the stormgod sprang up from his wagon: umu explains about Ancient Greek

Monday, December 15, 2008

umu explains about Ancient Greek

There's ἔρως, which is sexual attraction (perceived as an outside force that compels you to act)—or rather it is the whole spiritual complex that grows around πόθος "desire". Then there's φιλία, which is the love shared by friends, relatives, and so on—the kind of love it's decent to feel for your wife.

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Maxims and minims for the wise and the foolish

I think that historians are talking nonsense, because they don't write their essays in Coq. — Umunmutamku
LANGUAGE IS A HIERARCHICAL AUTHORITY
A GOVERNMENT OF THE CONSCIOUSNESS — Tezcatlipoca
Whoever fights against the empire, becomes the empire. [or something along those lines] — Philip K. Dick [as told to Tezcatlipoca]
- We’re not fighting the empire! We are the empire! Go away, or we'll smack you with this stick! — Tezcatlipoca
You don't have to be straight to shoot straight. — Barry Goldwater
- Indeed, we must prevent life, which is frequently fatal. — Umunmutamku
  - There are also a number of legitimate scientific reasons for it as well (though I don't know what they are) — Tezcatlipoca
Instead of thinking of Scripture as a manual, I try to think of the Bible as ‘a boyfriend’. — punkrainbow
- Your feelings are lying to you. — Jer 17:9
READ A BOOK, I'M SURE IT'S IN ONE OF THEM. — Tezcatlipoca
- Books are full of bullshit and lies! — Tezcatlipoca
  - We will lie to you but we will lie to ourselves as well. You will, however, see through our lies and grasp the shining truth within. — The KLF
A Gnostic is by definition a knower, and since knowledge supersedes belief, a knower cannot very well be a believer. — Stephan A. Hoeller

talking about the great unknown is ridiculous. it’s THE GREAT UN-FUCKING-KNOWN — Anonymous

The enemy knows the system. — Claude Shannon

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