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James Frederick Ferrier

By In Words, You

James Frederick Ferrier (born 216 years ago / died 160 years ago) was a Scottish word-user, writer, lawyer, and university professor. His wife Margaret Anne Wilson wrote under the pseudonym Christopher North.

At a time when the word-user population of 1 billion (versus 9 billion today) believed everything known is in a book of more knowledge than can be known, also known as Bible, James Frederick Ferrier discovered epistemology and agnoiology — Greek English pronounced, meaning knowledge-science and ignorance-science respectively.

While Ferrier believed he was a scientist, he believed consciousness is the distinctive feature of word-users. But he didn’t use his being a scientist to scientifically study the wordless energy, gravity, fire, air, earth, water, electricity, magnets, cells, plants, and wordless animals. Else he would have known the wordless are infinitely more conscious than the word-users will ever know.

He also believed the perception of matter is the ultimate proof of thought. But he ignored that words possess no matter and therefore defy our understanding of how the universe works. He didn’t know because the knowledge required didn’t exist when James Frederick Ferrier walked the Earth. Some word-users born after James Frederick Ferrier now describe his method as Spinoza’s — strict demonstration or at least an attempt at it. But like James Frederick Ferrier, they don’t see words for what they are — a word by any other word.

TAKEAWAY

James Frederick Ferrier is famous for a quote that reads:

“Consciousness is manifest only when the man has used the word with full knowledge of what it means.”

Corrected for the fact consciousness is a word, the quote reads:

“Consciousness exists whether the word-user knows or ignores what it means.”

#ConsciousnessAndKnowledge #education #personaldevelopment #word

James Frederick Ferrier

JAMES FREDERICK FERRIER

James Frederick Ferrier (born 216 years ago / died 160 years ago) was a Scottish word-user, writer, lawyer, and university professor. His wife Margaret Anne Wilson wrote under the pseudonym Christopher North.

At a time when the word-user population of 1 billion (versus 9 billion today) believed everything known is in a book of more knowledge than can be known, also known as Bible, James Frederick Ferrier discovered epistemology and agnoiology — Greek English pronounced, meaning knowledge-science and ignorance-science respectively.

While Ferrier believed he was a scientist, he believed consciousness is the distinctive feature of word-users. But he didn’t use his being a scientist to scientifically study the wordless energy, gravity, fire, air, earth, water, electricity, magnets, cells, plants, and wordless animals. Else he would have known the wordless are infinitely more conscious than the word-users will ever know.

He also believed the perception of matter is the ultimate proof of thought. But he ignored that words possess no matter and therefore defy our understanding of how the universe works. He didn’t know because the knowledge required didn’t exist when James Frederick Ferrier walked the Earth. Some word-users born after James Frederick Ferrier now describe his method as Spinoza’s — strict demonstration or at least an attempt at it. But like James Frederick Ferrier, they don’t see words for what they are — a word by any other word.

TAKEAWAY

James Frederick Ferrier is famous for a quote that reads:

“Consciousness is manifest only when the man has used the word with full knowledge of what it means.”

Corrected for the fact consciousness is a word, the quote reads:

“Consciousness exists whether the word-user knows or ignores what it means.”

#ConsciousnessAndKnowledge #education #personaldevelopment #word

Antoine-Laurent de Lavoisier

By In You

Antoine-Laurent de Lavoisier (born 281 years ago / died 230 years ago) discovered oxygen (246 years ago) and hydrogen (241 years ago), making it the beginning of modern chemistry.

He was an aristocrat and member of the Ferme générale — an operation that collected tax and duties for the king, and hefty bonus fees for themselves — which made it among the most hated of pre-French Revolution organisations.

Antoine-Laurent de Lavoisier played a starring role in the story of chemistry, the story of biology, and the story of chemical nomenclature, helped construct the metric system, wrote the first extensive list of elements, predicted the existence of silicon (237 years ago), and discovered that although matter may change its form or shape, its mass always remains the same.
His wife, Marie-Anne Paulze Lavoisier, was a renowned chemist in her own right.

Revolution

The French Revolution (from 235 to 225 years ago) changed all that because when it ended, it had achieved…

  • The abolition of feudalism.
  • State control over the catholicists.
  • The declaration of the rights of man and citizen.

