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Fairy
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Unknowable.

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That which is known, for example: a thing known, is known through it’s label, which is a word.

Otherwise there’s no knowledge of what any thing is. Yes, pain or pleasure is a sensation and would be recognised as such, but without the label ‘my pain or my pleasure’ there would only be sensation without an owner. Without a creator of the sensation.

Words do not know they are words, therefore knowledge of words can only point to the illusory nature of reality.

What a relief it is to be just like every other mute creature living on planet earth, not knowing what they are, or how or why they are, but just are, nevertheless.
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Re: Unknowable.

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The curse is that thinkers are convinced that their thoughts are knowledge.
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I tawt I taw a puddytat

Sylvester should have known better

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Fairy wrote: Thu Jul 23, 2026 11:32 am That which is known, for example: a thing known, is known through it’s label, which is a word.

Otherwise there’s no knowledge of what any thing is. Yes, pain or pleasure is a sensation and would be recognised as such, but without the label ‘my pain or my pleasure’ there would only be sensation without an owner. Without a creator of the sensation.

Words do not know they are words, therefore knowledge of words can only point to the illusory nature of reality.

What a relief it is to be just like every other mute creature living on planet earth, not knowing what they are, or how or why they are, but just are, nevertheless.
We exist only in relationship, but We is not I.

Knowing comes from experience
Words communicate experience
Words also unknowingly
Communicate unknowing
To knowing.
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Post by Walker »

phyllo wrote: Thu Jul 23, 2026 12:34 pm The curse is that thinkers are convinced that their thoughts are knowledge.
Writing words in the mind, as if writing on paper or keyboarding, creates accurate memories of details that otherwise seem irrelevant in the heat of action.

Baseball play-by-play announcing is the hot art form of writing words in the mind that accurately describe quick reality, too quick for rumination.

Wrong words are bush league.
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