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Red Cross

By In Words, You

The Red Cross was founded 161 years ago by Henry Dunant and Gustave Moynier with a little help from their friends.

When they founded the Red Cross, Henry Dunant and Gustave Moynier knew more about aiding word-users in need regardless of their nationality, race, or religion, than they knew about marketing.

So, for the Red Cross branding, they simply inverted the colors of the Swiss flag…

As far as they were concerned, job done, and without further ado they returned to their core business, aiding word-users in need of help regardless of nationality, race or religion.

In doing so they made the BIG mistake of underestimating the power of pictures which everybody knows speak a thousand words. This they found out when they wanted to export the Red Cross with its mission…

“Humanitarian protection and assistance for victims of armed conflict and other situations of violence under the principles of neutrality, impartiality, and independence regardless of nationality, race, or religion.”

They were told that wasn’t possible, not because the cross is red, but because it’s a cross.

It’s obvious the word-users have lost their mind, gone crazy, flipped out, gone nuts, and lost their marbles when religions are more important than the protection and assistance for victims of violence and armed conflict regardless of nationality, race or religion.

The Red Cross is now recognised by different brands around the world.

I’m not saying there is anything wrong with brands. All I’m saying is when you’re looking for proof the word-users have lost their marbles, the Red Cross stands out.

Red Cross

The Red Cross was founded 161 years ago by Henry Dunant and Gustave Moynier with a little help from their friends.

When they founded the Red Cross, Henry Dunant and Gustave Moynier knew more about aiding word-users in need regardless of their nationality, race, or religion, than they knew about marketing.

So, for the Red Cross branding, they simply inverted the colors of the Swiss flag…

As far as they were concerned, job done, and without further ado they returned to their core business, aiding word-users in need of help regardless of nationality, race or religion.

In doing so they made the BIG mistake of underestimating the power of pictures which everybody knows speak a thousand words. This they found out when they wanted to export the Red Cross with its mission…

“Humanitarian protection and assistance for victims of armed conflict and other situations of violence under the principles of neutrality, impartiality, and independence regardless of nationality, race, or religion.”

They were told that wasn’t possible, not because the cross is red, but because it’s a cross.

It’s obvious the word-users have lost their mind, gone crazy, flipped out, gone nuts, and lost their marbles when religions are more important than the protection and assistance for victims of violence and armed conflict regardless of nationality, race or religion.

The Red Cross is now recognised by different brands around the world.

I’m not saying there is anything wrong with brands. All I’m saying is when you’re looking for proof the word-users have lost their marbles, the Red Cross stands out.

HONEST WARNING: Words don’t (do anything)

By In Words

HONEST WARNING: Words don’t (do anything)

Some readers will be surprised by the honest warning, but for others it’s nothing but a warning they’re used to, like the signal on their smartphone that the battery is low:

WORDS DON’T (DO ANYTHING): They don’t matter*, live, mean, or sense.

If you believe that words matter, live, mean, or sense, that means you presuppose that words have the organs required.

But when you look at words with open eyes, you can clearly see they don’t possess organs, my friend, beyond the shadow of a doubt.

On the contrary, the one with the organs is you, the word-user, or somebody like you, of which there are approximately 9 billion all over the world.

It’s the word-users, the sensational ones, that, if so inclined, can breathe energy into words, give them meaning, and make sense of them.

In the wordless world — also known as nature — of the energy, electricity, fire, air, fire, water, cells, plants, and wordless animals (domesticated excluded) — words don’t make sense.

But in the wordful world, if you don’t give meaning to words, maybe because you must do other things first, others are more than happy to do it for you.
But watch it,  if you let them, you lose, simply because you can’t win with a losing hand.

*I previously described that words don’t matter here.

I’d love to hear from you…

  • What do you think words do all day long?

>>> What’s your view on this?
>>> Reshare if you agree

HONEST WARNING: Words don’t (do anything)

HONEST WARNING: Words don’t (do anything)

Some readers will be surprised by the honest warning, but for others it’s nothing but a warning they’re used to, like the signal on their smartphone that the battery is low:

WORDS DON’T (DO ANYTHING): They don’t matter*, live, mean, or sense.

If you believe that words matter, live, mean, or sense, that means you presuppose that words have the organs required.

