Words do not matter. They couldn’t if they tried. Why is difficult to understand but simple to explain.

Words don’t matter because they don’t possess any — matter, that is.

In other words, words are the only matter-less particle in the universe. No microscope or imaging technique has yet been invented to see or recognize words.

That makes words more elusive to catch than even the ghost particle. the famous Neutrino.

It illustrates, as Patrick Rothfuss has said, that “using words to talk of words is like using a pencil to draw a picture of itself, on itself.”

Of course, words can be used to de-scribe the things we have words for, such as homo sapiens and heart.

For example, we can describe the heart in any way we want. We can describe it as dancing, trembling, aching, pounding, torn, or even breaking or broken.

The heart of the matter

At the heart of the matter is when hearts are just doing their job, then we tend to ignore and take them for granted.

Don’t we?

Years of research have led me to conclude that we respond to words in the same way.

When words are just doing their job — no matter what we think that ought to be — then we forget and take them for granted.

But it’s only thanks to words why we’re here and the rest of the nature isn’t. In the rest of nature, words don’t exist for self-evident reasons. Hearts have got nothing to do with it.

Which explains why nature doesn’t talk for or of itself.

If nature is to be explained with words, only we, the wordy, can do it.

Here is a first step that can help

Trying to figure out words is not a walk in the park. In truth, it takes work.

I’ve been at it for 6 years, yet it still feels like I’m only just getting started.

Paraphrasing Patrick Rothfuss, “Using words to talk of words is like using a pencil to draw a picture of itself, on itself.”

If you’re not careful, trying to figure out words makes you wanna cry.

Just getting started?

When you’re just getting started, the first challenge with trying to make sense of words is accepting that words don’t make any.

Practically speaking, you must accept that words don’t make any sense. They couldn’t even if they tried, which they’re not.

That the one with the senses, the sensational one, is you.

No-one else can do it for you.

“Once we have surrendered our senses…to the private manipulation of those who would try to benefit from taking a lease on our eyes and ears, we don’t really have any rights left.” – Marshall McLuhan 

The sensational: You

Surrendering any of your senses to who would benefit from them isn’t a winning strategy. You can’t win with a losing hand.

I’ve recently explained that the story of words isn’t told at school for one reason only, so they can keep telling the world’s longest lasting lie in peace.

For thousands of years and with no end in sight, the world’s longest lasting lie has consisted of educating the children that the words in certain books not only make sense but that they are, in deed, the truth and nothing but the truth.

Against those who claim to have found the truth in certain books, of which they claim to have a copy, it explains why Galileo Galilei had to defend himself with “I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with senses, has intended us to forgo their use.” 

That is why for many word-users, accepting the fact that words don’t make sense is too big a hurdle to take in one fell swoop.

It is all up to you

For many word-users, accepting the fact there are no truths here is too radical a change.

The only thing in writing are words, and what you do with those words is all up to you. Nobody else can do it for you. The words don’t have anything to do with it.

Remember, the one with the senses, the sensational one is you.

Don’t be fooled. No-one else can have your senses for you.

No matter how hard you try

If you’re like me, you always struggle with your identity no matter how hard you try. Or until you change your approach. When I got tired of it, that’s what I did,

The reason I struggled with my identity is that I had begun with a bad beginning. When I started out, I ignored the fact that a bad beginning makes a bad ending for longer than I care to remember. I didn’t know it at the time, but it is a fact of life and there’s nothing I can do about it now.

Of course, there is nothing new about “Bad Beginning=Bad Ending.” Thanks to Euripides who said it first, we’ve known about it for 2,500 years.

My identities changed

For a large part of my life, I connected my identity to the place where I was born, to my nationality, to my human-ness, to the work I did, and to a number of other things as well.

The results were pretty predictable. My identities changed every time I came across a new idea.

Everything changed

Everything changed when I saw that only way to a rock-solid identity is a rock-solid understanding of the past.

What have words got to do with it?

Words are 10,000 years older than stories. It’s a fact of life that can be denied only by confirming it.

Practically speaking, this means that words can tell you more about the past than a story ever could.

The illustration below…

…tells you that as far as the past is concerned, Earth’s began with nature.

The natural way

The natural way consists of what is known as the elements: Fire, earth, wind, water, and the universe.

To understand the past, you must understand that the elements — fire, earth, wind, as well as the water — arrived on Earth by means of space travel, billions of years before we believed we’ve invented it. Space travel is nature’s invention, not ours.

The same it true for everything that followed — the cells, the oxygen, the plants, the animals, the eyes, the brains, the words, as well as the humans.

