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RE: Which Conspiracy Theories Do You Believe In?

in #conspiracy7 years ago

I have indeed wondered that very same thing, but I prefer to believe that we go out of our way to use the words other than we were told to because the rebellious part of all of us knows on a subconscious level that modern language is hurting us, and our connection to one another.

I found out something rather interesting recently. You may have heard this before, but if not I suspect you will find it interesting also. Ancient languages such as sankskrit tended not to have any nouns. There was no word for objects, people, or animals. But only words to describe how a noun would act. For example; a human might be denoted using a symbol that means "one who perseveres" or "one who thinks," while a tree might be depicted using a symbol that means "one which grows when watered" or "one with hidden feet."

I am paraphrasing, but the point is that in such a language, things - and people - are labelled based on what they do, or what qualities they have. Whereas in all modern languages, the labels are just labels, and the actions of the person tend to emanate from the label, rather than the other way around.

This had me wondering whether narcissism is in fact merely a side-effect of using language that places nouns above the properties of nouns, and people above what people do. I wish I had the patience to create my own language from scratch, for I most certainly would just to see in what ways I find myself liberated.

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Languages really effect how we see the world.

Here in the west Qi is a superstitious belief in some airy-fairy force that no one can see.
In the east, Qi is the basis of life. And many practice its ways i.e. Qi Gong.

And this is mostly because we do not have a word for Qi in our language.