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It’s Easter — a day of rebirth — and it’s undoubtedly one of the most celebrated days of the year if you’re Christian. I took a minute to look up the word “Easter” in the dictionary because I’m interested in the origins of words. Dictionary.com says that the word stems from “aus” in Indo-European roots. Over at Bartleby.com we find this entry for “aus” :

ENTRY:

aus-

DEFINITION:

To shine. Derivatives include east, Easter, and aurora. 1a. east, from Old English ast, east (“the direction of the sunrise”); b. ostmark, from Old High German stan, east. Both a and b from Germanic *aust-. 2a. eastern, from Old English asterne, eastern; b. Ostrogoth, from Late Latin ostro-, eastern. Both a and b from Germanic *austra-. 3. Easter, from Old English astre, Easter, from Germanic *austrn-, dawn. 4. Possibly in Latin auster, the south wind, formally identical to the Germanic forms in 2 and 3, but the semantics are unclear: Austro-1. 5. Probably suffixed form *auss-, dawn, also Indo-European goddess of the dawn. a. aurora, from Latin aurra, dawn; b. eo-, Eos; eosin, from Greek s, dawn. (Pokorny aes- 86.)

Happy Easter

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Some paths in life are more dangerous than others. Most of us seek a safe path through life — a path we consider to be “reasonable.” But then, being the predominently subjective thinkers that we are, the term “reasonable” takes on a different meaning for each person. The same goes for many, many terms and phrases

Take, for example, today. It’s “April Fools Day.” The vast majority of people probably consider it a day for playing practical jokes. Did it ever occur to you that a gigantic joke is being played on YOU every day?

We humans, we’re a foolish lot. Some more foolish than others. There are young fools and there are old fools. Ignorant fools and wise fools. Blind fools and fools who struggle to see more clearly — more objectively.

What if the universe is in a relative state: A state that is both relatively in order and relatively in chaos, and relatively in balance yet relatively out of balance and thus seeking balance? Could it be that seeing objectively brings order out of chaos? And if that’s true then could it be that learning to see the truth is an act of creativity, as opposed to say, entropy, foolish blindness?

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