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addictionary said:
Wha?! U a fellow sociologist dawg?!
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I read lots of it, and take courses in it, but I'm a Genetics major in University right now. Physical Sciences minor. Sociology is more of a hobby for me-- but if you ever want to talk about T4 bacteriophages, transposons, or any transcription signal transduction pathways, I'm down with that as well :)
 
addictionary said:
Though I do believe the quoted definition is slightly sided point of view. In practical view, one can suggest the absolute opposite of how the concept of church defined. And calling the situation of having both a group of nuns and a group of priests "diversity" sounds really really lame to my hardly hearing ears.
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That, of course, is merely Johnstone's interpretation of what he constitutes a 'church' to be. There are many other interpretations of it-- I am not trying to convince you that it is objective, or the 'best' way of defining it; I am merely pointing out the etymology behind my usage of the word (although personally, using church in this context is something that makes perfect sense to me :) )
 
dalamon said:
That, of course, is merely Johnstone's interpretation of what he constitutes a 'church' to be. There are many other interpretations of it-- I am not trying to convince you that it is objective, or the 'best' way of defining it; I am merely pointing out the etymology behind my usage of the word (although personally, using church in this context is something that makes perfect sense to me :) )
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I like people who care for the linguistics and etymological roots of the words and concepts. Not only for showing off how cool you are for knowing all that crap but kinda trying to set a point about how crazily the cultural perception and conceptual contents have been evolved through daily usage and other probable effects.

Thinking about the word church that I only judged through my personal experience and knowledge of it which doesn't include any of the above mentioned disciplines, I always thought of it as a concept that has been given birth by Western civilizations (Yeah I know if you go West enough you will reach East but you dig me). Also e.g. PC game Fallout and same type of popular productions that included pop-culture references had non-Christian "church"es that looked exactly like Christian Cathedrals with Gothic architectural designs. I have never seen a Muslim temple/worshiping building ever called a "church" before. This leads us to a question of when it is smart to care for the etymological roots of the words in order to strengthen our point of views about the meaning we use them in. If there is no practical example of it we can hold on to, should we let it rot? Or should we give it a chance in a conversation we think it would have some degree of value? Why do we have languages anyway? Is the first aim of it is to make sense about what you think? Or should we praise a sacred status of the meaning of a form of letters that had a sacred meaning in an ancient time?
 
addictionary said:
I like people who care for the linguistics and etymological roots of the words and concepts.
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I just gave Linguistic exam and it sucked. I like linguistics and etymology though.

Wordsmith.org is a pretty good website which e-mails you words and their usage,etymology, their first use daily. you can subscribe to it.
 
addictionary said:
I like people who care for the linguistics and etymological roots of the words and concepts. Not only for showing off how cool you are for knowing all that crap but kinda trying to set a point about how crazily the cultural perception and conceptual contents have been evolved through daily usage and other probable effects.

Thinking about the word church that I only judged through my personal experience and knowledge of it which doesn't include any of the above mentioned disciplines, I always thought of it as a concept that has been given birth by Western civilizations (Yeah I know if you go West enough you will reach East but you dig me). Also e.g. PC game Fallout and same type of popular productions that included pop-culture references had non-Christian "church"es that looked exactly like Christian Cathedrals with Gothic architectural designs. I have never seen a Muslim temple/worshiping building ever called a "church" before. This leads us to a question of when it is smart to care for the etymological roots of the words in order to strengthen our point of views about the meaning we use them in. If there is no practical example of it we can hold on to, should we let it rot? Or should we give it a chance in a conversation we think it would have some degree of value? Why do we have languages anyway? Is the first aim of it is to make sense about what you think? Or should we praise a sacred status of the meaning of a form of letters that had a sacred meaning in an ancient time?
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All extremely interesting points-- that are not easily answered succinctly, but topics that would be very fun to talk about.
 
Hekate said:
I just gave Linguistic exam and it sucked. I like linguistics and etymology though.

Wordsmith.org is a pretty good website which e-mails you words and their usage,etymology, their first use daily. you can subscribe to it.
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Cool man tanks.
 
I'm apostatizing from the cult, he didn't bring it tonight. Sure, he had a couple of moments, but he couldn't take the heat.
 
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