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#156782 - 03/06/06 11:03 AM Klerisei
afepple stranger Registered: 04/09/02 Posts: 1	In wonder in which context you came across the word Klerisei. Although I am German I have never heard this term before. What I do know, however, is the word Klerus which refers to all the members of the clergy.
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#156783 - 03/06/06 12:39 PM Re: Klerisei
maverick Carpal Tunnel Registered: 09/15/00 Posts: 4757	Welcome, afepple. Personally I've never seen it before apart from in German. The closest is the word clerisy meaning literati or intellectual elite.
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#156784 - 03/06/06 03:14 PM Re: clerisy
tsuwm Carpal Tunnel Registered: 04/03/00 Posts: 10463 Loc: this too shall pass	[Introduced by Coleridge to express a notion no longer associated with the clergy]
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#156785 - 03/06/06 07:51 PM Re: clerisy
texketz stranger Registered: 03/06/06 Posts: 1	I suppose I do not find it strange that the same word which refers to the literati is closely allied with the word for clergy, given history; to me it seems there has always been a close alliance between intellectual knowledge and the sacred; I wonder if anyone here has read a book entitled,"Pythagoras' Trousers'? it's a bit of a rant but interesting in its exposition of the religious nature of knowledge. After all, in Western mythology, was that not Eve's greatest sin that she ate of the tree of knowledge?
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#156786 - 03/06/06 08:00 PM Re: clerisy
Jackie Carpal Tunnel Registered: 03/15/00 Posts: 11578 Loc: Louisville, Kentucky	[Introduced by Coleridge to express a notion no longer associated with the clergy] Is that why Anu put ...as long as you get your words' worth. ?
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#156787 - 03/06/06 08:09 PM Re: clerisy
Father Steve Carpal Tunnel Registered: 09/06/00 Posts: 2788 Loc: Seattle, Washington, USA	There is consensus among most biblical theologians that the sin of Eve of was not eating the fruit of the tree of knowledge but rather disobedience. In a little-known pair of verses which were edited out of the Book of Genesis by scribes many centuries ago, the following appears. "And the man said to the woman, the Lord God has commanded that we may freely eat of every tree of the garden but, of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, we may not eat. And the woman answered the man, 'Roolz!? We don't need no steenkin' roolz.'" These verses made it plain that the sin was not the ingestion of the fruit but the decision to disregard the rules which got Eve and her husband in so much trouble.
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#156788 - 03/06/06 08:20 PM Re: roolz
belMarduk Carpal Tunnel Registered: 09/28/00 Posts: 2888	'Roolz!? We don't need no steenkin' roolz So Eve was the first AWADer then?
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#156789 - 03/06/06 10:04 PM Re: clerisy
inselpeter Pooh-Bah Registered: 03/14/01 Posts: 2379 Loc: New York City	Quote: There is consensus among most biblical theologians that the sin of Eve of was not eating the fruit of the tree of knowledge but rather disobedience. In a little-known pair of verses which were edited out of the Book of Genesis by scribes many centuries ago, the following appears. "And the man said to the woman, the Lord God has commanded that we may freely eat of every tree of the garden but, of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, we may not eat. And the woman answered the man, 'Roolz!? We don't need no steenkin' roolz.'" These verses made it plain that the sin was not the ingestion of the fruit but the decision to disregard the rules which got Eve and her husband in so much trouble. That, Father Steve, is a can of worms. And coming from a judge, no less!
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#156790 - 03/06/06 11:33 PM Re: clerisy
Father Steve Carpal Tunnel Registered: 09/06/00 Posts: 2788 Loc: Seattle, Washington, USA	That, Father Steve, is a can of worms. Well, Martin Luther survived a Diet of Worms in 1521 so I suppose I oughta be able to handle it in 2006.
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#156791 - 03/07/06 10:34 AM Re: clerisy
belMarduk Carpal Tunnel Registered: 09/28/00 Posts: 2888	Don't worry FS, worms is good protein. They tought us that in Air-cadet survival camp. Little tip from me though...if you're in the least bit queasy, you simply slurp 'em down without chewing. It got a few of my squadron through the day.
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