You want to understand act.

I believe that’s why you’re here, and if we begin with what we agree on, that makes it easy to understand what this post is about.

It is safe and there’s no risk involved, for it’s only a train of thought, as opposed to a train on rails.

On top of that, this train will get you there

What do you say?

I say let’s dive in.

What is act?

Act is a word.

It couldn’t be anything else if it tried.

Nor can it be denied.

That’s because you can deny act only by using it.

What have words got to do with it?

What invented words isn’t a question that’s often asked, which makes it all the more important to answer.

The answer is in evolution which looks like this:

Energy invented words — if for no other reason that there was nothing else around when it all began.

You might ask about what happened before it all began?

That’s an open question no word-user knows the answer to, and those who do are lying.

Guaranteed.

What has energy got to do with it?

The sun is energy — 90% hydrogen respectively — and the mass of the sun is estimated at 1.989 x 10^30 kg. This means that 99.8% of the solar system is energy.

I have no clue what that means (too many zeroes for me to wrap my mind around), nevertheless I think that’s enough energy for the future generations of word-users. Provided the sun doesn’t disappear before them, of course.

That said, energy didn’t just invent our planet and everything on it, it also invented the word and the word-users — including you and me. We’re all in this together.

Energy is stimulus-response all rolled up into one, the original act beyond the shadow of a doubt.

Being energy, we too acted before we were born. And we haven’t stopped since or we wouldn’t be here.

Words, part 2

Expecting a word such as act could be something else presupposes that words have the organs required.

For having studied words within and without since 2016, I’m happy to report what I found: There are no organs to be found in words.

That means there is also no energy to be found in words, the only thing in the universe to do so, and why the word-users love their words. They can invest all their energy in words which explains why we don’t see the world as it is, but only as we see it.

What have word-users got to do with it?

Word-users that don’t know what act describes, don’t know what act is.

Other than that, the word-users — well, our ancestors — use their energy to invent the word-accelerators.

The internet, formerly the world-wide-web, now gobbles up and disseminates more words faster than anything invented for that purpose before.

For 2024, that means between 1.2 million and 155 billion English words alone, say those that claim to have counted each, not counting the non-English words.

Did I mention word-acceleration?

Act

“Assume the virtue if you have it not” says Shakespeare.

Except there’s no assume needed for you to act. You act naturally, for that’s what nature is, energy.

You acted long before you were even born, and even after you came into this world and between the ages of 1 and 6 (average!) finally acquired the words to describe it.

By you I mean your common senses and bodies — the feel, hear, smell, taste, touch, see, heart, lungs, brain, bones, muscle, hair, nail, and teeth, to name a few. They each acted as soon as they existed, long before you were even born.

By you I mean that you are not separate entities. On the contrary, you’re all wrapped into one.

Did you know?

• That alone used to be spelled allone (from the German allein and the Italian solo)?
  
• That your body weight is 70% water (of which you have no idea where it was last week nor where it will go after you).

If you do not know, maybe that’s because school is focused on our brains, as opposed to teaching what is.

The grammarians

In addition to the 74 English words that end in ACTION, including satisfACTION and reACTION — everybody knows what action is — there now also exist 700 English words that end in ATION.

It doesn’t make any sense whatsoever for nobody knows what ation is. It’s also not found in any dictionary.

Those 700 ation-ending-words include education, situation, navigation, recreation, simulation, occupation, medication, admiration, and hesitation, to name a few. If so inclined, you can look the rest of them up at Words that end with ATION (700 words) – WordMom

It doesn’t make any sense whatsoever except to the grammarians, for only the grammarians know why the c has been cut out of action, and why 700 words that previously ended in action now end in ation.

It doesn’t make any sense to the teachers either, for even the teachers don’t know what ation is.

The only question remaining is what do the teachers teach to those hungry for learning?

Blame

What is to blame that only the grammarians know why action is now ation?

Nothing will ever come from blame, and nothing ever could.

Instead of blame, decide to take your ability to respond back from the grammarians.

Once you do that, then…

Auto-translate ation to action

Auto-translate it every time you see or hear ation.

Use this formula: “Ation=Action”

Such as when you see translation. Translate it to translaction. You’ll stand a much bigger chance to know what you’re talking about.

Leave the grammar to the grammarians, but take the ability to respond to words back to where it belongs — to you.

Your ARE energy

Not only is energy the original act — see above — but it’s also it’s own stimulus-response.

Energy responds to itself — it’s its own stimulus-response — and cannot be destroyed. On the contrary, it will only transform from one form of energy to another for which the possibilities are infinite.

And so are you for every part of you — every atom, cell, sense, and body part, all of you — is energy in a never-ending process of stimulus-response, too.

In other words, the energy within you is no different from the energy without you.

Response

Stimulus can be anything, but no other word or word-user can respond for you.

Only respond can do that.

More about response-ability in a future post.

Stay tuned.