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the origin of humanity

Beat Schindler

To make you MASSIVELY stand out from the crowd, do the opposite of what most people do.

By In Blog, You

Have you seen Oppenheimer, the movie?

It’s possible you’ve read the book. Who knows, maybe you did both.

To make your view of the world MASSIVELY stand out from the crowd, is easy to do.

Do the opposite of what the crowd does.

The majority of word-users read the book or watch the movie thinking Oppenheimer is about the atomic bomb.

To MASSIVELY stand out from the crowd, dig just a little bit deeper.

When you do, you’ll see that Oppenheimer is about more than just the atom bomb.

You’ll see that Oppenheimer is — for lack of a better word — about insanity.

Don’t let me be misunderstood.

It’s neither for me nor for anybody else to tell you what to do and what not to do on your journey.

All I’m saying is that the choices exist — you can conform or stand out any time you want — that the decision is yours, and that no other word or word-user can decide it for you.

Oppenheimer is more than about the bomb

To build an atomic bomb takes words and word-users.

How can you know beyond the shadow of a doubt?

Nothing wordless has ever built an atomic bomb.

The wordless sun hasn’t, nor has the wordless moon, stars, stardust, fire, air, earth, cells, plants, animals, eyes, and brains.

To build an atomic bomb took animals with words, of which Oppenheimer is part.

In other words, that’s what Oppenheimer is also about.

It took words to build the atomic bomb.

And it took yet more words to get us into the state the world is in, which is where you and I are waging a war against nature, a war against you and me.

If we win, we’re guaranteed to lose.

Beyond the shadow of a doubt.

Have I mentioned insanity?

A new model that makes the old obsolete

If we don’t embrace soon a new model that makes the old model obsolete, it’ll be the end of us.

More and more word-users are ready to bet their life on it, which like for the atomic bomb, cannot be done without words. The proof is in the pudding. The wordless don’t do it.

Not that it matters, after all, words also don’t matter.

And though it’s not taught at school, everybody knows that all will be good in the end, and that if not all is good, it means that it’s not the end yet.

Talking of which…

Even should it one day be the end for us, it won’t be the end for all things wordless. On the contrary, the wordless on our planet will be happy to see the end of the words and the word-users once again.

The only difference shall be that we and our children will no be longer present to see it.

Words have revolutionized evolution

Oppenheimer is also about the fact that in the most recent 0.0003% of Earth-Time that they have been around, the word and the word-users have revolutionized evolution.

Before Words

In the first 99.9997% of the 4.65 billion years since the wordless fire, air, earth, and water arrived from outer space by space travel to invent our planet, you could say that the few things that happened over those 4.65 billion years happened slowly.

Based on the numbers above, you could say they took forever.

After Words

In the remaining 0.0003% of the 4.65 billion years of Earth-Time, the word and the word-users have been invented…

  • 3/1000th of a second before midnight
  • When the age was stone, the Sahara green, Northern Europe under 1-mile-thick ice, and writing hadn’t been invented yet
  • 13,750 years ago.

And now, 13,750 years later, there are 4 billion words in English alone.

That means since the invention of presumably the first word 13,750 years ago, the word-users have invented 290,909 additional words in each of those 13,750 years. Imagine that!

With no end in sight. Imagine that!

Everything you know is a word

Though it’s hard to believe and it’s not taught at school, everybody understands that everything we know is a word.

Yet some word-users want you to believe that it’s possible to know 4 billion of them, which includes truth and world, to name a few.

Truth

To each word-user their own truth.

Let alone a different word for true depending on location.

World

As for truth above, world too means different things to different word-users. Let alone a different word for world depending on location.

If even truth and world, just 2 words of 4 billion, mean different things to different people at different times, this makes you wonder about the purpose of evolution, the purpose of intelligence, the purpose of words, and the purpose of the atomic bombs, does it not?

If not, do you wonder about anything at all?

