You know it’s a word:
- When you have a word for it.
- When you know it.
Everything you know is a word.
Side note:
The internet, your smartphone, and AI don’t know when it’s a word because they are net, phone, and artificial.
the origin of humanity
By Beat Schindler In You
You know it’s a word:
Everything you know is a word.
Side note:
The internet, your smartphone, and AI don’t know when it’s a word because they are net, phone, and artificial.
By Beat Schindler In You
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Side note:
The above two quotes summarize “The Origin of Humanity” (that I’m the author of).
By Beat Schindler In You
Milestone 1 1974: Hired by the-then 2nd largest computer company in the world. Promoted to increasing management positions in 1976 in Switzerland, France, Europe, and the USA over the next 22 years. Quit in 1996.
Milestone 2 1996: Hired by executive consultancy firm. Promoted to regional manager 1998. Quit in 2000.
Milestone 3 2000: Started multiple online businesses. Bankrupt in 2011. Restarted 2012 with $800 in jeans pocket.
Milestone 4 2016: Stumbled upon the fact that everything we know is a word. Next to my birth, the ultimate breakthrough if ever there was one.
Milestones 1 & 2: Living the charmed life under the protection of succeeding corporate umbrellas.
Milestones 3 & 4: The proof I survived every crisis so far. Or I wouldn’t be here.
Side note:
If you’ve gone bankrupt in the past or feel lost now, consider focusing the bulk of your attention on words. It’s often a springboard in your career and existence.
By Beat Schindler In Blog, You
You want to understand act.
I believe that’s why you’re here, and if we begin with what we agree on, that makes it easy to understand what this post is about.
It is safe and there’s no risk involved, for it’s only a train of thought, as opposed to a train on rails.
On top of that, this train will get you there
What do you say?
I say let’s dive in.
Act is a word.
It couldn’t be anything else if it tried.
Nor can it be denied.
That’s because you can deny act only by using it.
What invented words isn’t a question that’s often asked, which makes it all the more important to answer.
The answer is in evolution which looks like this:
Energy invented words — if for no other reason that there was nothing else around when it all began.
You might ask about what happened before it all began?
That’s an open question no word-user knows the answer to, and those who do are lying.
Guaranteed.
The sun is energy — 90% hydrogen respectively — and the mass of the sun is estimated at 1.989 x 10^30 kg. This means that 99.8% of the solar system is energy.
I have no clue what that means (too many zeroes for me to wrap my mind around), nevertheless I think that’s enough energy for the future generations of word-users. Provided the sun doesn’t disappear before them, of course.
That said, energy didn’t just invent our planet and everything on it, it also invented the word and the word-users — including you and me. We’re all in this together.
Energy is stimulus-response all rolled up into one, the original act beyond the shadow of a doubt.
Being energy, we too acted before we were born. And we haven’t stopped since or we wouldn’t be here.
Expecting a word such as act could be something else presupposes that words have the organs required.
For having studied words within and without since 2016, I’m happy to report what I found: There are no organs to be found in words.
That means there is also no energy to be found in words, the only thing in the universe to do so, and why the word-users love their words. They can invest all their energy in words which explains why we don’t see the world as it is, but only as we see it.
Word-users that don’t know what act describes, don’t know what act is.
Other than that, the word-users — well, our ancestors — use their energy to invent the word-accelerators.
The internet, formerly the world-wide-web, now gobbles up and disseminates more words faster than anything invented for that purpose before.
For 2024, that means between 1.2 million and 155 billion English words alone, say those that claim to have counted each, not counting the non-English words.
Did I mention word-acceleration?
“Assume the virtue if you have it not” says Shakespeare.
Except there’s no assume needed for you to act. You act naturally, for that’s what nature is, energy.
You acted long before you were even born, and even after you came into this world and between the ages of 1 and 6 (average!) finally acquired the words to describe it.
By you I mean your common senses and bodies — the feel, hear, smell, taste, touch, see, heart, lungs, brain, bones, muscle, hair, nail, and teeth, to name a few. They each acted as soon as they existed, long before you were even born.
By you I mean that you are not separate entities. On the contrary, you’re all wrapped into one.
If you do not know, maybe that’s because school is focused on our brains, as opposed to teaching what is.
