Funny, but true SA. Creativity goes hand in hand with paranoid schizophrenia. We all need a little of it, we paraschizoids.
Ian On 3/23/08, Heather Perella <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > SA: While on the topic of Mahayana in another > thread, I was following its' historical lineage into > Zen in Wikipedia, and I came upon this quote on Dogen: > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D?gen > > > "A master stylist, D?gen is noted not only for his > prose, but also for his poetry (in Japanese waka style > and various Chinese styles). D?gen's use of language > is unconventional by any measure. According to D?gen > scholar Steven Heine: "Dogen's poetic and > philosophical works are characterized by a continual > effort to express the inexpressible by perfecting > imperfectable speech through the creative use of > wordplay, neologism, and lyricism, as well as the > recasting of traditional expressions" > > > SA continues: I looked the word "neologism" up, and > found a very funny definition for people who are > creative. If you go to the link, then creativity in a > nelogistic sense is spelled out, but then noticed > defintion #4 as follows: > > http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/neologism > > "4. Psychiatry. a new word, often consisting of > a combination of other words, that is understood only > by the speaker: occurring most often in the speech of > schizophrenics." > > SA continues: Hmmmm... I guess I'm a schizo. > > > lovely, oh so lovely, > SA > > > > > > > ____________________________________________________________________________________ > Be a better friend, newshound, and > know-it-all with Yahoo! Mobile. Try it now. > http://mobile.yahoo.com/;_ylt=Ahu06i62sR8HDtDypao8Wcj9tAcJ > Moq_Discuss mailing list > Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc. > http://lists.moqtalk.org/listinfo.cgi/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org > Archives: > http://lists.moqtalk.org/pipermail/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org/ > http://moq.org.uk/pipermail/moq_discuss_archive/ > Moq_Discuss mailing list Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc. http://lists.moqtalk.org/listinfo.cgi/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org Archives: http://lists.moqtalk.org/pipermail/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org/ http://moq.org.uk/pipermail/moq_discuss_archive/
