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Is language the greatest gift God gave to us?

>> No.22081883
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>>22081871
It's what gave us consciousness

>> No.22081901

>>22081871
God is a story we told ourselves.

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>>22081901
>God is a story we told ourselves

>> No.22081930

>>22081871
It is both the greatest gift, and the most terrible malady.

It allows us to communicate and understand a subtlety of nuance profounder then any other, but also allows us to see so much truth that we can often pick and choose and delude ourselves and others into effective falsehoods and over particularizations.
>>22081901
kinda missing the operative sense of the word God here cheif.

>> No.22081977

>>22081871
It's a problem. It hides the real truth behind inescapable symbols.

>> No.22081978

>>22081871
God doesn't exist.

>> No.22081986

>>22081930
OP meant it metaphorically?
Quite literally, god is a gift we gave ourselves. Death troubled us in our infancy so

>>22081917
>yhwh is a reel person! you can’t just have a universe without a man creating it first!!
Schizophrenics are the real death of everything they touch.

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>>22081986
I have not invoked the personhood of the Tetragrammaton in any way, shape or form, yet you attack me for supposedly doing so. Who's the real schizo here, chief?

>> No.22082057

>>22081871
Hermes gave us language

>>22081901
Stop posting until you grow a third IQ digit

>> No.22082061

>>22082049
You can’t deal with letters into words in a civil manner. You are.

>> No.22082107

>>22082061
Where precisely have I evinced myself as uncivil?

>> No.22082546

>>22081986
>OP meant it metaphorically?
no necessarily, but the point is it doesnt matter, its a rhetorical device. that we have been bestowed by God or fate, or evolution, or the universe, or what have you, the ability of language.

>> No.22082594

>>22081871
Isn't there a dolphin species which uses a primitve form of language to communicate for hunting? I remember watching a documentary about it some years ago or maybe I dreamed it

>> No.22082617

>>22082546
That IS taking it metaphorically.
The “gift” of life and all the unique abilities humans have developed is a metaphor as well. No need to invoke god nor sperg out at my comment.

>> No.22082621

Lots of animals communicate through body language and audible noises. Fucking touch grass once in a while and stop getting your whole worldview from books

>> No.22083468

>>22082621
Please google "language definition" before writing such bullshit

>> No.22084001

Mercury

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>>22081871
>>22081883
>>22081901
Yes. Yes. Yes. Blessed first three posts.

>> No.22084195

>>22081883
Greatest book ever written.

>> No.22084239

>>22081917
why are you retarded?

>> No.22084245

>>22084110
what doth life?

>> No.22084278

>>22084245
The everything everyths

>> No.22084282

>>22081871
How do you know other animals will never develop advanced language skills?

>> No.22084285

>>22084239
Why not?