Are Words More Real Than Reality?

Answer 1

words are intangible, we cannot grasp them, we cannot touch taste, smell them
they illude many of the sense, we can, however, see and hear them, does that projection make them more than what they are?
does that allow them to exist into perpetuality?
what defines reality in its essense? words can live on
they can die, they can define and hurt and soothe and break and tear bonds
they can mend bonds
they shape us and who and what we are
reading them can change us
not knowing how to read them can affect us
writing them can change us
make us wealthy
make us hated
make us love

something created by man, made up by hands and mouths shaped long ago
have we created this reality by the shape of our words?

Answer 2

What you're getting into here is the difference between fact and truth. Facts are concrete details about the objective world we live in. Truths are subjective perceptions about everything, everywhere, anytime.

The majority of things that we deal with are entirely constructs of truth. Our societies, our churches, our relationships, are all constructs that only exist because those who belong to them all believe in some specific truth. In almost all cases, this occurs because we've communicated those truths to others, almost exclusively through words but sometimes through actions.

Words can bend, alter, change, and completely obliterate truths, and truths are what our reality is built out of. Some words, said at the wrong time, can so totally devastate our reality such that we become completely dysfunctional.

Are these words more real than reality? That's hard to say because words are also truths, and subject to the same forces. This is like asking if 2x4's are more real than the houses that are made from them. Perhaps they are, because it takes an extra level of abstraction to understand the construct than as does to understand the underlying structure.

Answer 3

Words are not more real than reality. Words ARE the only reality. The rest of all is the meaning of words. Some meanings like that of chair, table etc. are concrete and some others like that of, beauty, happiness etc. are abstract. The moment the word ceases to exist the meaning also would cease to exist

Answer 4

Very often reality is hard to describe in words, they simply fail not covering all aspects related to "the real thing" Many many books were written, for an example, to describe this marvelous and yet complex feeling called love. On another hand, let's us take another example, way more simple, a feature, and let us give a task in describing it with words to a ...blind man. You simply cannot describe the color RED to someone that is not aware onto it, no? "It would be so.....and not so...but it is like...." so words would fail. Another example: let us describe the human warmth and touch. "it is like the warmth of the sun, but yet very different than that type of warmness..."
So, in my opinion, words can cover some personal aspects of reality, but not 100%, and, therefore, Words are NOT more than Reality.

Q.E.D.? Enough?

ps....I'd love to know your point of view

Answer 5

No.

Words are but a representation of reality.

The meaning of those words is real, and on a nominal plane more real that thing we take to be real on a phenomenal plane.

But knowledge is real, and knowledge is conveyed by words, so to some it may seem that words are more real than just about anything.

Me, I find words a challenge to find what is real in reality and state it so.

Answer 6

Words have the ability to change the state of reality.

Answer 7

Reality... Unless your able to see something from all angles possible, then yes. Words that add perspective to your view of reality can make it more real. More real meaning a more complete view of the full truth of reality.

Answer 8

The only -true- reality is what you have in your head as a result of your perception(s) of the outside world. Fortunately, most people perceive things closely enough alike that we can agree on most things. But if I say 'red' is has one meaning (one shade, one intensity, one point on a color chart, perhaps associated with a particular smell or touch or taste) to me, but probably a rather different one to you. That's why words actuallly -do- become more real than reality within your conscious mind. They describe the 'qualia' that somene else is trying to convey to you.
And, of course, all of the above supposes that nobody is trying to deliberately lie to you for some purpose.

Doug

Answer 9

It depends on the situation.

Sometimes words can pierce through to a person while reality rolls by, or words can bounce off a person while reality smacks them in the face.

For example, if a guy is going through high school, he thinks he's doing good. But when his mom takes his report card and starts scolding him, he might tune out because it's a routine. But when he applies for colleges, reality can blow him away when he isn't accepted anywhere, including his safety schools.

In contrast, if a guy is playing tennis; he's having fun, whipping the ball, missing half the time and laughing through his lessons. Then he trys out for his high school team, and just after the first cut, his coaches tell him to leave.

Those were bad examples.....but it's 12:20am and my brain is fried from...heh, tennis. i guess i'll edit this later...good night.

Answer 10

"Living Word" is said to be more real than everyday existence.

So, some words, as Living Word--keeping the Living Word is Life--would presumably be "more real."

"Command ye Me" is another example of the power to command by fiat the Lord.

Mantramic speaking is a type of this. "Climb the Highest Mountain," Mark Prophet (his real Irish surname) describes the "Science of the Spoken Word" (another book by him).

So, at one level, Word is Reality.

"The Symbolic Language of Geometrical FIgures," Omraam Mikhael Aivanhov, deals with another type of "language," as does Ann Ree Colton's "Watch Your Dreams," which deals with the language of telepathic dream symbols. "Sunyata: The Life and Sayings of a Rare-Born Mystic," Camhi and Isenberg, is a biography of someone who taught "Silence" at a university.

Dr. William Tiller's "Psychoenergetic Science," and http://www.tiller.org offer a reason for how speaking intentionally may be reality-altering. Likewise, "The Field," Lynne McTaggart, and "Autobiography of a Yogi," Paramahansa Yogananda, http://www.yogananda-srf.org also "speak" to this.

"Expecting Adam," Martha Beck, and "Extraordinary Knowing," Dr. Elizabeth Mayer, and "The Big Book of Near-Death Experiences," Atwater, and http://www.iands.org are all related to how people communicate and influence reality.

cordially,

j.

Answer 11

words are maid do describe reality
but sometimes words make something like virtual reality, describing something unreal but becoming reality in our brains
answer on your question depends on what you mean under the word reality