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mermaidman
on 2009-10-10 04:25 [#02335192]
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this guy is great, whoever he is meta program
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mohamed
from the turtle business on 2009-10-10 07:09 [#02335200]
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a digital Matrioska i would say, (nickname for Matrena, from the latin Mater, Mother)
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mohamed
from the turtle business on 2009-10-10 07:11 [#02335201]
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'Matrix' for the brits
'Pyramid' for the ancients
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mohamed
from the turtle business on 2009-10-10 07:12 [#02335202]
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i din't listen to the music sorry, i'm up for a language trip today.
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mohamed
from the turtle business on 2009-10-10 08:50 [#02335219]
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how about mother + nature
The word nature comes from the Latin word, natura, meaning birth or character (see nature (innate)). In English its first recorded use, in the sense of the entirety of the phenomena of the world, was very late in history in 1662; however natura, and the personification of Mother Nature, was widely popular in the Middle Ages and can be traced to Ancient Greece in origin; though Earth or Eorthe in the Old English period may have been personified as a goddess. Likewise the Norse also had a goddess called Jord Earth. The pre-Socratic philosophers of Greece had invented nature when they abstracted the entirety of phenomena of the world into a single name and spoken of as a single object: physis. Later Greek thinkers such as Aristotle were not as entirely inclusive, excluding the stars and moon, the "supernatural", from nature. Thus from this Aristotelian view -- nature existing inside a larger framework and not inclusive of everything -- nature became a personified deity, and it is from this we have the origins of a mythological goddess nature. Later medieval Christian thinkers did not see nature as inclusive of everything, but thought that she was created by God, her place lay on earth, below the heavens and moon. Nature lay somewhere in the middle, with agents above her (angels) and below her (demons and hell). For the medieval mind she was only a personification, not a goddess. The modern concept of nature, all inclusive of all phenomenon, has returned to its original pre-Socratic roots, no longer a personification or deity except in a rhetorical sense, a bow to her illustrious traditions
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mermaidman
on 2009-10-10 09:06 [#02335223]
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i didn't read man, sorry.
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mohamed
from the turtle business on 2009-10-10 09:12 [#02335225]
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sorry i make you lush
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mermaidman
on 2009-10-10 09:14 [#02335227]
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sorry i make you blush
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atwood
from The Library (United Kingdom) on 2009-10-10 09:18 [#02335229]
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LAZY_TITLE useful resource.
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mohamed
from the turtle business on 2009-10-10 09:25 [#02335230]
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woah that just made me shush. thanks :)
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atwood
from The Library (United Kingdom) on 2009-10-10 09:29 [#02335232]
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More than welcome x
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mohamed
from the turtle business on 2009-10-10 09:46 [#02335234]
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gotta add mine there LAZY_TITLE
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atwood
from The Library (United Kingdom) on 2009-10-10 10:00 [#02335236]
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Wow. I pronounce it OR-tek-er.
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