The Linguistic Farce

My mind is crocheting some of the most bizarre thoughts these days, however I need to be dry enough to soak them, I need more time to grasp and make a thorough structure out of them. These thoughts, I think, are quite radical and out of my domain too in current cognition. So any attempt to handle them unripe would only yield and taste sour to me and maybe bitter to whomsoever it may serve as a meal. Therefore, I will not play with it. Instead I will bite some more out of my earlier fruit—the fruit of language; this fruit taste sweet.

A few days ago I was contemplating of results had language—a fully formed one—been a gift of God. Though a sign language would not make much difference yet I choose a language with words and human ability to spoken language as a prerequisite to attack the beliefs of Abrahamic religions. You may refer to earlier ideas in my post – ‘Language and complexity of Universe’. I find this post a continuation of my earlier one. Here we will explore the treasure-trove of the strange events which language subjects us to.

Let us step into our cave—a cave of knowledge, rather speculative knowledge. Abrahamic religions, in fact all sorts of major religions never find themselves easy to shed light on how actually language was first learned by humans. Subsequently to fill up pits in their logic they dig up the soil of God and make it even—a leveled ground for humanity to walk on. However in the event of such cover up there is always a possibility of sinking due to heavy load of knowledge. Let us explore different possibilities.

 

We, as a result of our observation, can safely conclude that language is not an inborn quality; the ability to learn language can be inborn. Language need to be learned through conscious effort. What about Adam and Eve? What about those ‘lucky in the most unlucky sense’ human souls? What language they knew? Different Abrahamic religions claim, according to their beliefs, a language of their choice. They are adamant that man was fully aware of his being when he landed on earth and not just being but much more than that—much more in the sense of Language. You see, when we assume language as a divine gift we need to simultaneously assert that man need to know some words, symbol representations, meaning of the words as a prerequisite and how to ramble those words in order to make sense out of it. Let us be generous and assume even that for the sake of doing justice to our Generosity.

What does our generous deed reap? Or seed of our generosity got spoiled? We discover that we have “a father” even before the act of one becoming a father, just because of language. We have one knowing, both Adam and Eve, about “mother” even before existence of first mother is witnessed. We have testimonials of one knowing of son, brother, sister, daughter even before the event of actually having witnessed such an event gladly. All sorts of definitions of relationships existing before the actual occurrence for the very first time! Nomenclature of undiscovered elements—absurdity of epic proportions! Even Absurdity would jump out of shock and ask—‘Am I really absurd? I haven’t been defined yet, not experienced yet!’ You see the “Linguistic Farce” does not stop just at individual relationships. It goes onto every single dimension of life. Pre-history would be ashamed of itself. Now even before the first rose is seen by Adam, he knows of it. Senses are being betrayed and the act of defining is mocked. A square is fully formed in Adam’s and Eve’s mind just to laugh at those who observed and discovered a square, rather invented it. A surface is “round”, “flat” even before it is defined to be round or flat; a “wheel” is lurking in some corner of Adam’s mind only to be ignored till the time is ripe; a “freedom” brings joy even before one has been enslaved; “good” before first good deed or first defined good deed; “sin” before first sin. But wait sin was there! Yes the sin of forbidden fruit! What am I saying! Are fairy tales told without language? “Existence” before definition of existence! “Man” before knowledge of man; “Knowledge” before knowledge; “God” before God.

With this immense gift at his disposal and the ability to put will in the form of words in some finite sequence of words, you can imagine how he defied the act of doing, experiencing, sensing to the pinnacle of idiocy. Senses stoop to Brain and ask—‘Are we any use to you, my lord?’ The act of observing and defining is now secondary to the act of knowing—you know even before you saw, even before you touched, even before you felt, even before you smelt, heard, tasted and comprehended. I am sure you understood the drama we played here. You can guess now who created whom.