Comments on: The Linguistic Implications Of The Magic Circle

By: Exorcism On The Rise. Good Or Bad?

Exorcism On The Rise. Good Or Bad? — Sun, 16 Jan 2011 14:29:09 +0000

[...] These days it is quite rare for me to actually use a magic circle unless I am in the mood for it. As Jason regularly points out, it’s a minority, Western-European practice that really only took off in the late Renaissance among the ceremonial bourgeoisie. It’s practical application is comparatively rare on a global level. [...]

By: Hieronimo

Hieronimo — Wed, 28 Jul 2010 12:53:35 +0000

If you have any interest in further reading on this topic I can’t recommend “Metaphors We Live By” by George Lakoff and Mark Johnson highly enough. Linguistic but unjargony. Lakoff has applied his ideas–metaphor as the foundation of language and the foundation of metaphors being our “embodied minds” and the movement, shape, etc., of those embodies minds–to the fields of philosophy, politics, mathematics, more. His followup to “Metaphors” is a little technical but you gotta love the title: “Women, Fire and Other Dangerous Things” (from the second gender in the Dyirbal language, where such things are categorized together).

By: Robert

Robert — Wed, 28 Jul 2010 03:46:23 +0000

I love the blogs. I have been doing this over the past week at work. I have stopped saying negative things. Oddly, the people that got mad at me for saying them took up the slack and said what I would have said but didn’t. It has been interesting to watch.

I like the implications of the past being in front. It is sort of how we all live isn’t it? We are a product of our past so it recreates before us.

Interesting post. I enjoy how you come up with stuff from a tangent that would have never occurred to the rest of the bloggers.
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By: V.V.F.

V.V.F. — Wed, 28 Jul 2010 02:55:55 +0000

I can’t help but be reminded of the little song in the first minute of this. (Just watched that today before reading this post. Hmm!)

Anyway, it seems that in many cultural contexts, the circle is a convenient way of placing yourself in the “center” of things, in terms of time and space. (“A circle has happened.”) Which appears to be the place to be if you want something unusual to accumulate or occur. (“At the Caro Pro concert, a circle happened.”)
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