Cringe at "Crimbo"

[UnquietDad]

Please sign in here if you do. I think people who use it should be shot.

lol at Crimbo deccies. Is this some strange, yet-to-be-documented, unspoilt Home Counties dialect?

I sat in a theatre once, aged about 15, surrounded by Derek Hatton and some terrifyingly slimy sycophants. It was very disconcerting.

Squiffy?

No.

Threadworm - Don't you say squiffy, dear Thready? Please tell me you say squffy just a bit, darling?

Or think Dennis Thatcher after too many tinctures.

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It seems strangely anti-Judeo-Christian to make a fetish of the written word, notwithstanding 'In the beginning was the Word.'"

I've always thought that, Threadie. It always feels as though some French critical theorist from the Seventies has gone back and revised it.

I dunno. I'm going to put some shoes on Ebay.

Do you photograph them on your feet, Onebat?

No.

They are dd's outgrown and ludicrously expensive shoes. I need to claw some of that investment back..

Are they Pom D'Api shoes?

" I know that logos is, like, totally more complex than that" (Pen)

I want to know now. Tell me about logos, anyone who knows. Really.

(Will be an intermittent poster though as am watching Chinatown. Have never seen it before. Is v. good. Love Polanski in his cameo. )

Well, sod all of you

Hmmm - except the written word (as the word of God)_is central to Judaism (10 commandments, the Torah, etc.). And, as I said, logos is more complicated than that...

See here.

Would type more myself, but am lying in dark next to sleeping baby...

"from the root of the Greek verb lego"

So much in life comes down to Lego, doesn't it?

That's very interesting Penthesileia, thank you.

Thank you very much. Will read link. Seems v interesting.

so just to be clear, could be Word, could be Order/Way? Could and is both simultaneously?

Yes, Swedes, I'm afraid they are.

Indeed.

Connected discourse is to Heraclitus as Mumsnet is to Threadworm.

lol at the Lego Trinity, esp the Hoooooly Ghost, and Swedes Playmobil academic haircuts.

Is it 'leisure pursuit', Swedes? the Heraclitus/Threadie thing?

Central concept?

Sorry onebat - was qu. above @ me? Order in sense of reason, yes, but not way exactly.

you mean leisure pursuit is wrong?
I thought either that, or 'time-sucking hypnotic'. Damn.

Sorry Penth, yes it was.

But is it reason because reason and the word are interchangeable? or rather that the one begets the other?

Or is it that The Word is the embodiment of, the final expression of, Reason, which pre-existed?

Or is this an Appolonian/Dionysian thing?

I should read the link, shouldn't I? But I have shoes to Ebay.

Go down to logos in the New Testament bit - explains it quite well. Better than I would!

Have you been reading Nietzsche...

I thought logos meant law.