In addition to the 74 English words that end in ACTION, including satisfACTION and reACTION — everybody knows what action is — there now also exist 700 English words that end in ATION.
It doesn’t make any sense whatsoever for nobody knows what ation is. It’s also not found in any dictionary.
Those 700 ation-ending-words include education, situation, navigation, recreation, simulation, occupation, medication, admiration, and hesitation, to name a few. If so inclined, you can look the rest of them up at Words that end with ATION (700 words) – WordMom
It doesn’t make any sense whatsoever except to the grammarians, for only the grammarians know why the c has been cut out of action, and why 700 words that previously ended in action now end in ation.
It doesn’t make any sense to the teachers either, for even the teachers don’t know what ation is.
The only question remaining is what do the teachers teach to those hungry for learning?
What is to blame that only the grammarians know why action is now ation?
Nothing will ever come from blame, and nothing ever could.
Instead of blame, decide to take your ability to respond back from the grammarians.
Once you do that, then…
Auto-translate it every time you see or hear ation.
Use this formula: “Ation=Action”
Such as when you see translation. Translate it to translaction. You’ll stand a much bigger chance to know what you’re talking about.
Leave the grammar to the grammarians, but take the ability to respond to words back to where it belongs — to you.
Not only is energy the original act — see above — but it’s also it’s own stimulus-response.
Energy responds to itself — it’s its own stimulus-response — and cannot be destroyed. On the contrary, it will only transform from one form of energy to another for which the possibilities are infinite.
And so are you for every part of you — every atom, cell, sense, and body part, all of you — is energy in a never-ending process of stimulus-response, too.
In other words, the energy within you is no different from the energy without you.
Stimulus can be anything, but no other word or word-user can respond for you.
Only respond can do that.
More about response-ability in a future post.
Stay tuned.
By Beat Schindler In Blog, You
This post is about decisions.
How do we get to make them?
Have we already made decisions since before we learned the words to describe them with?
If so, what had to happen before we made our first?
Energy doesn’t do arguments.
Instead, energy invents and creates.
More choices than any word-user can handle.
Since the beginning of words that energy invented, our ancestors invented the word-accelerators.
We measure our own IQ.
Why don’t we measure energy’s IQ instead?
Schools teach it’s the sane thing to do.
Why do schools not teach the insane thing is being done instead?
Energy has created more choices than the word-users can handle.
For us to make more choices means making more words.
It’s the only way.
But look at what words have done to us and the wordless.
What the wordless want, they’re not saying for self-evident reasons, they don’t have words to say it with.
The word-users want more of the same.
Are you one of them?
From more choices than we can handle, we make decisions.
It’s our decisions, not our choices, that determine our destiny.
Choices have got nothing to do with it.
Every decision you made, make, and will make, is about how you respond.
A decision for itself has no raison d’être.
When you know what you want, the decision on how to respond is already made.
This post visits each of the above briefly.
One by one.
Happy reading.
Tallyho!
All kinds of things are being said about decisions.
Depending on what is saying them.
What you believe is a question of character and personal preference.
To each their own.
Just as our children begin before they are born, so our decisions begin before they are made.
Before DECISION even appears on the scene, the stars on the stage are ENERGY, INTELLIGENCE, and CHOICE.
Energy cannot be destroyed.
Meanwhile, it creates and invents.
Non-stop.
As far as we can tell, it creates and invents since the beginning of itself.
Like it or not, it is outside of the word-users’ control.
Energy doesn’t need the word-users, but we need it, not because we’re free, but because energy was there first.
On planet Earth, energy has been around for 99.9997% of the time that Earth has been around (Earth-Time).
In fact, energy invented Earth.
Words and we — the word users — have been around for the most recent 0.0003% of the time on Earth only.
Makes you wonder how energy has managed…
…for 99.9997% of Earth-time.
Or doesn’t it?
It has us wondering at the same time, of course, how in nothing but 0.0003% of the time on Earth, the words and word-users have mismanaged Earth into its current state.
Doesn’t it?
I have no idea why that is.
But I suspect it’s enough energy and water the future generations of word-users will ever need — provided the energy doesn’t disappear first.
