necessary neologisms

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

Tuesday, May 21, 2019

pneumatophile?

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pneumatophilia -- love of spirit pneumatophobia -- fear of spirit
Sunday, April 21, 2019

Cacospel

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cacospel — caco- bad + spell- tale. Antonym to gospel.
Tuesday, April 2, 2019

idiomorphize

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anthropomorphize -- attribute human characteristics or behavior to ... (a god, animal or object) idiomorphize -- attribute personal charact...
Wednesday, October 24, 2018

fear and love of the best

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aristophobia, aristophobe aristophilia, aristophile
Tuesday, October 23, 2018

Hegel

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Behegel Hegelization Hegelify/ication
Thursday, October 11, 2018

demology, demosophy

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knowledge (-logy) or wisdom (-sophy) into the demos -- "the people" eg that there is a passive majority, and how they group-like ...
Sunday, October 7, 2018

saving the Bible

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Bibliodicy -- efforts in history to justify the "truth" and meaning of the Bible
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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.)
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