by Beat Schindler | Mar 11, 2025 | 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...
by Beat Schindler | Mar 8, 2025 | 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...
by Beat Schindler | Mar 8, 2025 | 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...
by Beat Schindler | Mar 6, 2025 | 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...
by Beat Schindler | Mar 4, 2025 | 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...
