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What to think of “the 1% versus the 99%” much talked about (and chances are it’s not what you think it is)

By In You

Or rather what not to think.

Because if you think the “1% versus 99%” much talked about these days to divide us, is new, you’re mistaken.

“The 1% versus the 99%” is as old as words.

To know how old words are, try imagining the time between the birth of Earth and the year 2023 in terms of 100%, instead of in years.

It might take a minute or two, to talk from experience, because the time between the two is 4.65 billion years.

Alright?

Now add to the 4.65 billion years the fact words appeared 13,750 years ago.

Then you realize that the first 99.9997% of Earth-time was not only wordless, but that it continues wordless infinitely.

Put differently, if the 4.65 billion years were a 24-hour day, words would have appeared a mere 3/1000th of an Earth-time second before midnight, that is 3/1000th of an Earth-time second before the dawn of the new day we’re in.

To put that into context, 3/1000th of an Earth-time second before midnight, the age was stone, the Sahara green, Northern Europe under 1-mile-thick ice, and writing hadn’t been invented yet.

The story of words and of the inventions that preceded it

The story of words and the inventions that preceded it.
  • “In the beginning is the word.” – Word-masters
  • “There is magic in every beginning.” – Hermann Hesse

The invention of brains was magic.

500,000 years later, many among us agree the brain is magic, is usually how it works.

However, nearly the same number of word-users do NOT believe this same magic equally applies to the beginning of words invented 486,250 years after the brain, 13,750 years ago exactly.

This is a surprise because Hermann Hesse, albeit much later, wrote there is magic in every beginning, so every word-user can clearly see.

In the wordless world

In the wordless world, everything you have a word for doesn’t exist for self-evident reasons.

Whether that’s beginning, brain, or word doesn’t matter. After all, if you have a word for it, it’s a word.

You can bank on it.

Call it a dream, it doesn’t make any difference.

In the wordy world

In the wordy world of word-users, the early word-masters — the 1% — were the first to understand the magic of words, while the 99% — the early word-users — tended to mistake their master’s magic for evidence and treat it as such.

The same happens of course today with stories, but expecting words and stories to possess magic presupposes that the two have the organs required, which works for the 99%, but the word-masters are not eager to make that mistake.

Fact is, if the word-masters couldn’t tell a word from an organ, we wouldn’t be here today.

What difference has 13,750 years made?

The 1% are still the word-masters, and the word-users are still the other 99%.

Nothing has changed, except of course the word-masters’ names. Read on.

A brief story of word-mastery

  • 13750 years ago
    When words were new, fewer than 1% of the world’s nascent word-user population, the word-masters, could read and write. The word-masters were the world’s original version of us versus them, of the 1% that could read and write, versus the 99% that couldn’t. It follows that the 1% of word-masters were the first to realize that in the beginning of every word is the word.
  • 5,000 years ago
    When writing was invented, the word-masters owned everything it took — the ink, the papyrus, the paper, the scribes, and the storytellers — to have their stories told in faraway places. The reward system at the time — gold and land the word-master said was his — made it affordable. But that is about gold, a different story entirely.
  • 585 years ago
    When Gutenberg invented the printing press, still only fewer than 8% of Europe’s word-users could read (of which even fewer could write). It follows that the printing press was originally priced with the 1% — those who could read and write — in mind. For the word-users who needed to be told —the 99% — a printing press was out of reach.
  • 156 years ago
    With the invention of the typewriter, everything changed because the typewriter transformed every word-user into a storyteller. Of course, the typewriters weren’t used just for storytelling, but also for the production of reference works such as encyclopedias, thesauruses, and dictionaries.
  • 34 years ago
    Everything changed, again, when the world wide web also known as the internet was invented. The world wide web gobbles up, stores, and disseminates more words faster than anything invented for that purpose before. And because Alphabet, Amazon, Apple, Meta, and Microsoft — also known as Big Tech — realized this first, they are now the new word-masters, the new 1%, not because they have words, but because they have words about you.

Takeaway

All the truths add up to one big lie.

The author of The Origin of Humanity, I could be wrong.

However, of this you can be sure:

How the word-masters treat you is their power.

But how you respond is all up to you.

No other word-user can do it for you.

What to think of “the 1% versus the 99%” much talked about (and chances are it’s not what you think it is)

Or rather what not to think.