With the French Revolution still a work in progress, Antoine-Laurent de Lavoisier got charged with tax fraud and selling adulterated tobacco. Despite appeals to spare his life in recognition of his contributions to science, they guillotined him.

A year and a half later, he was exonerated by the French government.

TAKEAWAY

The guillotine was abolished (in France) 43 years ago, but word-users continue to die for talking or singing peace while “there is a war between the rich and poor, between the man and the woman, between the left and right. between the black and white, between the odd and the even, and between the ones that say there is a war and the ones that say there isn’t” (Leonard Cohen), for seeing the sky, the bird, nothing shining up there, angels zero, for the wrong color of skin, for the right color of your bones and blood — imagine your bones black, your blood blue.

Come on, join the fun.

One day, sooner or later, we’ll return to being water (in case you forgot, you’re like me, 70% water now).
Do you think when it reaches the sea, your water will not be identical to mine?

Talking of water

The wordless, not only water, but everything except the word-users — the energy, fire, air, earth, plants, and wordless animals — don’t have wars about religion, nationality, race, and gender.
Because the wordless are void of words.

#creativity #education #EndTheDivide #personaldevelopment #word

Antoine-Laurent de Lavoisier

ANTOINE-LAURENT DE LAVOISIER

Antoine-Laurent de Lavoisier (born 281 years ago / died 230 years ago) discovered oxygen (246 years ago) and hydrogen (241 years ago), making it the beginning of modern chemistry.

He was an aristocrat and member of the Ferme générale — an operation that collected tax and duties for the king, and hefty bonus fees for themselves — which made it among the most hated of pre-French Revolution organisations.

Antoine-Laurent de Lavoisier played a starring role in the story of chemistry, the story of biology, and the story of chemical nomenclature, helped construct the metric system, wrote the first extensive list of elements, predicted the existence of silicon (237 years ago), and discovered that although matter may change its form or shape, its mass always remains the same.
His wife, Marie-Anne Paulze Lavoisier, was a renowned chemist in her own right.

Revolution

The French Revolution (from 235 to 225 years ago) changed all that because when it ended, it had achieved…

  • The abolition of feudalism.
  • State control over the catholicists.
  • The declaration of the rights of man and citizen.

With the French Revolution still a work in progress, Antoine-Laurent de Lavoisier got charged with tax fraud and selling adulterated tobacco. Despite appeals to spare his life in recognition of his contributions to science, they guillotined him.

A year and a half later, he was exonerated by the French government.

TAKEAWAY

The guillotine was abolished (in France) 43 years ago, but word-users continue to die for talking or singing peace while “there is a war between the rich and poor, between the man and the woman, between the left and right. between the black and white, between the odd and the even, and between the ones that say there is a war and the ones that say there isn’t” (Leonard Cohen), for seeing the sky, the bird, nothing shining up there, angels zero, for the wrong color of skin, for the right color of your bones and blood — imagine your bones black, your blood blue.

Come on, join the fun.

One day, sooner or later, we’ll return to being water (in case you forgot, you’re like me, 70% water now).
Do you think when it reaches the sea, your water will not be identical to mine?

Talking of water

The wordless, not only water, but everything except the word-users — the energy, fire, air, earth, plants, and wordless animals — don’t have wars about religion, nationality, race, and gender.
Because the wordless are void of words.

#creativity #education #EndTheDivide #personaldevelopment #word

Mary Wollstonecraft

By In You

Mary Wollstonecraft (born 265 years ago / died 227 years ago), was a women rights advocate at a time when women were denied the most basic of rights.

She knew women are not a mere copy of men.

Dark ages

As if Mary Wollstonecraft didn’t exist, religionists of the type this post is about want us to return to the darkest of the dark ages.
For this reason alone, word-users like me don’t like to see them reside in a country where women, not government, are free to decide what to do with their body. Because the stories of when women standing up for women rights didn’t stand another day because they were put to death by their owners before today was over, must remain stories of the past.