No question about it

No question about it, the invention of words has allowed us to get to the top of the food chain, with the word-users life expectancies 10 times longer than they used to be, and now ready for breakfast on Mars.

But what’s the purpose of all of these and other accomplishments if they only serve us to describe the state of the world in these terms:

If we don’t end the war against ourselves, it’ll be the end of us.

Words have revolutionized evolution before.

I’m not saying they can do it again. All I’m saying is let’s give words a chance.

To do again what they did 13,750 years ago.

Revolutionize evolution.

If your words don’t have rules, you’re doing it wrong

By In Blog, Words, You

In the wordless world

In the wordless world, everything you have a word for doesn’t exist for self-evident reasons, including word for equally self-evident reasons.

In the wordy world

In the wordy world, everybody knows that everything is different because everything we know is what we have words for.

But that’s not all.

What everybody doesn’t know is that words have rules the grammarians don’t have a clue about.

With grammar taught at schools throughout the world means the 7 word rules below are ignored by both the grammarians and the other word-users throughout the world, too.

Word rules

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#1: Words do not matter

See https://tinyurl.com/3sdy9fcn

#2: If you have a word for it, it’s a word.

See http://tinyurl.com/y9w5msd7

#3: Words are always yours

When you speak a word, any word — whether in self-talk or aloud — it will be yours always for nobody else can think it or speak it for you.

#4: A word can be denied only by confirming it.

If you want to deny a word, any word, you’ll discover in the blink of an eye that it cannot be done without using it.

#5: Words are how word-users aim at what they’re looking for.

Whenever word-users are looking for anything — such as heartbreak, success, happiness, more, time, problem, solution, agreement, direction, or decision, to name a select few of the 4 billion English words on offer, you’re sure to use those words.

#6: Words are the limits of your world.

Words are a prison, but even a prison is a home if you have the key.
PS. If interested, the key is now in THE ORIGIN OF HUMANITY for everybody to see.

#7: A word is never another (word).

Examples:

Mistaking words for another (word) is a BIG mistake because it prevents anyone making it from knowing the first thing about either.

To say of two things that they are identical is nonsense. And to say of one thing that it is identical with itself is to say nothing.” – Ludwig Wittgenstein
“Anyone who tries to make a distinction between education and entertainment doesn’t know the first thing about either.” – Marshall McLuhan

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Takeaway

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If your words don’t have rules, you’re doing it wrong.

Follow the 7 word rules above to see words work for you, as opposed to against you, in no time at all.

What makes a good picture?

By In Words, You

In the wordless world

In the wordless world, nothing exists that word-users have a word for.

For self-evident reasons that includes good and picture.

In the wordy world

In the wordy world:

  • Picture is a word
  • Everything you have a word for is a word
  • A word, any word, couldn’t be anything else if it tried
  • Picture is mistaken to speak 1,000 words

This might make sense at first sight — especially the part about picture speaking, which presupposes that words have the organs required (to speak).

But unlike the word-users, words are void of organs.

And if you look a wee bit closer, you can clearly see that the invention of pictures predates the invention of words by 30,000 years.

This we know from cave paintings in different parts of the world that are 30,000 years older than the words that the first word-users began 30,000 years later to describe those cave paintings with.

And 43,750 years after the invention of pictures, we now believe that dance/pantomime, music, sculpture, and pictures/paintings are part of the classic arts.

What’s rarely talked about yet extra special about the classic arts is that they are older than words. But that’s about art, a different story altogether that will be addressed in a separate post when the time for art is right.

Back to pictures and words

In case you forgot, words were invented when the age was stone, the Sahara green, Northern Europe under 1-mile-thick ice, and writing hadn’t been invented yet.

In other words, words were invented 13,750 years ago.

But we shall never know what happened after that because the witnesses are gone. All we can safely assume is that it was Event A or Event B before the other.

