Blogs like this are
NOT scholarly essays. To this Blogger, “venting hot air,” idle speculation and opinion is all that is intended. If you want “gnostic” wisdom and factual erudition this Blog is
NOT the place to find those concepts. That, if understood, “let me vent. "Bats in the belfry " is not some old English folk saying. Apparently, one of the earliest citations for the expression comes from an American Ohio newspaper
The Newark Daily Advocate, October 1900:
"To his hundreds of friends and acquaintances in Newark, these purile [sic] and senseless attacks on Hon. John W. Cassingham are akin to the vaporings of the fellow with a large flock of bats in his belfry."
So, the Trivium, of "
grammar,
logic, and
rhetoric[1 (From Wikipedia)
is suppose to give us all who study the Trivium better critical thinking. Understanding grammar is a good thing, no doubt. However there was a person named "
Edward Sapir (
//; 1884–1939) was an
American anthropologist-
linguist, who is widely considered to be one of the most important figures in the early development of the discipline of linguistics.
[1][2]...Sapir's anthropological thought has been described as isolated within the field of anthropology in his own days. Instead of searching for the ways in which culture influences human behavior, Sapir was interested in understanding how cultural patterns themselves were shaped by the composition of individual personalities that make up a society. This made Sapir cultivate an interest in individual psychology and his view of culture was more psychological than many of his contemporaries.
[36][37] It has been suggested that there is a close relation between Sapir's literary interests and his anthropological thought. His literary theory saw individual aesthetic sensibilities and creativity to interact with learned cultural traditions to produce unique and new poetic forms, echoing the way that he also saw individuals and cultural patterns to dialectically influence each other.
[38] ..." From Wikipedia. Also, to stay with the idea of grammar, logic and rhetoric of the Trivium there was another expert by the name "
Benjamin Lee Whorf (
//; April 24, 1897 – July 26, 1941) was an American
linguist and
fire prevention engineer.
[1] Whorf is widely known as an advocate for the idea that because of linguistic differences in grammar and usage, speakers of different languages conceptualize and experience the world differently. This principle has frequently been called the "
Sapir–Whorf hypothesis", after him and his mentor
Edward Sapir, but Whorf called it the principle of
linguistic relativity, because he saw the idea as having implications similar to
Einstein's principle of
physical relativity.
[2] ...After his death from cancer in 1941 his manuscripts were curated by his linguist friends who also worked to spread the influence of Whorf's ideas on the relation between language, culture and cognition. Many of his works were published posthumously in the first decades after his death. In the 1960s Whorf's views fell out of favor and he became the subject of harsh criticisms by scholars who considered language structure to primarily reflect cognitive universals rather than cultural differences. Critics argued that Whorf's ideas were untestable and poorly formulated and that they were based on badly analyzed or misunderstood data. In the late 20th century, interest in Whorf's ideas experienced a resurgence, and a new generation of scholars began reading Whorf's works, arguing that previous critiques had only engaged superficially with Whorf's actual ideas, or had attributed him ideas he had never expressed. The field of linguistic relativity studies remains an active focus of research in
psycholinguistics and
linguistic anthropology, and continues to generate debate and controversy between proponents of relativism and proponents of universalism..." From Wikipedia. The only point to be made from the quotes are that the "metadata" and "Deep-Thoughtful-Insight" is also needed beside just the study of the Trivium and Gnostic Heresy. As silly as the following may seem, and I grant you that a person has to be truly gullible to believe the "Conspiracy Theory" that of "direct "
Panspermia (from Greek πᾶν (pan), meaning "all", and σπέρμα (sperma), meaning "seed") is the hypothesis that life exists throughout the Universe, distributed by meteoroids, asteroids, comets,[1][2] planetoids,[3] and also by spacecraft, in the form of unintended contamination by microbes.[4][5]
Panspermia is a hypothesis proposing that microscopic life forms that can survive the effects of space, such as extremophiles, become trapped in debris that is ejected into space after collisions between planets and small Solar System bodies that harbor life. Some organisms may travel dormant for an extended amount of time before colliding randomly with other planets or intermingling with protoplanetary disks. If met with ideal conditions on a new planet's surfaces, the organisms become active and the process of evolution begins. Panspermia is not meant to address how life began, just the method that may cause its distribution in the Universe.[6][7][8]..." From Wikipedia. That is genetic engineering of the human race by many different Extraterrestrial Alien Groups who allegedly all claim to have created Humanity; lastly the Gnostic Demiurge added to this "Galactic Menagerie" of Alien Spies. Just an idle thought but, could not the Gnostic Demiurge" be an Alien Extraterrestrial ? Also, as long as this "Chain-of-Thought-Holds," could not the person called by some people, Jesus be a sort of "demiurge." As a supposed "carpenter or "craftsman" as in the Greek, "Not a carpenter: Jesus 'was the son of a middle-class architect", new book claims.
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1263029/New-book-claims-Jesus-son-middle-class-architect.html#ixzz3KytBUR8U This Blogger's understanding of the Gnostic heresy is that there were many disagreements among the Gnostics about their belief system and there you have more "bats in the belfry." GOD of the Bible according to some Gnostics was NOT the "being" who created the universe, a special name was given by the Gnostics to the "being" in the Bible who said it was god, that name is "...demiurge (//) is an artisan-like figure responsible for the fashioning and maintenance of the physical universe. The term was subsequently adopted by the Gnostics. Although a fashioner, the demiurge is not necessarily the same as the creator figure in the familiar monotheistic sense, because both the demiurge itself plus the material from which the demiurge fashions the universe are considered either uncreated and eternal, or the product of some other being, depending on the system.
The word "demiurge" is an English word from a
Latinized form of the
Greek δημιουργός,
dēmiourgos, literally "public worker", and which was originally a common noun meaning "craftsman" or "artisan", but gradually it came to mean "producer" and eventually "creator". The philosophical usage and the proper noun derive from
Plato's Timaeus, written c. 360 BC, in which the demiurge is presented as the creator of the universe. This is accordingly the definition of the demiurge in the Platonic (c. 310–90 BC) and Middle Platonic (c. 90 BC – 300 AD) philosophical traditions. In the various branches of the Neoplatonic school (third century onwards), the demiurge is the fashioner of the real, perceptible world after the model of the
Ideas, but (in most Neoplatonic systems) is still not itself "
the One". In the arch-
dualist ideology of the various Gnostic systems, the material universe is evil, while the non-material world is good. Accordingly, the demiurge is
malevolent, as linked to the material world..." From Wikipedia. Jesus, or as more properly "...
Yeshua (
ישוע, with vowel pointing
יֵשׁוּעַ –
yēšūă‘ in
Hebrew)
[1] was a common alternative form of the name
יְהוֹשֻׁעַ ("Yehoshuah" –
Joshua) in later books of the
Hebrew Bible and among Jews of the
Second Temple period. The name corresponds to the Greek spelling
Iesous, from which, through the Latin
Iesus, comes the English spelling
Jesus.
[2][3] ..." From Wikipedia
YESHUA was a very common name in Israel. Not surprising that the person in the "Old Testament" called Joshua, as a sign of respect to the ancient patriarch could also name male children in any family, -Yeshua.
