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To: grey_whiskers
Which is why great music and poetry is called "inspired" ("God-breathed")...

Inspired comes from Latin spiritus, a translation of Greek pneuma, which means breath, or wind, which is a synonym for mover. Inspired simply means moved. It doesn't mean God-breathed. That's why Paul had to specifically say that all writings were God-breathed, not just breathed (inspired).

Nice try, though... Nice try, though...

Or even Pascal's "Le coeur a ses raisons, que la raison ne connaît point."

The heart pumps blood. It has no emotions; it doesn't think, feel, or imagine, as the ancients believed. Because our heartbeat increases in frequency and intensity when we get excited, the ancients associated it with emotions.

1,742 posted on 07/23/2010 11:35:43 AM PDT by kosta50 (The world is the way it is even if YOU don't understand it)
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To: kosta50
Inspired comes from Latin spiritus, a translation of Greek pneuma, which means breath, or wind, which is a synonym for mover. Inspired simply means moved. It doesn't mean God-breathed. That's why Paul had to specifically say that all writings were God-breathed, not just breathed (inspired).

If poetry or music is said to be inspired, then that opens up the possibility that it is not "merely" human in origin.

Or even Pascal's "Le coeur a ses raisons, que la raison ne connaît point."

The heart pumps blood. It has no emotions; it doesn't think, feel, or imagine, as the ancients believed. Because our heartbeat increases in frequency and intensity when we get excited, the ancients associated it with emotions.

Pedantry is a great way to skirt uncomfortable issues.

Pascal's quote simply illustrates the contrast between savoir and connaître.

You (apparently) hold the the view that savoir is both necessary and sufficient to encompass all of existence; but merely asserting it over and over again, while denying the existence (such as inspiration, beauty, and the like) as anything other than physical phenomena, is begging the question -- especially as you cannot account for such things in detail down to a molecular level.

Hari Seldon would probably want to kick your ass. :-)

Cheers! Cheers!

1,749 posted on 07/23/2010 12:13:12 PM PDT by grey_whiskers (The opinions are solely those of the author and are subject to change without notice.)
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