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Forgetfulness of Past Orthodoxies; Counterproductive Pride; Lack of Aesthetics; Pentagonal Revisionism. Pentagonal Revisionism is a plan consisting of five major ...
Nepenthe / n ɪ ˈ p ɛ n θ i / (Ancient Greek: νηπενθές, nēpenthés) is a possibly fictional medicine for sorrow – a "drug of forgetfulness" mentioned in ancient Greek literature and Greek mythology, depicted as originating in Egypt. [1] The carnivorous plant genus Nepenthes is named after the drug nepenthe.
The Eastern Orthodox Church presents a view of sin distinct from views found in Catholicism and in Protestantism, that sin is viewed primarily as a terminal spiritual sickness, rather than a state of guilt, a self-perpetuating illness which distorts the whole human being and energies, corrupts the Image of God inherent in those who bear the human nature, diminishes the divine likeness within ...
1900 Name of Russian mission diocese changed from the Aleutian Islands and Alaska to the Aleutian Islands and North America, thus expanding its territorial boundaries.; 1901 First Orthodox church in Canada, in Vostok, Alberta.
In the past the Old Believers' movement was often perceived as an obscure faith in rituals that led to the deaths of tens of thousands of ignorant people. Old Believers were accused of not being able to distinguish the important from the unimportant. To many people of that time, however, rituals expressed the very essence of their faith.
Among various "orthodoxies" in distinctive fields, the most commonly used terms include: Political orthodoxy Orthodox Marxism; Social orthodoxy; Economic orthodoxy; Scientific orthodoxy; Artistic orthodoxy; Orthodox medicine [21] The terms orthodox and orthodoxy are also used more broadly by English-speakers to refer to things other than ideas ...
Typically, more information can be remembered of recent events than older events. This is especially true with episodic memory as compared to semantic memory, as "richly detailed evocative memories from the past" contain more multidimensional information than "general conceptual knowledge divested of a specific spatiotemporal context". [2]
Also known as the Amelēs potamos (river of unmindfulness), the Lethe flowed around the cave of Hypnos and through the Underworld where all those who drank from it experienced complete forgetfulness. The river was often associated with Lethe , the personification of forgetfulness and oblivion, who was the daughter of Eris (Strife).