  • Event A: When words were new, 13,750 years ago, our ancestors had to invent 1,000 words before they could even begin to accuse pictures of speaking as many.
  • Event B: Our ancestors began to mistake picture — which at the risk of repeating myself is a word — for possessing the organs required to speak words, let alone 1,000 of them each.

Fact is, it didn’t take long for the majority of word-users to mistake words for what they aren’t.

Imagine that!

13,750 years later, Wikipedia speaks 2.916 words (about pictures), and any art critic worth their salt will find the number of words it takes to fill a book about the Lascaux cave pictures alone.

But no word-user today believes that words possess the organs required to talk because schools all over the world now finally teach that words are words, and the only ones with the organs required to use words are the teachers and students of words, that is the word-users.

But who am I, the author of THE ORIGIN OF HUMANITY, to talk in turn?

I could be wrong.

Maybe schools all over the world still don’t teach the difference between the word and the word-user.

Maybe the 4 word-users below are right.

  • ”Strange times are these in which we live when old and young are taught falsehoods in school.” – Plato (2,500 years ago)
  • “Call it a dream, it doesn’t change anything.” – Ludwig Wittgenstein (99 years ago)
  • “The school system is the homogenizing hopper into which we toss our integral tots for processing.” – Marshall McLuhan (74 years ago)
  • “When I look back on all the crap I learned in high school, it’s a wonder I can think at all.” – Paul Simon (40 years ago)

Takeaway

The choices are there.

The decision is yours.

No other word or word-user can decide it for you.

My story

By In Beat Schindler

It’s possible that you don’t know me…yet.

In fact, it’s more than likely. Maybe like many LinkedIn users before, you’ve viewed my profile but would like to know more about me just the same.

Therefore, if so inclined, let me share with you my story in two parts.

Part 1: Before me/Before 2016/Before words

Part 2: After me/After 2016/After words

Before me/Before 2016/Before words

Before me, I used to do when and how I was told, grew up, traveled the world, worked for the world’s then-best company you could work for, read truckloads of books, papers, and instruction manuals, and studied with some world famous coaches so you don’t have to.

2016

On a sunny afternoon in 2016, I was jogging through my favorite forest with my eyes wide open so as not to step onto any rocks, roots, snails, pine cones, or branches, when I stumbled upon the fact that everything I have a word for is a word.

The wordless light came through the wordless leaves and the wordless trees straight from the wordless sun above, when out of the blue I clearly saw that there was nothing left between the wordless and the words. The wordless fire, air, earth, and water had turned everything wordless into words, including themselves, me, and everything else I had a word for.

I had once before not known where I was, or what is me and what is not me, which is when I was born wordless. That means this was my second experience with that same event. And it turned out I was every bit as surprised as I was the first time around.

I wished the madness would go away as fast as it had come, but many years later I still have my eyes wide open.

Be it as it may, by now it was early evening. I decided to stay in the forest for a little while longer. For the first time in my adult life, tears were now flowing freely. Not one with a habit of crying a river, I had to stop myself from happening at this crowning end of a sunny afternoon.

This was the most serene event that had ever happened to me, and I wasn’t prepared to lose it again.

The famous coaches whose books I read and seminars I attended during the 20 years before to reclaim my identity have no idea that never before or since I imagined that anyone or anything can feel like this,

They do not imagine it themselves. They couldn’t if they tried.

Experience trumps theory.

Words are a prison, but even a prison is a home if you have the key.

After me/After 2016/After words

Everything looked the same, but the world had changed. Again.

I can now be in the company of family and friends thinking 5 minutes have gone by when in fact several hours had flown out the window. I can be there with my ears and my eyes wide open, participating, but without a sense of time.

Everything within me and without me dances in this both wordless and wordy world of circumstances. With a difference, this time around I have the words to describe it.

Like most people I knew, I had never thought of me as a word before.

Communicating with myself, which is what words are also for, I ask “What if everything is a word?” or “What if everything I know is a word?” and all I get back is a constant “Maybe you’ve lost your marbles.”

