EVE General Discussion

I propose we set the proper official pronunciation of "Gnosis" to this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H91rPIq2mN4

I called mine Barry

Unless we are trying to speak a dead language the 'g' is silent. We can guess, don't know for sure how it would be said in Ancient Greek. 'Agnostic' is the alpha-privative form, which makes the 'g' hard.

Gnosticism was considered a heresy and more or less suppressed by the Church between the 2nd and 14th century. St. Palamas might be the last real gnostic, though aspects of the practice are conserved in the inner parts of monasteries such as Mt. Athos and in Eastern Orthodoxy in general. Their is a great deal of revisionist new age acquisition and misunderstanding about it. The Philokalia and a set of other writings by Saints, 'desert fathers' and hermits might considered the core text, mostly from between the 2nd and 14th century. There are also some fragmented acquisitions of the teaching such as Gurdjieff's 4th Way. It is an esoteric or 'inner' acquisition of Christianity. Sufism has a similar relationship to Islam. Such inner teachings tend to undermine the exoteric authority of the religion and are so actively suppressed by that external authority, leading to things like mass extermination of Sufis in Turkey and such.

Kill any Gah-nomes lately?

NOS-is

I must admit, while I am normally quite good with enunciating words and using the :correct: pronunciation I still sneak an extra 'r' into Harbinger. I just cannot stop myself from saying 'Harbringer' for some reason.

Yup. Rhymes with osmosis and halitosis and other things that end in -osis.

Gnostic has a different kind of O because of the -st-

I like to say the rohk in a Sean Connery voice.

"Gnosis!"
"Gesundheit."