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Parent Post: Language is a parasite
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tajudeen_bin_tijani
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11/26/2025, 10:08:09 AM
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What are your thoughts about how words and its shared meaning comes to us?
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seraphima
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11/26/2025, 7:06:45 PM
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Interesting question! I thought it was simple to answer at first but it’s taken me a while to think. If words are from God, that has implications. If not, there are different implications. I think God spoke all creation into existence. I think He is The Word so words are glorious and perfect. How we, mankind, use them, however, is a different story. I think they came to us from above and have been corrupted by below. In between, I think it’s better to say less sometimes so as to be precise and careful. 🤷♀️
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gracejoy
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11/26/2025, 9:11:55 PM
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"*If words are from God..*." While everything is from God, "The Word" is Jesus; & also the Bible. Words used by us, w/out inspiration, are just words, a means of communication. In general, short of disagreements, it seems to me that as long as there is goodwill & dialogue, misunderstood words can be easily clarified. Unfortunately, goodwill isn't guaranteed🙄: "*The heart is deceitful above all things, & desperately wicked: who can know it?*" (**Jeremiah 17:9**)
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