Because if you think the “1% versus 99%” much talked about these days to divide us, is new, you’re mistaken.

“The 1% versus the 99%” is as old as words.

To know how old words are, try imagining the time between the birth of Earth and the year 2023 in terms of 100%, instead of in years.

It might take a minute or two, to talk from experience, because the time between the two is 4.65 billion years.

Alright?

Now add to the 4.65 billion years the fact words appeared 13,750 years ago.

Then you realize that the first 99.9997% of Earth-time was not only wordless, but that it continues wordless infinitely.

Put differently, if the 4.65 billion years were a 24-hour day, words would have appeared a mere 3/1000th of an Earth-time second before midnight, that is 3/1000th of an Earth-time second before the dawn of the new day we’re in.

To put that into context, 3/1000th of an Earth-time second before midnight, the age was stone, the Sahara green, Northern Europe under 1-mile-thick ice, and writing hadn’t been invented yet.

The story of words and of the inventions that preceded it

The story of words and the inventions that preceded it.
  • “In the beginning is the word.” – Word-masters
  • “There is magic in every beginning.” – Hermann Hesse

The invention of brains was magic.

500,000 years later, many among us agree the brain is magic, is usually how it works.

However, nearly the same number of word-users do NOT believe this same magic equally applies to the beginning of words invented 486,250 years after the brain, 13,750 years ago exactly.

This is a surprise because Hermann Hesse, albeit much later, wrote there is magic in every beginning, so every word-user can clearly see.

In the wordless world

In the wordless world, everything you have a word for doesn’t exist for self-evident reasons.

Whether that’s beginning, brain, or word doesn’t matter. After all, if you have a word for it, it’s a word.

You can bank on it.

Call it a dream, it doesn’t make any difference.

In the wordy world

In the wordy world of word-users, the early word-masters — the 1% — were the first to understand the magic of words, while the 99% — the early word-users — tended to mistake their master’s magic for evidence and treat it as such.

The same happens of course today with stories, but expecting words and stories to possess magic presupposes that the two have the organs required, which works for the 99%, but the word-masters are not eager to make that mistake.

Fact is, if the word-masters couldn’t tell a word from an organ, we wouldn’t be here today.

What difference has 13,750 years made?

The 1% are still the word-masters, and the word-users are still the other 99%.

Nothing has changed, except of course the word-masters’ names. Read on.

A brief story of word-mastery

  • 13750 years ago
    When words were new, fewer than 1% of the world’s nascent word-user population, the word-masters, could read and write. The word-masters were the world’s original version of us versus them, of the 1% that could read and write, versus the 99% that couldn’t. It follows that the 1% of word-masters were the first to realize that in the beginning of every word is the word.
  • 5,000 years ago
    When writing was invented, the word-masters owned everything it took — the ink, the papyrus, the paper, the scribes, and the storytellers — to have their stories told in faraway places. The reward system at the time — gold and land the word-master said was his — made it affordable. But that is about gold, a different story entirely.
  • 585 years ago
    When Gutenberg invented the printing press, still only fewer than 8% of Europe’s word-users could read (of which even fewer could write). It follows that the printing press was originally priced with the 1% — those who could read and write — in mind. For the word-users who needed to be told —the 99% — a printing press was out of reach.
  • 156 years ago
    With the invention of the typewriter, everything changed because the typewriter transformed every word-user into a storyteller. Of course, the typewriters weren’t used just for storytelling, but also for the production of reference works such as encyclopedias, thesauruses, and dictionaries.
  • 34 years ago
    Everything changed, again, when the world wide web also known as the internet was invented. The world wide web gobbles up, stores, and disseminates more words faster than anything invented for that purpose before. And because Alphabet, Amazon, Apple, Meta, and Microsoft — also known as Big Tech — realized this first, they are now the new word-masters, the new 1%, not because they have words, but because they have words about you.

Takeaway

All the truths add up to one big lie.

The author of The Origin of Humanity, I could be wrong.

However, of this you can be sure:

How the word-masters treat you is their power.

But how you respond is all up to you.

No other word-user can do it for you.

Do you think you can cope with 155 billion if only you’d live long enough?

