(02-28-2018, 01:47 PM)Raz Wrote: This post is just for fun. Or maybe it isn't.

I am always dissecting words to get a deeper understanding of what they actually convey. That sometimes leads my thinking astray from the way seemingly everyone around me is using language or special terms in that language. It's like with 'executing' a sub. I totally get the meaning, but at the same time I am thinking 'execute subs not people'.

Or take 'revolution' coming from revolvere ... makes me think of a dog chasing it's tail. I simply cannot take that word seriously anymore. Scratch the R and make it evolution instead.

Why I am writing about this is another word: it's 'Leidenschaft', which is German for passion. Kind of one core element in regard to DMSI (passionate sex, passionate lover, passionate whatever, passion, you get it). The word Leidenschaft is built from two words: 'leiden' (to suffer [verb] or trouble, distress, suffering, malady, pain [noun]) and 'schaft' (from 'schaffen', which means to create or to make). So quite literally passion/Leidenschaft is something that creates suffering ... and being a German that same German language has influenced my thinking process quite deeply I suppose, since we see the world and it's concepts through language itself. And yes, personally I find some wise truth encoded into the word Leidenschaft.

Maybe I am just splitting hairs. I am not sure.