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The Vanity of Words


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THE VANITY OF WORDS

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The world is One. Before thoughts, before words, there is only the one, undifferentiated mass. Nothing exists independently of anything else- things appear as they are because of their relation to all other things. This totality, this wholeness, this One- that kinsmen, is Truth. That is the only Truth there ever could be, for It is all that exists, and all that ever could exist.

 

What then are words? Do we not say that one speaks the truth?  When someone pulls the wool over our eyes, do we not call him a liar?  Must Truth not take at least temporary residence in one’s writing or speech? 

 

Words are just wind kinsmen, no different than the chirping of birds or the howling of wolves. They do not inhabit some special realm of their own- a spectral dimension of knowledge, forms, and arithmetic- posited by philosophers, but seen by no one. They hang together like everything else, fellow members of the endless web of cause and effects that binds us all. 

 

No words, spoken or written, will ever capture the Totality. To try and use them for such would be like casting a net over the sky.  One can never speak the Truth, one can only speak of the Truth. All that we say or think (for no thought can escape the form of language,) expresses but a puny fragment of the whole of reality, the One Truth. The meaning of a word is determined by the meanings of other words, the objects to which they refer are conditioned by their relations to other objects- all shifting, all changing, never the same… 

 

Meaning is an endless maze kinsmen, there is no bottom to the question, no way out of the tangle. Spoken or written language can only ever be an approximation; a useful tool, indispensable even, but nothing more. In a way kinsmen, we are all of us liars-  for try as we might, we are condemned never to speak the Truth.

 

Therefore I say to you: 

 

Do not speak when you can remain silent. 

 

Never talk when you could act.

 

Remember that all words deceive.
 

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"The author has said that words are futile and meaningless, and then refuted his own argument by using words to prove it; this is the biggest self-own I have ever seen." Says Philip.

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