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weird (adj.)

c. 1400,

• "having power to control fate", from wierd (n.), from Old English wyrd "fate, chance, fortune; destiny; the Fates," literally "that which comes,"

• from Proto-Germanic wurthiz (cognates: Old Saxon wurd, Old High German wurt "fate," Old Norse urðr "fate, one of the three Norns"),

• from PIE wert- "to turn, to wind," (cognates: German werden, Old English weorðan "to become"),

• from root wer- (3) "to turn, bend" (see versus).

• For sense development from "turning" to "becoming," compare phrase turn into "become."

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Interesting possible relationship between knowledge, volition and experience. (www.reddit.com)

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While talking with /u/AesirAnatman I realized something I think is interesting, so I'm going to put it here. I often talk about mind as a threefold capacity to know, to experience and to will.

I always see all three as inseparable, such that there is no volition without knowledge and experience, no experience without volition and knowledge and so on.

Then it occurred to me that a magickal way of operation uses knowledge as input into volition, and produces experience as output.

Whereas a status quo or conventional way of operation uses experience as input into volition and produces knowledge as output.

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[–] syncretik 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

"Interesting possible relationship between knowledge, volition and experience."

Originally posted by u/mindseal on 2016-05-02 11:43:09 (4hdaxf).