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Fleeting Words

The heart of all things communicated.

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Fleeting Words
Paul Risque

What is communication? Communication is the gateway that we use to understand others the very existence of society.

How can we communicate what communication is? The meaning of communication must be communicated. That must mean that the nature of communication exists within the society that uses the communication.

What does that mean? This means that society communicates to us, how we communicate. Society and its relative understandings tell us how we must communicate that there are certain words that are bad, certain actions that have certain inherent meanings that are good or bad.

Many times in society people will try to further their own egos by requiring affirmation rather than seeking understanding, the two can seem to be very similar to one another. A foolish person will ask that “those are clouds, aren’t they?” They will ask to have assurance that they have found clouds.

A wise person will ask, “Aren’t these clouds?” The wise one will continue to discover the nature of clouds, and the foolish one will continue to seek the validation of their perceived understanding.

What is the difference between these two, is there one at all? The Wise person seeks to understand truly what a cloud is, why a cloud is, and how a cloud is. The foolish seeks to discover what a cloud is so that he can feel like he can know what a cloud is.

Understanding is very similar to calculus, you can reach an understanding, approach it, but never quite get to it. You can never fully get there because that would require understanding the entire universe. That would require what it means to even understand, an understanding is an inherently relative perception that must exist, the proof of its existence, is this very idea.

So then what can we do? How we can we seek to be wise? It is by asking questions to further understand, not to asking questions to see if we are right. It is the nature of the question which is the greatest, because cruel people who are misguided will seek to further their existence over others. The true existence is the one that exists before it becomes blurred by people who wish to change it. It is the existence that we are all here together.

We are here as one, together on Earth, and this is our home. Together we must care for it, together we must seek to understand the great plague of misunderstanding that has perpetuated across the human existence sheltering those who have found a way to exploit it, and ending those who have spoken out against it.

This will be the next great leap in our existence, because if this does not happen, our existence may as very well cease to exist. The time has come, for us to come together, and when we stand together, we can change the world. When we cast aside our differences and prejudices we can work to understand one another. When we do this, work to understand one another, we can change the world.

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