But when you look at words with open eyes, you can clearly see they don’t possess organs, my friend, beyond the shadow of a doubt.

On the contrary, the one with the organs is you, the word-user, or somebody like you, of which there are approximately 9 billion all over the world.

It’s the word-users, the sensational ones, that, if so inclined, can breathe energy into words, give them meaning, and make sense of them.

In the wordless world — also known as nature — of the energy, electricity, fire, air, fire, water, cells, plants, and wordless animals (domesticated excluded) — words don’t make sense.

But in the wordful world, if you don’t give meaning to words, maybe because you must do other things first, others are more than happy to do it for you.
But watch it,  if you let them, you lose, simply because you can’t win with a losing hand.

*I previously described that words don’t matter here.

I’d love to hear from you…

  • What do you think words do all day long?

>>> What’s your view on this?
>>> Reshare if you agree

#words #viral #history #humanity

Word is great, beautiful, and oh so fascinating

Word is great, beautiful, and oh so fascinating that some readers might expect it to be true.

Well, word is even greater, beautifuller, and fascinatinger than that.

Among the fascinating features of words is that’s what you’re looking at since this article began to the end, from its headline to its takeaway, and of course everything in between — nothing but words.

You can see them but you cannot touch ’em

As you read on, should you mistake my use of words to contain any truths, relax, it‘s a common mistake that happens in the best of families.

There are no truths here to be found.

The only thing you’ll find here are words.

More than a thousand in fact.

What you do with them is all up to you.

You’re in control.

Truth

All the truth in the world adds up to one big lie.

If despite this you believe what’s told at kindergartens, schools, and universities, that means you’re among the many who believe in a beginning without an end.

That means you believe in the beginning is a big bang, a fictional character, or a mystery.

Though a beginning without an end is impossible, you won’t be arrested by the police. On the contrary, it only means that like the police you’re part of the majority.

Only if you’re part of the minority do you practice active noticing of what’s going on within you and without you.

Only a minority of word-users know how within you and without you began.

In the beginning is the word

That in the beginning is the word can be denied only by confirming it.

In other words, you cannot deny a word without using it.

But even so, a question remains for those of you who find it hard to believe in a beginning you may not have heard about or thought of previously.

“In the beginning of what?”

Naturally, the answer is “In the beginning of everything you have a word for.”

Other than that?

Other than in the beginning of everything we have a word for, what else is word?

Before you can even begin to understand word, there are two steps you might find hard to take.

  • Accept there is a difference between what word is, what word does, and what word has.
  • Accept there’s no difference between word and words.

In singular and plural they is/are, does/do, and has/have the identical.

When you accept that word and words are the same, you then also understand that how one word works is how all words work.

You are naturally free to not accept the two steps most word-users find hard to take, if at the same time you also accept that you won’t understand word and words in exchange.

You may even ask why which words allow given that why is among them.

One step at a time: Words ARE

Words are the latest in the chain of inventions made by the four elements — fire, wind, earth, and water — that also invented the planet, the cells, the plants, the animals, the eyes and the brains, before they proceded to also invent the words and us, the word-users.

I hear you.

“If so, how can the word be in the beginning?”

The word is in the beginning of words, also known as in the beginning of the After Words, and in the end of wordless, also known as in the end of the Before Words.

Put differently, the word is in the beginning of everything you know.

Everything you know

You know beginning because you know what beginning describes.
You know Mount Everest because you know what Mount Everest describes.
You know screw because you know what screw describes.
You know driver because you know what driver describes.
You know tool because you know what tool describes.

And so it is with everything you know.

What else?

Maybe the fact that the word is in the beginning (of everything you have a word for) doesn’t answer every question you might have about words.

Perhaps one more question remains at the back of what many word-users consider the back of your mind (whatever that is supposed to be).

“What else can you show me?”

Well, In addition to in the beginning, words are a tool.

Like any tool, words can work for you or they can kill you.

But that has got nothing to do with the tool. It all depends on what you do with it.

It’s not the word. It’s the user.

You’re in control.

Keep your word and many decisions are already made

In that sense, the word is no different to your ears, eyes, brains, hands, hair, and feet.

You are in control.

Better act as if, or you will be constantly getting in your own way which will wear you out in the long run.

