Language Can Be Pleasant Play and Also Lead to the Development of Great Adults.

Do Adults Benefit from a Childlike Use of Language? Children play with language. They can benefit greatly from pleasant talk with an adult.

        Children do it for pleasure. They seem to enjoy trying new uses for pleasure more than we do. Sometimes upon examination and adult may see language as an invitation to play. Play may be an invitation to language, but that may be an invitation to another essay. It may well be that life is an invitation to both language and play.

            Let me continue a look into childhood experience in language. It looks like or sounds like children use their self-talk to associate sound with both structure and meaning.If you have an opportunity to do so, listen to a child talking alone in his or her activity. We usually call that activity play. A keen observer may note that there seems to be structure, function, and order in word play of the youngest. They appear to enjoy their use of language to construct representations of reality. They seem to do so for the fun of it.

        We are amazing. Even the vary young among us are amazing. Very young children seem to be open to alternative formulations of experience in their play. They toy with ideas and they toy with making up happenings and doings. Think of yourself for a bit. You discover some of your own present day toying and playing, and perhaps prevarications. Don't be too hard on yourself. Some of your most creative and productive thought may be much like this.

        So talk, including self talk, plays an organizing role in adult life as well as in childhood. There may be delight in an utterance of even an adult. Higher forms of mental activity begin their development as a process between two people; much of it between an adult and a child. But early on the development can be between a child and itself. Much of our development continues with talk among adults and even self talk within one adult.

        Mature thinking in a child, as you may imagine, begins as that child stats to see things from other points of view as well as from his or her own. Some adults seem to forget much of the value of this sort of thought. As human beings we are often much like children. At times I realize that I gain satisfaction from speech now, much as I di as a child. A child needs to feel confidence in a home place so as to better feel confidence abroad. The talk between child and adult at home is important. That talk experience as a child at home continues to support us now.

        We continue for life to learn much and to better our language usage. However, there does seem to be a golden time for language learning is done with greater ease and pleasure, and at that time is done to better effect. That is childhood learning may affect the quality of ones speech for life. 

        As adults we may find some easy pleasure in speaking with our children, even infant and even with other children in our lives which can improve the quality of their entire lives. With that pleasant talk we may give them some pleasure in our company and help them grow into more competent adults.

 

The Limits of Our Responsibility

We can learn and adapt. We can govern ourselves. We have even begun to understand rules and laws of Earth and beyond. But our control over the movement of and changes of the Universe, the Solar system, and our very Earth. We have begun to gather evidence of happenings of perhaps 5 million years ago, but our interpretations of it sometimes seem like silly guesses.

                Scientists have been helpful. They have learned that is difficult for humans to understand everything at once. They also find that we can learn a lot from samples of reality. They have also learned that we have a lot to learn about the quality of  samples. They have also learned that we are capable of many slip-ups in our interpretation of the information we gain from our samples.

                Even so we have the ability to learn and do have the will to learn correctly, truly, and even approach reality. Knowledgeable scientific interpretation of high quality is becoming available and we can learn to judge it, but it does take learning. Learning form which we may benefit. 

                We have learn that some happenings are cyclical in nature. Not perfectly so, but recognizably so.

                We have learned that we are sensitive and are beginning to learn just how sensitive trees are.

                We are learning that we have a lot responsibility. We know that our responsibilities are not infinite, but seem to have plenty to learn about the limits of our responsibility.

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I Like the Geometry

I kind of understand how quantum mechanics is understood and I am beginning to see its predictive value, but I have kind of lost my grip on reality.                        rcs

Let Days Be Full of Joy

RCS Posts: Life, joy, and love.

            Enjoy life well. Enjoy the simple pleasures of life.
Let more music and dance into your life. Bathe and wear fresh clothes. Help the children and embrace the women.  We die; shall we not live? 
            Embrace her and kiss her. Avoid drunkenness. Avoid lies. Take responsibility for your life. Choose as well as you can. 
 

            Let knowledge of your resources come to you. Be open to knowledge of yourself. Move temperately. Let knowledge of a higher quality of life come to you. 
 

            Allow yourself to serve another with appropriate dignity, honor, respect, and love. Cooperate with the natural order and the way of things. 
 

            Love the people around you. Enjoy nurturing yourself and your world. Do a bit more of what comes naturally. Enjoy nurturing and allowing yourself to be nurtured. Enjoy it exactly as it is.
 

            Love reality. Let days be full of joy.

I may read this again myself. 

            RCS

Taoistic Writings

RCS Posts Esoteric to Exoteric: Taoistic Sayings

 

            I find something attractive about a philosopher who laughs with me. I have enjoyed the humor of Taoist writers. I find much of their writing witty and accessible. Much is also usable and wise. 

Their use of the following phrases has moved my thinking and perceiving in useful ways:
+ Accept the reality of the available freedom.
+ Easy does it.
+ Attend to your energy reserve,
+ No regrets.
+ Set your burden down and enjoy the water.
+ The door is not locked.
+ Peacefully rejoice in reality.
+ Know the joyful security of wandering whe there is no path.
+ Enjoy your wit and romantic adventures.
+ Is it really so?
+ Great knowledge and long life.
+ How do you know that it is so?
+ Be little moved by praise and blame.
+ Discriminate.
+ Be clear about the nature of honor and disgrace.
+ Small self, little vanity.
+ Know the rule without ruling.
+ Know you.
+ Be willing to know the quality of your perception.
+ Let go of the clutter and the trivia.
+ Nothing is useless.
+ All is useful.
+ As you smell the roses, hear the music.
+ As you speak, be aware of how little you know.
+ Nothing depends on your point of view. 
+ Your opinion is changing this instant.
+ Let them be.
+ How can we understand it all in one day?
+ Clarify your understanding today.
+ Embrace reality.

            When you want some humor, wit, and laughter, read some of their writings.

            I guess I could have published this to my Esoteric to Exoteric blog.
 

 

 

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