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Words

Do you believe that media would exist without words?

By In Blog, Words

In the wordless world

Everything you have a word for doesn’t exist in the wordless world for self-evident reasons, including of course media.

In the wordy world

In the wordy world of word-users, word is the medium without which there wouldn’t be any (media).

For completeness’ sake, let me add that it’s not just about media.

There’d be no word-users either.

Breathe and allow things to pass

You will continue to suffer if you have an emotional reaction to social media.

Power is sitting back and observing everything with logic.

If social media controls you means everyone with a smart phone can control you.

Breathe and allow things to pass.

How to make your morning productivity explode with one simple tactic

By In Blog, Words

I was happily pedaling on my bicycle when a T-shirted speedster blew by me on her battery-powered roller.

For a moment, I was dis-appointed.

She’s speedy, I’m not. She’s young, I’m not. What’s the point?

Then I realized, A) that I had failed that morning to appoint myself, B) that it’s not a race, and C) that I don’t own a plan B.

It’s not a race. On the contrary, it’s a journey from the beginning to the end, to each their own, including the lies we’re told with no end in sight.

You’re making choices you’re told by your handheld devices. It’s a lie. There are more choices than any word-user can embrace in a thousand-plus years.

If you got up this new morning to make choices, it might be your turn to be disappointed. You’re too late by a country smile. The choices have been made, it’s not for you to make any.

All the word-users can do is make decisions, each their own, from among the more words than you could manage even if you lived a thousand years which even your best friend will probably doubt.

Decide is all the word-users can do. That’s the only variable in time and space. Everything else has been decided eons ago.

But as you’re breathing, in this eon right now, lucky you are identical to every other word-user, free to believe as you decide, provided you believe it is true.

The beauty of it? No other word or other word-user can believe it for you.

Behind every horizon, there is more to see.

Explode your morning productivity

If you dreamt last night of seeing your morning productivity explode today, waking up was a good first step, highly recommended but not enough.

To make your morning productivity explode with one simple tactic depends on how you’ve been educated.

In other words, it depends on what you believe about words.

If you believe the word is what they want you to believe at kindergarten, school, university, church, and internet, to name a few, you will never know the first thing about the word nor about the beginning.

Everybody has heard about that in the beginning is the word, but only a few word-users know what it means.

Education

Kindergarten, school, university, church, and internet, to name a few, are all about education, and “anyone who tries to make a distinction between education and entertainment doesn’t know the first thing about either” (Marshall McLuhan).

People ask me, Beat, what do you believe we should change about education? How do you think we could improve schools to celebrate and uplift the children and our specie as a whole?

I think and know I’m not the only one, that the system is broken, that it’s been broken since it’s been invented by word-masters thousands of years ago, and that more of the same will be just that, more broken.

Getting our young together, getting them outdoors, getting them to play, getting them to create, and getting them to decide on their own, is important. But all animals do this, and more, naturally.

We, the animal with words, as opposed to every other species on Earth, are the only specie that builds schools for the sole purpose of words.

And anyone who tries to make a distinction between education and school doesn’t know the first thing about either.

All elements, plants, and animals learn

All elements, plants, and animals learn to decide and to move on their own, but they do it without schools. Most of them do it even without brains, but that’s a different story altogether.

I think that’s what education is about, and that schools all over the world should be made to remember that’s what they’re about.

Sure, what I believe is a new method to belief that makes the old obsolete, which is why it’s hard to embrace for many readers.

But hard doesn’t make it impossible.

Though it’s hard to believe, you are playing with the idea as we speak anyway, aren’t you?

Back to making your morning productivity explode with one simple tactic.

If you don’t know how, that’s how it’s done:

Don’t go with what they want you to believe about words at kindergarten, school, university, church, and internet, to name a few. Instead, embrace what can be denied only by confirming it:

In the beginning is the word

From words, worlds are born.
Words work.
Decide your words well.
“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
Words are a prison, but even a prison is a home if you have the key (the key is in THE ORIGIN OF HUMANITY for everybody to see).
Everything word-users have a word for is a word.
Everything word-users know is a word.
Words are what word-users respond to.
Words are how word-users aim at what they’re looking for.
A word is in the beginning of everything the word-users have a word for, you included.
The appearance of words has revolutionized evolution.
Words have not only changed everything word-users have a word for, they create it.
Words are a gift we’re meant to keep.
Words don’t describe the world, they merely describe how the word-users see it.
Words have not only changed what the word-users see, but how they see.
Words are the limits of the word-users world.
Once you see that, they cease to be the limits of your world.
Words are not taught at school.
The story of words is not told, neither at school nor anywhere else.
Word-masters have known that in the beginning is the word since the beginning of words.
Word-users love to use their words.
Words tend to get mistaken for evidence, and the word-users often treat them that way.
If you have a word for it, it’s a word.
If you ignore what words can do to you, then you can have no empathy for what words can do to other word-users.
Words do not matter (they possess zero electric charge).
Words have no meaning.
Words don’t make sense.
The one with the matter, meaning, and senses, the sensational one, is you.
A word, any word, can be denied only by confirming it.
Words defy our understanding of how the universe works.
Words couldn’t be anything else if they tried.
For self-evident reasons.
Call it a dream, it doesn’t change anything.

There’s nothing so stable as change

I think the days are coming when things are changing on planet Earth.

I think we are awakening, and word-users are asking the same exact question, and answering it as well.

So much to be excited about for future generations on planet Earth and our species.

Do you believe that media would exist without words?

Everything you have a word for doesn’t exist in the wordless world for self-evident reasons, including of course media.

In the wordy world

In the wordy world of word-users, word is the medium without which there wouldn’t be any (media).

For completeness’ sake, let me add that it’s not just about media.

There’d be no word-users either.

Breathe and allow things to pass

You will continue to suffer if you have an emotional reaction to social media.

Power is sitting back and observing everything with logic.

If social media controls you means everyone with a smart phone can control you.

Breathe and allow things to pass.

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.

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

 

 

Everything we have a word for is a word.

But that’s not all.

Words have rules.

Rule #1: Words do not matter

See https://tinyurl.com/3sdy9fcn

Rule #2: If you have a word for it, it’s a word
Rule #3: If you know it, it’s a word
Rule #4: Words are yours

In self-talk or aloud,  whenever you speak a word, that word will be yours for nobody else can speak it for you.

Rule #5: A word can be denied only by confirming it

If you want to deny a word, it cannot be done without using it.

Rule #6: 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 few, they use the word they’re looking for.

Rule #7: Words are the limits of your world

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

Rule #8: A word is never another (word)

Examples:

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

Takeaway

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

Follow the rules above to see words work for you (as opposed to against you).

When you change how you look at words, you change.

Beyond the shadow of a doubt.

On that, my friend, I give you my word.

As we speak, I use it to help myself and others to experience freedom never experienced before.

Are you trying to understand words and wanna cry?

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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.

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

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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 word-users 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:

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INTRODUCTION

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.

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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.

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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.

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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?

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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 purchase THE ORIGIN OF HUMANITY (WHAT CAN BE DENIED ONLY BY CONFIRMING IT) from my publisher, Books on Demand, from Amazon worldwide, or from any local book stores (on stock or by order).

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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.

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.