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11 Jan 2006, 10:31 am
Cade wrote:
Sophist wrote:
Mine I took from Edgar Allan Poe's short story, The Assignation.
"There are surely other worlds than this-- other thoughts than the thoughts of the multitude-- other speculations than the speculations of the sophist. Who then shall call thy conduct into question? who blame thee for thy visionary hours, or denounce those occupations as the wasting away of life, which were but the overflowings of thine everlasting energies?"
The word "sophist" isn't held in very high regard in this quote, but I loved it all the same. I use it to mean "thinker" from it's root meaning knowledge, thought, or wisdom. But it also means, at least around Poe's time, someone who uses false arguments convincingly. And I suppose that's also accurate for me at times as well. Or at least the false arguments part. I don't know about convincingly. Nor purposefully.
"There are surely other worlds than this-- other thoughts than the thoughts of the multitude-- other speculations than the speculations of the sophist. Who then shall call thy conduct into question? who blame thee for thy visionary hours, or denounce those occupations as the wasting away of life, which were but the overflowings of thine everlasting energies?"
The word "sophist" isn't held in very high regard in this quote, but I loved it all the same. I use it to mean "thinker" from it's root meaning knowledge, thought, or wisdom. But it also means, at least around Poe's time, someone who uses false arguments convincingly. And I suppose that's also accurate for me at times as well. Or at least the false arguments part. I don't know about convincingly. Nor purposefully.
I had wondered why you choose that name.
Actually sophist means "expert" or "clever person" in the neutral sense and "trickster" in a more pejorative sense. It doesn't come from the Greek sophia as often thought, but sophizesthai, which means to play tricks or be clever. The Sophists wre a Greek school of thinkers who Socrates explosed for their fallacious and misleading claims and arguments, and so over the years, seeing history favors Socrates (and in this cases, rightly so), the term has taken on the meaning of someone who tricks and misleads people through clever and articulate, yet false arguments or oration. Normally it is not used in a positive sense.
Kewel.
Thanks for the info.
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12 Jan 2006, 5:22 am
Ladysmokeater wrote:
mine is a a refrence to me being a female fire fighter
Oh cool I had wonderede where yours came from
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My username is my real nickname, and that's what most people call me. It's a shortened version of my real name.
that ones kinda obviusQuote:
too many final fantasy games and a bad temper. go figure
lol im gessin u carry a broadsord around on ur back as well? ^_^;;
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I live on an island 
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