what is more powerful, words or numbers?

Gryffon5147
Sat, 21 Feb 2009 20:03:22 +0000

Words are without a doubt more important. Words are more than just a means to express our thoughts, they are possibly the foundational basis for our higher reasoning.

Remember 1984? The advent of Newspeak from the totalitarian government was a deliberate method to suppress ideologies counter productive to the state. There is a debate in psychology whether language is something innate in us humans, as language seems to occur in all societies despite geographic isolation and size. Language may be a necessity for abstract thought itself.

Without numbers… that might be bad, but not TOO bad…