By In Words

If given a chance, could you cope with 155 billion traffic signs, or with 155 billion musical notes, or with 155 billion beliefs, or with 155 billion smells, sights, colours, truths, thoughts, snowflakes, avalanches, or dollars, to name a few?

If you don’t expect to cope with 155 billion of anything, even if you lived long enough, then what makes you think you can cope with 155 billion English words? (Forget about the world’s other words for now.)

To understand 155 billion words, I think it’s best if you can convince yourself to pay the bulk of your attention to the story of words below for a minute or two.

Feel free to change the YEARS AGO depicted above. After all, that’s what words are for.

Depicted in the story of words is evidence of the fact that our planet has survived wordless during the first 4.65 billion years since its birth, but also that it remains wordless today.

Sure, having appeared 13,750 years ago, the words exist beyond the shadow of a doubt, but with less matter than the neutrino, the ghost particle, it so happens that words cannot be detected inside of a word-user by even the world’s most sensitive detector in existence, the LUX-Zeplin, in South Dakota, USA.

That’s just one of the reasons the appearance of the word has revolutionized evolution.

But that’s about evolution, a different story altogether (which will be addressed in a future post soon).

Back to the word.

The word defies our understanding of how the universe works, except that our ancestors named it (uni)verse for a reason.

Word number one

Back 13,750 years ago — the age was stone, the Sahara green, Northern Europe under 1-mile-thick ice, and writing hadn’t been invented yet — when the first word was spoken, the number of words was 1 (one) by definition.

We shall never know what that first word was because the animal that spoke it has long been extinct, the witnesses are gone, and 13,750 years is a long time by most word-user standards.

We assume what spoke the first word was probably an animal, rather than a plant, that resembled us today. However, we don’t know which animal that might have been.

For all we know, they might have been different animals on different continents thousands of years apart, for the simple reason that words didn’t appear everywhere on Earth at the same time.

We also don’t know what the 1st word was, what said it to what, and what the one who heard it said back to the speaker.

What we do know for a fact is that more words got added over time.

How so?

Well, in the same way “The chicken was the egg’s idea for getting more eggs” (Marshall McLuhan), so “The word-user was the word’s idea for getting more words” (Beat Schindler).

Both strategies, the egg’s and the word’s, paid off in more ways than one.

Words today

In the wordless world

In the wordless world, words don’t exist for self-evident reasons.

In the wordy world

In the wordy world of word-users, we’ve gone from 1 word 13,750 years ago, to the following numbers now (see below):

  • 24.9 million words
    According to wikipedia.org/wiki/Wiktionary “the world’s most-read reference work”
  • 4.5 billion words
    According to collins.co.uk/pages/elt “analytical database with over 4.5 billion words”
  • 21.36 billion words
    According to en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_dictionaries “the world’s most-read reference work”
  • 37.725 billion words
    According to www.english-corpora.org “the most widely used collection of corpora anywhere in the world”
  • 155 billion words
    According to www.english-corpora.org “the most widely used collection of corpora anywhere in the world”

In addition to the above numbers of words, the wordy also invented the world wide web, also known as the internet, which now gobbles up, stores, and disseminates more words faster than anything invented for that purpose before.

Where have 155 billion words got us?

155 billion words — with more added as we speak — have got us to the state the world is in, which is a different story entirely.

You will be pleased to hear that it will also be covered in a future post soon.

PS.

For your reading pleasure, if so inclined, regarding the insightful McLuhan quote above, click here for Marshall McLuhan Quotes Worth Reading Twice.

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Improve on mistaking words for language with one simple technique

By In Words

You can improve on mistaking words for language with one simple technique:

Don’t do it.

Mistaking one word for another is the biggest mistake you can make.

Therefore, the big advice I have for you, my friend, is this: Don’t do it.

I know what I’m talking about.

From personal experience.

Einstein

Maybe you know him, but that’s not who I’m talking about.

I’m talking about an altogether different thing, a (Swiss) TV show called Einstein that “reports weekly on current and profound topics from all areas of knowledge.”

On June 1st, Einstein’s (the TV show) topic of knowledge was “Miracles of language.”

Einstein (the TV show) “Miracles of Language”

Who wouldn’t want to know, of all things, about miracles?

I don’t know you, but I for my part decided to watch it.

Only to discover there are zero miracles involved. Instead of miracles, Einstein (the TV show) simply mistook words for language.

