Nick - > > I had to look up eschatological: Courtesy of wikipedia, > > Eschatology /ˌɛskəˈtɒlədʒi/ > <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:IPA/English>(About this sound > <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:En-uk-eschatology.ogg>listen > <https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/3e/En-uk-eschatology.ogg>) > is a part of theology <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theology> > concerned with the final events of history > <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_world>, or the ultimate > destiny <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Destiny> of humanity. This > concept is commonly referred to as the "end of the world > <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/End_of_the_world_(civilization)>" or > "end times <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/End_time>".^[1] > <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eschatology#cite_note-1> > ^Not to be confused with Ichtyology nor scatology... (though that is always my first impulse). > > Wow. Glad finally, after all those years, to have that one added to > my lexicon. So, is this what I am accusing steve of when I accuse him > of a “hankering”. Is this what Glen (?) was accusing ME of when he > (?) accused me of a belief in progress. (Was Deweyism a form of > eschatology? Who would have ever thought!) So Glen. What does the > word mean to you? Does somebody who believes that history has a > vector have thereby to be an eschatologist? Does the fact that Peirce > believes that there are SOME truth and that some forms of inquiry seek > these out and sometimes find them make him an Eschatologist? (That’s > right, Nick, when you learn a new word, use it at least 6 times in the > next ten sentences. ) > Maybe you and I had the same 5th Grade Teacher.? She did me two HUGE favors which have lasted all of my life:
1) her weekly spelling assignments included a requirement for each of us to write a short-story using all of her spelling words (maybe 8-10?), with no grading on anything except proper spelling of the word (naturally) and proper usage. Grammar, sense-making, and quality of story were not graded, though we all enjoyed it greatly when she read our story out loud to the class (<20 kids). THAT honor was based on those other qualities, but not helping/hurting our grade in spelling. 2) It was the year New Math hit our backwoods school system, and it overwhelmed her. For some reason, those 5th-grade-calibrated story problems made perfect sense to me, so she often asked me to explain them to the class. I'm guessing my explanation saved her the trouble/embarassment of trying but I'm not sure that my exposition for the class did anything for any of them... they probably all just nodded and pretended to write, hoping I would hurry up and finish my lame attempts to make the inscrutable scrutable. They didn't have a <delete> nor <next> button on their mimeograph sheets... can you still smell the Banana-esque esters? You can probably blame Ms. Naranjo for my penchant for "story". - Steve
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