The previous word explosion #20 focused on how we’re all in the same boat how word-users are word-using animals, how words are a gift we use like it or not, how it all began, what words are, and how I’m not one to make up new opinions.
Now newsletter #21 takes looks at what many word-users find hard to believe:
- Words don’t matter
- Words don’t DO (anything)
- Words don’t HAVE (anything)
- WORDS & WORD-USERS
Word-users that believe the contrary is true — words are, do, or have anything — presuppose words have the organs required.
But when you look at words, you see they are void of organs.
The ones with the organs required to do anything with words are you and me, and 9 billion like you and me, the word-users.
In confirmation of each their own, word-users do all kinds of things with words with however a difference between the many and the few
A FEW OF US DISCOVER IT’S NEAR-IMPOSSIBLE TO DESCRIBE THE WORD AND WORDS WITH WORDS
- “In the beginning is the word.” – Word-masters
- “Words are all we have.” – Samuel Beckett
- “What a word means, a sentence cannot say.” – Ludwig Wittgenstein
- “To say of two words they are identical is nonsense and to say of one thing that it is identical with itself is to say nothing.” – Beat Schindler
- “Using words to talk of words is like using a pencil to draw a picture of itself, on itself.” – Patrick Rothfuss
- “Strange times are these in when old and young are taught falsehoods in school.” – Plato
MANY OF US IGNORE THE FEW AND DE-SCRIBE WORD/WORDS WITH WORDS AS IF THE ABOVE QUOTES HAD NEVER BEEN WRITTEN, CLAIMING THEY KNOW WHAT THEY’RE TALKING ABOUT.
A word by any other word is a word, and everything we have a word for and know is a word. This explains why it’s smiles beyond grotesque when you see how the many insist on preaching and teaching the word/words at the world’s schools.
And where the schools are, the internet isn’t far behind.
The only difference between schools and internet is the latter gobbles up, stores, and disseminates more words faster to every corner of the world than anything invented for that purpose before.
Looking for proof? Then I suggest you look up the description of word for example on Wikipedia, the world’s most-read reference work with 4.4 billion unique global visitors as of March 2024.
Needless to say and I say it anyway, what’s preached and teached at school gets repeated on the internet, to be repeated on social media, to be repeated on smartphones, to be repeated on AI in a never-ending circle game. Need proof? Then I suggest you ask ChatGPT what word is.
FEW VS MANY
The difference between the the many and the few?
The few know whether a story or word genuinely happened or not.
The many ignore whether a word or story genuinely happened or not, the only thing that matters to the few is the story or word is true.
WORD-USE
Everybody else’s words control you.
Or you control everybody else’s and your words, too.
That’s hard to do when you don’t know you is also a word, but all the more important because there’s no in-between.
ELECTRIC QUOTES
“The fact life never happened is a great truth. But when you see this truth, the fact life never happened no longer matters.” – Free as per M. Scott Peck (The Road Less Traveled)
YOU HAVE TWO CHOICES
You believe the above.
Or you believe what’s taught at school and copied to the internet to be repeated on smartphones and social media all over the world.
WHAT TO BELIEVE…
…is a question of character, personal experience, and preference.
To each their own.
YOU DON’T MAKE CHOICES
The two choices above exist before you were born and remain after you’ll be gone.
What I’m saying is you don’t make choices, the choices have been made for you…
YOU MAKE DECISIONS
Your decisions are a question of character, personal experience, and preference.
To each their own.
PS.
If you struggle with any of the above, you can book one of my 1 on 1 calls. I look forward to getting to know you over a virtual cup of whatever during which we’ll together figure out how I can help you with bespoke solutions for the journey of your dreams.
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