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Date Posted: 16:09:29 01/12/00 Wed
Author: SwimmingUpstream
Subject: IDEAS PRECEED LANGUAGE

IDEA -- That by which we know a thing; the means by which we make contact with the flux. In other words, the thing as "arrested", as "apprehended" -- not the thing in itself.

LANGUAGE -- The medium with which we paint a picture of the thing as apprehended, that it may be delivered -- to our imagination, to our memory, to another.

This "medium", language, becomes a part of the way in which we manipulate ideas. It can itself become confining, keeping us from intuiting freely the world around us. When it does confine us in this injurious way it becomes cancerous to life.

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