What is a word?
What are words?
I have been studying words since 2016
What does that mean?
What do I know so far?
- The answer to the above two questions is identical.
- A word by any other word is a word.
- Word/Words are void of organs.
- Word/Words possess zero energy, hence words do not matter.
- Word/Words don’t make sense.
- The one with the energy and the senses, the one that matters and the sensational one is you, the word-user.
- If you hear or see it, it’s a word.
- In the beginning is the word.
- Everything we have a word for is a word.
- Everything word-users know is a word.
- If everything we know weren’t a word, we wouldn’t know a thing.
- You can deny a word/words only by confirming it/them, that is by using it/them.
- Call words a dream.
- It does not change anything.
In the wordless world
Communication between the sun, energy, fire, air, earth, water, atoms, cells, plants, mountains, valleys, oceans, stars, moons, and the wordless animals — to name a few that never spent a day at school — is wordless for the self-evident reason.
Words are absent from the wordless world.
There are no words in the wordless world.
In the wordless world it’s hard to convince a lioness to give you meat by promising her more meat than she’ll ever be able to eat after death in lioness heaven.
It’s not just about the lionesses of course. Earth is populated by between 8.7 million and 16 million other wordless animals, insects included (no word-user knows how many exactly).
Which begs the question of why did the wordless animals not adopt words when words were invented 13,750 years ago?
The best the word-users can do is assume the wordless know something not taught at school — something we ignore.
In the wordful world
We’re all on this same boat together.
We all morph from the world Before Words (from whence we come), to the world After Words (our destiny till we die to rejoin the wordless).
In between birth and death, we breathe, play, eat, drink, eliminate, procreate, sense, and behave like any wordless animal, only worse so, not by accident but because we are animals.
We’re the only animal specie that uses words on the planet, meanwhile 9 billion of us and counting.
“Words are all we have”…
— said Samuel Becket in his 1969 Nobel prize acceptance speech.
He was and is right.
Words are the only difference between us and the wordless.
That’s why we are here and the wordless aren’t.
All word-users aren’t alike
Some of us want to use words and some want to get used by words.
Some want to abuse words while others want to be abused by words.
Some keep their word while others discard them as soon as they’re spoken.
But there are two more differences between us and the wordless.
We use words to argue about what’s true…
…despite everybody knowing that what is true is a question of experience, character, and preference — to each their own.
This explains why we have more opinions about what’s true, and what is not, than any of us can respond to in the short time we exist in this world of words of our own making.
We behave worse than the wordless animals because we also use words to be at war against each other and against nature.
After we will have won either of these wars — against nature or against each other, which ever comes first — we’ll be lost.
We will have perished.
It’ll be the end of words, and of us, the word-users.
Although we won’t be around to witness it anymore, the best we can do is imagine the wordless party and celebrate our demise.
Call words a dream
It doesn’t change anything.
Both are of our own making.
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