Or “assume the virtue if you have it not” (William Shakespeare).

“A rose by any other name would smell as sweet” (William Shakespeare)

And so it is with words.

A word by any other name is still a word.

While this applies to each of the “collins.co.uk analytical database with over 4.5 billion words”, it also particularly applies to the ones below.

Able, actual, anecdote, answer, artifact, belief, bible, break, change, chat, comma, communicate, concept, conspire, consult, context, contrast, contranym, convention, converse, conversation, correspond, co-respond, data, dictionary, discussion, encyclopedia, epic, fables, fake, frame, god, gossip, grammar, grammatic, grapheme, graphic, high, history, hyphen, I (capitalized 750 years ago to mark it as a word), information, intelligence, internet, isolation, james bond, jargon, key, knowledge, label, language, legend, letter, lie, life, linguistic, literally, me, meme, meaning, metaphor, morpheme, name, narrative, news, normal, note, objective, ortho, para, parable, paragraph, parser, period, phoneme, phonetic, phonologic, phrase, play, practic, private, public, secondary, sequence, speech, spoken, question, quote, really, reality, report, response, saga, school, sentence, silence, stimulus, sound, statement, story, symbol, synonym, talk, testament, text, theory, theoretic, thesaurus, thing, think, thought, truth, understand, unique, universe, university, uttered, value, verb, verse, vocabulary, wisdom, wise, wordless, work, world, worm, worry, worth, write, yarn, and you, to name a few.

Words are not

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More

More about words — what words do and what words have — will be topics of upcoming posts.

In the meantime, if you have any clues, ideas or insights, please let me know.

Thank you in advance!

Takeaway

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Words are not

Words are not what the world-wide-web, the internet, your smart phones, or AI are telling you.

Here are a few examples of many

Wikipedia (the free encyclopedia & world’s most-read reference work with 2.5 billion unique visitors a month)

“Word: Part of a series on Linguistics, General linguistics, Applied linguistics, Theoretical frameworks. In linguistics, a word of a spoken language can be defined as the smallest sequence of phonemes that can be uttered in isolation with objective or practical meaning. In many languages, words also correspond to sequences of graphemes (“letters”) in their standard writing systems that are delimited by spaces wider than the normal inter-letter space, or by other graphical conventions.[1] The concept of “word” is usually distinguished from that of a morpheme, which is the smallest unit of word which has a meaning, even if it will not stand on its own together or in other small words. In many languages, the notion of what constitutes a “word” may be learned as part of learning the writing system.[1] This is the case for the English language, and for most languages that are written with alphabets derived from the ancient Latin or Greek alphabets. There still remains no consensus among linguists about the proper definition of “word” in a spoken language that is independent of its writing system, nor about the precise distinction between it and “morpheme”.[1] This issue is particularly debated for Chinese and other languages of East Asia,[2] and may be moot [clarification needed] for Afro-Asiatic languages. In English orthography, the letter sequences “rock”, “god”, “write”, “with”, “the”, “not” are considered to be single-morpheme words, whereas “rocks”, “ungodliness”, “typewriter”, and “cannot” are words composed of two or more morphemes (“rock”+”s”, “un”+”god”+”li”+”ness”, “type”+”writ”+”er”, and “can”+”not”). In English and many other languages, the morphemes that make up a word generally include at least one root (such as “rock”, “god”, “type”, “writ”, “can”, “not”) and possibly some affixes (“-s”, “un-“, “-ly”, “-ness”). Words with more than one root (“[type][writ]er”, “[cow][boy]s”, “[tele][graph]ically”) are called compound words.” Words are combined to form other elements of language, such as phrases (“a red rock”, “put up with”), clauses (“I threw a rock”), and sentences (“I threw a rock, but missed”).”

The Merriam-Webster Dictionary

“Word: A speech sound or series of speech sounds that symbolizes and communicates a meaning usually without being divisible into smaller units capable of independent use.”

The Oxford Learner’s Dictionary

“Word: A single unit of language that means something and can be spoken or written.”

Etymology Online

“Word: Speech, talk, utterance, sentence, statement, news, report, word.”

Thesaurus

“Word: discussion. Synonyms for word: conversation, talk, chat, chitchat, colloquy, confab, confabulation, consultation, discussion, tête-à-tête.”

