This is KZSU, Stanford.

Welcome to entitled opinions.

My name is Robert Harrison,

and we're coming to you from the Stanford campus.

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Ah. preparing for today's preparing for today's show, I checked 20 different translations of the opening verse of the Gospel of John,

and every one of them translates the Greek word logos with the English word, word.

In the beginning was the word, and the word was with with God and the word was God.

Now what does that mean?

The Barnes notes on the Bible says, I quote,

the meaning is that the word had an existence before the world was created.

Great, but what does the word for word have to do with the world that came into being?

Even if we take it on faith that in the beginning was the logos,

no one really knows what logos meant in the beginning,

because by the time our words begin to mean something,

they already have a past, they already reach us by way time our words begin to mean something, they already have a past,

they already reach us by way of our foremothers and forefathers.

Regardless of our dialect, we speak with the words of the dead.

That, in a special sense, is how and why we speak at all.

Just as humanity begins where there is already an ancestor,

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