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So fair a fancy few would weave
In these years! Yet, I feel,
If someone said on Christmas Eve,
"Come; see the oxen kneel
"In the lonely barton by yonder coomb
Our childhood used to know,"
I should go with him in the gloom,
Hoping it might be so.
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18757028
The rest of us hope you had a happy Festivus!
Amazing how much that show has entered into the modern American (and other countries?) lexicon.
Merry Christmas HN! Let us come together for the day, regardless of our intellectual stances and tribal identities. Let the Linux nerds break bread with the Mac hipsters. May the Haskell devs write bindings for JS libraries. And the VC dreamers shake the hands of the determined bootstrappers. Peace amongst nerds, for a single day. Merry Christmas.
The impeachment is over,
The results are well known.
The will of the people
has clearly been shown.
Let’s forget all our quarrels
and show all our deeds,
we'll give the President
all the help that he needs.
Let’s all get together
let bitterness pass;
I’ll hug your elephant,
and you'll kiss my ass!
(1)I'm pretty conservative really but I can laugh at myself. As a boy I first read this poem, or an approximation thereof, posted on my Democrat uncle's (physical) bulletin board only for my Republican father to stumble upon. It always has made me laugh heartily upon rereading.
So to my Uncle, my Father, all Democrats, Republicans and all Others, a Merry Christmas, Happy Hannukah, Happy New Year, Kwanzaa, or whatever holiday bless you and may a good New Year lie ahead for you all!
The rest of us hope you had a happy Festivus!
Also Happy Hanakkuh, Happy Kwanza, and whatever other celebration you might observe. I hope 2020 is a great year for all.
From the Greek Platonic tradition [1], there was a belief in an ineffable Oneness that is the origin and nature of all things. Allegorically, this was treated as a person, like Zeus, but recognized to be fundamentally transcendental and ineffable pure — the One.
The Logos was the emanation from the One; it was the son of god, so to speak, that crafted all material reality. Logos is typically translated as "word", like "in the beginning was the word", but that minimizes the concept of logos. Importantly, Jesus was understood to be the incarnation of the Logos in human form; "the word made flesh.". [2]
That was the dominant philosophical idea in Christian theology until the year 400, when Pope Theophilus of Alexandria had to deal with rioting monks who demanded an anthropomorphic God. He ended up killing the 10,000 monks who believed in an incorporeal God. [3]
So, enjoy your christmas: the celebration of the day when the logos became incarnate!
[1] https://www.jstor.org/stable/4182081#metadata_info_tab_conte...
[2] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Logos_(Christianity)
[3] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pope_Theophilus_of_Alexandri...