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Posts: 392 (08/08/06 1:00 AM) No Pills Can Cure My Ills Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Report Post	hello today I watched god tv for an hour. i thought, "maybe this will help." I'm not saying it didn't help. I'm not saying it did help. what i'm saying is all or part of the following... the evangelist said that words FRAME existence, frame your life. So if you say, "I am unhappy and will always be unhappy" then you'll be unhappy and will always be unhappy. there is some truth in this. for instance, i believe that negative mental states are addictive/addicting. that is my faith. also, positive mental states are likewise (theres an american woman who watches my words here and elsewhere and I want to reach out to her but I find words ultimately unfullfilling - should that be one l then 2 l's? not sure) but that's not all. the evangelist went on to say that words have a life have a spiritual presence have a distinct being have a truth. so if you say, i am a complete prat surely enough you will be a complete prat. because i suppose what he meant was words spoken words are real have presence have a life outside of us and can influence our faith. however de saussure spelling not right said that words are arbitrary said that words do not have any actual connection with reality such that if i say cat it is not an actual cat it is a sound in the mind representing the cat but the cat is entirely seperate so words in this sense have no magical power at all. however if i say i love you or if i say you are special then these words are not purely arbitrary they have a meaning beyond the sound anunciation etc.... one problem. if i say god is good out loud i might be thinking god is a complete git but must i believe that because one thought was verbalised it takes precedence over another thought nonverbalised. wheres the magic in that?
PRINCESS	Re: words	#1	[-]
Posts: 876 (08/08/06 11:02 AM) Bipolar Babe Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Report Post	I believe in the power of the written word. It shapes history, it is history. One word can change the meaning of everything. Some words I don't like: mucus, effluent, discharge, obey, penis, vagina. a shrink could probably read something into that list, I imagine. Words have power: kingdom, holy, beauty, money. But a word is a representation of something, someone, or an idea. So, a word is nothing, is meaningless, but has taken on a meaning and a life of it's own. Wars have been fought over words, alliances reached through words. Some words I like: peace, paper, flimsy. Welcome back, Lucid. Love Clare xxx CRAZY LADY (WITHOUT THE CATS) NOW AVAILABLE FROM www.lulu.com/clarehill Living Without Marbles still available from www.chipmunkapublishing.com MY WEBSITE CAN BE FOUND AT www.clarehill.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk
lucid mumbler	hello again	#2	[-]
Posts: 392 (08/08/06 1:26 PM) No Pills Can Cure My Ills Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Report Post	hello princess. on the subject of words, i tend to go for short, springy words like pimp, blip, plop (plop being a particular favourite of mine, I should use it more often but I shy away from hedonism). then theres the plosive curiosities like plod, bulb and the king of the hill, bulbous. i agree that mucus is an unpleasant word, it looks bad and sounds bad. penis also is unsatisfactory and vagina lacks how can i put it romance?
LilleboyLost	hey	#3	[-]
Mad&Loving It Posts: 930 (08/08/06 6:07 PM) Mad&Loving It Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Report Post	hey lucid. you guys make interesting points. there are some words i like rather a lot such as "Flump" "flanel" "finicky" "efluessence" and 2rubarb" i just like the sound of them. please note as i am dyslexic there is a very good chance that i get the spellings wrong. the words for me arnt as interesting as the thoughts that form the choice to use them. i think in sounds colours and shapes so when i think of a word, it isnt the word i see, its the shape and sound that go along with it. i see colours and taste sounds sometimes i can remember how to spell it but its dis-something or other..... hey hope you ok, adam
xxprozacsmilexx(d)	Re: hey	#4	[-]
Posts: 407 (09/08/06 2:22 AM) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Report Post	on the subject of words and precedence, i don't know what i believe. where do the things we can never say come into it? you know like if you're running something over so that you've said it thousands of times in your mind, but you could never actually speak those words... those thoughts are important to me too/ however i think the written word is the most powerful, it gives a reader or writer a sense of control, and allows the emotion to be put into the letters on the page, and shaped from there. spoken word although it is emotive is not neccesarily the same. and written words last, forever if you want them to, spoken words are gone the minute they are spoken. but i do believe one of the first things you said, about the negativity and if you say it, you will belive it. if someone constantly puts themselves down, then it becomes nature to believe that they are negative and will be forever (although the concept of forever is a mystery to me!!) i think the words that amuse me most are probably Freud, and ambivalent - as they both mean very little but promise great things... ambivalence as in not caring, but really caring so much that its killing you.... and Freud because he set up this whole business with psycs and diagnosis' yet seems to actually solve very little. hmmmm sorry ive rambled a bit here, but i suppose if you think either too little or too much about words and meanings, then the magic is gone in any case.... but the magic can also be more noticeable because of analysis, and thought $:\$ ive confused myself now! hope things are well with you lucid? Emma xxxx the light was there all along... there was just a cloud in the way
lucid mumbler	freud	#5	[-]
Posts: 392 (10/08/06 4:07 PM) No Pills Can Cure My Ills Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Report Post	freud is unfortunately close to fraud... hello prozac. interesting post. i've replied to your other one in substance. glad you're still around.

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