Naturally speaking, it means that the eyes, brains, words, and even the humans, are nature’s inventions, not ours. Yup, we didn’t invent us ourselves. Nature did, and for each of us, still does.

Practically speaking, that means we are part and parcel of nature, not separate from it.

When you understand the past in this way — near as I can tell, the only way — you will not ever struggle with your identity again. On the contrary, built on rock-solid ground, it will now outlive you forever and a day.

So that the teachers can teach at school the world’s longest lasting lie in peace.

In the news today, crime, addiction, and drugs are talked about mostly in relation to cannabis, opium, heroin, cocaine, crack, and ecstasy. While legalized crimes — religion, sex, tobacco, alcohol, and various types of barbiturates, tranquillizers and sedatives — are legal, hence not worth to make it into the breaking news.

“Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind.” – Rudyard Kipling

Many among us think this quote is fake news. At the same time, they believe the news written in the Bible:

“In the beginning is the word.”

I’m not one to make up new opinions.

What’s written in the Bible, which many think contains nothing but the truth. simply confirms what Rudyard Kipling has been saying all along.

However, what the bible doesn’t say

What the bible doesn’t tell you is why from the stories told at school, the one missing is always the story of words.

What the bible doesn’t let you know is that the story of words has been banned from school for thousands of years for one reason only: So their teachers can teach at school the world’s longest lasting lie in peace.

1 / 99

1/99 is said to describe how the power is distributed among the world’s population, or so they want you to believe.

However, right from the start, it is easy to tell whose side you’re on.

On the powerless’ side, they believe the “1%=99%” formula is a new-age slogan from the 21st century. Of course, they also believe that they are, in fact, the 99%. Why would they hang on to such a belief?

Everybody has the power to feel good or bad any time of the day.

But everybody also knows that nothing is true until it is believed, and that what to believe is a question of character and personal preference, to each their own.

If you think “1%=99%” is new-age, think again.

Because nothing could be farther from the truth.

“1%=99%” has been a constant since the beginning of words.

WHAT HAVE WORDS GOT TO DO WITH IT?

Where words are, there is power, and where power is, there are words. It’s always been that way. The two always come together like day and night.

WORD MASTERY

Remember when words first appeared on Earth — when the Age was Stone, the Sahara green, and Northern Europe under 1.6-kilometer thick ice — the select few who mastered the words, the new media, first, they were the rock-stars of their day and all the power went to them. Those were the original 1%. In other words, that is how the “1%=99%” got started.

STORY TELLING

After the original 1% had invented enough words for pictures to speak a thousand words, hence to allow for storytelling, they wrote the scripts, paid the scribes, and were powerful and rich enough to own the storytellers, too.

When writing was invented, 5000 years ago, they possessed the power to own the papyrus as well as the messengers to get the messages across. A little later yet, 582 years ago, the early printing presses were also priced with the deep pockets of the powerful 1% in mind.

WORD ACCELERATORS

The invention of the printing press was followed in now quick succession by the invention of the other word accelerators such as the telegraph, the typewriter, the telephone, the radio, the TV, the computer and the word processor.

THE INTERNET

The internet, the most recent addition in the evolution of words, now gobbles up, stores, and disseminates more words faster than any previous invention made for that purpose before.

THE NEW-EST 1%

The newest 1%, also known as The Big Tech, aren’t powerful because they have a lot of words, but because they have a lot of words about you.

“1%=99%” CONCLUSION

Where might the power be at time of writing? What might the exact percentage be? We don’t know. Only one thing is certain.

How they treat you is their power.

But how you respond is yours.

Ever since I decided to document how humanity happened, back in the year of 2016, I’ve searched every crook and cranny for what others have said about words. As you’d expect, in all those years I’ve come across a large quantity of quotes about words worth reading twice.

WHAT HAVE WORDS GOT TO DO WITH IT?

The bible is said to contain nothing but the truth, which means if you believe it, you believe in the beginning is the word.

But even people who read more than the bible, admit that truth is a word.

It is a fact that can be denied only by confirming it.

Among the things that have been written about words over the centuries, my favorite is the following:

“Using words to talk of words is like using a pencil to draw a picture of itself, on itself. Impossible. Confusing. Frustrating.” – Patrick Rothfuss

Patrick Rothfuss is right. We come into this world wordless. Till about age 2 to 6, we, the children, don’t have a clue about what the adults are using words for.

That is because we are born wordless. Until about the ages of two to six, the newly born don’t have a clue what words are for. However, everything changes once we’re sent off to school.

WHAT HAVE WORDS GOT TO DO WITH SCHOOL?

