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Nick -<br>
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<p class="MsoPlainText">I had to look up eschatological:
Courtesy of wikipedia, <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="quotation">Eschatology <span class="ipa"><span
style="font-style:normal"><a
href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:IPA/English"
title="Help:IPA/English" moz-do-not-send="true">/ˌɛskəˈtɒlədʒi/</a></span></span><span
class="rt-commentedtext"><span style="font-style:normal"> </span></span><span
class="nowrap"><span
style="font-size:9.5pt;font-style:normal">(</span></span><a
href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:En-uk-eschatology.ogg"
title=""About this sound" " moz-do-not-send="true"><span
style="font-size:9.5pt;color:blue;text-decoration:none"><img
style="width:.118in;height:.118in" id="Picture_x0020_1"
src="cid:part2.E787E7EB.96F1A828@swcp.com" alt="About
this sound" class="" width="11" height="11" border="0"></span></a><span
class="fn"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-style:normal"><a
href="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/3e/En-uk-eschatology.ogg"
title="En-uk-eschatology.ogg" moz-do-not-send="true">listen</a></span></span><span
class="nowrap"><span
style="font-size:9.5pt;font-style:normal">)</span></span>
is a part of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theology"
title="Theology" moz-do-not-send="true"><span
style="font-style:normal">theology</span></a> concerned
with the final events of <a
href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_world"
title="History of the world" moz-do-not-send="true"><span
style="font-style:normal">history</span></a>, or the
ultimate <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Destiny"
title="Destiny" moz-do-not-send="true"><span
style="font-style:normal">destiny</span></a> of humanity.
This concept is commonly referred to as the "<a
href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/End_of_the_world_(civilization)"
title="End of the world (civilization)"
moz-do-not-send="true"><span style="font-style:normal">end
of the world</span></a>" or "<a
href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/End_time" title="End
time" moz-do-not-send="true"><span style="font-style:normal">end
times</span></a>".<sup id="cite_ref-1"><a
href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eschatology#cite_note-1"
moz-do-not-send="true"><span style="font-style:normal">[1]</span></a></sup></p>
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<sup>Not to be confused with Ichtyology nor scatology... (though
that is always my first impulse).</sup><br>
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<p class="MsoPlainText">Wow. Glad finally, after all those
years, to have that one added to my lexicon. So, is this what
I am accusing steve of when I accuse him of a “hankering”. Is
this what Glen (?) was accusing ME of when he (?) accused me
of a belief in progress. (Was Deweyism a form of
eschatology? Who would have ever thought!) So Glen. What
does the word mean to you? Does somebody who believes that
history has a vector have thereby to be an eschatologist?
Does the fact that Peirce believes that there are SOME truth
and that some forms of inquiry seek these out and sometimes
find them make him an Eschatologist? (That’s right, Nick,
when you learn a new word, use it at least 6 times in the next
ten sentences. )</p>
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<p>Maybe you and I had the same 5th Grade Teacher.? She did me two
HUGE favors which have lasted all of my life: <br>
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<p>1) her weekly spelling assignments included a requirement for
each of us to write a short-story using all of her spelling words
(maybe 8-10?), with no grading on anything except proper spelling
of the word (naturally) and proper usage. Grammar, sense-making,
and quality of story were not graded, though we all enjoyed it
greatly when she read our story out loud to the class (<20
kids). THAT honor was based on those other qualities, but not
helping/hurting our grade in spelling.</p>
<p>2) It was the year New Math hit our backwoods school system, and
it overwhelmed her. For some reason, those 5th-grade-calibrated
story problems made perfect sense to me, so she often asked me to
explain them to the class. I'm guessing my explanation saved her
the trouble/embarassment of trying but I'm not sure that my
exposition for the class did anything for any of them... they
probably all just nodded and pretended to write, hoping I would
hurry up and finish my lame attempts to make the inscrutable
scrutable. They didn't have a <delete> nor <next>
button on their mimeograph sheets... can you still smell the
Banana-esque esters? <br>
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<p>You can probably blame Ms. Naranjo for my penchant for "story".</p>
<p>- Steve<br>
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