While we are separated by different languages, we all share the same intuitive knowing unless, of course, it has been "educated" out of us by the misuse of language. The problem is that most of us have been partially alienated from our understanding, so it trails behind us Conscience.
For this reason, we are extremely sensitive to words. We tend equate language with reality, so that a mere word affect us in the same way as the thing for which it stand. For example, someone calls you a fool. (Like they do that to me often on YA-R&S). So, you react, you become upset, and you act like a fool (Even if you are not, you become one by reacting to words!)
Words, except when they are loaded with meaning in order to convey understanding, can be confusing and confounding.
One person uses words to say the right thing. Another person, with rhetorical slyness, twists the facts, but his words go down just as well. Which one do you believe ? What is truth ? Confusing ?
What say you all ?
2007-08-23
15:06:23
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