The ground underneath my house is sacred. If it changes, the foundation will fail and my house will collapse. |
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Sacred. Sacredsacredsacred. I've been hearing that word tossed around a lot lately. We have sacred texts, sacred places, sacred words, sacred arts, sacred ideas. The word most commonly appears in connection with religion, which I hope to avoid because this could easily fall into another theist vs. atheist debate. Let's look at the definition, shall we? |
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The ground underneath my house is sacred. If it changes, the foundation will fail and my house will collapse. |
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Well if you take the religious side of it, you can easily convert that to a nonreligious view. Which is that many of them have cultural meaning. Regardless of where you stand on a specific religion, understanding ones culture is a very important thing. |
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My freedom is sacred. |
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I can't tell is this is sarcasm or not... but it actually applies either way. |
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"Sacred" originally comes from "sacrament", which has to do with christian rituals. That is enough to keep that word off my lexicon. |
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Saying quantum physics explains cognitive processes is just like saying geology explains jurisprudence.
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The ability to happily respond to any adversity is the divine.
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Of course it does. p = mv in the classical limit is a great example. Darwinian evolution is another. The earth is round and is the third planet out from the sun. The sun is on the edge of our galaxy. George bush was the last president and obama is our current one. Theres all sorts of examples of objective truth. |
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@ Kromoh. Why does it matter where the word sacred came from? |
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I would say that the basic rights of mankind are sacred, they are things that ought not to be meddled with/disregarded, when that happens you get hitler and civil war, and such. |
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Infinitly greater than you are... Damn that missing E.
Well, if we're talking about boundaries and things we shouldn't really tamper with, then I'd have to say that one of those things is DNA. But I say that not because DNA is "sacred", merely because we tend to try to graps things that are beyond our reach. |
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To Americans, freedom is the right to vote between two or three equally incompetent canidates. I hate democracy, I really do. I would much prefer a constitutional monarchy that protects our basic rights (i.e. Right to trial by Jury) but still has enough power to make decisions that need to e made. |
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Infinitly greater than you are... Damn that missing E.
He's anti-Christian as fuck, that's why it matters. |
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WakataDreamer's Dreamworld - My DJ
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~ I'll give this some attention, maybe get it going again some time in the future
Actually it is always good to know the origin of the word. Etymology is a very interesting study. |
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Jujutsu is the gentle art. It's the art where a small man is going to prove to you, no matter how strong you are, no matter how mad you get, that you're going to have to accept defeat. That's what jujutsu is.
True that. I was just pointing out in general, because I am greatly fascinated by words It shows indeed some ignorance if someone is ready to drop the subject merely because that word is originated from something they dislike. |
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Jujutsu is the gentle art. It's the art where a small man is going to prove to you, no matter how strong you are, no matter how mad you get, that you're going to have to accept defeat. That's what jujutsu is.
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6 and 7 would imply that a sacred something is resistant to being changed. |
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198.726% of people will not realize that this percentage is impossible given what we are measuring. If you enjoy eating Monterey Jack cheese, put this in your sig and add 3^4i to the percentage listed.
From the ontological point of view, everything is sacred. Drinking water, eating a fruit, listening to music, smoking, excercising the body, a tree, a river, a mountain, a pile of trash, a pile of shit. Everything is part of everything else, so everything is as equally sacred as everything else. Of course, some things/people/places possess more sacred power than others, and if you are particularly keen at sensing these energies, then you will understand what this means. But if one can develop an attitude that reveres reality itself and everything that is revealed in our collective dream, then one can achieve satisfaction even in suffering. Which is what I try to do every day. But it is hard to appreciate the honk of a car, or the stupidity in some people, without getting angry and blasting the gods for the shitty sacredness that they endow us with every once in a while. |
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