At the risk of repeating myself, it’s the biggest mistake because it prevents anyone making it from knowing the first thing about either.

It turns out that Einstein (the TV show) simply confirms what everybody knows: There are no exceptions.

Mistake words for language

Mistaking words for language is a common mistake among word-users.

Equally common among the word-users is that they love to blame mistakes on each other or, failing that, on something else.

In this case, the something else is the world wide web because it not only gobbles up and spits out more words faster than anything invented for that purpose before, but also because it is more than the word-users can cope with.

  • “A word is a basic element of language.” – Wikipedia “the world’s most-read reference work” (click here for the full take of Wikipedia’s take on word).
  • “The English language contains several hundred thousand different words.” – ComputerHope “the free computer help since 1998.”
  • “Word: A single unit of language.” – The Oxford Learner’s Dictionary
  • “A modern dictionary for a modern world that represents language visually.” – VISUWORDS™
  • To name just a few BIG mistakes on the world wide web.

Conditioned like that, is it any wonder that the word-users and their children routinely mistake words for language?

I think not, but from Einstein (the TV show), I expected more than simply more of the same.

You can ask why of course.

After all, that’s what words are for.

Fact: Anyone mistaking words for language doesn’t know the first thing about either.

To illustrate, let me briefly tell the stories of both words and language.

With language a word, let’s begin with the story of words first.

The story of words

The story of words with the Before Words and the After Words, and the wordless and the wordy worlds.

In the wordless world

In the wordless world, mistake, language, universe, sun, stars, atoms, particles, energy, electricity, fire, air, earth, water, insects, plants, animals, and newborns, to name a few, don’t exist for self-evident reasons.

In the wordy world

In the wordy world, mistake, language, universe, sun, moon, stars, atoms, particles, energy, electricity, fire, air, earth, water, insect, plant, animal, and newborn, to name a few, exist for equally self-evident reasons.

But there’s more to it.

In the wordy world, the word-users know that word is taken by word, and language by language, that is, you cannot be somebody else because that somebody is already taken, and words are no exception.

What’s more, language and word don’t even look the same.

I’m not one to make up new opinions.

  • “In the beginning is the word.” – Word-masters
  • “Using words to talk of words is like using a pencil to draw a picture of itself, on itself.” – Patrick Rothfuss
  • “What a word means, a sentence cannot say.” – Ludwig Wittgenstein
  • Words are what you respond to.
  • Words are how you aim at what you’re looking for.
  • A word is in the beginning of everything you have a word for, you included.
  • Everything you know is a word.
  • The appearance of words have revolutionized evolution.
  • Words have not only changed everything you have a word for, they create it.
  • Like it or not, words are a gift we’re meant to keep.
  • Words don’t describe the world, they merely describe how we see it.
  • Words have not only changed what we see, but how we see.
  • Words are the boundaries of your environment. Once you see that, they cease to be the boundaries of your environment.
  • Words are not taught at school.
  • The story of words is not told anywhere.*
  • Word-masters have know that in the beginning is the word since the beginning of words.
  • Words tend to get mistaken for evidence, and we often treat them that way.
  • If you have a word for it, it’s a word.
  • We love to use our words.
  • If you ignore what words can do to you, then you can have no empathy for what words can do to others.
  • Words do not matter (they possess zero electric charge).
  • Words have no meaning.
  • Words can be denied only by confirming them.
  • You can bet your life on it.
  • Call it a dream, it doesn’t change anything.

*Except here and here .

If word-users mistook their friends for their enemies, their friends would speak up.

However, expecting words to speak up when they’re mistaken for language presupposes that words have the organs required to care.

Well, words don’t.

The story of language

Language is a French word.

Language is based on the equally French langue, which in English is tongue.

Had those in charge of English taken the pain to translate words from far away places, we wouldn’t now be talking of language but of tonguage instead.

Put differently, we’d know what we, the world wide web, and the TV shows are talking about.

Luckily, it’s never too late to have a happy childhood.

To help you with that, we’re not the only specie with tongues. In fact, Earth’s other 8.7 million species of insects, plants, and animals are born in the wordless world.

In other words, the tonguages in the wordless world are wordless, also known as non-verbal, and the number of tonguages is equal to the number of species with tongues.

