I don't understand.Gadianton wrote: ↑Sat May 04, 2024 1:42 pmBoy, were you mistaken. Let me help you out.Valo wrote:voila, next thing you know I'm going through that lifestyle of I can't wait until high-school and then I'll need a career and I'll need to make some money and so I'll be happy when I get my first car. Or I'll be happy when I get through high school and am an adult and can do what I want. Or perhaps after I get my degree and land my dream job. Or maybe when I meet that special someone and we get married and then I'll have meaning, etc.
“Everything is meaningless, only words have meaning because they point to something other than themselves. The word water is not drinkable but it points to the drinkable reality.” - AW
Unless that "special someone" happened to be a word, then no dice.
It doesn't matter what kind of instrument you have because the world outside is something other than words. Let me help you out:Valo wrote:in this process of growing up in our Western society let's say and when we view the world through this lense we can miss certain aspects of reality that are real but we just aren't looking at them or can't seem them because we don't have the correct instrument.
“Everything is meaningless, only words have meaning because they point to something other than themselves. The word water is not drinkable but it points to the drinkable reality.” - AW
Even numbers are meaningless, because they aren't words, duh, but they don't point to anything in reality. There is no "three" out there in the material world for them to point to.
High Spy is going to find that really offensive.
Why does something have to be a word to exist? A word is a sound we apply to a thing or idea. The word doesn't exist in the material world it's just a tool we use to be able to communicate a thing that we all associate that word to mean.
It makes me think about how people who are blind and deaf. How to they learn what is what if we can't teach what words mean. How to they visualise colour. They have no idea what the difference between yellow and blue is it is meaningless.