Tuesday, September 02, 2008

Paradualis

Its been a while since I've written much of any significance. Well, I guess you could say that about anything on here! But I think I've come up with a word that describes something I've been fascinated with for a long time. Be warned, this post does show how dorky I am and displays thinking too much about fairly dumb stuff.

Have you ever listened to Elton John's "Your Song"?

It's a song...about writing a song for someone.

Mind blowing!

A couple Sundays ago my Pastor gave a sermon about lots of the shallow self-help clothed in Christianity stuff that is out there. So in many ways, it was a sermon about types of sermons.

Ah-ha! There it is again.

My wife Sarah is a teacher. In college, she was in classes learning how to teach other kids. A class about running a class.

So here it is world. A combination of the word paradox and the latin word dualis, which means "containing two".

Paradualis: When the object or action being performed is of the very substance that said object or action is propagating. (sounds official right?)

Can you think of any others?

4 comments:

Jim said...

hmm...like Jay-Z rapping about the rap industry.

Adam said...

yes, good one!

Professor RJ Gumby said...

Like selling someone on a sales training course

Professor RJ Gumby said...

Or a player playing a game about being a player, not that I would have any earthly idea what the heck that means...clueless being clueless about having a clue.

OK I am stopping now...