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the origin of humanity

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I’m answering the TOP question I get asked about words: Do words matter?

By In history, words

The story of pre-wordic inventions

In the wordless world

In the wordless world, matter doesn’t exist for self-evident reasons.

In the wordy world

In the wordy world, matter describes what words do not have any of.

Self-energy is energy that does not exist until it is observed by an instrument that can detect it. But words have even less self-energy than that.

That is why words couldn’t matter if they tried, and why inside of a word-user, words cannot be detected by the most advanced x-ray, laser, MRI, scanner, and not even by the world’s most sensitive detector in existence, the LUX-Zeplin in South Dakota, USA.  

The only instrument on Earth that can detect a word inside of a word-user is the word-user itself.

The heart of the matter

A word-user’s heart may be cheating, dancing, trembling, aching, pounding, torn, broken, or breaking, simply because according to words, there is precious little a heart cannot do.

But what if the heart is just beating away quietly, doing its job? Then we tend to ignore it and take it for granted, don’t we? 

Years of research have led me to conclude that the word-users respond to words in the similar ways. If our words are just doing their job, we take them for granted.

But the heart of the matter it’s the word, not the heart, that explains why we use words and the wordless aren’t.

Are you trying to understand words and wanna cry?

By In history, words

To understand words is not a walk in the park.

I should know, for I stumbled upon words back in 2016.

7 years and 10,000 hours later I’m still only just getting started.

If you’re anything like me, you must not only discover but then also accept that there is a difference between Before Words and After Words.

Before Words vs After Words

Next, you work hard to understand the difference between word and words.

Word vs Words

If you’re anything like me one more time, the hardest part by a country mile is accepting that…

  • “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

And if that weren’t enough, you must also deal with wordusers telling you without fail that trying to understand words is hopeless and forlorn.

I did it anyway.

But that’s not all.

I also wrote a book — in English — that will help you understand words beyond the shadow of a doubt.

As a special preview, the book’s introduction reads like this:

THE ORIGIN OF HUMANITY, WHAT CAN BE DENIED ONLY BY CONFIRMING IT, investigates and answers what everybody wants to know.

  • How did it all begin?
  • What existed before humanity?
  • Why are we here and the wordless aren’t?

Origin can be denied only by confirming it, a word. The same applies to the beginning and to humanity.

Before words, words didn’t exist for self-evident reasons. After words, the only question on the table is when did words, the beginning, and humanity happen?

Have words been with us forever, or have they arrived only when mother Earth gave birth to herself 4.65 billion years ago? Or did the words appear 542 million years ago when the eyes appeared, or maybe 42 million years later, when the invention of the eyes was followed by the invention of the brain? Or did words happen perhaps only 300 million years ago when animals of the homo type first showed up? Could it have been on a Tuesday 6026 years ago when nothing happened?

To keep you from guessing, the first (spoken-only) words are estimated to have appeared between 9500 and 18000 years ago. When exactly doesn’t matter.

The 13750 years ago used in THE ORIGIN OF HUMANITY (WHAT CAN BE DENIED ONLY BY CONFIRMING IT) is the average between the low and the high estimates.

13750 years ago, the age was stone, the Sahara green, Northern Europe under 1-mile-thick ice, and writing hadn’t been invented yet.

Please feel free to estimate the exact date yourself. After all, that’s what words are for.

Much water has gone under the bridge since, with much other stuff too, some good and some bad.

The wordless remain as wordless as ever, but the wordy have climbed to the top of the food chain second to none. The self-declared crown of evolution, ready for breakfast on Mars, and with our sense of humor we can look at what has changed — the glorious, the fantastic, the absurd, and the non-sensical — and laugh about it, not sure if that’s scary or funny or how it benefits us.

Only one thing is certain beyond the shadow of a doubt. Without our sense of humor, we’d all go insane. If we haven’t already.

Everybody knows that nothing good will ever come from fighting the old. It takes a fresh perspective that makes the old obsolete.