Be it as it may, the energy has us wishing for the serenity to accept what we cannot change, the courage to change what we can, and the wisdom to know the difference.
Energy invented the planet, the cells, the plants, the animals, the eyes, the brains, the words, and the word-users — that is you and me.
Without a day at school, how did energy know?
Naturally, we ask whether energy is good, better, best, thorough, creative, perfect, bad, a mistake, or an accident.
Energy only knows.
Either way, our ancestors used the energy in turn, to invent the word accelerators…
…as well as more fictional figures than anyone can handle.
The fictional figures invented by us include the Mad Hatter, gods, Santa Claus, James Bond, Little Red Riding Hood, Superwoman, Frankenstein, and countless others.
At the end of the word-accelerators, formerly known as the world wide web, the internet now gobbles up and spits out more words faster than anything invented for that purpose before.
What next is every word-user’s guess.
To each their own.
Energy doesn’t do arguments.
Arguments take word-users that learn words from their at the schools the parents, preachers, and teachers built.
We’re the only animal that builds schools…
Energy invented us, rather than the other way ‘round.
Yet we measure our IQ instead of the energy’s.
How many examples do you know of a less intelligent thing measuring the intelligence of a more intelligent thing?
Some word-users far less intelligent than energy accuse energy of having done a shoddy job creating evolution.
If that were true, all clouds would be identical, all nuts hazel, all birds swans, all flowers roses, all words the first, and all word-users would know the story of words.
But every word-user with eyes to see can see that the opposite is true.
Energy has invented more choices than word-users can handle.
Between 1.2 million and 155 billion English words, among which:
A highway of diamonds with hardly anyone on it.
Some famous word-users are working hard to make you believe that you make choices.
Unless you invent more words, that’s impassable, and if the most recent 0.0003% of Earth-Time are anything to go by, inventing more words is inventing more of the same.
When in the beginning was the word, the number of words was 1 (one).
13,750 years later, the number of words is between 1.2 million and 155 billion.
Depending on what you ask.
See the state the world is in?
See where millions of words have gotten us?
You make decisions.
100% of the time.
When you don’t decide, you have already made a decision.
That’s because no decision is also a decision.
Some say that’s impossible.
They’re saying the same thing.
There is a war…
…between the genders
…between the rich and the poor
…between the liars and the honest
…between the left and right
…between the black and white
…between the odd and the even
…between the ones that say there is a war and the ones that say there isn’t
…to name a few
What wants more of the same?
Gimme a break.
Every decision ever made was about how we respond to what’s going on within and without.
Everything we know is a word, so everything we respond to are words.
Makes you wonder what the wordless respond to, doesn’t it?
Your journey, your age, and your responses have in common that they are seasonal.
Your responses can look different depending on the season you’re in.
Pay attention to that and you’ll make better responses.
Not paying attention to your decisions is like not paying attention to your stars in the full sun.
They’re there just the same.
Before the day is over, someone will want you to believe a lie, such as the lie that decision-making is complicated, complex, multifaceted, and hard.
But that’s nothing but that liar’s words.
It doesn’t apply to you.
Believe Bruce Lee instead.
At least he knows what he’s talking about.
Decisions are neither complicated, complex, multifaceted, nor hard — when you know what you want.
On the contrary, when you know what you want, the right decision can create certainty for you in an uncertain world for others.
The common mistake word-users make with decisions is deciding them over and over again.
If that’s you, your decisions are depicted on the right.
If so, your decisions are destined to wear you out in the long run.
If you spend more time on making the wrong decisions right than on making the right decisions, you’re deciding it wrong.
Outstanding long-term results are produced primarily by avoiding wrong decisions in the first place, rather than by making the right ones.
Pay attention to that and you’ll make better decisions.
Besides, dwelling on the wrong will only wear you out in the long run.
The solution?
Make fewer decisions!
Decisions come in BIG and SMALL.
And in WHAT and HOW.
Decide the BIG and WHAT first.
Then all it takes is the courage it takes to follow through and to forget about the rest until it’s time for the SMALL and HOW.
I’m not saying that’s the solution.
All I’m saying is give BIG and WHAT a chance.
When I decided to write THE ORIGIN OF HUMANITY, I had no clue it would take six years to complete.