ChatGPT / AI

“A word is a unit of language that carries meaning and consists of one or more spoken or written sounds or symbols. It is the basic building block of communication and allows us to convey ideas, thoughts, and emotions.”

Also

Words are not language.

Who mistakes words for language doesn’t know the first thing about eihter.

Note

This “Words are not” page has last been updated in October, 2023.

From learning words to habits is faster than you think

By In Blog, Words

Words become habits faster than you think

Habits rule the conditioned mind.

Hold it!

Relax.

Before you jump to conclusions you only risk to regret later, don’t think that your mind has a choice — it is conditioned whether it likes it or not.

The freedom you have, the only freedom you have, is to decide who does the conditioning.

It’s either other word-users with their companies’ interests in mind, each their own…

…or it’s you.

Use your freedom wisely, for habits eat good intentions for breakfast.

Habits are first cobwebs (the tangled webs produced by spiders) too light to be felt until they fast become chains too heavy to be broken.

Because we’re animals, albeit animals with words, we can never free ourselves from habits. But we can replace bad word habits with good word habits in the blink of an eye.

No habit impacts what do and what we have more than word habits, which are words spoken habitually and repeatedly, out loud or in self-talk don’t make any difference.

Call it a dream, it doesn’t change anything.

Therefore, what you do and what you have is not an accident. It is a direct consequence of the words you use repeatedly.

Watch your word

Watch your words for the ones you use repeatedly become your habits faster than you think.

Your habits in turn determine what you achieve and what you fail to achieve.

What you achieve in turn becomes your self-image, also known as your self-esteem, which in turn becomes your destiny.

However, in the beginning of this chain of events — of words, habits, achievements, self-image, and destiny — is always the word. The beginning is key. Never let that out of your sight.

Never let how everything began…

In the beginning of you is the word.

…including how you began out of your sight.

Needless to say but for the sake of this post I say it anyway, you is a word.

When you change how you look at words, you, your life, and your world will change.

Somewhere on purpose versus nowhere by accident

Some word-users arrive somewhere on purpose.

Those are the ones that use vision repeatedly.

They have other things going for them as well, but they all have a vision which they either achieve or die trying.

Other word-user decide to arrive nowhere by accident.

These are the ones that don’t watch the words they use repeatedly, including the broken not to be spoken to begin with.

Men’s natures are alike. It is their habits that separates them.” – Confucius

Simple versus complicated

You might think the journey from birth to death is complicated.

I know exactly how it feels because I used to make the same mistake myself.

But when you branch out and take the road less traveled, you’ll discover that it’s simple, and that simple isn’t complicated when you know how.

Some word-users claim it’s simple to be happy but hard to be simple. Those are the ones that simply don’t know how.

I’ve been a simplification coach, and I have helped myself and my clients to simplify their lives, for as long as I remember.

I’ve written a bunch about simple, among others in the “LAST TRAIN TO SIMPLE – The crazy method to love life” — to which the reader reviews are here.

Now, after my latest book, “THE ORIGIN OF HUMANITY – What can be denied only by confirming it”, is out, I will soon release my new book on “HOW TO SIMPLIFY” (title yet to be defined. Any suggestions will be much appreciated).

In the beginning is the word

Like THE ORIGIN OF HUMANITY, HOW TO SIMPLIFY will be based on what can be denied only by confirming it, that is in the beginning is the word.

HOW TO SIMPLIFY will be based on the fact that when you change how you look at words, you, your life your world, and your destiny will change in the blink of an eye.

Words that don’t serve you are easier to abandon today than tomorrow.

Word habits that serve you versus word habits that harm you aren’t a question of easy or hard. On the contrary, word habits are just that, a question of habit. But word habits good or bad come with BIG consequences because word habits work like compound interest, you get back more than you put in.

The minute you change the bad words for words that serve you well — I’ll help you to figure them out, to each their own — your destiny changes, and when your destiny changes, how you feel changes too, which in turn determines what you go after and what you avoid,,,

…for the rest of your life and a day.

Takeaway

Nothing impacts your destiny more than what you feel now.

Now you can feel good or bad anytime.

Don’t ever let that freedom out of your sight.

Your destiny depends on it.

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.