thanks Pat for the update on Joan - I knew Joan lived now on the west coast but did not realize she was living with her son and his wife - sounds like a great arrangement and so glad there is other family nearby - And I did not realize we were the same age - I turned 90 last January and in another week will be 91 - cannot even compute I am that old - how about you - it is like the years come and go -
Ah the weather - not sure about you Bellamarie or Pat living north but we have gone from freezing ice and temps in the teens and 20s to temps in the 60s and 70s but torrents of rain - rain ditches in front are full to almost over flowing but thank goodness the breaks in the rain have been as if timed just enough to allow the ditches to empty. Reminds me of a poem we used to chant as kids this time of year... forgot it all but it starts...
When that I was and a little tiny boy,
With hey, ho, the wind and the rain,
A foolish thing was but a toy,
For the rain it raineth every day.
But when I came to man's estate,
With hey, ho, the wind and the rain,
'Gainst knaves and thieves men shut the gate,
For the rain it raineth every day.
A couple of more stanzas that kept the hey, ho, the wind and the rain also the rain it raineth every day.
And so now rather than freezing we are getting drenched as soon as we open the door... from the weather map it appears Joanne is experiencing a warmup with rain as well... We'll see if this is the start of the Spring rains or we could still have another cold snap in February
OK I would have thought by now I would have heard about most things or thoughts - not enough to know all about the 'thing' or 'thought' but at least heard of it ... well was I wrong... Mouth dropped so often in the last couple of days if it were summer there would have been a beehive set up in the gapping
OK the mouth droppers - never imagined eye drops could cause a lung infection - yep, new eye drops that not only caused my lungs to act up so that antibiotics was the only solution but also caused Montezuma's Revenge. sheesh from EYE DROPS - can you believe - new eye drops for glaucoma that cost a fortune since they are new there is yet no generic version and then, they cause this mess... sheesh... Obviously feeling better or I would still not be posting...
Since I saw that documentary over a week ago now that showed the early alphabet scratched on rocks similar to how hieroglyphics or images were scratched on rocks - at the same time I became more curious about northern Europe culture that led me to learn more about Runes than I ever imagined - and so I've been on a trail of discovery - shocked, yep another mouth dropper to learn there is a philosophy of language - not just the history but a philosophy!?!
And then the more I read about Runes after learning it was not just a bunch of stones with symbols that people used to attempt to divine the future but these symbols on stones was an early alphabet or words for these northern groups that include Germanic people as well as Scandinavian - I have learned there is no Rosetta stone so to speak and so there is no exact way to translate the runes but by using other archeological finds and piecing them together to learn about the life at the time they are using this path to understanding runes.
Well this is when it got whicky - it seems with the connection to the Germanic people all this early language is caught up in both myth and a bit later the Bible --- well it seems Hitler used bits and pieces and actually altered early Germanic myths to feature and explain the Nazi movement and so today some are saying What supremacy is all about resurrecting the Nazi movement and therefore, even Amazon is no longer carrying many of the books written about runes and about the early Germanic myths - I found a book company in California where I could and did order an ebook of one of the Cleary's books about runes - Interesting enough there are books written about the history, myths and runes from what we today label conservative authors and just as much written but known liberal philosophers like Johann Gottlieb Fichte who followed the idealism of Kent - there is only one book left on Amazon by both Cleary who specialized in the study of the runes, ancient northern tribes and their myths and Fichte a German Philosopher. Both of their other books are listed but none available.
At first it did not hit me as unusual till I found the books in these other book stores like Abe and the Counter Currents - and then reading the intro to the Cleary book learning how all this is tied to what some today call White Supremacy - I was aghast - Simple curiosity could be an act of agreeing with the current label and here I had to turn to another source to purchase the book - and then, learned all this is tied into Wagner's Operas the Ring Cycle that was hijacked by the Nazi's for their Germanic what - I guess identity or heritage or whatever that they could solidify themselves around --- sheesh and all I am curious about is how language in one part of the world originated from a different source than the hieroglyphics that became the alphabet in another part of the world and then where the similarities exist so that both the written word and religion could be shared and understood by both those who inhabited the northern regions and those who lived near the Mediterranean.
Another mouth opener - the whole notion of what mankind in the time before Christ understood the 'world' to mean...
The term itself is Germanic, and comes from the Old English weorold: wer, which means “man” + eald, meaning “age.” So that “world” literally means “age of man” or “man age.”
The belief, understanding of the world is not nature or the planet: it is all of this that can be cognitively interpreted by us. Our ancient ancestors lived in a world—a “man age”—that was a response of the spirit of the people to their circumstances and surroundings. Not so much a form of “thinking,” as a way of being in, dwelling, 'Being' of human beings. Dwelling is in earth, sky, gods, and mortals. The earth shelters but it also conceals. We live upon it but we look to the sky as an emblem of our aspirations. The earth as the sky were ultimate horizons in which everything appears and light from the sun reveals all that is concealed including our ideals which are the gods.
It is like our inner selves is manifested in the observable and it goes on to explain what is concealed is the life force of those who passed and the light from the sun reveals all that is concealed so that mortals existence is fleeting however they live, dwell on mountain tops or beyond in the sky - later this thought is carried on and called heaven by Judaeo-Christians.
It hit me as I was reading and learning all this it reminded me of how Native American's are beyond thinking as if it could be changed - they too believe the past is part of the present and those who pass are here among us so that to read some literature by those Native American's who are telling stories from their way of life we miss so much because our way of seeing life is linear where as to a Native American it is circular and now I am seeing this circular way of looking at life is all inclusive so that the belief we dwell in and are a part of the earth, sky, gods and mortals
Reminds me of something I read recently about gardening where it was saying we no longer look at nature for nature's sake but only what it can do for us - we label it unkempt or shabby if nature is not controlled to our design and taste - it is as if we are the all and nature is here to serve us... I'm getting that message from the explanation the ancients had of the world - we are only and equally a part of - ingrained in --- Well that could open a whole dialogue couldn't it as to if from gods we have one God and if earth the sky, God and Mortals hold equal status under the light that reveals that which is hidden.
wow... I can see all sorts of thinking agreeing and disagreeing - I guess that is what philosophy is all about - discussing with no real conclusion questions of life, God, earth, sky, etc... and then of Language??? now that I am not seeing yet, but evidently it is a philosophy.
Well rain for the next two days - days I can read more while getting myself back to health - yes, using my old eye drops - who would have guessed what eye drops can affect...
