necessary neologisms

sometimes it is necessary to make a new word to express an idea (see also: Thought for Food)

Sunday, October 28, 2012

theophany? physiophany?

›
over the centuries, the "Sinai theophanies" of the "burning bush", the storm phenomena on Mount Sinai , the guiding colu...
Friday, October 5, 2012

eulogy to monsters

›
There should indeed be an historical eulogy to monsters written, as they have played such a vital part in the testing and trials of humanity...

cacothanasia

›
The opposite of euthanasia should be better known and possibly used.. Cacothanasia. (And, to be a bit overwhelmed perhaps, see:  http://wo...
Thursday, June 28, 2012

sic permanet gloria mundi?

›
The myth of Er suggests that we did choose our parents, and the idea that all that we do on earth -- also suggested in the lines toward the ...
Wednesday, June 6, 2012

Justice in God, Man, Nature, Cosmos?

›
theodicy anthropodicy physiodicy cosmodicy Read from theologian  J. Matthew Ashley : "In classical terms, this is to broach th...
Monday, June 4, 2012

sic transit gloria cogitatis

›
sic transit gloria cogitatis would mean ~thus pass all the glories of human thinking. sic transit gloria concepti  would mean  ~thus pass...
Friday, May 18, 2012

sub specie mundi, -scientiae, -academiae

›
There is the well-known sub specie aeternitatis which roughly means "from the perspective of the eternal". But we actually li...
‹
›
Home
View web version

About Me

My photo
Stephenwolf at large
People read mostly to find or forget their lives, works, selves... I found much of myself and life reflected in Hesse's "Steppenwolf", hence the blogname. (If you have not read his work from 1927, you perhaps wont fully understand the "angle" of this blog either.)
View my complete profile
Powered by Blogger.