AK and what he taught.

Alfred Korzybski, AK, the father of General Semantics wrote in his seminal work, Science and Sanity, that what you have to say about a person or a thing cannot be the person or the thing.

I was and perhaps still am of a simple mind. And at first I did not grasp what he was saying, to wit:

the ABOUT of X cannot be X.

 

And then one day the penny dropped.

Then, AHA! I saw it - the words ABOUT X cannot be it - unless you are so illogical that you believe you can be the words. Can you be words?

Thus if i say of you, "You are an angel!" Are you one, this instant? No you are still human. You have bad breath, your arm pits still stink and your fart is awful.

So, if some one calls says:

you are a whore man

or

you think like a lesbian faggot

are you:

                      1.    a male female prostitute

2.    are you a hermaphroditic homosexual/lesbian

 

As George R. R. Martin of the Game of Thrones fame wrote:

Words are for the wind.

 

And for me I have long realized as you have that people have the ability to spew oral feaces from their mouths.

Do not identify with their words.

If you do they have you. Do not because they really in the end are idiot midgets.