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the origin of humanity

Words

Safe is not what’s going on

Safe is not what’s going on

Safety and security are not found in what’s going on within you and without you.

Because that can change any minute now. We live in an uncertain world.

Safe and secure are found only in knowing how you respond to what’s going on within you and without you.

Still, it mightn’t be as simple as it looks at first sight. That’s because you belong to the only animal specie that dreamt of more words so much that it’s now drowning in them.

The result? Simply put, everything you respond to are words. Of course, it’s not just about your responses, we all respond to words together.

The current word-total is in excess of millions (billions according to some word-users) with more getting added as we speak, which explains why word-users have no choice but to respond to nothing but words.

Should you find something that you respond to that’s not a word, you must let everybody know — in the comments below — because you’re doing what’s never been done since the beginning of words.

Swords Words

Every word-user sees that words and swords are only a letter apart. In other words, it’s of utmost importance that you know the difference between the two.

Which begs the question of what is real and what is not, doesn’t it?

You might be torn between what’s real and what is not, but you also realise that real remains the only place to get a good meal.

You might even call words a dream and see it doesn’t make any difference.

TAKEAWAY

Safety and security are found only in knowing how you will respond to what’s going on within you and without you AHEAD OF TIME. Yup, that means you must know BEFORE things go on.

What’s going on doesn’t matter.

All that matters is knowing how you respond AHEAD of time. Nowhere else can safety and security be found.

Decide how you respond ahead of time, then see many other decisions making themselves at the same time.

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What makes you a word-user?

By In Words, You

Re-discover what out makes you a word-using animal that calls itself human can be quickly done because all it takes is for you to remember the same two events I remembered not long ago.

Event #1: Remember you’re born like any mammal’s child, that is without words, wordless.

It’s not just about you of course. We’re all born wordless together.

Event #2: Remember you learned your first letters, then words, then stories at home and later at school.

Because you weren’t told at home or school, you probably don’t remember that among the 5 to 7 million of wordless animal species, you are a part of the only type of animal that builds schools for the sole purpose of letters, words, and storytelling, that none of the wordless animals do anything like it.

Makes you wonder what the wordless know that we don’t, doesn’t it?

Words are all we have

We have them and the wordless don’t.
That’s the only reason why we are here talking about them and the wordless aren’t.

“Until the lioness tells her tale, the story will always glorify the hunter.” – African wisdom

TAKEAWAY

Rather than believe what our parents, preachers, teachers, and professors say, ask yourself if maybe the opposite is true for a minute or two.

Or take the shortcut and use the same minute or two to pay attention to the story of words instead.

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What makes you a word-user?

What makes you a word-user?

Re-discover what out makes you a word-using animal that calls itself human can be quickly done because all it takes is for you to remember the same two events I remembered not long ago.

Event #1: Remember you’re born like any mammal’s child, that is without words, wordless.

It’s not just about you of course. We’re all born wordless together.

Event #2: Remember you learned your first letters, then words, then stories at home and later at school.

Because you weren’t told at home or school, you probably don’t remember that among the 5 to 7 million of wordless animal species, you are a part of the only type of animal that builds schools for the sole purpose of letters, words, and storytelling, that none of the wordless animals do anything like it.

Makes you wonder what the wordless know that we don’t, doesn’t it?

Words are all we have

We have them and the wordless don’t.
That’s the only reason why we are here talking about them and the wordless aren’t.

“Until the lioness tells her tale, the story will always glorify the hunter.” – African wisdom

TAKEAWAY

Rather than believe what our parents, preachers, teachers, and professors say, ask yourself if maybe the opposite is true for a minute or two.

Or take the shortcut and use the same minute or two to pay attention to the story of words instead.

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The medium without which no media exists, social media included, is the word.

By In Words, You

The invention of the word is the medium without which no media in the world exists, social media included.

And it’s not just about media and social media, it’s about everything we have a word for and know.

How come?

To understand what this means takes not just looking at, but seeing the story of inventions that preceded the invention of words:

Invented 13,750 years ago — when the age was stone, the Sahara green, Northern Europe under 1-mile-thick ice — the word allowed the animals for the first time since they themselves had been invented 600 million years earlier, to communicate by words.