For this and other reasons as well, THE ORIGIN OF HUMANITY (WHAT CAN BE DENIED ONLY BY CONFIRMING IT) invites you to look at words as an alien might.

As you read my book, new landscapes will unfold that everybody knows have been there all along.

But as you will notice, the unfolding is you.

Of course, my book can offend for other reasons as well.

But let’s begin in the beginning

I wanted to write a book that gives readers hope. I believe that’s why you are here, and if we begin with what we agree on, it’s easier to understand what THE ORIGIN OF HUMANITY (WHAT CAN BE DENIED ONLY BY CONFIRMING IT) is about.

We probably haven’t had the pleasure to meet in person yet, so let me briefly introduce myself to you.

My name is Beat Schindler. That I’m passionate about the origin of humanity is new even to me.

In my younger years, I used to believe the stories told to me by storytellers typically stronger and taller than me.

I believed not only that the world had been created, but also that I’m part of a family, community, nation, people, humanity, and brotherhood of man. On top of that, I believed I was born human and, therefore, that I’m separate from nature.

I’m not saying I was convinced, but over time I got used to it.

When I was older, in 2016, it suddenly occurred to me that humanity could be a word.

Six years and many doubters later, it turns out that humanity is indeed what can be denied only by confirming it.

Now I’m driven by what I feel and no longer see the point in tarting it up.

I’m passionate about the origin of humanity as well as about the origin of words, because the two events are identical.

If it wasn’t for words, humanity wouldn’t exist.

I no longer believe anything is separate from nature. Everything is part of the origin, including us, the word-users.

I reside in a country where writing about the origin doesn’t get me silenced, imprisoned, or cost me my life.

Everybody wished that the governments all over the world loved their children, too, but everybody also knows the state the world is in.

Words

I hear you, what in the world have words got to do with the origin of humanity?

All kinds of things are being said about words, depending on who is saying them, and what to believe is a question of character and personal preference, to each their own. There’s nothing new about it.

The story of words

In the beginning are the wordless — fire, air, earth, water, cells, plants, animals, eyes, and brains.

Who’s telling the story doesn’t make any difference.

13750 years ago, when words arrived, though they did nothing but divide the time on Earth into the Before Words and the After Words, they also changed the world more than any other event before or since.

I think it is no exaggeration to say words are the origin of humanity.

I’m not one to make new opinions or to invent anything. Everybody knows the word is a gift we’re meant to keep.

I think it is no exaggeration to say that the word is also the origin of you.

The story of you

For without words, you doesn’t exist, and the reason we’re here and the wordless aren’t, is because we have words and the wordless haven’t.

  • “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

I agree with the above quotes 100%.

Nevertheless, in THE ORIGIN OF HUMANITY (WHAT CAN BE DENIED ONLY BY CONFIRMING IT) I will do just that, talk of words the best I can to let you discover for yourself what words are, do, and have, how we respond to them, and what that says about us.

To produce the numbers, tables, and graphs in this book, I’ve worked with the help of the internet. I trust they will let you see what happened in liberating new ways.

Understanding words is never a question of quantity. There are always those who understand and those who don’t.

But on one thing, my friend, I give you my word.

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

Limits and truths

The truths and limits of your world have got nothing to do with what’s out there.

The limits and truths of your world have got everything to do with your meaning of words.

Limits, Truths

No word can have your limits for you.

There’s no candle in the window.

It’s all up to you and artificial intelligence, whatever that’s supposed to be, doesn’t help.

You

What in the world have you, of all things, got to do with words?

Well, what you can feel, hear, smell, taste, touch, or see, or if you have a word for it, or if you have another word for it, it’s a word.

For this and other reasons as well, you is also part of THE ORIGIN OF HUMANITY (WHAT CAN BE DENIED ONLY BY CONFIRMING IT) — what you are, do, can, and have, how you respond, and what that says about you.

Philosophy

I’m a storyteller, not a philosopher, so what has philosophy, of all things, got to do with the origin of humanity?

Why?

