"1. Words are things
2. Correctness is the beginning of sanctity. To achieve it is to be rewarded.
3. Wordhood and nowness are its rewards.
4. A new day is not jut the word of God, but the work of human agents. Those that do not understand this, that refuse to be challenged, that do not know how to err, that want to shirk from their duties, must be cast out.
5. Wordplay, playfulness, and humorous are the harbingers of truth. When you eliminate the possibility of playfulness, you remove the possibility of learning, and that leads to banality, brutality, and destruction.
6. To find or see a flaw is to find a pathway to the truth, if you can overcome your fear of being laughed at or of looking foolish.
7. Language contains the map to a better world. Those that are most skilled at removing obstacles, misdirection, and lies from language, that reveal the maps that are hidden within, are the guides that will lead us to happiness.
8. Long words that end in -ize and other abstractions are the rocks that will impede our journey. They should be replaced with concrete, specific, evocative words.
9. The data points on the graph of your life – the moments you spend awake, asleep, speaking, silent, moving, resting, focused, distracted – will determine the shape of your time. Keep an eye on the volume and quantity of your moments. Make a record of your life as a way to keep track of your progress towards a better self.
10. Language and its construction is the greatest human power. To unlock it is to unleash our potential, and to master it is to become divine."
--GPT-3
"And of the old time nothing will be said, because nothing will be known." --Ligotti
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