News

Is what I’m talking about news to you?
Because it’s not part of the news? Because it ain’t taught at school?
Be it as it may, I’m talking about “Malleus Maleficarum” (”The Hammer of Witches”), a published 538 years ago religionist book  that features, among others…

  • “Detailed processes for the extermination of witches, witch burnings, and witch trials.” – The Hammer of Witches
  • “Concubines are the most wicked, followed by midwives, and then by wives who dominate their husbands.” – The Hammer of Witches

According to Wikipedia “very popular” at the time, “The Hammer of Witches” declared female witchcraft as heresy and legitimised males to torture women to get whatever confessions were necessary (I don’t dare imagine) to get them burned alive at the stake. An estimated 3 million females (4% of the then-female population) were put on trial. Between 35,000 to 100,000 of them were put to death. The last execution of a witch in Europe happened 213 years ago. Elsewhere, contemporary witch-hunts have been reported from Sub-Saharan Africa and Papua New Guinea. Official legislation against witchcraft still exists in Saudi Arabia, the land of sheiks, and in Cameroon today.

538 years later

The religionists this post is about now live next to religionists they hate, yet believe the same fictional god. So they had to invent a new one, but the previous 45 having already been named, they invented a 46th.

Now

Now these new god religionists want us to return to the darkest of the dark ages, to when females — also known as women — possessed fewer rights than their male’s furniture.
They want women dressed like 1,300 years ago again, head to toe in black garbage bags made of fabric.

TAKEAWAY

But Mary Wollstonecraft did not only fight against the religionists, she also fought for direct action, for male disobedience, and for women rights to be equal to those of men. Now it’s up to the non-religionists among us to ensure what Mary Wollstonecraft achieved remain victories for all word-users all over the world, regardless of gender, and not up for grabs by the religionists.

“It is time to effect a revolution in female manners.” – Mary Wollstonecraft
“The beginning is always today.” – Mary Wollstonecraft
“Age demands respect. Youth, love.” – Mary Wollstonecraft
“I do not wish women to have power over men, but over themselves.” – Mary Wollstonecraft
“When we feel deeply, we reason profoundly.” – Mary Wollstonecraft
“I have considered myself as a particle broken off from the grand mass of mankind.” – Mary Wollstonecraft

#cmba #education #personaldevelopment #word

Mary Wollstonecraft

MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT

Mary Wollstonecraft (born 265 years ago / died 227 years ago), was a women rights advocate at a time when women were denied the most basic of rights.

She knew women are not a mere copy of men.

Dark ages

As if Mary Wollstonecraft didn’t exist, religionists of the type this post is about want us to return to the darkest of the dark ages.
For this reason alone, word-users like me don’t like to see them reside in a country where women, not government, are free to decide what to do with their body. Because the stories of when women standing up for women rights didn’t stand another day because they were put to death by their owners before today was over, must remain stories of the past.

News

Is what I’m talking about news to you?
Because it’s not part of the news? Because it ain’t taught at school?
Be it as it may, I’m talking about “Malleus Maleficarum” (”The Hammer of Witches”), a published 538 years ago religionist book  that features, among others…

  • “Detailed processes for the extermination of witches, witch burnings, and witch trials.” – The Hammer of Witches
  • “Concubines are the most wicked, followed by midwives, and then by wives who dominate their husbands.” – The Hammer of Witches

According to Wikipedia “very popular” at the time, “The Hammer of Witches” declared female witchcraft as heresy and legitimised males to torture women to get whatever confessions were necessary (I don’t dare imagine) to get them burned alive at the stake. An estimated 3 million females (4% of the then-female population) were put on trial. Between 35,000 to 100,000 of them were put to death. The last execution of a witch in Europe happened 213 years ago. Elsewhere, contemporary witch-hunts have been reported from Sub-Saharan Africa and Papua New Guinea. Official legislation against witchcraft still exists in Saudi Arabia, the land of sheiks, and in Cameroon today.

538 years later

The religionists this post is about now live next to religionists they hate, yet believe the same fictional god. So they had to invent a new one, but the previous 45 having already been named,  they invented a 46th.

Now

Now these new god religionists want us to return to the darkest of the dark ages, to when females — also known as women — possessed fewer rights than their male’s furniture.
They want women dressed like 1,300 years ago again, head to toe in black garbage bags made of fabric.

