THE IDEA FORGE

Reassessing the Etymology of Kirk / Church: A Circle-Based Proof

I submit to you, the reader, that would find examples of my etymological conclusions here and elsewhere erroneous at best to completely ignorant at worse that instead my deductions are factually sound and that the majority of what we are taught and told, and has simply been regurgitated in a demanded culture of "read, remember, don't challenge, accept and repeat" or "suffer the consequences" is a long process of not only cowardice, but also shoddy scholarship of others and academic laziness of most. For that reason I shall in this case present the idea behind my reasoning that Church itself means and reflects the concept of Circle.

Abstract:

This presentation challenges the longstanding etymology of the Germanic word kirk / kirkja / church as derived from Greek κυριακόν (kyriakón), “(house) of the Lord.” I demonstrate that its true semantic and phonological…

A Preliminary Clarification for Consideration

The following is offered for consideration to those who will encounter arguments against the existence of the One and Three that extend beyond the more primitive demand for human-centered, emotionally reciprocal, or anthropomorphic relationships with the divine.

A frequent error in such arguments is the assumption that impersonal relations toward creation imply a lack of personhood, or that a finite being such as a human is capable of meaningfully relating—through subjective experience alone—to entities that are nonphysical, nonlocal, and ontologically prior to the conditions that allow human perception, cognition, and emotion to exist in the first place.

The inability to form a personal or subjective relationship with the One and Three does not entail their nonexistence, nor does it imply that they lack personhood. It merely reflects the epistemic and experiential limitations inherent to finite observers embedded within the system they attempt to understand.

Likewise, the absence…