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Originally posted by ARTelevision
Words themselves - all of them - are very poor substitutes for experience. Our dependence on turning our experiences into words and then processing those words as if they are the same thing as the experience they so poorly reflect is our primary mental disease.
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I agree. Words are words- they are man-created and have given us the power to create such things as stereotypes, not to mention misinterpretation, misunderstanding, and emotional strings we tend to attach to these words. I don't talk much, because I want to feel and be in the experience as fully as I can, and I don't let words affect my experience with misconceptions, judgement, or offensiveness. Given, I can't go around completely communicating telephathically with everyone, because we have all created such a distracted, noisy environment with words- but I do listen behind the words that are said. Like I said, they're just words.
I know may seem like it's steering off topic, but stereotypes are words in which people have put images and ideas to- and those images and ideas are all different. Just if you were to say you saw a "hick" today, you may picture a dirty, tobacco-chewing man w/crooked teeth, being quite obnoxious while another would picture a tight-jeaned man with tucked-in button-up shirt, cowboy hat & boots or even a raggedy- dressed, foul-smelling woman with crooked teeth....the list could go on.....