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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

According to the internet, he is considered the father of archeology. Talking about Ciriaco de’ Pizzecolli (born 633 years ago / died 572 years ago). He walked the Earth when the sun, according to the religionists, was barely a few thousand years old. Much water has gone under the bridge since. Though time is relative, 600 years is relatively long. The religionists may have reluctantly changed their beliefs since then, partly because of the work

According to Wikipedia, Hasan Ibn Al-Haytham (born 1059 years ago / died 1000 years ago), “is sometimes described as the world’s first true scientist.” Whether that’s true I guess is for the scientists after Hasan to decide. TAKEAWAY In the context of what I’m the author of, the story of words, it means science has recently celebrated its 1,000th anniversary. It also means the past has progressively been the domain of the science for the

Hunger stones… …are large stones in riverbeds. In bygone times, they used to warn those word-users able to read of not enough to eat. Did you know when the printing press was invented ,584 years ago, only 8% of the then-400 million world-wide population of word-users could read and write? (The number of word-users is meanwhile 9 billion with no end in sight) “Who sees me will weep”… …used to be written on the hunger