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In a nutshell Linguistic Determinism: Language is the limit or boundary to what you can think. If no word exist for what you want to say you cant say it or act it out.

Lets start with what language is. Language is how humans communicate with one another. The main form of communication with humans is through speech. Next comes sight, along with speech facial expressions, and body motions such as hand gestures help to convey what we feel. After this we dont use the other senses as much to convey thoughts.

Information in the mind or peoples basic thinking blocks can be called symbols.
When people think they usually hear them self, think in their mind like this: Hmm what do I feel like eating? We really thing in symbols but that is automatically converted in to speech in our heads. We talk in our minds, but I believe this limits our actual ability to think.

What am I getting at?

Have you ever wanted to say something but you couldn't put it into words? This happens to me all the time. I recently started to lucid dream, and now I remember my dreams much better, and things that I couldn't explain made complete sense in my dreams. Sometimes I spoke a completely different language in my mind, or what felt like a different language, that made sense in my dream but when I woke up I was like kendelvickel what? I concluded from this that in dreams we think differently. Not necessary the traditional way of hearing your thoughts, but being your thoughts.

I started thinking, but this time I tried hard not to think in words within my mind; I thought without thinking, if that makes sense. So after a few seconds of doing this ideas flew into my mind that I never knew I had all about this topic, Language limiting our thought.
The first Thought was a question:

Why can pictures/music incite such emotion within us?

I concluded that these are other ways to communicate thought without speaking.

The next thought was about this, is it possible to learn how to always think without thinking?

If so then ideas that couldn't be represented in traditional language could be turned into something else, such as art, music, and animation.

Remember my nutshell for Linguistic Determinism, I feel that our languages are incomplete. There are thoughts that we are not aware that we think, because we cant represent the symbols as language.

What I want to discuss with all of you is:

Do you think that it is possible to learn how to be our thoughts, or not rely on our learned language in order to think and represent these thoughts to others?

Also please share any of your thoughts on this matter

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I never thought of this
It could be true
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I think if our voices never developed when the human species began then what your saying would not only be true but the way we all communicated. Unfortunately humans have developed so much that this would be impossible today.
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No, we limit our thinking. And we force are selves to believe that we are confined to a certain way of thinking. Exceptions in certain areas is that amount under 100 humans that can see, recognize, and draw a special set of geographical shapes, was it?. They are examples that we do suppress our greater thinking abilities, and sometimes they can, in small portions, be unlocked. Or such as that terrible Hollywood movie, Lucy, points out, that we only use a small portion of our brain capacity, and some probably an even smaller portion. To some it all up, again, we limit our though capacity, it isn't just because of the language we use in speech.
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The language of light doesn't.
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EstablishedGaming wrote The language of light doesn't.

ahhh care to elaborate on what you mean?

Ok looked that up and it just seems like some mumbo jumbo mess of characters.

Language doesn't limit thinking, it allows it.
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fknvlink wrote
EstablishedGaming wrote The language of light doesn't.

ahhh care to elaborate on what you mean?

Ok looked that up and it just seems like some mumbo jumbo mess of characters.

Language doesn't limit thinking, it allows it.
The language of light is geometry. the Freemason lodges have studied sacred geometry for decades,
The initial language was also used by Egyptians dating back to the Sumerian era How do you think they was able to build the pyramids.

The geometry correlates to Babylonian mathematics.
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EstablishedGaming wrote
fknvlink wrote
EstablishedGaming wrote The language of light doesn't.

ahhh care to elaborate on what you mean?

Ok looked that up and it just seems like some mumbo jumbo mess of characters.

Language doesn't limit thinking, it allows it.
The language of light is geometry. the Freemason lodges have studied sacred geometry for decades,
The initial language was also used by Egyptians dating back to the Sumerian era How do you think they was able to build the pyramids.

The geometry correlates to Babylonian mathematics.


Right, and how does the language of light describe Love?
It doesn't. It describes the world in terms of sizes and ratios, it can describe how something is, but not why or what it is.

Every form of language has its limits.
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This really got me thinking..
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I can't hear myself think
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