Re: Where does the name come from?


"Dusan Vukotic" <dusan.vukotic@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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heliogabalus wrote:

I react beacause I don't like affronts, and I consider those
addressed to a third person in a message direct to me particularly
unpleasant.

You are right here. What I did was wrong and I apologise for it.
I regret any pain I caused to anyone. ;-)

I'm happy to hear this.

Well, I've searched for 'water' in the huge etymological database

Forget it... just a simple rhyme (fetter - water).

I think you are joking :)

This matter is deeply phylosophical

In this case, things are radically different. Let me examine an excerpt
abstracted from The Metamorphoses by Ovid and related to "The Creation
of the Earth and the Great Flood":
Before there was earth or sea or heaven, there existed only chaos:
shapeless, unorganized, lifeless matter. There was no sun, no moon, and
no air. Elements existed, but they had neither form nor character. The
earth was without firmness, the water without fluidity, and the sky
without light. There was opposition in all things: hot conflicted with
cold, wet with dry, heavy with light, and hard with soft. Finally a god,
a natural higher force, resolved this conflict, separating earth from
heaven, parting the dry land from the waters, and dividing the clear air
from the clouds, thus organizing all things into a balanced union. In
the highest sphere he made a heavenly vault of weightless and untainted
ether. The next lower region he filled with air, light but not without
substance. Then came the heavy earth, which sank down under its own
weight and was encircled by the sea.
Here we see that Water has to be 'chained' by a God by means of
discrimination from other Elements to be seen by the Mind, and in this
case we can truly talk of 'fettered Water'.
But this newsgroup practises a methodology suited by all academical
sciences, based, eminently, on Kantian epistemology and on its most
recent versions, so, for fair play purposes, I think we have to adequate
ourselves to this way of going on.


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