What Got me Fascinated with Language

To understand reality, which is to be able to simulate others more accurately and have thoughts that more truthfully describe their experience, as individuals and imagined groups, we need to think about the substrate of thinking. It is not that clear what it is. It seems that a more basic layer of thinking exist underneath our inner voice. It is sometimes called mentalese. Does the language we use, the way words are defined, and the rules and the structure affect our innermost thoughts, or they are just symbolic representations of it?

• I became fascinated with language as a child, listening to the way OSHO plays with words, redefines them, infuses his agenda into them, rephrasing their meanings. Here are some examples:
  • The world consists of verbs, not nouns
  • Tolerance Is an Ugly Word
  • OSHO: I Do Not Believe In Believing - My Approach Is To Know
  • Magic of the word "F\*\*K"
  • Wanting Desiring and Longing
  • OSHO: Belief Is a Dirty Word
  • OSHO: There Is No God, but I Have Found Something Far More Significant (PREVIEW) - YouTube
• I hate grammar. Learning the nonsense of Hebrew grammar, any grammar of any language, for years, without ever connecting it to anything real, practical, to the fundamentals of our thinking, is such a "crime against the mind". As a child, I always felt language is an important substrate, materials through which we create a worldview, and no one seems to talk about the deep ways it affects us, the deep agenda entrenched in it, instead everyone is lying in the gutter. I asked myself why are you focused on nonsense? to this day, I have a lot of spelling "mistakes". I wish all my mistaken in life were as dramatic as those ones.
• As an animal advocate I was perplexed by the language my collogues use: I wondered why advocates are saying "the meat industry is bad for the environment, or causing deforestation" instead of saying "the slaughter industry is killing wild monkeys and snails and birds, or it is one of the a leading cause for the wild animal extermination. Why the environmental terminology is hiding the sentient and highlighting the insentient. Why we don't have a word to define this monumental crime I call wild animal genocide.