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the origin of humanity

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I’m answering the TOP question I get asked about words: Do words matter?

By In history, words

The story of pre-wordic inventions

In the wordless world

In the wordless world, matter doesn’t exist for self-evident reasons.

In the wordy world

In the wordy world, matter describes what words do not have any of.

Self-energy is energy that does not exist until it is observed by an instrument that can detect it. But words have even less self-energy than that.

That is why words couldn’t matter if they tried, and why inside of a word-user, words cannot be detected by the most advanced x-ray, laser, MRI, scanner, and not even by the world’s most sensitive detector in existence, the LUX-Zeplin in South Dakota, USA.  

The only instrument on Earth that can detect a word inside of a word-user is the word-user itself.

The heart of the matter

A word-user’s heart may be cheating, dancing, trembling, aching, pounding, torn, broken, or breaking, simply because according to words, there is precious little a heart cannot do.

But what if the heart is just beating away quietly, doing its job? Then we tend to ignore it and take it for granted, don’t we? 

Years of research have led me to conclude that the word-users respond to words in the similar ways. If our words are just doing their job, we take them for granted.

But the heart of the matter it’s the word, not the heart, that explains why we use words and the wordless aren’t.

An often-overlooked part of humanity (and why it’s crucial to see).

By In history, words

Out of the blue, back in 2016, it suddenly saw that humanity could be a word.

Now seven years and many doubters later, the proof is in the pudding. This I know beyond the shadow of a doubt from personal experience, the only source of knowledge there is,

Humanity can be denied only by confirming it — a word.

Typical of words, including humanity, is that in the wordless world, words and humanity don’t exist for self-evident reasons, but in the wordful world, a word couldn’t be anything else if it tried, and everything you can think, feel, hear, touch, smell, taste, or see, and everything else you have a word for it, and everything you have another word for, is beyond the shadow of a doubt, a word.

Now I no longer see the point in tarting up that I’m passionate about the origin of both words and humanity. After all, the two events are identical. If it wasn’t for words, humanity wouldn’t exist.

I reside in a country where being the author of posts about the origin doesn’t get me silenced or cost me my life, and I know of course that everybody wished that all governments would love their children, too, but I also know that everybody knows the state the world is in.

Long story short, in the seven years since 2016, I’ve searched every crook and cranny for what the famous word-users have said or are saying inspirational about words, and I have collected and stored it for you to enjoy, if so inclined, in Word Quotes Worth Reading Twice.

What have words got to do with humanity?

In the beginning is the word. It’s a fact that can be denied only by confirming it.

Without words in the beginning, humanity wouldn’t exist.

So there.

What have words got to do with words?

“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

Because I agree with the above quotes 100%, I have written a book about both origins — the origin of words and the origin of humanity — the same event as far as humanity is concerned, instead.

The origin of humanity

Now available for purchase at BoD as well as at Amazon.

PS.

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.

Do animals have ____ (fill in the blank)?

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The unconventional way to simple

People want to know

“Do animals have belly buttons, blood types, cell walls, conscience, culture, empathy, feelings, free will, humor, language, morals, periods, religion, rights, schools, souls, thoughts, or wants?”

These are genuine inquiries on the internet.

Or as Peter Drucker would have it: “There is surely nothing quite so useless as doing with great efficiency what should not be done at all.”

To understand why that is, you must return to when it all began.

In the beginning of the world is the word
In the beginning of you is the word

In the wordless world

In the wordless world, words don’t exist for self-evident reasons. This, we all know from personal experience.

In the wordy world

In the wordy world, we use words to describe other words.

What have words got to do with it?
  • In the wordy world, we have gone from animal to the top of the food chain, the most advanced specie ever, ready for breakfast on Mars, in the most recent 0.0003% of Earth-Time only? Why not earlier?
  • How in the world did the wordless manage without us for the first 99.9997% of Earth-Time?
  • Why are we here? Why are the wordless absent?

What have words got to do with it?

All kinds of things are being said, depending on who is saying them.

Some say the reason we’re here is our upright walk, disposable thumb, naked skin, wisdom, meteorites, aliens, Cambrian explosion, a bang of some size, genes, memes, or any combination thereof. Others insist the universe is written in math and it is our thinking that got us here, but overlooking math and thinking are words, they are barking up the wrong tree.

“Words become works.” – Seneca

Whether a word happened or not doesn’t matter. The only thing that matters is that it’s true, and you can’t order people what to believe, the word or the word-user, for beliefs are a question of character and personal preference, to each their own. And I think that is a good thing.

Having hit that milestone time and again, I can assure you, when you change the way you look at words, the world changes.

What’s in it for you

Before you knew your first word, you knew how to make yourself from scratch. After you spoke your first, everything was different not because you were different, but because you now had words. It may have taken years, but the moment it happened was still a surprise to you as well as welcome news to those who had been waiting for just that moment to arrive.

“It is true that my parents were worried because I began to speak fairly late. They even consulted a doctor. I can’t say how old I was, but surely no less than three.” – Albert Einstein

That is where your freedom is.

You can simplify your world without having to wait for the world to change first. Instead of asking, “Do animals have words?” you can ask, “Does it have words?” Not only is it a simple question but it also comes with the added benefit of an answer even the word-beginners, also known as children, can understand.

  • “Yes!” means it is one of us and we have everything we have a word for.
  • “No!” means it is wordless.

“To see, we must forget the name of the thing we are looking at.” – Claude Monet