Words are just words. Just like money, words themselves have no inherent value. The value is and always has resided within the human interpreter. If you speak to someone using a made up language only you understand then the art of communication, transferring your ideas to another via the use of words, is impossible.
Thus, the answer is always no. The tree does not make a sound when it falls when no one is around as sound waves are nothing without the deciphering ear and noticing nature of human beings that gives it meaning.
The animals in the animal kingdom are reactionary beings tied to the environment in which they depend on. They kill when they are hungry, find water to drink when they are thirsty and mate in mating season.
We appear almost alien to that today. Most of the food we eat is for pleasure not survival, the water we drink is largely poisonous and we would rather opt for the sugary fizzy counterpart anyway. But, it’s enjoyabl
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This is what makes us who we are. We tend to fulfil our baseline animalistic tendencies for these things by over indulging in them. This is normal too. Place some sugar in the jungle and watch the wildlife turn into crack junkies. These rules apply to us too. We are of this Earth, our bodies beat in tune with the natural harmonics of our Planetary system.
We are attracted to the unnatural. Sensationalism. We are still deeply intwined biologically with the clock of animal life. Our animalistic brain is hardwired for survival and this is why we crave fat and sugar, because this used to be scarce.
Wisdom is applying this higher knowledge into acting more consciously moving forward. The detriment of the individual is a reflection of the whole. The longer we keep polluting ourselves the more okay it is to pollute our environment.
The wind constantly changes, high and low pressures. Waves, the infinite hum of life in all things. Don’t get sucked up by being an empty vessel concerned with meaningless hypothetical questions. Inject your vibes into the World, or forever be a slave to every other wave
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