On Jan 17, 2009, at 2:27 PM, Bela Cos wrote:
Would you accept: "Everything is marvelous, to me."?
Hmmm. Cue Joe Cocker: "You are so beautiful to me ..."
Marvel, from Latin mirabilis, wonderful
Miracle, from L mirabilis, wonderful
cf: mystery, from mysterium, akin to mystic, from Gk, mustikos, an
initiated person
Everyone is different and has different preferences, likes, dislikes,
motivators, etc. Someone may be particularly attracted to numbers and
find marvels there, and others marvels in atronomy or geology or even
the law. And some may find marvels in wrestling. Although, to be
careful, the last two examples, the law and wrestling, are human
behaviors, whereas number and gravity and sedimentation are phenomena
of the "real" world "out there." There is more to marvel at *directly*
in those things, whereas the marvel of human behavior lies in the ways
humans organize and disport themselves in social groups.
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Michael Brady
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