Posted on 01/19/2016 6:33:36 PM PST by Louis Foxwell
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".
ASCESIS [uh SEE sis]
noun
ASCESIS is self discipline, and can be used as a synonym of asceticism. ASCESIS is one of those cases of an unfamiliar word that underles a familiar one, here ascetic. An ascetic is one who practices ASCESIS, i.e., gives up the normal pleasures of life, preferring the rigors of self denial to the satisfactions flowing from material gain.
As an adjective, ascetic describes such a person, one who pledges himself to rigorous abstinence.
ASCESIS is from Greek askesis (exercise, training) ascetic from Greek asketikos (hardworking), and they both fo back to the Greek verb askeein (to work hard, discipline oneself.
ASCESIS is good for the body, good for the mind, good for society, and all too rare.
Wasn’t promoting theology, just commenting on how too many of us lead their lives.
Scratch “metamorphosis.” Insert “Theosis.”
oh, good one.
I very much enjoyed your piece and was teasing about the theology.
Excellent!
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Zounds! He got it.
It is cloudy and 60, and I’m working on a materials list for a co-worker who got a temp job to make ends meet-he won’t pay much, but it buys a few groceries...
I’ve heard that Bernie Sanders
Chose for his second honeymoon
To fly off to the Soviet Union-
If that doesn’t make him a loon
Taxing business owners for 90%
Should certainly do a fine job-
Companies will leave and Bernie
Won’t have a place left to rob
But then there’s always Hillary
With her scolding fussing voice
And her husband to whom ascesis
Can never be practice or choice
A little whimsy:
Thank you!
Is that woman attending a cos-play convention in Japan?
It was a cosplay pic. Dunno where.
Yessssss........winning!
Stuff like cosplay and anime are supposedly wildly popular in Japan-but the Asian sense of humor and imagination is a lot different from those in the West.
I’ve seen a couple of documentaries that were about that stuff, and I really don’t get the lure of it-it just seems like a weird fetish-and a little creepy to me-I like to dress up at Halloween as much as anyone-two of my fav costumes are dominatrix and hooker, because I’ve never been the bad bitch in real life-but I don’t fantasize or get off on that...
Thank you.
Waves! 8<)
That would be a real image: left side one costume as the first, right side the complete opposite as the dom. (Front and back would be hard to pull off.) 8<)
Except that they are separate costumes-I didn’t wear them both at the same time...
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