Words are just sound heard as words.Alexiev wrote: ↑Thu Oct 17, 2024 3:51 pmCountries can't talk (since we're being persnickety abut language). Why has English become (paradoxically) the lingua franca for much of the world? British colonialism in India helped -- but for Europe, Korea and Japan America's influence after WWII and status as a world power made English "so useful".accelafine wrote: ↑Thu Oct 17, 2024 1:44 amDoesn't even make sense. Germans still speak German. Japanese still speak Japanese. In fact most countries CHOOSE to speak English as well as their own because it's so useful.promethean75 wrote: ↑Wed Oct 16, 2024 9:38 pm Whilst i don't disagree with Alexiev, i believe had the U.S. not got involved, the bloody brits would be speaking Russian, not German.
Sound is born of two surfaces rubbing together. Surfaces are matter and matter has no knowledge of existence. Existence has no original face. Existence is faceless.
Only upon reflection does non-existence appear as existence.
Sound is silence sounding.
No one is talking.
Knowledge can only point to the illusory nature of reality.