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> Damascean I don't think this is a word. What are you trying to say?

euroclydon 14y ago
That would refer to the Apostle Paul's conversion on the road to Damascus. Paul was a murderer of followers of Jesus, but then became a follower himself. So, I assume the commentator believed in altruism through commitments to poverty by the altruistic, big government spending, or something, but now believes in a more competitive free-market form of it.
- baddox 14y ago
  The standard demonym for Damascus is "Damascene."
  - euroclydon 14y ago
    Thank you.
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arjn 14y ago
I think its a reference to Paul's (the apostle) conversion on the road to Damascus. Details on wikipedia.
- robotresearcher 14y ago
  And also in a popular book.
  - saraid216 14y ago
    Titled, oddly enough, "The Book".
fatbird 14y ago
He was saying there's no longer any need for a good liberal arts education :)
- saraid216 14y ago
  Human beings are so 20th-century. For the 21st-century, you are a job fulfiller.
- codewright 14y ago
  I studied theology and scripture under a pastor and a rabbi for two years and they never described Paul's conversion as "Damascean". The contextualization is poor as well. Obscurity and speaking out of your head for your own benefit rather than to be understood is postmodern frippery not the mark of a solid education.
  - buddhaofdoubt 14y ago
    This post epitomizes the threads running through arguments for and against a liberal arts education in the year 2012. On the one hand... http://www.radiolab.org/2010/aug/09/ http://www.radiolab.org/2010/aug/09/ which will far better argue and illustrate myriad points on the invention of language, its beauty and wonder and value to differentiate us as a species and to bring us joy and fulfillment and illustrate the challenges and quirks that make its study such a joy and illustrate language's evolution as a thing of wonder. Then again, you see something like the Rossetti archive http://www.rossettiarchive.org/ http://www.rossettiarchive.org/ and you are awe struck at the meticulous rigor and academic sensitivity it takes to understand permanence and context and format and physicality as intrinsic to the right of artistic expression. Would these works have as much meaning if we OCR'd them, slapped them in times new roman, and beamed them to your twitching sweaty little palm sized cubes? Probably not. It took a lot of time, a lot of arguing, a lot of hard questions and personal growth before I felt qualified to make statements like, "I don't think its a good idea to build a game engine that uses a Barthes-esque narrative decomposition to dynamically construct compelling storylines for video games." I don't think a religious education qualifies you as arbiter of language. I think his word is fun and quirky. Interesting. Highly relevant and timely.

That would refer to the Apostle Paul's conversion on the road to Damascus. Paul was a murderer of followers of Jesus, but then became a follower himself. So, I assume the commentator believed in altruism through commitments to poverty by the altruistic, big government spending, or something, but now believes in a more competitive free-market form of it.

baddox 14y ago
The standard demonym for Damascus is "Damascene."
- euroclydon 14y ago
  Thank you.
- deleted 14y ago
  [deleted]

arjn 14y ago

I think its a reference to Paul's (the apostle) conversion on the road to Damascus. Details on wikipedia.

robotresearcher 14y ago
And also in a popular book.
- saraid216 14y ago
  Titled, oddly enough, "The Book".

fatbird 14y ago

He was saying there's no longer any need for a good liberal arts education :)

saraid216 14y ago
Human beings are so 20th-century. For the 21st-century, you are a job fulfiller.
codewright 14y ago
I studied theology and scripture under a pastor and a rabbi for two years and they never described Paul's conversion as "Damascean". The contextualization is poor as well. Obscurity and speaking out of your head for your own benefit rather than to be understood is postmodern frippery not the mark of a solid education.
- buddhaofdoubt 14y ago
  This post epitomizes the threads running through arguments for and against a liberal arts education in the year 2012. On the one hand... http://www.radiolab.org/2010/aug/09/ http://www.radiolab.org/2010/aug/09/ which will far better argue and illustrate myriad points on the invention of language, its beauty and wonder and value to differentiate us as a species and to bring us joy and fulfillment and illustrate the challenges and quirks that make its study such a joy and illustrate language's evolution as a thing of wonder. Then again, you see something like the Rossetti archive http://www.rossettiarchive.org/ http://www.rossettiarchive.org/ and you are awe struck at the meticulous rigor and academic sensitivity it takes to understand permanence and context and format and physicality as intrinsic to the right of artistic expression. Would these works have as much meaning if we OCR'd them, slapped them in times new roman, and beamed them to your twitching sweaty little palm sized cubes? Probably not. It took a lot of time, a lot of arguing, a lot of hard questions and personal growth before I felt qualified to make statements like, "I don't think its a good idea to build a game engine that uses a Barthes-esque narrative decomposition to dynamically construct compelling storylines for video games." I don't think a religious education qualifies you as arbiter of language. I think his word is fun and quirky. Interesting. Highly relevant and timely.