TAKEAWAY

But Mary Wollstonecraft did not only fight against the religionists, she also fought for direct action, for male disobedience, and for women rights to be equal to those of men. Now it’s up to the non-religionists among us to ensure what Mary Wollstonecraft achieved remain victories for all word-users all over the world, regardless of gender, and not up for grabs by the religionists.

“It is time to effect a revolution in female manners.” – Mary Wollstonecraft
“The beginning is always today.” – Mary Wollstonecraft
“Age demands respect. Youth, love.” – Mary Wollstonecraft
“I do not wish women to have power over men, but over themselves.” – Mary Wollstonecraft
“When we feel deeply, we reason profoundly.” – Mary Wollstonecraft
“I have considered myself as a particle broken off from the grand mass of mankind.” – Mary Wollstonecraft

#cmba #education #personaldevelopment #word

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

By In You

Jean-Jacques Rousseau (born 312 years ago / died 246 years ago) resided in France when he published his “The Social Contract”.

“The fruits of the earth belong to us all, and the earth itself to nobody”…
 …got Rousseau charged with blasphemy and denounced as the antichrist – whatever that’s supposed to be – when, in fact, he’s an optimist.

Either way, blasphemy was a crime in France at the time — remains so in too many countries today.
(By too many I mean more than 1)

Be it as it may, it got Rousseau condemned from the pulpit by the archbishop of Paris and the Parisian and Geneva catholic governments. His books got burned and banned in some places. Warrants were issued for his arrest. Rousseau was forced to flee to Switzerland.

He was a polarizing word-user 300 years ago. Much water has gone under the bridge in the 300 years since, but it’s the same water, possibly more polluted.

  • “All of my misfortunes come from having thought too well of my fellows.” – Jean-Jacques Rousseau
  • “Force does not constitute right. Obedience is due only to legitimate powers.” – Jean-Jacques Rousseau
  • “Nature never deceives us. It is we who deceive ourselves.” – Jean-Jacques Rousseau
  • “Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet.” – Jean-Jacques Rousseau
  • “Plant and your spouse plants with you. Weed and you weed alone.” – Jean-Jacques Rousseau
  • “Take the course opposite to custom and you will almost always do well.” – Jean-Jacques Rousseau
  • “We should not teach children the sciences, but give them a taste for them.” – Jean-Jacques Rousseau

In other words, little has changed. Rousseau is a polarizing word-user among word-users now.

The wordless? Many word-users believe the wordless don’t have a clue. How could they, without words?
I say they know more than we do.

#education #FreedomOfSpeech #personaldevelopment #word #cmba

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU

Jean-Jacques Rousseau (born 312 years ago / died 246 years ago) resided in France when he published his “The Social Contract”.

“The fruits of the earth belong to us all, and the earth itself to nobody”…
 …got Rousseau charged with blasphemy and denounced as the antichrist – whatever that’s supposed to be – when, in fact, he’s an optimist.

Either way, blasphemy was a crime in France at the time — remains so in too many countries today.
(By too many I mean more than 1)

Be it as it may, it got Rousseau condemned from the pulpit by the archbishop of Paris and the Parisian and Geneva catholic governments. His books got burned and banned in some places. Warrants were issued for his arrest. Rousseau was forced to flee to Switzerland.

He was a polarizing word-user 300 years ago. Much water has gone under the bridge in the 300 years since, but it’s the same water, possibly more polluted.

  • “All of my misfortunes come from having thought too well of my fellows.” – Jean-Jacques Rousseau
  • “Force does not constitute right. Obedience is due only to legitimate powers.” – Jean-Jacques Rousseau
  • “Nature never deceives us. It is we who deceive ourselves.” – Jean-Jacques Rousseau
  • “Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet.” – Jean-Jacques Rousseau
  • “Plant and your spouse plants with you. Weed and you weed alone.” – Jean-Jacques Rousseau
  • “Take the course opposite to custom and you will almost always do well.” – Jean-Jacques Rousseau
  • “We should not teach children the sciences, but give them a taste for them.” – Jean-Jacques Rousseau

In other words, little has changed. Rousseau is a polarizing word-user among word-users now.

The wordless? Many word-users believe the wordless don’t have a clue. How could they, without words?
I say they know more than we do.

#education #FreedomOfSpeech #personaldevelopment #word #cmba