![]() Incidentally, materia rudis was apparently used by Lucan's Pharsalia to mean chaos, the primeval crude mass of all the elements: Therefore, I suppose that the connotations could be approximated by 'We are luminous beings, not this crude stuff we are made from', and 'We are luminous beings, not these crude physical bodies'. Is this around the right phrasing for the meaning intended? Is there a way to force luminosa to be a substantivized adjective ("luminous beings are we") rather than the more literal reading ("we are bright")?Ĭlick to expand.The basic meaning of materia is 'stuff, matter, materials of which any thing is composed', whereas the basic meaning of corpus is 'any object composed of materials perceptible by the senses body, substance'. Since rudis was closer to the meaning of crude Yoda had in mind - unrefined, raw, rather than crudus, which meant something closer to "raw, immature, uncooked". SVMVS CORPORA RVDIA - (we are crude matter) ![]() My poorly-educated guess at this is something like: My goal is to have this phrased in such a way that it reads "we are crude matter" with words missing, then adding the right words, reads as the full "luminous beings are we, not this crude matter".Īdditionally, I would like this to be in classical Latin, not ecclesiastical Latin, meaning no "ens/entia", as those (to my memory) didn't exist in Roman times. ![]() I certainly feel like I have thoughts and ideas, unique perspectives, and my current job and my current lifestyle are not realising one tenth of them.I only briefly studied Latin for a linguistics degree a long time ago, but have not kept in practice, so here I am asking the experts for help. I’d like to be inspiring people, and communicating my thoughts and ideas honestly. I am not exploring as much as I could be. There can be no higher goal than to explore, finding solutions and perspectives that are unique, continuing the exploration.īut somehow I feel like I’m letting down this purpose. Every individual life is a unique exploration. There are endless possibilities for this organism. I hope a vision like this can lead to people judging each other less. I wish I could communicate this idea succinctly. ![]() I believe this absolves any one person of too much responsibility, but at the same time we are all responsible. We rush or stagnate through deliberate or accidental events. Some academics probably study sentient fluids…. Any one of us can be the instigator of a change of direction, but we are under no pressure to be. I find this vision inspiring but not intimidating. We are all connected, we all influence each other, we all have power to change the flow of the tide, but we also are swept along by it. We are like a neural network.Īnd I wanted to illustrate how these autonomous nodes make up an ebbing and flowing tide, with each individual or group potentially changing the direction of the tide. How everyone is connected, and human society grows like an organism, each little autonomous cell influencing each other one. Particularly sketches about systems and networks. Work out how to get my message across - feel like I was saying something genuine, something of significance. Today I very much wanted to work on my voice. ← Posts Luminous beings are we 6th January 2014
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