E-Prime
I'm going to start posting words here. I would like to say words of wisdom, but that's a bit pretentious. Can we really measure what "is" wise or unwise?
As my first orchestration of words I would like to mention E-Prime. It's the English language without a few words, but primarily without the word "is". Try this one out, instead of saying, "My boot is red," try saying, "My boot appears red to me." It's more accurate. The color you see is a relationship between the objects makeup, the light bouncing off of it, and your visual cortex. It is a relationship more than a definite color.
Instead of, "This band is good, " This band sounds good to me."
"Jesus is our savior," would be replaced with, "I believe that Jesus could be our savior." Can you imagine if they truly understood that truth in this more flexable less dogmatic statement? People would be flexing some rational thought! ...and rational words! And therefore would not have the need to bother me in the book stores!!!
Can you imagine how many arguments could be avoided? Think of the people who tend to argue all of the time, then imagine if they had to use this way of speaking, writing, and thinking. Most arguments would be diffused immediately if one realized that what they are trying to express can only be defined as their interpretation, relative only to their perception in this space and time and partially the result of mutliplex causality of how their parent were raised, and their parent parents, all the way back as far as you can imagine. Ones words may be based on past experience, knowledge of a subject, and the senses that they trust to get through life, but all of these are fallible.
You may experience a little cognitive dissonance at first when you realize that you just said "is" even after understanding that it could have been avoided. And this would be a good thing, in my opinion. The more clear things are, the more confusing, and vise versa.
I'm going to start posting words here. I would like to say words of wisdom, but that's a bit pretentious. Can we really measure what "is" wise or unwise?
As my first orchestration of words I would like to mention E-Prime. It's the English language without a few words, but primarily without the word "is". Try this one out, instead of saying, "My boot is red," try saying, "My boot appears red to me." It's more accurate. The color you see is a relationship between the objects makeup, the light bouncing off of it, and your visual cortex. It is a relationship more than a definite color.
Instead of, "This band is good, " This band sounds good to me."
"Jesus is our savior," would be replaced with, "I believe that Jesus could be our savior." Can you imagine if they truly understood that truth in this more flexable less dogmatic statement? People would be flexing some rational thought! ...and rational words! And therefore would not have the need to bother me in the book stores!!!
Can you imagine how many arguments could be avoided? Think of the people who tend to argue all of the time, then imagine if they had to use this way of speaking, writing, and thinking. Most arguments would be diffused immediately if one realized that what they are trying to express can only be defined as their interpretation, relative only to their perception in this space and time and partially the result of mutliplex causality of how their parent were raised, and their parent parents, all the way back as far as you can imagine. Ones words may be based on past experience, knowledge of a subject, and the senses that they trust to get through life, but all of these are fallible.
You may experience a little cognitive dissonance at first when you realize that you just said "is" even after understanding that it could have been avoided. And this would be a good thing, in my opinion. The more clear things are, the more confusing, and vise versa.