I have always been happy, have no problems, and have always done what I did for nothing but the sensation while doing it. This and many other worries have never been an issue for me, and I’m not eager to make that mistake now.

Every cell that my body is made of, that is 100%, are still bursting with what I still don’t have words for as we speak, the ecstasy of 2016.

Do not the brightest moments find us without words?

Over and above the fact that I’m not the spring chicken I used to be and that I’ve experienced open heart surgery, if you see photos of me before and after 2016, you can clearly see that things have changed. As I research and write my books and articles, I’m freer than I ever was before, my own birth excepted. My voice and the shape of my face change, to name a few, as they did before, as good as new.

Post-2016, I knew I had to do something but didn’t know how.

All that mattered was that I followed my bliss anew. I knew the how would show up at the right time.

Post-2016, I trust words enough, including the uniVERSE, to find guides I expect different from what I anticipate.

When you change how you look at words, the world changes.

Beyond the shadow of a doubt.

Post-2016, I use words to help myself and other word-users to reclaim their identity in turn

I know that all word-users are made as I am — of 70% water, 30% fire, air, and earth, and 100% cells. Don’t worry it the math doesn’t add up. Therefore I think that the ecstasy, serenity, and freedom that happened and continue to happen to me, can happen to any word-user willing to change the way they look at words.

I wish this willing word-user, my friend, will be you.

If you were to climb Everest, at 8,848 meters the world’s highest mountain, would you consider yourself a success after you reached the top? If it’s yes, you are only half right. Success is when you are back down in the valley again. Wouldn’t you agree?

Be it as it may, this is similar to changing the way you look at words. Nothing is believed until it’s true. I can help, but nobody else can believe it for you.

PS.

THE ORIGIN OF HUMANITY is the most profound book I’ve ever published. My intention is to disarm the listener. The book breaks what people expect from me, as I don’t talk with words, but about words.

The end in mind with THE ORIGIN OF HUMANITY isn’t to change the world by fighting the old, but by providing a new model that makes the old obsolete.

Takeaway

There are no passengers on this planet of ours. Every thing and every body — yes, the spaces are intended — are crew, the wordless and the wordy alike. And the only specie that doesn’t know what they’re doing is the one that you and I belong to: The word-users.

I’m not saying that’s not true.

All I’m saying is do with what you are, with what you have, with where you are, and with what you know and ignore, to make the world a better place — the best place it can be for yourself, for your family, for your friends, and for the wordless, too — now.

I hope my story now told may inspire you every step of your way.

This 13,750-year-old sales trick still works today

By In Words, You

A 13,750-year-old sales trick continues to work as we speak, so you might of course want to know what it is and what we’re talking about.

Well, first things first, a trick is intended to deceive.

As you’d expect from a trick that has deceived without fail for the past 13,750 years — which is when the words got invented — is that it must have deceived as many word-users back when the age was stone, the Sahara green, and Northern Europe was under 1-mile-thick ice, as it continues to deceive now, 13,750 years later.

If you think that’s the 13,750-year-old sales trick this post is about, you’re spot on.

It’s as if time has left no trace on the workings of this nearly 14,000-year-old sales trick.

Sales implies that the trick is based on words. Needless to say, but for the purpose of this post I say it anyway, sales is a word, and so is trick.

In the wordless world, sales and trick don’t exist for obvious reasons. But in the wordy world, everything is different.

In case you haven’t read all my articles published since July 10, 2023, let me remind you that there exist two types of citizens on planet Earth, the word-masters and the word-users.

The word-masters are word-users that have known in the beginning is the word since the beginning of words.

The word-users do as told by the word-masters.

There’s nothing new about the word-masters, the minority, and the word-users, the majority. On the contrary, the relationship between masters and users has remained unchanged for thousands of years, and now is no different.

