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Friday, January 14, 2005

Moritorium on mayhem

I like how the word for death and custom/habit/morals can be the same word in latin, mori.

mori - present, infinitive, active for "die, expire, fail, decay"
while:
mori - masculine, dative, singular for "custom, habit, mood, manner, fashion, character, behavior, morals"

mori also happens to be the name of the fruit from a black mulberry tree.

Maybe it wasn't apples that Adam and Eve indulged in, maybe it was black mulberries!

And in Genesis 22:14, Abraham almost sacrifices Isaac on mount Moriah.

That's funny because my whole ordeal over the word came up while trying to translate a story in Latin about two pious individuals who almost sacrificed a goose that was really the gods.

Could Isaac have been the superman that Nietzsche alluded to? Could Isaac, following Kierkegaard's train of thought about Abraham and Isaac, have been the perfect sacrifice bound down, looking up into the eyes of the patriarch: "Father, why have you forsaken me?"

Homo homini deus

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