There's no such thing as a stupid question, just stupid people. (To say a question is stupid would be to personify it).
Language is incredible. It is not essential for thought, although it relates to the famous philosophical conundrum, the "problem of other minds", and you are linguistically determined (sorry to break your heart).
Language reveals deep truths about how our minds work. Little kids, who are expert teleologists, say that caves were built "so that people could have shelter", and that food exists "so that we can eat", eerily echoing later Intelligent Design theories put forth by weak, religious minds, and Conspiracy Theorists.
There is no such thing as "positive" or "negative" language, nor is Maths, which deals with tautologies, syllogisms and the like a "language"...although it'd be nice if the Google-using public could 'speak' Boolean. Stop fucking up my Google results, it's in-fucking-credible.
Although you can parse them, you cannot point to a "bunch of grapes", and you cannot "feel like food". Nor is IT ever raining. And how can you be afraid of The Devil, if "Devil" does not refer to anything real? If I communicated properly with you, you'd see how impotent language really is.
If we say “The young man’s urge to defecate even while dressed in full school attire was not suppressed” it doesn’t create as bad an image as “The kid crapped all over his pants in class”. It seems we work on imagery rather than meaning (although I don't), which presents limitations on your ability to communicate, and reinforces your susceptibility to propaganda.
There is no 'purpose' to this post, although there was a mechanism as to how it appeared on this blog. Think about that. It's a shame you can't hear my mocking tone. But yeah, the feelings are mutual, I likewise don't care what you think of me, although I'd be pleasantly surprised to see somebody sharp enough to read the undertones of my posts.
My vocabulary is larger than yours, by the way, and I'm more intelligent. Objectively speaking. Because, if "All things are subjective", then so is that statement, which would make everything...Objective. I'm also cooler than you in real life. What's more, despite the supposed indeterminacy of translation, my thoughts will eventually be understood by all.
After all, even two theories can map perfectly on to each other. If two theories always predict the same thing, they are the same theory. Although one could be a series of chemical equations, and another could be a developmental theory of psychology, there must be a map from representation to reality, and back to a different representation. And so Englishmen can understand Frenchmen after all.
Koro is a mental illness in which a man thinks his penis is disappearing in to his body. There was a mass outbreak of it in Singapore in 1967.
Showing posts with label Communication. Show all posts
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Monday, March 5, 2007
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