The Power of Words

[ktlight]

This short film illustrates the power of words to radically change your message and your effect upon the world.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hzgzim5m7oU

[Jendayi]

this actually brought me to tears........ thank you for this....
namaste..

[ktlight]

this actually brought me to tears........ thank you for this....
namaste..

Me too!!!!

[W.C.]

I am reminded of this little anecdote about Alfred Korzybski, the creator of the theory of general semantics.


One day, Korzybski was giving a lecture to a group of students, and he interrupted the lesson suddenly in order to retrieve a packet of biscuits, wrapped in white paper, from his briefcase. He muttered that he just had to eat something, and he asked the students on the seats in the front row if they would also like a biscuit. A few students took a biscuit.

"Nice biscuit, don't you think," said Korzybski, while he took a second one. The students were chewing vigorously. Then he tore the white paper from the biscuits, in order to reveal the original packaging. On it was a big picture of a dog's head and the words "Dog Cookies." The students looked at the package, and were shocked. Two of them wanted to vomit, put their hands in front of their mouths, and ran out of the lecture hall to the toilet.

"You see," Korzybski remarked, "I have just demonstrated that people don't just eat food, but also words, and that the taste of the former is often outdone by the taste of the latter."

... I quite enjoyed it.

[HolographicWonder]

Amazing.. Thank you, a wonderful start of a sunshiny day.. If in no time for words, a smile will do just fine... :)

[John Parslow]

Me too!!!! :o

[phimonic]

This is a beautiful short movie!!
thanks!

[luciole]

Thanks!!!!

This video reminds me of how a little can change a lot!

"our language is found in every thread and fiber of our reality. By changing one word within ourselves, we expand, contract or alter our consciousness, our awareness and our reality." Robert Tennyson Stevens

[MariaDine]

Namasté

http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?18158-A-political-fable

[Lord Sidious]

Holy sh**, but that was well done.
Thanks for posting, the thanks button wasn't enough.

[Agape]

It makes me cry :alien:

[honeybee]

this actually brought me to tears........ thank you for this....
namaste..

Me too!!!!

Same here!

[phillipbbg]

What a wonderful advertisement for human kind , so capable of such goodness of spirit...

Thank you for reminding me of this..:)

[DawgBone]

Thank you for that!

The human spirit is like a flower bud.

If it bloomed, if it ever actually opened, how beautiful it would be.

[Agape]

But the human spirit is also : blind and humbled,
and sitting in dust
playing with metal pieces of something that allegedly
represents wealth of this civilisation .

The spirit of old ..

the wasteground of human stupidity ..sorry to say that.


:hug:

[ktlight]

But the human spirit is also : blind and humbled,
and sitting in dust
playing with metal pieces of something that allegedly
represents wealth of this civilisation .

The spirit of old ..

the wasteground of human stupidity ..sorry to say that.


:hug:

Agreed, Agape, the world of TPTB is insane. Very fortunately, there are pockets of sanity that remind us of who we really are. Whilst we can laugh or cry, we know we are alive, we are then spiritually responding.

[Krullenjongen]

Wow that was emotional on several levels.
This one goes in my collection, thanks so much!

It always makes me sad to see someone elses suffering like the blind man.
But it also makes me happy to see unselfish people trying to help the needy like to lady.