Looking at the news the next day, it also seemed that people with "words to live" often started attacking and ****. I thought about my youth when I was angry, when I could easily use words to justify violent thoughts that could turn into acts of violence. Words are tools, yet they seem to be more dangerous than gunpowder.
Imagine two people facing each other and looking back at each other. One is showing the oncoming tornado and the other is showing the raging fire. Each person sees his own truth and gets angry at the hand of another. Everyone thinks each other's hand is "wrong". It may seem silly, but tornadoes and fires take place in any modern issue and join hands with words, and this scene illustrates how we often try to communicate.
We point to each other with our words, arguing that we are seeing the same facts and experiences. We want to prove our own words rather than looking at what others' words mean. Words are mesmerizing, and for their undeniable use, when we focus on them, when we make them more important than the truth they are meant to convey, they keep us from understanding.
No words to live
It’s not just about communicating with others. We focus on those words and fall into the trap of the words we use to describe ourselves to the world. We call things "right" or "wrong", for example, how they fit into our "definitions". However, unlike in mathematics, the term principles and definitions is less accurate. They cannot surround the whole truth of reality. For example, with less effort, you can create a situation where "stealing" is right and someone is "helping" the wrong.
This is not an argument against the use of language or logic. That's all the two of them go so far. Like a car that takes you around the country or around the world, they are useful, but like a car, they are only useful in certain ways 'and' you need to empty them when you reach your various destinations. . Taking the car to the lake is not a problem, but taking it to the lake. This is what we do when our words and reasoning put us in dangerous situations.
Is it dangerous to have words to live? Absolutely. I once heard a kind man say that he was against the laws of animal cruelty because he could not find a set of logical and justifiable words to defend them. If he saw a new machine, would he refuse to believe that it existed until he could describe and explain it? Reality, and the reality of wrong and wrong, are beyond words - they are not words.
In the evening news I saw a man saying that we have the right to lay a nuclear bomb on Iraq and that we should. As he explains why, you can see that any kind of motivations he possesses are maintained by his words, reasoning, and his absolute obedience to where it took him. In his words, he never thought that there could be truth outside of logic.
It's great to have guidelines like "Do not lie" or "We have a right to protect ourselves". It is even better to remember that these rules will one day fail in us 'and' we must create new ones. Words are just tools. There are words to die, but no words to live...
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