Don Warrick – Ersatz Inventor, Wordsmythe of the Trifling Blog
Amuse and enjoy.
Just words, and words are signposts. They point toward concepts. This is where it all gets very sticky because each of us interprets the direction these signposts are pointing differently. At very least this is amusing behavior, at very most it is at the heart of the disquiet and dissatisfaction of a planet overrun with large brained bipeds.
So, let me see if I cant shake out the dust of the rug on the front porch of our lives by providing some clarity to the actual, deepest meaning of a couple words.
First, “Amuse”…
You might be thinking this is a word that is used when looking at the monkeys in the cage at your local zoo. “Oh, how cute they are! Look honey, how amusing! That one is hurling his own poo!” Now that’s comedy.
From French amuser (“‘to make stay, to detain, to amuse’”) < Old French à (from Latin ad) + muser. See muse, verb.
bla bla bla, and we all know about the Greek Muses etc. To this I say bullshit. All wrong. No banana. I rather like to think of being amused as a simple scale. Like the scales of justice, only in this case it is the sacred balance. My understanding of the delicate balance of our consciousness and the duality inherent in being a human being. There are two halves if you will. One half truly believes that we exist. That we are vital, unique, individual iterations. We are our own man as twer. The other half is the God half. Small G, or big G – youchoose.com
To be amused is to have your scale weighing heavily to the god (small G, or big G, youchoose.com) side of the scale. If something amuses you, it means that it has forced the scale to G side.
There. Glad I could put that to bed for us all. Now, on to “Enjoy”
This one is simpler. It could and probably should be spelled In-joy. I mean really, have you ever outjoyed the hell out of something? No. It is a word that describes an inner state. What I submit, is that if we were much more cognoscente of what we outjoyed, the world would be a better place. Rush Limbaugh would not exist. Neither would greed, corruption or conservative republican ideology.
So go forth and be A-mused. Then, take it one step further…Out-joy the hell out of your day.
The Management
File this under “Things that my buddy DonWarrick finds interesting and/or amusing. See previous post.