But it was a BIG decision about WHAT.
I’m glad I did and never looked back for you can’t win with a losing hand.
All decisions feel good at the time.
Because it’s difficult to predict the future.
We only realize what is wrong with hindsight.
Then we wonder what caused it.
Don’t ask “Is this a good decision?”
Ask “When?”
Is a crisis brewing?
That’s good!
If you hadn’t survived every crisis to date, with a 100% success rate to boot, you wouldn’t be here.
With your back against the wall, you don’t decide based on what you know. With no way out, you decide based on what you re-member only.
The good thing about crises is that they are devastating only if you believe that they will last forever.
Yet you know they never do.
The proof’s in the pudding: You’re here still.
Why wait for a crisis?
You can focus on a small sphere and achieve a 100% success rate anytime.
If that’s what you want.
When faced with a difficult decision, don’t be afraid to seek advice within and without you.
Be careful when a naked device offers you a shirt, even though even a smartphone may offer advice you haven’t heard of before.
Re-member that decisions are all up to you.
No other word or other word-user can decide for you.
There’s no candle in the window.
When it’s about decisions, you must find your own way home.
What will you do with all the energy and time freed in your head, hands, and feet now?
By Beat Schindler In Blog, You
Imagine the end, when everything is done and over with.
At the risk of repeating myself, imagine you being dead.
Implied in you now dead is things have changed.
The easiest thing to do when faced with things have changed — which brings fear, is usually how it works — is to decide to become cynical or hope that the change you fear is nothing but a fad, soon to disappear.
The possibilities of you being dead are infinite.
Maybe a meteorite slammed into your house, or the sun exploded, or you died of the myriad other possible causes, to name a few.
Of course, as long as you imagine your own death, it hasn’t happened yet.
That’s beause imagine is a word.
If you don’t know what a word is, I think it might be a good idea for you to read https://tinyurl.com/yjmjs7tu before heading head over heels into the rest of this post.
We’re all in the story of you together.
Each of us was born Before Words — without words, wordless — and when our time has come, we’ll die After Words — wordless, without words again. There’s no way around it.
Words are a circle game. Wordless we originate and wordless we die.
Even our ancestors were in this story of you together — 13,750 years ago, when the age was stone, the Sahara green, Northern Europe under 1-mile-thick ice, and writing hadn’t been invented yet.
There’s no exception in the past and there isn’t any now.
Words accompany us only after when we learn them, between the ages of 1 to 6, and until before we breathe our last breath.
Naturally, it’s not just about the story of you.
There are three stories that each contain a Before Words and After Words.
You are free to believe the three stories above aren’t connected of course. But if you do, that means you also accept the attendant consequence. In other words, you preclude yourself from understanding words.
Because whenever you pick up one end of the stick, you pick up the other.
Since we’re talking about stories, don’t let me be misunderstood.
Whether a story happened or not doesn’t matter a Dickie bird. All that matters it’s believed.
THE STORY OF EARTH — of which there are multiple, depending on who you ask — everybody knows or has heard about it because it’s been told for thousands of years in families, kindergartens, churches and schools all over the world.
In stark contrast to that, no word-user knows THE STORY OF WORDS for the simple reason that THE STORY OF WORDS hasn’t been told for thousands of years in families, kindergartens, churches, and schools.
In fact, THE STORY OF WORDS is not told anywhere except in THE ORIGIN OF HUMANITY (218 pages) and now — in abbreviated form — here.
If THE STORY OF WORDS were told, it’d be the end of the richest organizations in the world.
The richest organizations in the world have known that in the beginning is the word from the start. They’ve lied about it for thousands of years with no end in sight.
While that’s a different story altogether, it more than explains why the vast majority of word-users see THE STORY OF WORDS told for the first time — albeit in abbreviated form — here, as we speak.
Upon hearing THE STORY OF WORDS, the majorty of word-users are surprised that both THE STORY OF EARTH (see below) and THE STORY OF YOU (see above) contain a Before Words and an After Words.
For the sake of telling the entire story of words, let me also add those parts that most word-users are familiar with, given that their stories are sometimes also told.
“Word accelerators” means that just as the chicken was the egg’s idea for getting more eggs, so the word-users are the word’s idea for getting more words.
