Oh...The Things People Say

 It cannot speak, For Truth has better deeds than words to grace it.
William Shakespeare (Well...I think it was William Shakespeare lol. Two Men from Verona, Act 2,Scene 2)

What People Say

Yesterday, I felt myself somewhat concerned about the things people say. Not about me really but in general.

Oh I am sure someone could have read my entry yesterday and said out loud to the cat or to the air, "WTF(frontdoor)", or if it was someone I know they might have called someone else I know on the phone to say, "Do you know what crazy thing she said today?  She is hearing crackling in her ears and she thinks she is now woo-woo enlightened." Someone else might just say to themselves, This chick is crazier than a bag of hammers or off her rocker. 

Uh hah...now that is what I want to talk about....the words we use over and over again  and who they actually belong to.

The Bizarre Things We Say?

Who came up with those clichés anyway?  Why is a woman a chick?  Why is a bag of hammers crazy...and what does it mean to be crazy? What does it mean to be off the rocker? Who started these phrases and why have they stuck?  What kind of impact do they have?  We may not know where these particular phrases came from but it is obvious the initiator was not enlightened ( crackly or not :))  These phrases wreak of negative stigma and minimization of women, those who suffer from mental illness and the elderly. Not all phrases we cling to will be so nasty but we need to be careful, with even the inspiring words we adopt from others, about the authorship and the meaning we apply to them.

Did They Really Say That ?

Yesterday, I was looking for a quote from my man Albert Einstein that would support my idea that everything is vibration.  In my mind that is where I got those words...they came from his mouth, didn't they?  That is why I adhered so much to that idea.  He made a believer out of me because of who he was. You see, I was so sure I knew Albert (I like to use his first name lol)  well...like we were tight.  We were after all, despite the fact that I can barely count let alone solve and create complex mathematical formulas that can answer and pose the greatest mind blowing questions about life...were on the same wave length.  I read his words about Spinosa, his theories ( the simply phrased ones) and his letters to a grieving friend...and I read all those quotes from him posted over the internet. I knew him well didn't I because I knew his words? I couldn't find evidence that those words, "Everything is vibration" came from him.  I was heart broken.

Were they even Einstein's words?

It just got me thinking...that's all.  And as you know by now...it is not a good thing to get me thinking. So I did some research.  If you go to a spirituality site, they would attest without offering exact evidence that the quotes with Einstein's name on them that related to anything spiritual were his words.  If you go to a physics or pure science site...you get blasted for even thinking Einstein would say or think such a thing. In their minds Einstein's philosophies and ideations were purely science and any attempt to add a new age spin to them was seen as almost blasphemous. Where was my connecting link between science and spirit going to go now? What I wanted from him I might not be able to claim.

You see...I am pretty good at checking my sources and I have a tendency to go back to the original document in order to validate what someone has said...with the exception of quotes.  If I see the same quote worded exactly the same way on more than one site ( and I will check) I will assume that it is correct and I will plop it down here. Now I am realizing that is not enough. Have I been misquoting all along?  Have we all been?  Have we been clinging to words and giving them more meaning than we should?  Have we been attaching inappropriate authorship,  cultural connotations, hidden meanings and our intentions to them?


Just Words

Words are just words and who knows what Albert Einstein or anyone really said or didn't say?  Unless one is following a person around 24-7 with a recording device how would we know?  And if they did quote something...whose to say they didn't get it from someone else?

Words are just symbols that we apply meaning to.  They were not born with meaning. Does it really matter who said what and what they meant? (I mean...don't misquote...be sure of your authors...but...does it really matter?) If the words give meaning to you, express meaning for you...isn't that all that is important?

It doesn't really matter what I say does it? I never said I was enlightened because my ears crackle lol...I said I am discovering that there is so much "noise/music" beyond the surface of our busy world that we all have the potential to tap into...You may not believe that because I am, after all, just a farmed baby fowl...who is suffering the same form of psychosis carpenter's tools neatly grouped together in  a plastic carrying receptacle suffer from.  And I am stepping up and walking away from the moving chair I was sitting on. :)

All is well.

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