Words are what school is all about.

At school, in the beginning, teachers teach us how to recognize, read, and write words. That is the sole purpose of school.

Next up, of course, is the teaching of the meaning of words, without which we’d only know what we’re talking with, but we wouldn’t know what we’re talking about.

And after that part of the teaching is also done, then we’re made to believe that we’re ready to use the words taught to de-scribe the world.

But how often is that true?

TO DE-SCRIBE THE WORLD TAKES A SCRIBE

To de-scribe the world takes a scribe. The words selected by the scribe have got nothing to do with it.

It’s a fact of life, words take a scribe to de-scribe the world with, That is the reason why the world keeps getting de-scribed differently as scribes goes by.

The world has got nothing to do with it.

That is what words, scribes, and the world are all about.

In the beginning is the word.

Hi, my name is Beat — pronounced B@ — Schindler. At B@’s Fresh Perspective, I’m in charge to ensure it is all about words.

A million times a day

Before the day is over, someone will share with you a story. At B@’s Perspective, the goal of sharing the story of words is to start a movement, to change the world.

That’s because words have changed the world before, more than any other event before or since, and they can do it again beyond the shadow of a doubt.

Relax

To change the world by words, relax, there is no need to learn anything new, nor to change your point of view. At B@’s Perspective, all it takes is a fresh perspective that is unique, down to earth, and instantly actionable for everyone with an open mind.

It hasn’t always been easy

All through my life I’ve worked relentlessly to make it from rags to riches, but then suddenly, on a dark Friday night in February of 2012, I got kicked out of my house with my possessions in a suitcase, a backpack, and a blue IKEA-shoulder bag.

My prospects appeared bleak and my future dark. But the worst part was that I didn’t understand why me?

When your only options are to get capsized or get over it, you work hard to gain a new perspective, on that I give you my word. It wasn’t easy and the breakthrough — when I saw words for the first time — finally happened only in 2016. Now, hardly a day goes by when I don’t see how far I’ve come since then.

What have words got to do with it?

What have words got to do with it? All kinds of things are being said, depending on who is saying them.

Fact is, words have existed for the most recent 13,750 years only, in other words, for the most recent 3/1000th of a percent only. That means the first 99.9997 percent of Earth-Time have been wordless, and that in the remaining 3/1000th of a percent since then, we have successfully made it to the top of the food chain, the most advanced specie ever, fixing to get ready for breakfast on Mars.

Last but no least, it signifies that as recent as 13,750 years ago — when the Age was Stone, the Sahara green, and Northern Europe under 1-mile thick ice — that is before words existed, we were merely wishing for words, but now we’re drowning in them. At the time of writing, there are over a million words in just English alone, and by the time you read this, I suppose the number will be even bigger.

Every thought is a word

Try as hard as you might, there’s nothing you can think of that isn’t a word. In fact, it can be denied only by confirming it.

But with meanwhile more than a million words in the English language alone, with each thought we can think a word, how in the world is it possible to think a million thoughts? Well, possible it isn’t, not even for the smartest of minds, which means this is an agonizing time for billions of people all over the world.

Let me give you an example. Take a look at world.

Words don’t describe the world

As it is, we love to believe that words describe the world. But how often is that true? Well, words don’t describe the world. On the contrary, words only describe how we see the world. And for self-evident reasons, the same applies to life, love, and to broken hearts.

The heart of the matter

There is precious little our hearts cannot do. They may be dancing, trembling, aching, pounding, torn, or breaking. However, when they are just beating away quietly, doing their job, then we tend to ignore them or take them for granted, don’t we?

Years of research have led me to conclude we respond to words in similar ways.

In the beginning is the word

In the beginning is the word.

I am no-one to create a new opinion.

That is my story and what B@’s Perspective is about.

If you’re still with me, I respect and appreciate it.

Nothing is true until it is believed

And what to believe, or what not to believe, is a question of character and personal preference, to each their own.

What has nature got to do with it?

“The wisest and noblest teacher is nature itself.” — Leonardo da Vinci

We are part of nature, not separate from it. That means it is our thinking, all of it natural, which has us engaged in a war, of all things, against nature. But that is not a winning strategy. You can’t win with a losing hand. In our war against nature, if we win, we lose.

What has water got to do with it?

“Water is the driving force of all Nature.” — Leonardo da Vinci

“All the rivers run into the sea, yet the sea is not full. Unto the place from whence the rivers come, thither they return again.” — Richard Brautigan

“All water has a perfect memory and is forever trying to get back to where it was.” — Toni Morrison

Put differently, think about it. 70% of each of us is water.