Alliance for Mystical Pragmatics

Alliance for Mystical Pragmatics

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life

We can see from the etymology of life that it originally meant the opposite of death. That is, those who were not killed in battle continued to be alive. There is little in this initial definition to indicate the relationship between life and an animating spirit, emanating from the Divine.

It is therefore not surprising that scientists, studying so-called inanimate objects in physics, can tell us little about the meaning of life.

More to come.

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Etymology

Middle English, from Old English līf, ‘animated corporeal existence; the history of an individual from birth to death; condition of being a living thing, opposite of death; spiritual existence imparted by God’, from Proto-Germanic *leiban ‘remain, be left’, properly ‘continuance, perseverance’, from PIE root *leip- ‘to stick, adhere’, also the root of leave, from Old English læfan ‘to allow to remain’.

The connection between remain and life referred to those people ‘left alive after a battle’.

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