{"id":1294,"date":"2020-05-27T01:34:46","date_gmt":"2020-05-27T08:34:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vairtere.com\/spill\/?p=1294"},"modified":"2020-05-27T04:11:10","modified_gmt":"2020-05-27T11:11:10","slug":"dis-believe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vairtere.com\/spill\/2020\/05\/27\/dis-believe\/","title":{"rendered":"Dis.Believe"},"content":{"rendered":"

M\u00e9cr\u00e9ant <\/a><\/p>\n

May CrayOn.<\/p>\n

From mes- "wrongly" + creant, present participle of creire "believe," … <\/p>\n

Thus: A m\u00e9cr\u00e9ant is one of those who Believes Wrongly, believes other than the westernized judeo-Xtian position. <\/p>\n

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"Which also hath a noun sense of "’nfidel, pagan, heretic’."<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Related: Miscreance; miscreancy.<\/p>\n

"Sense of "villain, vile wretch, scoundrel" is first recorded 1590 in Spenser."<\/p>\n

Naturally the defensive cultural reflex will always be to villainize those who believe wrongly, as Spencer Solomon has shown us prettily. <\/p>\n

This will include savages, as well as the more domestic forms of heretic. <\/p>\n

Of course I dropped believing in their God sensu stricto<\/a> a very long time ago. <\/p>\n

But these other forms of disbelief, ‘wrong’ belief, are newer to me, and rather more painful. <\/p>\n

Before I slept, my brother called and I had enough left in me to pick up. <\/p>\n

There are compelling reasons drawing him west, and that made\/makes me happy. <\/p>\n

In the first three paragraphs I gave him, about the how things were going, I felt articulate. <\/p>\n

After that, I noticed something else creeping into my voice, a quaver that spoke back to me of my own uncertainties and unsteadiness. <\/p>\n

As if I didn’t have a coherent narrative to offer him about what I am or do. <\/p>\n

But was broken, in the Carrier sense, instead. <\/p>\n

This kind of subtextual information embedded in the words and sentences, offering a meaning apart from them, is one advantage, or disadvantage, that the spoken word offers over the written. <\/p>\n

In the beginning, poetry was a spoken art, and maybe this is part of why. <\/p>\n

I only spoke prose to him as far as I know, but I could be wrong. <\/p>\n

On a related note, the reason m\u00e9cr\u00e9ant is the preferred form here, over the English version, is that somehow ‘miscreant’ picks up tones of cretinism. <\/p>\n

Which is unpleasant, but more importantly distracting from the point of the poetic implement the word is intended to be. <\/p>\n

If you believe in that sort of thing. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

M\u00e9cr\u00e9ant May CrayOn. From mes- "wrongly" + creant, present participle of creire "believe," … Thus: A m\u00e9cr\u00e9ant is one of those who Believes Wrongly, believes other than the westernized judeo-Xtian position. "Which also hath a noun sense of "’nfidel, pagan, heretic’." Related: Miscreance; miscreancy. "Sense of "villain, vile wretch, scoundrel" is first recorded 1590 in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1294","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vairtere.com\/spill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1294","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vairtere.com\/spill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vairtere.com\/spill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vairtere.com\/spill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vairtere.com\/spill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1294"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.vairtere.com\/spill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1294\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1298,"href":"https:\/\/www.vairtere.com\/spill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1294\/revisions\/1298"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vairtere.com\/spill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1294"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vairtere.com\/spill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1294"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vairtere.com\/spill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1294"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}