Comments on: Spiritual but not delicious… http://listics.com/20061010640 “History may only rarely be written by the losers, but it is always written by the writers.” -- David Weinberger Tue, 15 May 2012 01:11:40 +0000 hourly 1 By: Dale DeWitt http://listics.com/20061010640/comment-page-1#comment-5736 Dale DeWitt Fri, 20 Oct 2006 19:20:13 +0000 http://listics.com/20061010640#comment-5736 At the risk of sounding like I've missed your point in writing I'd say: where are the definitions. Religion is greatly construed to the social dimension of dogma and spirituality is attached to the senses trying to make sense of things non sense. If you want to base your terms on personal predilection then you have. As a chemist I take definitions a bit seriously to comment resonantly. But what the hell is a spiritual left and right doing with the priori concept of dealing with landscapes beyond. That sounds more like poetic license destroying the honest transmission of idea through language. I suppose I read it so I should be to blame. Sorry. At the risk of sounding like I’ve missed your point in writing I’d say: where are the definitions. Religion is greatly construed to the social dimension of dogma and spirituality is attached to the senses trying to make sense of things non sense. If you want to base your terms on personal predilection then you have. As a chemist I take definitions a bit seriously to comment resonantly. But what the hell is a spiritual left and right doing with the priori concept of dealing with landscapes beyond. That sounds more like poetic license destroying the honest transmission of idea through language. I suppose I read it so I should be to blame. Sorry.

]]> By: RB http://listics.com/20061010640/comment-page-1#comment-5381 RB Thu, 12 Oct 2006 01:52:18 +0000 http://listics.com/20061010640#comment-5381 You want more Trooth? Here are a couple factoids my reading unearthed last night... 1) Thoreau liked to imagine that his name was a sort of Frenchified (as opposed to Frenchfried) version of THOR. He, and most of the Transcendentalists in Concord, spent a lot of time studying German so they could read Kant and Fichte -- the latter being the originator of the whole "volkisch" meme. From _Henry Thoreau: A Life of the Mind_ (no lie). 2) Two of Ralph Waldo Emerson's brothers were locked up in the nuthouse. There is some credible speculation that it ran in the family. From _Mary Moody Emerson and the Origins of Transcendentalism: A Family History_. Evidently, there's a chapter on the Emerson brothers titled "The Mayflower Screwballs" in _ Gracefully Insane: The Rise and Fall of America's Premier Mental Hospital_. More as time allows. Stay tuned... You want more Trooth? Here are a couple factoids my reading unearthed last night…

1) Thoreau liked to imagine that his name was a sort of Frenchified (as opposed to Frenchfried) version of THOR. He, and most of the Transcendentalists in Concord, spent a lot of time studying German so they could read Kant and Fichte — the latter being the originator of the whole “volkisch” meme. From _Henry Thoreau: A Life of the Mind_ (no lie).

2) Two of Ralph Waldo Emerson’s brothers were locked up in the nuthouse. There is some credible speculation that it ran in the family. From _Mary Moody Emerson and the Origins of Transcendentalism: A Family History_. Evidently, there’s a chapter on the Emerson brothers titled “The Mayflower Screwballs” in _ Gracefully Insane: The Rise and Fall of America’s Premier Mental Hospital_.

More as time allows. Stay tuned…

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