What does that tell us?

It’s telling us, the descendants of the first word-users 13,750 years ago, that we’ve communicated wordlessly during the first 5,986,250 years of our existence.

In percentages, we’ve communicated without words during the first 98% of our existence, and only 2% of our most recent existence.

Though we’re meanwhile 2% AW (After Words), we still do not know the purpose of words any more than we know the purpose of energy, fire, air, earth, water, cells, plants, animals, eyes, and brains.

“Why?” is the foundation of every curiousity, and “why words?” is no exception. It’s what kept me busy since I ever first saw a word for what it is, back in 2016.

SOCIAL

Communication — commune action — is social by definition and communication by words is no exception.

Every invention AW (After Words) exists only because in the beginning is the invention of the word.

At the risk of repeating today’s post headline, without the invention of the original medium, the word, none of the subsequent media exist.

PS. To understand media, the book to read is Marshall McLuhan’s “Understanding Media: The Extensions of Man”.

Whatever controls the media, controls the word-user.

  • “All media work us over completely. They are so pervasive in their personal, political, economic, aesthetic, psychological, moral, ethical, and social consequences that they leave no part of us untouched, unaffected, unaltered. The medium is the message. Any understanding of social and cultural change is impossible without a knowledge of the way media work as environments. All media are extensions of some human faculty, psychic or physical.” – Marshall McLuhan
  • “Societies have always been shaped more by the nature of the media by which men communicate than by the content of the communication.” – Marshall McLuhan

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The medium without which no media exists, social media included, is the word.

The medium without which no media exists, social media included, is the word.

The invention of the word is the medium without which no media in the world exists, social media included.

And it’s not just about media and social media, it’s about everything we have a word for and know.

How come?

To understand what this means takes not just looking at, but seeing the story of inventions that preceded the invention of words:

Invented 13,750 years ago — when the age was stone, the Sahara green, Northern Europe under 1-mile-thick ice — the word allowed the animals for the first time since they themselves had been invented 600 million years earlier, to communicate by words.

What does that tell us?

It’s telling us, the descendants of the first word-users 13,750 years ago, that we’ve communicated wordlessly during the first 5,986,250 years of our existence.

In percentages, we’ve communicated without words during the first 98% of our existence, and only 2% of our most recent existence.

Though we’re meanwhile 2% AW (After Words), we still do not know the purpose of words any more than we know the purpose of energy, fire, air, earth, water, cells, plants, animals, eyes, and brains.

“Why?” is the foundation of every curiousity, and “why words?” is no exception. It’s what kept me busy since I ever first saw a word for what it is, back in 2016.

SOCIAL

Communication — commune action — is social by definition and communication by words is no exception.

Every invention AW (After Words) exists only because in the beginning is the invention of the word.

At the risk of repeating today’s post headline, without the invention of the original medium, the word, none of the subsequent media exist.

PS. To understand media, the book to read is Marshall McLuhan’s “Understanding Media: The Extensions of Man”.

Whatever controls the media, controls the word-user.

  • “All media work us over completely. They are so pervasive in their personal, political, economic, aesthetic, psychological, moral, ethical, and social consequences that they leave no part of us untouched, unaffected, unaltered. The medium is the message. Any understanding of social and cultural change is impossible without a knowledge of the way media work as environments. All media are extensions of some human faculty, psychic or physical.” – Marshall McLuhan
  • “Societies have always been shaped more by the nature of the media by which men communicate than by the content of the communication.” – Marshall McLuhan

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Word rules

  • There is a BW (Before Words) and an AW (After Words) both in the story of evolution and in the story of you.
  • In the beginning is the word.
  • A word couldn’t be anything else if it tried.
  • Words do not matter.
  • If you have a word for it, it’s a word.
  • If you know it, it’s a word.
  • Words are yours.
  • Words are how word-users aim at what they’re looking for.
  • Words are a prison, but even a prison is a home when you have the key.
  • Words are the limits of your world.
  • A word is never another.
  • To say a word is a word is meaningless, to say of two words that they are identical is nonsense, and to say of one word that it is identical with itself is to say nothing.
  • What a word is, a sentence cannot say.
  • Words sit on our noses, as it were, as glasses, and everything we look at, we see through them.
  • “A rose by any other name would smell as sweet” (William Shakespeare). A word by any other name is still a word, with the only difference that is doesn’t smell.
  • Call words a dream, it doesn’t change anything.