All of us

The word-masters and the word-users alike, that is all of us, know from personal experience that we depend on context and contrast to stay alive.

Should we lose our ability to be in charge of our own context and contrast, that means we simply surrendered our senses and nervous systems to the private manipulation of those who would try to benefit from it. When this happens, you’ll be in trouble in the blink of an eye or by the end of the day, whichever comes first.

This we’ve known long before Maslow wrote it down for everybody to see, because, let’s face it, we’re all animals with words — though we love to pretend otherwise — so we know what we know with or without words learned at school.

After all, the 100% cells that we’re made of are wordless, too, and each cell knows much more than we’ll ever know.

The setup can be rigged

If you’re not in charge of your own context and contrast, then somebody else will be more than happy to take charge for you.

That somebody will likely be evil word-masters bent on taking advantage of this natural survival skill by rigging the setup in their favor.

When you surrender your senses and nervous systems to the private manipulation of those who would try to benefit from it, you have no rights left, and you don’t compare as you had initially intended, apples to apples, but you now end up comparing apples to oranges, or you can even be manipulated to believe an apple is an orange.

There are many ways to do this.

Takeaway

The challenge is knowing who is in control of the context and the contrast.

Make sure it’s you.

You can’t win with a losing hand.

The step-by-step guide to why the story of words isn’t told

By In Words, You

Step 1

As you’d expect, your lesson begins with the first step.

Step number one is knowing that the word-masters have known in the beginning is the word since the beginning.

You don’t need to be a word-master to know what that means.

But you must know how it all began.

It all began with the invention of words, hence the saying “In the beginning is the word”.

Unless you’ve lived in a cave on a distant planet until today, I think you’ve likely heard about or seen in the beginning is the word in writing.

Before Words

Above marked in red, nothing that you now have a word for exists in the wordless world Before Words.

After Words

Equally marked in red, everything you now have a word for exists in the wordy world After Words because in the beginning is the word.

That’s how humanity and everything you have a word for began.

A word couldn’t be anything else if it tried, including you.

  • “Using words to talk of words is like using a pencil to draw a picture of itself, on itself. Impossible. Confusing. Frustrating.” – Patrick Rothfuss
  • “What a word means, a sentence cannot say.” – Ludwig Wittgenstein

Therefore, without further ado, let’s move on to step 2.

Step 2

The story of words isn’t told because of Step 1.

If the story of words were told, it would be the death of the world’s longest-lasting lies.

  • “In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.” – Word-masters

In the beginning is the word.

God is no exception.

It couldn’t be anything else if it tried.

  • “In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.” – Word-masters

Words were invented 13,750 years ago.
Writing was invented 5,000 years ago.
Nobody knows what word was spoken in the 8,750 years between the invention of words and the invention of writing.
We know that during the word’s first 8,750 years, they were spoken only, meaning from whence the words had come, tither they returned again.
We don’t know where that was or could have been.

Step 3

If the story of words were told, it’d be the end of the organizations built on the world’s most successful lies.

They couldn’t continue to tell them in peace.

Imagine that.

Step 4

Now you know why the story of words isn’t told.

“‎Strange times are these in when old and young are taught falsehoods in school.” – Plato

PS.

Whether a lie happened or not doesn’t matter. All that matters it’s believed.

Do you want a fresh perspective but don’t know how?

By In Words, You

Why is it hard to gain a fresh perspective?

I think it has got to do — are you ready for this? — with professional golf teachers.

I’m told the hardest part for a professional golf teacher isn’t helping adult golfers develop a picture-book swing. The hardest part is getting adult golfers to stop using a bad one.

The same is true for professional word teachers.

The hardest part isn’t helping adult word-users gain a fresh perspective. The hardest part for a professional word teacher is getting adult word-users to change how to look at words.

Change how you look at words

When word-users change how they look at words, their worlds change.

You can bet your life on it.

Talk about a fresh perspective.

