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# Re: Soul Mirrors and the Elements - EARTH

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- To: BardonPraxis@yahoogroups.com
- Subject: Re: Soul Mirrors and the Elements - EARTH
- From: "Martin <martincosgrove@...>" <martincosgrove@...>
- Date: Mon, 27 Jan 2003 22:32:45 -0000
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    --- In BardonPraxis@yahoogroups.com, Amberlyn <amberlyn@c...> wrote:
    > Greetings All,
    >
    > One
    > who is headstrong is stubbornly, often recklessly willful (i.e.
    Fire within
    > Earth). Stiff-necked implies stubbornness combined with arrogance
    or
    > aloofness (Air within Earth). Bullheaded suggests foolish or
    irrational
    > obstinacy (Water within Earth), and pigheaded, stupid obstinacy.
    Mulish
    > implies the obstinacy and intractability associated with a mule.
    Dogged
    > emphasizes stubborn perseverance: dogged persistence. Pertinacious
    stresses
    > a tenacity of purpose, opinion, or course of action that is
    sometimes
    > viewed as vexatious.

    This is interesting; your approach to breaking down the 'nature' of
    traits here seems to be based greatly on semantics/linguistics. This
    made me wonder how much our language influences our thoughts and as
    a result, how we view characteristics in terms of the elements.
    Surely a characteristic should have a 'pure' form which is above
    semantic classification, or else people who speak different language
    will classify traits differently because of the different linguistic
    implications of a particular word. For example, you talk about
    someone being 'headstrong' and say that this is a trait of fire
    within earth. But what about 'hotheaded'? Is that fire simply
    because of the implication of heat? The Spanish translation
    of 'hotheaded' would be 'exaltado' which has no connection with
    heat; would a Spaniard then find it as easy to classify this trait?
    The Spanish word for 'mulish' would be 'trozudo' but there is no
    connection with a mule, it simply means stubborn... so languages
    which may not have as many synonyms might also have shorter soul
    mirror lists ;-)

    Thanks for your postings about the elements, I've found them to be
    extremely interesting and thought-provoking.

    Martin

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