Modern times depend on what you ask

By In Words, You

You can ask your smartphone.
Or you can ask what your smartphone doesn’t have a clue of.

Smartphone

Your smartphone will tell you what’s on the internet, that is what others say about modern times or what AI says about modern times —  “modern times typically refers to the period after the late 19th century characterized by significant changes” — which they want you to believe is different but it’s the same thing, others talking about modern times.  Makes you wonder what period modern times atypically refers to, doesn’t it?

What your smartphone doesn’t know

Your smartphone doesn’t know what the internet doesn’t know. Smartphones won’t tell you…

  • That modern times are two words, like everything you have a word for and know.
  • That modern times exist since the invention of words.

Talking of significant changes, the invention of words revolutionised evolution like no other invention BW (Before Words) — including the inventions of Earth, cells, plants, animals, eyes, and brains — or in the 13,750 years since.

The 100% word-based internet, invented 35 years ago, not only gobbles up and spits out all over the world more words faster than anything invented for that purpose in the 4.65 billion years before — the same internet that without the invention of words doesn’t exist.
As it is, when English was invented, Deepl hadn’t been invented and translators had been in short supply. So modern times, first written 500 years ago, is based on the Latin modo. Had translators not been in short supply, every English word-user would now know modo means now. Instead of that, we’re now talking without knowing what we’re talking about.

TAKEAWAY

I’m not saying the story of evolution should be told where stories are told, typically in schools — after all, storytelling is what schools are for.

All I’m saying is the story of evolution ought to be told in its entirety.

If that were the case, then the English word-user would now know there’s a BW (Before Words) and an AW (After Words) — without which evolution itself would now neither exist nor now be talked about.

  • “‎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
  • “When I look back on all the crap I learned in high school, it’s a wonder I can think at all.” – Paul Simon

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Modern times depend on what you ask

Modern times depend on what you ask

You can ask your smartphone.
Or you can ask what your smartphone doesn’t have a clue of.

Smartphone

Your smartphone will tell you what’s on the internet, that is what others say about modern times or what AI says about modern times —  “modern times typically refers to the period after the late 19th century characterized by significant changes” — which they want you to believe is different but it’s the same thing, others talking about modern times.  Makes you wonder what period modern times atypically refers to, doesn’t it?

What your smartphone doesn’t know

Your smartphone doesn’t know what the internet doesn’t know. Smartphones won’t tell you…

  • That modern times are two words, like everything you have a word for and know.
  • That modern times exist since the invention of words.

Talking of significant changes, the invention of words revolutionised evolution like no other invention BW (Before Words) — including the inventions of Earth, cells, plants, animals, eyes, and brains — or in the 13,750 years since.

The 100% word-based internet, invented 35 years ago, not only gobbles up and spits out all over the world more words faster than anything invented for that purpose in the 4.65 billion years before — the same internet that without the invention of words doesn’t exist.
As it is, when English was invented, Deepl hadn’t been invented and translators had been in short supply. So modern times, first written 500 years ago, is based on the Latin modo. Had translators not been in short supply, every English word-user would now know modo means now. Instead of that, we’re now talking without knowing what we’re talking about.

TAKEAWAY

I’m not saying the story of evolution should be told where stories are told, typically in schools — after all, storytelling is what schools are for.

All I’m saying is the story of evolution ought to be told in its entirety.

If that were the case, then the English word-user would now know there’s a BW (Before Words) and an AW (After Words) — without which evolution itself would now neither exist nor now be talked about.

  • “‎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
  • “When I look back on all the crap I learned in high school, it’s a wonder I can think at all.” – Paul Simon

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#Evolution #innovation #selfimprovement#word