Nothing is believed until it’s true

Part of a fresh perspective is seeing, maybe for the first time, that the invention of words divided the word-users’ world into the wordless and the wordy.

Maybe also for the first time, it is seeing that the words and the word-users follow what preceded them since the birth of the planet 4.65 billion years ago, including the inventions of the eyes and the brains half a billion years before the invention of words.

Put differently, there’s no question about it, the words and word-users are part and parcel of evolution.

Without words (in the wordless world), there is no evolution.

Certainly for the first time, the final part of a fresh perspective is seeing that “Animal with words” appears under both the “WORDLESS” and the “WORDY” worlds at the same time.

That’s due to the fact that words don’t matter.

In that way, words defy our understanding of how evolution works.

Wordless

As depicted above, the wordless include not only the fire, air, earth, and water, but also everything invented by those 4 in the 4.65 billion years since they created the Earth.

In other words, the wordless include what the word-users name nature.

“To see, we must forget the name of the thing we are looking at.” – Claude Monet

Wordy

The wordy include the word-users, that is the animals with words (you and me), and the machines.

Machines excepted

Every word-user is unique like everybody else.

Therefore, it goes without saying but for the purpose of a fresh perspective I say it anyway, each word-user has their own truth(s).

In other words, to each their own.

The machines are excepted because everybody knows that the machines operate on programs and that the difference, if any, is not in the programmed machines, but in who is using them.

If it were different, all word-users would change how they look at words at the same time, all their worlds would change in the blink of an eye, and we’d gain the first fresh perspective since the beginning of words before the end of the day.

And here’s how to make this wishful thinking come true:

Don’t think twice in the beginning is the word.

Just think it once and for all instead.

Done.

Takeaway

If you ever want a fresh perspective again, but don’t know how, it’s simple to do.

Change how you look at words.

“Why are words not what my smartphone says?” is the question that I often get asked

By In Words

Word-users ask strange questions

The strange question I often get asked is “Why is the word not what my smart phone says?”

In a world of complicated — an English-pronounced Latin word — simple is like one hand clapping, hard to be heard, or if you prefer, like a bird without feathers, hard to take to the sky.

Word and words are good cases in point.

Simple is a word that couldn’t be anything else if it tried. Naturally, so is complicated.

The difference between the two is that simple is work while complicated happens.

There are many ways to simple.

You can read simple quotes worth reading twice.

And there’s “Last Train to Simple (the crazy method to love life)”.

“Why are words not what my smart phone says?”

Long story short, there are two answers, simple and complicated.

The simple answer: Because your smartphone depends on the internet.

For the complicated: Ask the internet.

Actually, you don’t have to. I’ve done the hard work for you.

  • Wikipedia “the internet’s most-read reference work”
    “Internet: is the global system of interconnected computer networks that uses the Internet protocol suite to communicate between networks and devices. It is a network of networks that consists of private, public, academic, business, and government networks of local to global scope, linked by a broad array of electronic, wireless, and optical networking technologies. The Internet carries a vast range of information resources and services, such as the interlinked hypertext documents and applications of the world wide web (www), electronic mail, telephony, and file sharing (followed by another 11,000 words)”.
  • Dictionary “the internet’s leading online dictionary”
    “Internet: Usually (except when used before a noun), a vast computer network linking smaller computer networks worldwide. The internet includes commercial, educational, governmental, and other networks, all of which use the same set of communications protocols.
  • BrainyQuote “providing inspirational quotes since 2001 to our worldwide community”
    “Internet”: If so inclined, check it out for yourself at https://www.brainyquote.com/search_results?x=27&y=12&q=Internet

The internet

“Gobbles up, stores, and disseminates more words faster than anything invented for that purpose before.” – Beat Schindler

“Why are words not what my smart phone says?” Part 2

Because all the internet knows about words is what it’s been told by the internet’s inventors who learned about words at school.

