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the origin of humanity

change

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.

Change

Change

Wordless

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

Wordy

In the wordy world, constant change is survival. There is no other way. That’s because we are 70% water. Without constant change, we’d be dead and gone by the afternoon. Where will 70% of you be tomorrow?

No person ever steps in the same river twice, for it is not the same river and it is not the same person.” – Heraclitus

If nothing has been more constant than change for thousands of years and counting, then what should we call it now? Change, or constant?

They’re both free for the taking but, typical of word-users, it depends on whom you ask.

  • Change

    Change is the word preferred by fear-mongers whose income depends on their ability to get others to live in fear of change that hasn’t lit up yet and to believe who set their house on fire was an arsonist from out of town and maybe even from another country.

  • Constant

    Constant is preferred by word-users who have no use of fear.

In a world constantly trying to make you fear, going with constancy takes a leap of faith. But that doesn’t mean it is a choice. After all, like our ancestors, we don’t make choices.

We make decisions.

However, when you do the leap of faith, many decisions are already made.

What the famous are saying about change