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TALKING WITHOUT WORDS
here's something i learned: language is mostly a failure. apart from things like "do you want a cup of coffee?" and "a funny thing happened on the way to the opera", it's all lacking some of the most important tools.
i mean, like, try this: describe how something smells. kinda tough huh? there are some, y'know, real obvious words for smell but not much refinement. the language simply fails, right?
you know the inuits (or is it eskimos) are supposed to have 26 different words for different types of snow. in english, we've got one: snow. how sad is that?
so here's some words and phrases that really don't y'know, cut the mustard language-wise: god, collective awareness, spirit, truth, love, communal experience and so on. how we going to understand things when we don't have even the basic, like, tools?
well the only way i found some people trying to do it was to deny language completely, i mean, like, fight the fog of etymology with a sword of silence and just, y'know, feel stuff.
i dunno, maybe it's the right way, but you gotta give them something for even seeing the problem in the first place.
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