Ii: Illimitable

Definition

Non Ending, No limit to.

Cocktail Party Banter

I hope for illimitable riches... that way I can travel the world without a care.

Litarary Context

It seems as only yesterday--it is in fact fourteen long, long years--that I heard him thus holding forth to his pupils, explaining the marvels of the illimitable void, and rendering clear to my understanding the vast distance that exists between the Being that created all things and the works of his hands.

Autobiography of a Pocket-Handkerchief by Cooper, James Fenimore 

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Found the word in a Keroac Haiku: Stop slipping me/ Your old Diamond Sutra/You illimitable tight-ass! I I thought it funny but was not sure what illimitable meant... I guess I could have broken the word down into its components but I think I read the poem too quickly.   So I looked it up and it meant unlimited.

v. con·verged, con·verg·ing, con·verg·es

v.intr.

1.

a. To tend toward or approach an intersecting point: lines that converge.

b. To come together from different directions; meet: The avenues converge at a central square.

2. To tend toward or achieve union or a common conclusion or result: In time, our views and our efforts converged.

3. Mathematics To approach a limit.

v.tr.

To cause to converge.

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[Late Latin convergere, to incline together : Latin com-, com- + Latin vergere, to incline; see wer-² in Indo-European roots.]

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They all converge upon the Nore, the warm speck of red upon the tones of drab and gray, with the distant shores running together towards the west, low and flat, like the sides of an enormous canal.The Mirror of the Sea by Conrad, Joseph

Ee: Ecumenical

ec·u·men·i·cal (ky-mn-kl) also ec·u·men·ic (-mnk)
adj.
1. Of worldwide scope or applicability; universal.
2.
a. Of or relating to the worldwide Christian church.
b. Concerned with establishing or promoting unity among churches or religions.
[From Late Latin oecmenicus, from Greek oikoumenikos, from (h) oikoumen (g), (the) inhabited (world), feminine present passive participle of oikein, to inhabit, from oikos, house; see weik-1 in Indo-European roots.]
ecu·meni·cal n.
ecu·meni·cal·ism n.
ecu·meni·cal·ly adv.

The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition copyright ©2000 by Houghton Mifflin Company. Updated in 2009. Published by Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.Such pluralism allows pagans to take ecumenicalism even further than Rabbi Schachter-Shalomi does.

During an audience with members of the Christian World Communions, Pope Benedict stressed that despite difficulties, "the ecumenical dialogue which seeks full Christian unity must continue .
On ecumenical work by Catholic Insight

Warning this video may be offensive to Liberals who love Obama. I do not hate the man. I also do not see him as a Nazi.

But it is important to know what the conservative voice fears when they see Obama. Some of it is valid fear, and some of it is not valid fear. But we need to open up dialogue to create a country where both the liberal and the conservative can iron out differences.

Bb: Biomimicry

n
Biomimcry according to Fast Company Magazine: is a discipline that tries to solve problems by imitating the ingenious and sustainable answers provided by nature.

Mm: Metaphysics

n.

1. (used with a sing. verb) Philosophy The branch of philosophy that examines the nature of reality, including the relationship between mind and matter, substance and attribute, fact and value.

2. (used with a pl. verb) The theoretical or first principles of a particular discipline: the metaphysics of law.

3. (used with a sing. verb) A priori speculation upon questions that are unanswerable to scientific observation, analysis, or experiment.

4. (used with a sing. verb) Excessively subtle or recondite reasoning.
5. Things that do not change over time. (Added by Gregory Rothbard)

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[From pl. of Middle English methaphisik, from Medieval Latin metaphysica, from Medieval Greek (ta) metaphusika, from Greek (Ta) meta (ta) phusika, (the works) after the Physics, the title of Aristotle's treatise on first principles (so called because it followed his work on physics) : meta, after; see meta- + phusika, physics; see physics.]

In Context:
Granted this horrible picture you have drawn, yet you must confess that metaphysics was inherently potent in so far as it drew humanity out of this dark period and on into the illumination of the succeeding centuries.The Iron Heel by London, Jack



Links
Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy

Gg: Golden Mean-Golden Ratio

Golden Mean: In philosophy, especially that of Aristotle, the golden mean is the desirable middle between two extremes, one of excess and the other of deficiency. For example courage, a virtue, if taken to excess would manifest as recklessness and if deficient as cowardice.

In Context:
...the planets correlate with each other via simple mathematical relationships, but they also do so with an uncanny and profound association with various forms of The Golden Mean.

The Golden Mean or Golden Ratio is one of the most intriguing number in mathematics. It is commonly denoted by the Greek letter, phi, and is given in either to two forms by the equalities: F º 1.618033989... and f º 0.618033989... (where “...” means a continuation of the numbers -- See Transcendental Numbers). The Golden Mean was known to the ancients (and moderns), who considered these numbers so sacred that monuments from the Giza Pyramids and Greek Parthenon to Notre Dame Cathedral and the United Nations Building in New York City have been based on these fundamentals of Sacred Geometry.

Ff: Future Shock

Future Shock is a book written by the sociologist and futurologist Alvin Toffler in 1970. It grew out of an article "The Future as a Way of Life" in Horizon magazine, Summer 1965 issue.^[1][2][3][4] The book has sold over 6 million copies and has been widely translated.
Toffler's shortest definition of future shock is a personal perception of "too much change in too short a period of time".