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A rose by any other name would smell as sweet”, said William Shakespeare some 430 years ago. Now, 430 years later, so it is with words. A word by any other word is a word. No matter what you call it, if you have aword for it, it’s a word. WORDS You are either controlled (by words). Or you are controlling (words). There is no in-between. That explains why I tell the story of words

James Frederick Ferrier (born 216 years ago / died 160 years ago) was a Scottish word-user, writer, lawyer, and university professor. His wife Margaret Anne Wilson wrote under the pseudonym Christopher North. At a time when the word-user population of 1 billion (versus 9 billion today) believed everything known is in a book of more knowledge than can be known, also known as Bible, James Frederick Ferrier discovered epistemology and agnoiology — Greek English pronounced,

Antoine-Laurent de Lavoisier (born 281 years ago / died 230 years ago) discovered oxygen (246 years ago) and hydrogen (241 years ago), making it the beginning of modern chemistry. He was an aristocrat and member of the Ferme générale — an operation that collected tax and duties for the king, and hefty bonus fees for themselves — which made it among the most hated of pre-French Revolution organisations. Antoine-Laurent de Lavoisier played a starring role

Mary Wollstonecraft (born 265 years ago / died 227 years ago), was a women rights advocate at a time when women were denied the most basic of rights. She knew women are not a mere copy of men. Dark ages As if Mary Wollstonecraft didn’t exist, religionists of the type this post is about want us to return to the darkest of the dark ages.For this reason alone, word-users like me don’t like to see

Jean-Jacques Rousseau (born 312 years ago / died 246 years ago) resided in France when he published his “The Social Contract”. “The fruits of the earth belong to us all, and the earth itself to nobody”… …got Rousseau charged with blasphemy and denounced as the antichrist – whatever that’s supposed to be – when, in fact, he’s an optimist. Either way, blasphemy was a crime in France at the time — remains so in too

(born 460 years ago / died 382 years ago) is according to Wikipedia the father of astronomy, physics, and modern science. A catholic word-user himself, Galileo’s work nevertheless angered his catholicist chiefs, the word-masters. That was enough for the catholic inquisition instituted by the word-masters to decide Galileo’s work contradicted the only book they claimed to be reading — a book of more stories than you’re able to remember, also known as Bible. So 409

Everybody knows In the beginning is the word. A word by any other word is a word. A word by itself doesn’t do or have (anything). For a word to do or have (anything) takes a word-user first. No one knows How a word is a word in the beginning. What word-users must do to make a word do or have (anything). Must we, the word-users, create, invent, pull out of a hat, translate, produce

Martin Luther (born 541 years ago / died 478 years ago) was a catholic priest that re-formed the rituals of his catholic religion. For this, he got condemned as an outlaw and excommunicated by his chiefs, the word-masters. Belief There is no such thing as a non-believer. Word-masters and word-users alike cannot exist without belief. We believe anything whether we want it or not, and what we believe plays no role in it. Did Martin