“Do not the most moving moments of our lives find us without words?” – Marcel Marceau

Improve on mistaking words for language with one simple technique

Many word-users mistake words for language, is usually how it works.

If that’s you, you can stop making the mistake with one simple technique:

Don’t do it.

Why bother?

Mistaking one word for another is the biggest mistake you can make.

Don’t do it.

For your own good and for the good of others.

I know what I’m talking about from personal experience.

Einstein

Maybe you know him, but that’s not what I’m talking about.

I’m talking about an altogether different Einstein, a (Swiss) TV show that “reports weekly on current and profound topics from all areas of knowledge.”

On June 1st, Einstein-the-TV-show’s topic of knowledge was “Miracles of language.”

Einstein (the TV show) “Miracles of Language”

Who wouldn’t want to know everything there is to know about miracles?

I don’t know about you, but I decided to watch it…only to discover a total absence of miracles. Instead of miracles, Einstein-the-TV-show simply did what many word-users do, they mistook words for language.

It’s the biggest mistake you can make because it prevents you from knowing the first thing about either.

When you mistake one word for another, such as words for language, Einstein-the-TV-show inadvertently confirms there are no exceptions, not even a TV show that is usually a 10 out of 10.

Mistake words for language

Mistaking words for language is a common mistake among word-users.

Word-users do not only often mistake words for language, but they just as often love to blame their mistakes on each other, or failing that, on something else.

In the case of mistaking words for language, they love to blame it on the world wide web, also known as the internet.

The internet gobbles up, stores, and disseminates more words faster than anything invented for that purpose before.

This is how the internet mistakes words for language.

  • “A word is a basic element of language.” – Wikipedia “the world’s most-read reference work” (click here for the complete work of Wikipedia’s word).
  • “The English language contains several hundred thousand different words.” – ComputerHope “the free computer help since 1998.”
  • “Word: A single unit of language.” – The Oxford Learner’s Dictionary
  • “A modern dictionary for a modern world that represents language visually.” – VISUWORDS™
  • To name a few

Conditioned like that, is it any wonder that the word-users and their children routinely mistake words for language?

I think not, but from Einstein-the-TV-show I expected more than simply more of the same.

You can ask why of course.

After all, that’s what words are for.

To illustrate, let me briefly tell the stories of both words and language.

With language a word that couldn’t be anything else if it tried, let me tell the story of words first.

The story of words

Before Words and After Words, the wordless and the wordy worlds.

In the wordless world

In the wordless world Before Words — which continues as we speak — nothing that you have a word for exists for self-evident reasons.

In the wordy world

In the wordy world After Words, everything you know is a word.mistake, language, universe, sun, moon, stars, atoms, particles, energy, electricity, fire, air, earth, water, insect, plant, animal, and newborn, to name a few, exist for equally self-evident reasons.

But there’s more to it.

Word-users can clearly see that words and language are different words. They don’t even look the same. Just as you cannot be someone else because that someone else is already taken, so words is taken by words and language is already taken by language.

There are no exceptions to this rule.

I’m not one to make up new opinions.

  • “In the beginning is the word.” – Word-masters
  • “Using words to talk of words is like using a pencil to draw a picture of itself, on itself.” – Patrick Rothfuss
  • “What a word means, a sentence cannot say.” – Ludwig Wittgenstein
  • Everything you have a word for is a word.
  • Everything you know is a word.
  • Words are what you respond to.
  • Words are how you aim at what you’re looking for.
  • A word is in the beginning of everything you have a word for, you included.
  • The appearance of words has revolutionized evolution.
  • Words have not only changed everything you have a word for, they create it.
  • Words are a gift we’re meant to keep.
  • Words don’t describe the world, they merely describe how we see it.
  • Words have not only changed what we see, but how we see.
  • Words are the limits of your world. Once you see that, they cease to be the limits of your world.
  • Words are not taught at school.
  • The story of words is not told.
  • Word-masters have known that in the beginning is the word since the beginning of words.
  • Word-users love to use their words.
  • Words tend to get mistaken for evidence, and we often treat them that way.
  • If you have a word for it, it’s a word.
  • If you ignore what words can do to you, then you can have no empathy for what words can do to others.
  • Words do not matter (they possess zero electric charge).
  • Words have no meaning.
  • Words can be denied only by confirming them.
  • Words defy our understanding of how evolution works.

