The color of blood: 'der' is as good as 'red'.

The meaning of words.
A word has meaning when the given definition is accepted.
When person X use the word 'der' to define the color of his blood,
he gives meaning to the word 'der' and accept the meaning of that word.
If the society accept 'der' as the word to define the color of the blood,
then this word will cause human to have immediate perception of what it is referring to.

But if person Y use the word 'red' to define the same color (that of the blood),
person Y then totally reject(do not accept) the word 'der' that is use by person X.
If person Y persist, believe and insist that the society should accept and use the word 'red',
and at the same time person X do not persist and pursue on his belief that 'der' is a more suitable word.
Sooner or later, the society will accept 'red' as meaningful and 'der' as meaningless, although
both words initially refer to the same color!
Thus acceptance by society gives meaning to words.

Loss(or destruction) of acquired knowledge is caused by different languages and destructive events (e.g. war)

Different languages prevent the sharing of useful and important acquired knowledge.
Different languages slow down or even reverse the process of acquiring knowledge.
Different languages cause different perceptions of the same situation.

e.g. 'makan pingguo' has exactly the same meaning as 'eating apple'.
It does not make sense in English, but 'makan' is the Malay word for eating
and 'pingguo' is the word that sounds like apple in Mandarin.
Sharing of knowledge is prevented.

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The word 'reality' is used to describe a state of mind where human believe is 'real'.
'Reality' is only one of the many various states of mind.
'Reality' is unfairly used to describe this particular state of mind.
Human unknowingly perceive that 'reality' is the only real state of mind.
Human perceive other state of mind as unreal thus used the word 'escapism'
when entering other state of mind.
 
'Challenging' tasks are most of the time perceived as 'valuable' tasks.
Breaking a solid rock with a bare hand is a very 'challenging' task with hardly any value.
'Value' is a relative term.
Every human is unique and different.
Every human perceive 'value' differently.
Only the blind will follow others.

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