language vs reality
by baja · updated 11d ago
language vs reality
baja added 5mo ago
Be tentative with words, value them well, take safe words, words without catches, do not spin them with one another so that no webs arise, for you are the first who is ensnared in them.197 For words have meanings. With words you pull up the underworld. Word, the paltriest and the mightiest. In words the emptiness and the fullness flow together. Hen
... See morefrom The Red Book by C. G. Jung
baja added 11d ago
- “The word priority came into the English language in the 1400s. It was singular. It meant the very first or prior thing. It stayed singular for the next five hundred years.
Only in the 1900s did we pluralize the term and start talking about priorities. Illogically, we reasoned that by changing the word we could bend reality. Somehow we would now be... See morefrom The Myth of Multitasking: Why Fewer Priorities Leads to Better Work by James Clear
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from Home | Substack
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‘Language is not merely a device for communicating ideas about the world, but rather a tool for bringing the world into existence … Reality is not simply ‘experienced’ or ‘reflected’ in language, but instead is actually produced by language.’
from Food of the Gods by Terence McKenna
baja added 6mo ago
Peter Berger and Thomas Luckmann, the influential phenomenological sociologists, have written that our sense of the universe in which we live is held together by conversation. When I say to an acquaintance whom I meet in the morning, “Nice day,” I do not convey primarily meteorological information—which would be redundant anyway, since he has the s
... See morefrom Flow: The Psychology of Happiness by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
baja added 2mo ago
- Because we have such a linear existence within the human experience, it is hard to imagine what not living in relation to time and space is like. Our linearity is baked into our language which favors expressing cause and effect). This makes our words a poor tool to convey the non-linear experience.
from You are a God dreaming of time and space. by Story Waters
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