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

In the wordy world, Part 2

If word-users mistook their friends for their enemies, their friends would speak up.

However, expecting words to speak up presupposes they have the organs required to speak.

The story of language

Language is a French word.

Language the French word is based on the equally French langue.

Translated to English, the French langue becomes tongue.

Had those in charge of English words taken the pain to translate language, we would now be talking of tonguage.

In other words, we’d now know what we’re talking about.

Luckily, it’s never too late to have a happy childhood.

Luckily, it’s never too late to learn that we’re not the only specie with a tongue.

Many of the other 8.7 million animals have tongues, too.

It follows that the number of tonguages spoken is equal to the number animals with tongues.

“Do not the most moving moments of our lives find us without words?” – Marcel Marceau

Why you always struggle to know what makes you human no matter how hard you try

By In You

Like others before me, I used to struggle on that great big hill of trying to figure out what makes me human.

What’s up? What’s going on?

I bet you’ve heard those questions before.

Then out of the blue, 7 years ago, in 2016, struck by lightning, I realized that human is a word.

Nothing has been the same ever since.

Of this you can be sure:

When you change how you look at words, you’ll see that a word is the only that can be denied only by confirming it.

What that means is you can deny, if so inclined, everything you have a word for, but to do so you must use it. There is no other way.

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

Strange

If that sounds strange, maybe you haven’t read my brutally honest warning yet.

If so, you risk missing out on what this post is about.

What makes you human?

Human

To understand what makes you human, I think you should pay the bulk of your attention to the story of words below for a minute or two.

The story of words showing the Before Words and the After Words.

The story of words above leaves no doubt…

  • Words got invented 486,250 years after the brains got invented first.
  • The story of words (1) is equal to the number of the planet (1) we’re passengers on.
  • The animal that spoke the first word on our planet is everybody’s ancestor.
  • We’re all in this together.
You before and after brain, and before and after words.

The story of you shows that for you (and me), the time between brain and words was 486,250 years shorter than it was for the planet.

What the illustration doesn’t show is that time is relative.

Sixty seconds can be an eternity.

We’re not the only ones

We’re not the only ones with eyes, ears, tongues, skin, hair, heads, sex, art, the ability to respond to stimulus, upright walk, bipedalism, intelligence, IQ, wisdom, brains, bigger brains, and complex brains.

However, we’re the only ones with words.

That doesn’t mean we’re born with words. We merely learn them as time goes by.

But this doesn’t make us human.

It makes us what we’ve always been, animals with words, but animals nonetheless.

We’re the only ones

We build schools to learn words.

None of Earth’s other 8.7 million species of insects, plants, and animals attend school to learn words.

Nor do the things the universe is made of, such as the sun, the stars, the atoms, the particles, the energy, the electricity, the fire, the oxygen, the earth, and the water, to name a few.

Yet, they know more than we’ll ever know.

Makes you wonder what school is for, doesn’t it?

What makes you human

The answer to “What makes you human?” is “Absolutely nothing.”

Human exists for no other reason than to make you believe you’re separate from what you are, an animal with words.

Which explains not only your individual behavior but also that of every other word-user on Earth.

We’re all in this together.

What is more natural than that?

PS.

Should you find it difficult to believe that absolutely nothing makes you human, see what others are saying about human.

Relax, I did the hard work for you.

Bing.com

Human: About 36’600’000 results.

Wikipedia the world’ most read reference work

“Humans are the most abundant and widespread species of primate, characterized by bipedalism and large, complex brains.”

Dictionary.com

“human. See synonyms for: human, humans, humanlike, humanness, on Thesaurus.com. Adjective: of, relating to, characteristic of, or having the nature of people: human frailty. Consisting of people: the human race. Of or relating to the social aspect of people: human affairs. Sympathetic; humane: a warmly human understanding. noun: a human being.”

