Thank you Firestarter. I have difficulty with the language. I must however
give credit to Dr. Mark Foster for insisting that "words have no meaning.
They are social constructs". I knew that could not be the whole story.
Nevertheless, I must thank him because I was then, after a considerable
time, stimulated to remember the verse:
"Through the movement of Our Pen of glory We have, at the bidding of the
omnipotent Ordainer, breathed a new life into every human frame, and
instilled into every word a fresh potency." (Baha'u'llah, Gleanings from
the Writings of Baha'u'llah, p. 92)
The verse recommended to me that the meanings of words are actually given by
God; and that man must recognise those meanings if he is to understand the
relationship between his existence and the Revelations of God. Otherwise, I
believe, he will live in a confusion of words.
Richard
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