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Mankh's avatar

Nowick, thx for the post... i think one can also ponder/decode why sometimes a brief experience outdoors with the natural world or in my experience how simply seeing ducks cruising the waters can cheer, calm, re-balance... and i think it has something to do with the natural law and being with the flow of the rhythms of nature...as for example a tree keeps being a tree and as far as i know doesn't have an identity crisis or question the purpose of living as humans are prone to. Also interesting is how Indigenous languages are often cited as languages of the Earth and of the locales of the specific Peoples.

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Nowick Gray's avatar

Interesting point you raise about earth languages. Reminds me of the caution, in English, to avoid the abstract constructions of the Latin (Roman empire) imports in our language (e.g., "abstract constructions") and to root word choices more in the pithy soil (e.g., "pithy soil") of our more indigenous Anglo-Saxon!

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Mankh's avatar

Yes, very abstract typically. You remind of humus/humble "earth". And in Lakota no word for "love" rather, according to Tiokasin, more like "you are my skin".

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Nowick Gray's avatar

Wow, love that Lakota version! <3

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Mankh's avatar

:)

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Mankh's avatar

Quite the mouthful, saw dhghem- "earth" so found at wikipedia: "Dʰéǵʰōm (Proto-Indo-European: *dʰéǵʰōm or *dʰǵʰōm; lit. 'earth'), or *Pl̥th₂éwih₂ (PIE: *pl̥th₂éwih₂, lit. the 'Broad One'), is the reconstructed name of the Earth-goddess in the Proto-Indo-European mythology."

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DrLatusDextro's avatar

The "carbon" content, or the "mNexSpike," iterations of the plainly spoken, "NetZero" ...

The consequences of an insidious and pernicious infection of the soul, when evil stalks boldly; the deranged permutations of a hijacked intellect, bereft of humanity, the fostering institutionalised destitution, delegitimisation and death.

Oh the irony posed by the "carbon" laden frozen, dimly lit Saturnine moon, Titan, with its methane rivers and seas, methane clouds and rain, suffusions of ethane too, and maybe benzene hail.

The perfect hell.

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