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Truth combined with words is poison.

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            Religions, wars, lies, hatred, and other issues have affected human existence ever since what is known as the Cognitive Revolution, which occurred when people developed, the capacity for imagination and deceit as well as, more crucially, the capacity for communication. Many refer to it as the gift of words. It could also be referred to as the curse of language, in some circles.   According to Neil deGrasse Tyson, if intelligent aliens from a distant planet ever come into contact with humanity, they would only be able to communicate via arithmetic and science. Words would be meaningless in this circumstance. Additionally, throughout human history, words have caused problems in the shape of wars, cultural misunderstandings, religious dogmas, racial and national hatreds, etc. Words and numbers differ significantly in one important way: only numbers are truthful.   That truism, however, is actually badly misunderstood. The reason is that, although words are capable of c