Oxford Learner’s Dictionaries

“​human [only before noun] of or connected with people rather than animals, machines or gods, the human body/brain, a terrible loss of human life, human development/activity/behaviour, Human remains (= the body of a dead person) were found inside the house, Contact with other people is a basic human need, This food is not fit for human consumption, one of the greatest leaders in human history, He tried to use a bystander as a human shield, Firefighters formed a human chain (= a line of people) to carry the children to safety, After washing her face, she felt almost human (= like her normal self) again, showing the weaknesses and desires that are typical of people, which means that other people should not criticize the person too much, human weaknesses/failings, It’s only human to want the best for your children, having the same feelings and emotions as most ordinary people, He’s really very human when you get to know him, Perhaps she’s human after all, he thought, The public is always attracted to politicians who have the human touch (= the ability to make ordinary people feel relaxed when they meet them), COMPARE inhuman, non-human, the human face of…, a person who is involved in a subject, issue, etc. and makes it easier for ordinary people to understand and have sympathy with it, He is the human face of party politics, the milk of human kindness, (literary) kind behaviour, considered to be natural to humans, with a human face, that considers the needs of ordinary people, This was science with a human face.”

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It doesn’t take a brain to know much more than you’ll ever know

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For adults, the brain is difficult to understand, but for kids, it’s a no-brainer.

That’s because the children are still young enough to recall the time when, still in their mother’s womb, they had no brain.

If you’re old or if you’ve forgotten for other reasons, read on and you will understand.

In the meantime, don’t let the misconception that having a brain is a prerequisite for intelligence, hold you back from staying forever young.

Friend and foe

Word-masters — those are word-users who know that in the beginning is the word — who are telling you that without a brain you’re good for nothing, are not your friends. They’ve been telling lies for thousands of years with no end in sight.

They are your enemies.

Enemies are what you make.

Friends are also what you make. In principle, the same.

And if you can’t tell the difference between the two, you’re not doing yourself any favors.

The story of brains

Possessing a brain isn’t a prerequisite for intelligence.

To understand what that means, it’s enough to pay the bulk of your attention to the illustration below.

The illustration depicts that on Earth exists a time before brains (the first 4.15 billion years) and a time after brains (the most recent 500,000 years).

What that’s telling you is that the fire, earth, air, and water, which together created the planet we’re passengers on, don’t have brains. Clearly, for those four, the creation of Earth was a no-brainer.

What the graph doesn’t tell you is that they arrived on Earth from outer space, which includes the equally brainless sun, stars, stardust, atoms, particles, energy, and electricity, to name a few.

The water, air, earth, and fire knew all there is to know about space travel 4.65 billion years before we, now fully brain-equipped, are still fighting a war that can be won only by losing it.

That begs the question of what our brains are for, doesn’t it?

The illustration is also telling us that the four — water, air, earth, and fire — then invented the cells, plants, animals, eyes, brains, words, and word-users.

It’s only since we have words that we can say that’s hard to believe. But who would want to win an argument with the story of brains?

Earth after brains

After the invention of brains on Earth, other inventions followed suit, namely those of moss, land animals, hearts, flowering plants, tools, arts (dance, music, paintings, sculpture), bread, and agriculture.

Finally, 500,000 years after the brains, the brainless four also invented the words and the wordy.

You

As you’d expect, you began brainless too.

You before brain

A brainless cell that split itself in two made you from scratch.

Does this mean that making you, brain included, was a no-brainer?

Yup, for a brainless cell, it was.

That’s because your brain is between your ears, but what you know isn’t.

What you know is in every cell of your body.

You after brain

What you knew before you had a brain isn’t lost.

On the contrary, it’s still there.

All you’ve got to do is ask your brain to re-member.

If you don’t, your brain will not work for you as you’d expect.

In this way, your brain is identical to everything else you have a word for.

After Words

After Words, you get sent to school to learn…after we’ve just made ourselves from scratch.

Near as I can tell, making yourself from scratch, brain included, takes greater intelligence than anything taught at school.

The times they are a-changing

The brain secret school doesn’t want you to see is made visible by those of us who don’t enjoy being lied to anymore.

It’s only a question of time before you will be released.

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If so inclined, read “Brain Quotes Worth Reading Twice” here

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What I’m talking about is a course that will be released in the fall, that will help you understand:

  • How it all began (let you be surprised).
  • How you began (surprise yourself).
  • How to look at words as an extra-terrestrial would.
  • Be the conductor of your life (versus having it conducted for you).
  • Change only how you want to change, at your own chosen speed.
  • Move forward with certainty in an uncertain world.
  • Know the truth beyond the shadow of a doubt.

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I help myself and other creative mission-driven people free themselves and cultivate lives on their own terms.

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