Setanta wrote:I would suggest to you that words can be so powerful (although not of necessity powerful inherently) because language has been so crucial in the long, slow progression from hunter/gatherers to modern humanity. Even simple activities such as hunting and gathering can be so powerfully enhanced through language. If i find a herd of bison or a huge blackberry thicket, i can communicate the information more rapidly with language, and i can repeatedly communicate the information in an efficient manner as i encounter each member or small cluster of members of the clan or tribe.
People have used language, even in pre-literate societies, to construct huge, elaborate social edifices, and to conduct complex activites, such as migration or war. The power of language arises from it's having been the most effective and adaptable tool humans have ever created.
Exactly.
Thats what I think is so powerful about "In The Beginning was The Word."
Its almost as if that writer is worshipping The Word. They knew that. They knew the extreme power of The Word.
It was a sort of beginning of civilization. Beginning of society.
Sometimes I almost think Religions are trying to worship Society. Of course they never will say that.
In the beginning was the word.
I mean right after Let there be light was The Word.
Are religions really just worshipping the power of The Word? The power of The Word to Bring Civilization together to form Society (god)?
Is that the God some religions are really describing? Religions are worshipping The Word and Society.
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