“the need for etymosophy, rather than mere etymology, is revealed when one contemplates the profoundly retarded etymological scholarship around the words god, deus and theos.”
i will more fully at some point in my new etymosophy series, but really the idea that theos and deus are not connected at all is intuitively absurd. at least to me.
ehe. i suppose the connection is of a sort that cannot be admitted into the framework of academicism, because it would start to sound too much like mysticism. and if one allows that foot in the door, soon enough the study of meanings and words becomes also the study of truth. and every academic is a sort of Pilate.
“the need for etymosophy, rather than mere etymology, is revealed when one contemplates the profoundly retarded etymological scholarship around the words god, deus and theos.”
Can you elaborate on this?
i will more fully at some point in my new etymosophy series, but really the idea that theos and deus are not connected at all is intuitively absurd. at least to me.
Yes, agreed, that’s nuts. A person would have to be an idiot to believe that…or an intellectual.
ehe. i suppose the connection is of a sort that cannot be admitted into the framework of academicism, because it would start to sound too much like mysticism. and if one allows that foot in the door, soon enough the study of meanings and words becomes also the study of truth. and every academic is a sort of Pilate.
very well said
I question machines all the time, but not the ones who pretend to speak my langauge.
ah! very good