Above marked in red, Why? is the basis of not only storytelling, but also of every philosophical pursuit.

I do read of philosophers whenever the time is right, most recently when I enrolled at the local “Journées philosophiques” earlier this year.

Among the speakers was Markus Gabriel, “a philosopher” according to Wikipedia (the world’s most-read reference work), “the thinker of the hour”, according to DIE ZEIT (over 270,000 subscribers use the digital ZEIT), and chair of epistemology and of modern- and present-day philosophy at the University of Bonn, Germany. For context only, a few of Markus Gabriel’s quotes.

  • “It would be better if man would learn to understand himself as an animal again.” 
  • “We will never know everything.”
  • “Society will always have to come to terms with man’s susceptibility to error.”
  • “We need an ethics of not knowing.”

A favorite of mine is Ludwig Wittgenstein, “considered by some to be the greatest philosopher of the 20th century”, according to Wikipedia. For context only, below a few of Ludwig Wittgenstein’s quotes.

  • “All I know is what I have words for.”
  • “What a word means, a sentence cannot say.”
  • “Uttering a word is like striking a note on the keyboard of the imagination.”
  • “A new word is like a fresh seed sown on the ground of the discussion.”
  • “Call it a dream, it does not change anything.”
  • “What one cannot speak of, one must remain silent about.”
  • “Death is not an event in life.”
  • “If a question can be asked, then it can also be answered.” 
  • “Everything that can be thought and said at all, can be thought and said clearly.”   
  • “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.”
  • “I won’t say ‘See you tomorrow’ because that would be like predicting the future, and I’m pretty sure I can’t do that.”
  • “Tell them I’ve had a wonderful life.”

In THE ORIGIN OF HUMANITY (WHAT CAN BE DENIED ONLY BY CONFIRMING IT), simply look for what is useful, ignore the rest, or reach out to say hello.

Systemic change requires sharing the information.

If the information in this introduction is useful to you and maybe to others, please feel free to share it lock, stock, and barrel.

PS.

You can also listen to the book’s introduction by clicking the play button below.

PS.

You can purchase THE ORIGIN OF HUMANITY (WHAT CAN BE DENIED ONLY BY CONFIRMING IT) with a simple click on the picture below.

Did you know why the story of words isn’t told at school?

By In history, words

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

In the news today, crime is talked about in relation to forbidden hate, racism, gangs, murder, and drugs.

Whilst legal, lawful, and right are mostly talked about in relation to permitted crimes such as legal drugs, religion, sex, gangs, murder, hate, and racism.

What most word-users ignore it’s forgetting that…

“In the beginning is the word.”

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

I’m not one to make up new opinions or to invent anything new.

Not in the news

What the news doesn’t tell you is why, from the stories told at school, the one missing is always the story of words. Because the people who read only one book don’t want a word of it in the news that the story of words is been banned from school because…

in the wordless world

Lie doesn’t exist for self-evident reasons.

In the wordy world

The longest lasting lie describes “In the beginning is the word, the word is with god, and the word is god.”

This has been going on for thousands of years.

For thousands of years

In the wordy world, when you tell a lie, you are the first to know, which every liar whose ever lived knows from personal experience, the only knowledge there is.

What the people telling the world’s longest lasting lie have also known for thousands of years, is that when a lie is repeated, it is believed. Including by themselves.

However, the truth will catch up with the them eventually.

But I could be wrong.

What if I told you that “1%/99%” is older than writing? (would you be surprised?)

By In history, words

1%/99% older than writing
The story of words

In the wordless world

In the wordless world, wealth and power don’t exist for self-evident reasons.

In the wordy world

In the wordy world, the fact that wealth and power are words can be denied only by confirming it.

And in the wordy world, many word-users want you to believe that 1/99 — also known as the 1% vs. the 99% — describes the unequal distribution of wealth and power among the world’s population of word-users. Not only that, you’re also to know exactly which percentage you belong to every step of the way.

Fact is, where power is, there are words, and where words are, there is power.

