;Posted on 03/12/2014 5:29:05 AM PDT by xsmommy
Word For The Day, Wednesday, 3/12/14
;In order that we might all raise the level of discourse and expand our language abilities, here is the daily post of "Word for the Day".
eschaton; noun
end of the world, end of time, climax of history Etymology:
Etymology: "divinely ordained climax of history," 1935, from Gk. eskhaton, neut. of eskhatos (see eschatology).
Rules: Everyone must leave a post using the Word for the Day in a sentence.
The sentence must, in some way, relate to the news of the day.
The Review threads are linked for your edification. ;-)
Practice makes perfect.....post on....
Modern usage of the phrase started with Eric Voegelin in The New Science of Politics in 1952. Conservative spokesman William F. Buckley popularized Voegelin's phrase as "Don't immanentize the eschaton!" Buckley's version became a political slogan of Young Americans for Freedom during the 1950s and 1960s.[1]
Voegelin identified a number of similarities between ancient Gnosticism and the beliefs held by a number of modernist political theories, particularly Communism and Nazism. He identified the root of the Gnostic impulse as social alienation, that is, a sense of disconnection from society and a belief that this lack of concord with society is the result of the inherent disorder, or even evil, of the world. He described this alienation as having two effects:
The belief that the disorder of the world can be transcended by extraordinary insight, learning, or knowledge, called a Gnostic Speculation by Voegelin (the Gnostics themselves referred to this as gnosis). The desire to implement a policy to actualize the speculation, or as Voegelin said, to Immanentize the Eschaton, to create a sort of heaven on earth within history. One of the more oft-quoted passages from Voegelin's work on Gnosticism is that "The problem of an eidos in history, hence, arises only when a Christian transcendental fulfillment becomes immanentized. Such an immanentist hypostasis of the eschaton, however, is a theoretical fallacy."
The book Fire in the Minds of Men explores the idea further
get about immanentizing, then.
Patience.
Can winter be done already?
No, it can’t. It was 68 yesterday. Today we will get 2-4 inches of snow.
Something on the order of an 80 degree drop in less than 72 hours.
Then that snow hits the northeast.
going to be in the 70s again today, and then plummeting to 22 degrees tonight.
I live in the town where the cop said he’d give his left nut to bust down doors to confiscate guns. As a citizen, not a subject of the USA, I feel like eschaton my rights with his comment. Thankfully most cops in town that I’ve spoken with don’t agree with him.
No snow predicted for the CT shoreline, but a frozen, icy mess tomorrow morning.
allow me to b!tch about the faucet i got when we had the kitchen remodeled. the handle has fallen off this $700 item TWICE in 6 mo. i am going to talk to Amazon to see if anything can be done, but this cannot be normal to have the thing break constantly with normal usage. We have lived in this house 15 yrs or so and had only 2 faucets in that time period, and those were builder grade faucets prior to this one.
WOW, i saw that story, didn’t realize that it’s where you live. That is pretty outrageous, i hope the guy is feeling some heat from the citizenry for that remark. A+++
I love that you used this today. I just read about it recently, I think from something Jonah wrote.
yes i think he used it in his Gfile one friday and i emailed myself from home to the ofc with the phrase to use for WFTD. it was def jonah inspired.
Sounds wonderful. I would ask for a new one, it should still be under warranty.
While you’re complaining, want to say anything about Crosby? ;-)
Immanence Front?
It's a put on...it's a put on...
come on join the party...
Statements like that should render him as being unfit for duty..
That's every leftist, progressive movement, right?
Building the New Soviet Man and other programs based on this idea of using political power to re-shape the world into perfection.
Dressed to kill.
They “don’t agree with him”, but are they passively endorsing him with “silence as consent”?
If it’s Who lyrics, I’ve always been partial to this:
There was a beautiful white horse
I saw on a dream stage
He had a snake the size of a sewer pipe
Livin’ in his rib cage
I felt like a pickled priest
Who was being flambed
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