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Words

March 3rd, 2024

I think it is true that words cannot represent reality accurately. It is impossible. As a reduction, an abstraction, they are engineered to be less than what is.

If anything, the only thing that words can represent accurately is the perception of the person saying them.

If, by using words, we must reduce our senses to transmittable symbols, then the reductions we choose to make must speak loudly of our character.

Words said say more about the speaker than the world. Pictures painted tell more of the artist than the subject.

The world as it is

I do not know if we can trust our senses. We must live the dream regardless. However, I do know now for certain we cannot trust the language of others to determine what is truth.

We can use words as guidance and pointers, but in each of our own quests for reality we are alone.

We must verify all words in our own experiences, to see the world as it is. To live the dream...