Power tends to organize never in the shape of a glass of water, where the volume is evenly distributed, but always in the shape of a pyramid, where the 1% sits invariably on top.

Of course, words are powerless. Expecting words to have power presupposes they have the organs required, which they don’t for self-evident reasons.

The power, if any, is in the word-user.

  • Words first showed up on Earth 13750 years ago when the age was stone, the Sahara green, Northern Europe under 1-mile-thick ice, and writing hadn’t been invented yet.
  • The powerful 1% word-users, as opposed to the 99%, understood from the beginning that the word was a new beginning.
  • They understood that stored words would later allow for storytelling, which explains the powerful have been the 1% from the start, but also why the planet’s first storytellers were the rock stars of their day.
  • For the first 8750 years, words were spoken only, but when 5000 years ago writing was invented,  the 1% possessed the wealth and power to own the ink, papyrus, paper, scribes, seals, as well as the storytellers to have their stories told all over the world.
  • The reward system of the 1% at the time — get paid in gold, land, and titles the chief said was his — made it affordable. But that is about chiefs, a different story entirely.
  • When 585 years ago the printing press was invented, it was also priced with the 1% in mind.
  • 99% of the world’s word-users couldn’t afford a printing press in their wildest dreams.
  • Everything changed 156 years ago when the typewriter was invented.
  • The typewriter transformed everybody able to afford a typewriter into a storyteller overnight. Of course, this reshuffled 1% didn’t use the typewriter for storytelling only. They also used it to create reference works such as thesauruses, encyclopedias and dictionaries.
  • The invention 33 years ago of the world-wide-web — now known as the internet and social media — as changed everything, including the 1%, again.
  • The internet gobbles up, stores, and disseminates more words faster than anything invented for that purpose before, and by doing so spelled the death of “I don’t know.”
  • The newest 1% — Alphabet, Amazon, Apple, Meta, and Microsoft, also known as Big Tech — are wealthy and powerful not because they know everything about words, but because they know everything about you.

Powerful conclusion

How the 1% treat you is their power.

But how you respond is all up to you.

PS.

The utmost a word can do is co-respond the best it can to what you’re about to say, however, make no mistake about it, the one responding will forever be you.

An often-overlooked part of humanity (and why it’s crucial to see).

By In history, words

Out of the blue, back in 2016, it suddenly saw that humanity could be a word.

Now seven years and many doubters later, the proof is in the pudding. This I know beyond the shadow of a doubt from personal experience, the only source of knowledge there is,

Humanity can be denied only by confirming it — a word.

Typical of words, including humanity, is that in the wordless world, words and humanity don’t exist for self-evident reasons, but in the wordful world, a word couldn’t be anything else if it tried, and everything you can think, feel, hear, touch, smell, taste, or see, and everything else you have a word for it, and everything you have another word for, is beyond the shadow of a doubt, a word.

Now I no longer see the point in tarting up that I’m passionate about the origin of both words and humanity. After all, the two events are identical. If it wasn’t for words, humanity wouldn’t exist.

I reside in a country where being the author of posts about the origin doesn’t get me silenced or cost me my life, and I know of course that everybody wished that all governments would love their children, too, but I also know that everybody knows the state the world is in.

Long story short, in the seven years since 2016, I’ve searched every crook and cranny for what the famous word-users have said or are saying inspirational about words, and I have collected and stored it for you to enjoy, if so inclined, in Word Quotes Worth Reading Twice.

What have words got to do with humanity?

In the beginning is the word. It’s a fact that can be denied only by confirming it.

Without words in the beginning, humanity wouldn’t exist.

So there.

What have words got to do with words?

“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

Because I agree with the above quotes 100%, I have written a book about both origins — the origin of words and the origin of humanity — the same event as far as humanity is concerned, instead.

The origin of humanity

Now available for purchase at BoD as well as at Amazon.

PS.

Understanding words is never a question of quantity. There are always those who understand and those who don’t.

But on one thing, my friend, I give you my word. When you change the way you look at words, the world changes.