The latest in the chain of word accelerators, the world-wide-web — also known as the internet — currently gobbles up, stores, and disseminates more words faster than anything invented for that purpose before.
Because the story of words isn’t often told, it’s unlikely you’ve ever asked…
But that’s not all.
Looking for an answer is only the first step.
It also depends on what you ask.
If you ask your smart phone, the internet, or AI (the three are now the same), they’ll tell you that…
Think I’m kidding, aren’t you?
Well, I couldn’t help you to this much bullpoop and balatant lies if I tried. Worst of all, if I did, I’d be the first to know.
Your world-wide-web, smart phone, and AI don’t lie because for that they don’t have the organs required.
To lie takes a liar, that is a word-user who programs the world-wide-web, internet, smartphone, and AI to lie.
Because the word-users cannot describe the world and themselves, they can only describe how they see the world and themselves.
How do you think homo sapiens came about?
If you ask you about you, it’s unlikely that you’ll answer the question with another question, namely with…
“Have you ever thought of you as a word?”
If you’ve read “Word is great, beautiful, and oh so fascinating“, then you know that you couldn’t be anything else if it tried — a word.
In other words, I think we’re not asking the right questions.
I also think it’s time.
If not now, then when?
If you don’t know what you de-scribes, that means you don’t know you.
In China you is 你 and in France it is tu.
Therefore, if you say “You” to a Chinese or French child, it won’t understand. It won’t know what you’re talking about.
I don’t know you nor the children you might be talking to.
But I know words, you included.
On that I give you my word.
Unless words describe, they don’t mean a thing to anyone.
But to de-scribe doesn’t take words, it takes scribes.
Naturally, the scribes will always be word-users.
Word-users are animals that learned words at school.
The word-users — you and me — have been busy de-scribing ourselves, and how we see the world, since the beginning of words. Not because there are any alternatives, but because there’s never been another way from the start.
As the saying goes, in the beginning is the word.
We do this because we’re the only specie on planet Earth with a Before Words and an After Words.
Simply put, we, the word-users, have words and the wordless — including the tea pots, mountains, plants, animals, and fictional figures such as Peter (the rabbit), gods, James Bond, piglet, and pooh, to name a few — don’t.
At the risk of repeating myself, I think we don’t ask the right questions.
Why do we name ourselves humanity, human, or homo sapiens?
Why don’t we instead name the animals human or homo sapiens?
When the lies told for thousands of years will finally be stopped, THE STORY OF WORDS can be told instead.
THE STORY OF WORDS tells…
…that the first to speak the first word on Earth — our ancestors — were animals (presumably with eyes and brains).
We have the same lifecycle as other animals.
But we’re animals with difference.
We have words and they — the other animals, plants, cells, water, earth, air, and fire — don’t.
That explains why stories made of words will always glorify the word-users.
Always have and always will.
It’s the only way.
Beyond the shadow of a doubt.
Call it a dream, it doesn’t change anything.
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By Beat Schindler In Blog, You
Back when the ponies ran, when the girls were young and the odds were there to beat, my little personal winning streak ended as it had begun, naturally, without my being aware of it.
Why me?
Why not someone else who deserved it?
My winning streak ended like a black-feathered bird bursting the sky had landed on me.
With no odds to beat left, the only thing I clearly see is my journey on a downward spiral.
It feels like in the dead of night. I’m at the steering wheel of a speeding car crashing down a steep ravine. Trees out of nowhere in the car’s headlights. With nothing left but a single wish, the wish to survive even if it costs me my life
down
down
down
After the crashing down comes to a halt, there’s nothing left but me and a gate Bob Dylan built.
I’m on the outside of the gate.
On the inside is a devil my neighbors, preachers, and teachers want me to believe.
There’s nothing else and nobody else near, so I can tell what I’m supposed to believe is looking at me.
What does it want?
I have no clue.
Perhaps a piece of me?
Could it be my heart?
You think I’m kidding, aren’t you?
Well, I’m not kidding at all.
Instead, I do a u-turn never to re-turn again.
I’ve once seen a torero perform u-turns before a bull.
When the bull was dead I vomited wishing the torero were dead instead.
Such a u-turn I do now
run
run
run
I’m walking down the highway into a town ravaged by a thausand-years war.
