We use words without remembering their power or their inferences. Language is a blanket and a single word is the point of contact between one warp and one weft thread: pick it up and the whole structure of language shifts with it. Words have lives, words are born of other words and grow fatter with the signification of their predecessors.
Why is it that there are a few people which conjure in me a sense that they are not 'human'? Their behaviour doesn't feel human. Human is from humus which means earth... meaning that we are earthly beings, opposed to Gods. The particular individuals I am thinking of act with the sort of influence and power that some people describe as Godly. They use the world around them like an offering, they want hymns of praise.
God has a few possible origins. Greek khein 'to pour', Old English ghut 'that which is invoked', Sanskrit huta 'invoked' (from the root gheu 'to invoke') and Proto-Indo-European gheu 'to pour, pour a libation'.
Invoked is related to vocare 'to call' or vox 'voice'.
So a God is something who you want to call, someone you would pour a drink for. Someone to beseech, to talk with, someone we entreat. I'm guessing then that God is pretty talkative, and the kind of dude who might know quite a bit about stuff - otherwise we wouldn't go offering him drinks and ringing him up so frequently.
These people who act like Gods do not have advice, they aren't the sort of people I would call on if I had a problem. They act with a sort of hollow power. False prophets. Power is the energy created by having knowledge. Being attractive is the effect of giving knowledge. These people don't have knowledge... they can't give knowledge.
So really they are powerless and ugly. They don't want people to know so they construct big peacock tails, don crowns and eat double cream without reserve... one thing they do know is the persuasive command of appearances.
Why is it that there are a few people which conjure in me a sense that they are not 'human'? Their behaviour doesn't feel human. Human is from humus which means earth... meaning that we are earthly beings, opposed to Gods. The particular individuals I am thinking of act with the sort of influence and power that some people describe as Godly. They use the world around them like an offering, they want hymns of praise.
God has a few possible origins. Greek khein 'to pour', Old English ghut 'that which is invoked', Sanskrit huta 'invoked' (from the root gheu 'to invoke') and Proto-Indo-European gheu 'to pour, pour a libation'.
Invoked is related to vocare 'to call' or vox 'voice'.
So a God is something who you want to call, someone you would pour a drink for. Someone to beseech, to talk with, someone we entreat. I'm guessing then that God is pretty talkative, and the kind of dude who might know quite a bit about stuff - otherwise we wouldn't go offering him drinks and ringing him up so frequently.
These people who act like Gods do not have advice, they aren't the sort of people I would call on if I had a problem. They act with a sort of hollow power. False prophets. Power is the energy created by having knowledge. Being attractive is the effect of giving knowledge. These people don't have knowledge... they can't give knowledge.
So really they are powerless and ugly. They don't want people to know so they construct big peacock tails, don crowns and eat double cream without reserve... one thing they do know is the persuasive command of appearances.
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