, You

I am, believe it or not, one of the least optimistic word-user you’ll meet.

Like everybody else, I see what’s going on and I want to scream. But what I see most of all is the word-users in a war against nature that if we win, we lose.

Screaming will help no more since we’ll be extinct. The Earth will be owned by the wordless again, as has been the case for the first 99.9997% of the time since the invention of the planet we’re all passengers on, the wordless and the wordful alike.

If we win our war against nature, words will disappear and together with the words also you and me and the schools we built for the preaching and teaching of words.

Yet here I am

Yet here I am, in part inspired by Edith Wharton’s “there are two ways of spreading light. Be the candle or the mirror that reflects it.”

Because I have word-users that depend on me, I therefore keep my word, don’t give up, and have a vision to make come true — to get the story of words told at school.

There’s no need to be a candle or light, the candlemakers and sun are taking care of that. So I stand instead on the shoulders of word-users that went before me, doing my best to mirror Ludwig Wittgenstein’s light:

“Call words a dream, it does not change anything.”

If all it took to replace the old models with a new was for me to express myself, I’d go and ring a bell in a public square.
But getting the story of words told at school isn’t as simple as that.

Words were invented 13,750 years ago

…when the age was stone, the Sahara green, and Northern Europe under 1-mile-thick ice.

Back then, the invention of words revolutionised evolution. Radically. More than any other event before or since.

I’m not saying the words can do it again.

All I’m saying is give words a chance.

One more time, please.

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