What’s wrong with that is that school doesn’t teach words and doesn’t tell the story of words. “School doesn’t teach” means school doesn’t teach words — what words are, what words do, and what words have — but that’s about school, a different story entirely…

  • “‎Strange times are these in when old and young are taught falsehoods in school.” – Plato
  • “The school system is the homogenizing hopper into which we toss our integral tots for processing.” – Marshall McLuhan
  • “If you end up with a boring, miserable life because you listened to your mom, your dad, your teacher, your priest, or some talking head on television to do your shit, then you deserve it.” – Frank Zappa
  • “When I look back on all the crap I learned in high school, it’s a wonder I can think at all.” – Paul Simon

…that will be covered in separate post down the line.

Back to smart.

“Why are words not what my smart phone says?” Part 3

Since the invention of the internet, things have changed.

Water has gone under the bridge and other stuff too.

The mothers and fathers of the internet are dead or old now.

They’ve been replaced by 6-year-olds, or by adults impersonating 6-year-olds, that are now telling the internet what they’ve learned at schools and universities about words.

If you want to know what that is, you’ll find it at the end of this post.

“Why are words not what my smart phone says?” Part 4

Because words — what words are, what words do, and what words have — are explained in The Origin of Humanity.

Of course, you’ll find The Origin of Humanity on the internet, here, at Amazon, and wherever worthy books are sold, but that’s not enough.

To understand words, and the origin of humanity, you must read it.

The Origin of Humanity is radically different from what your smartphone says. It might shock or offend for other reasons as well.

If the above reminds you of René Magritte’s painting “Ceci n’est pas une pipe”, there is nothing I can do about it except confirm that’s how the cards are dealt.

That’s what smart is all about.

In broad brush strokes

  • “Using words to talk of words is like using a pencil to draw a picture of itself, on itself.” – Patrick Rothfuss
  • “What a word means, a sentence cannot say.” – Ludwig Wittgenstein
  • The appearance of words has revolutionized evolution.
  • Words are a prison, but even a prison is a home if you have the key.
  • The word-user was the word’s idea for getting more words.
  • Words are a gift we’re meant to keep.
  • Words are what the word-users respond to.
  • Words are how you aim at what you’re looking for.
  • Everything you know is a word.
  • Words do not only change everything you have a word for, they create it.
  • Words don’t describe the world, they describe how we see it.
  • Words have not only changed what we see, but how we see.
  • Words are the limits of your world. Once you see that, you’re limitless.
  • Words aren’t taught at school.
  • The story of words isn’t told. (Except here)
  • Word-masters have know in the beginning is the word since the beginning of words.
  • Words tend to get mistaken for evidence and often get treated that way.
  • The word-users love to use their words.
  • If you have a word for it, it’s a word.
  • Words can be denied only by confirming them.
  • If you ignore what words can do to you, then you can have no empathy for what words can do to others.
  • Words do not matter (they possess zero electric charge).
  • Words have no meaning.

Takeaway

There is more to it, but knowing words — what words are, do, and have — takes time.

Then it takes additional time to know you — what you are, what you do, and what you have.

All I can say is let yourself be surprised.

Better yet, surprise yourself.

“Surprise is the essence of humor, and nothing is more surprising than truth.” – Bill Watterson

The surprise will be worth it in the end because these two — word and you — are all it takes for the limits of your world to metamorphose into limitless opportunities forever and a day.

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PS. What the internet knows about word and words

Artificial Intelligence (AI)

“A word is a speech sound or a combination of sounds, or its representation in writing, that symbolizes and communicates a meaning and may consist of a single morpheme or a combination of morphemes.”