I enter a burned-out house that looks familiar.
At the end of a blackened corridor, a burned-out room.
A boy looks out of a shattered glass window.
His back is turned to me.
Suitcase on the floor.
away
away
away
Guided by ignorance, I walk up to him and hold his hand in mine.
He’s looking at me with wishful eyes.
I can clearly see his eyes are mine.
We’re one and the same.
Together we step into street flooded in lightyears of energy from the sun above
thankful
I can clearly see things from different perspectives now.
See the wishful, see what is.
If there’s a difference between religion and the bird, believe the bird.
For birds don’t have religion/s.
They wouldn’t know it if you showed it to them
thankful
thankful
thankful
Thanksgiving.
Celebrated here twice daily.
Giving thanks twice daily for the wishful and giving thanks for what is.
Giving thanks twice daily for the boy with the eyes and giving thanks for being here.
Still.
By Beat Schindler In Blog, You
In this world of never-ending responses to more information than any word-user can handle — but that’s nevertheless a mere walk in the park for the wordless fire, wind, earth, and water — it ain’t easy to be the master of your moments.
All I’m saying is it doesn’t have to be that hard.
The minute we decide to not give up, we muster unexpected strengths to accepting the world as it is, not as we wished it were. With the serenity to accept the things we cannot change, the courage to change the things we can, and the wisdom to know the difference, the walk in the park can at least be imagined.
But without a strong why, it is difficult to persevere.
Without a strong why, standing out from the majority of word-users can be a daunting task, but without it, you’re a part of what you don’t want to be a part of.
If you don’t have a strong why to begin with, the decision to never give up feels like climbing a mountain.
What happens when you get a pebble in your shoe? Do you give up?
If so, this post isn’t for you.
A compelling why is essential, but you don’t yet know if it’ll be enough to overcome the obstacles on your journey. To find out, you’ve got to take the first step knowing you’ll never give up. Come rain or shine, keep a close eye on what the other captains do, not for knowledge, but it helps.
When you keep your word, many decisions are already made.
When you don’t lie, you don’t have to remember anything.
On this proud planet we grew up strong, wanted, needed, taught to compete, to fight, and to win.
With no fight left, we never thought it possible to either fall or fail.
A word-user whose dreams have all deserted, I changed my words, my face, my name.
No one wants you when you lose.
Because you’re not beaten yet. You have friends. You know you are the elements. You know you are the wordless fire, wind, earth, and water, knowing full well you can do as good as they can.
You see it all around you, thinking you’d be last to go.
You never imagine that you could be affected.
The way things turn is so magical.
I returned at night toward my home, the place where I was born, on the lakeside.
As daylight broke, I saw the earth as though for the first time.
Bursting the sky arrives a black vulture, wings spread. I see it circling, close, with eyes of rubies and feathers the colour of night. A forehead of a thousand lights, a blue diamond for a crown.
With a rustle of its wings, the vulture lands.
The trees burned down to the ground.
You still have us.
We don’t need much of everything. Where would we put it anyway?
Somewhere there’s a place where we belong. Somewhere there’s a place where you can rest your head.
Let it be. You worry too much. It’s going to be alright.
When the going gets rough, you can fall back on us.
Got to find the way out of here.
Perhaps there’s a path less traveled, a path least traveled naturally.
I can’t take anymore. A headlong circle game standing on that bridge right here keeping my eyes down below, watching where all rivers flow, yet the sea isn’t full.
Found the way out of here to another country. As if things hadn’t changed, for every job so many word-users. So many word-users no-one needs.
They’re calling for workers, word-users come, thanks to the schools the word-users built.
Much water has gone under the bridge. Much other stuff at the same time.
Things haven’t changed. Every truth adds up to a big lie.
The answers blowing in the wind, no candles in the window, you’re not the only one.
You still have us.
There’s no reason to be anything you’re not. There’s no reason to feel guilty.
You have friends.
We’re proud of what you are, what you do, what you don’t, what you have, and what you have not.
From personal experience you know it’s never been easy.
You also know it’s never going to be this hard ever again.
There’s a place where you belong.
There’s a place where we belong.
I believe it.
Call it a dream.
It does not change anything