Wikipedia (the world’s most read reference work)

“A word is a basic element of language that carries an objective or practical meaning, can be used on its own, and is uninterruptible. Despite the fact that language speakers often have an intuitive grasp of what a word is, there is no consensus among linguists on its definition and numerous attempts to find specific criteria of the concept remain controversial. Different standards have been proposed, depending on the theoretical background and descriptive context; these do not converge on a single definition. Some specific definitions of the term “word” are employed to convey its different meanings at different levels of description, for example based on phonological, grammatical or orthographic basis. Others suggest that the concept is simply a convention used in everyday situations. The concept of “word” is distinguished from that of a morpheme, which is the smallest unit of language that has a meaning, even if it cannot stand on its own. Words are made out of at least one morpheme. Morphemes can also be joined to create other words in a process of morphological derivation. In English and many other languages, the morphemes that make up a word generally include at least one root (such as “rock”, “god”, “type”, “writ”, “can”, “not”) and possibly some affixes (“-s”, “un-“, “-ly”, “-ness”). Words with more than one root (“[type][writ]er”, “[cow][boy]s”, “[tele][graph]ically”) are called compound words. In turn, words are combined to form other elements of language, such as phrases (“a red rock”, “put up with”), clauses (“I threw a rock”), and sentences (“I threw a rock, but missed”). In many languages, the notion of what constitutes a “word” may be learned as part of learning the writing system. This is the case for the English language, and for most languages that are written with alphabets derived from the ancient Latin or Greek alphabets. In English orthography, the letter sequences “rock”, “god”, “write”, “with”, “the”, and “not” are considered to be single-morpheme words, whereas “rocks”, “ungodliness”, “typewriter”, and “cannot” are words composed of two or more morphemes (“rock”+”s”, “un”+”god”+”li”+”ness”, “type”+”writ”+”er”, and “can”+”not”).

ComputerHope

“Word may refer to any of the following: 1. When referring to a word processor, Word is short for Microsoft Word. 2. In general, a word is a single element of verbal communication with a unique meaning or use. For example, this sentence contains seven words. The English language contains several hundred thousand different words and Computer Hope lists over 15,000 computer-related words in its computer dictionary. Word classes or parts of speech are categories of English words that help you construct good sentences. These categories are noun, verb, adjective, adverb, determiner, pronoun, preposition, conjunction, and interjection. In computing, a word is a single unit of measurement that is assumed to be a 16-bits in length value. However, it can be any set value, common word size values included: 16, 18, 24, 32, 36, 40, 48, and 64.”

Merriam-Webster

Click on Word Definition & Meaning – Merriam-Webster to see if you can believe Merriam-Webster’s take on words.

Merriam-Webster also wants you to believe that “a real word is when the word word has a wide range of meanings and uses in English. Yet one of the most often looked for pieces of information regarding word is not something that would be found in its definition. Instead, it is some variant of the question, What makes a word a real word? One of the most prolific areas of change and variation in English is vocabulary; new words are constantly being coined to name or describe new inventions or innovations, or to better identify aspects of our rapidly changing world. Constraints of time, money, and staff would make it impossible for any dictionary, no matter how large, to capture a fully comprehensive account of all the words in the language. And even if such a leviathan reference was somehow fashioned, the dictionary would be obsolete the instant it was published as speakers and writers continued generating new terms to meet their constantly changing needs. Most general English dictionaries are designed to include only those words that meet certain criteria of usage across wide areas and over extended periods of time (for more details about how words are chosen for dictionary entry, read “How does a word get into a Merriam-Webster dictionary?” in our FAQ). As a result, they may omit words that are still in the process of becoming established, those that are too highly specialized, or those that are so informal that they are rarely documented in professionally edited writing. But the words left out are as real as those that gain entry; the former simply haven’t met the criteria for dictionary entry–at least not yet (newer ones may ultimately gain admission to the dictionary’s pages if they gain sufficient use). However, in preparing your own writings, it is worth remembering that the dictionary encompasses the most widely used terms in English. Words that are left out may have usage limited to specific, isolated, or informal contexts, so they should be used carefully.

Oxford Learners

“Word is a single unit of language that means something and can be spoken or written.”