#quarrel

[lgcyab]

Part Two: Where Truth and Spirit Meet

Part Two: Where Truth and Spirit Meet

[whetstonefires]

looked up the two words 'quarrel' and turns out they're completely different unconnected words, which both entered english via French, which is how they got conflated enough in pronunciation to wind up with the same everything in English.

'quarrel' as an argument is (via french 'querelle') from latin 'querella' 'a complaint, lament, or accusation.' i suspect the overtones of pugnacity owe something to the roman tradition of lawsuits.

'quarrel' as a bolt from a crossbow is (via french 'quarel') goes to the latin 'quadrellus,' 'a little square.' often used of ceramic tiles.

my guess is this is because the head of a quarrel generally exhibits three-dimensional symmetry, rather than the two-dimensional symmetry usually seen in conventional arrows.

term therefore possibly arising from army blacksmith production lines where you'd have hundreds of guys banging out low-quality iron goods according to the simplest methods available that didn't waste too much metal. in that kind of environment you're going to need to clearly and reliably distinguish when describing orders and what to fetch and so forth between the sort of arrowhead that is probably cut out of the medieval version of sheet metal, banged into an edged shape real fast, and filed sharp for a cutting edge from the sort that is cut and shaped out of bar iron, with probably several turns, and filed to a point for penetration.

so calling the newer kind 'the little square ones' is perfectly logical.

[idverbhim]

[wilbycoles]

Proverbs 18:1

Some people like to do things their own way, and they get upset when people give them advice. [Easy-to-Read Version]

The selfish man quarrels against every sound principle of conduct by demanding his own way. [Living Bible]

It's selfish and stupid to think only of yourself and to sneer at people who have sense. [Contemporary English Version]

He who willfully separates and estranges himself [from God and man] seeks his own desire and pretext to break out against all wise and sound judgment. [Amplified Bible, Classic Edition]

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desire: taavah 8378 (Hebrew) favorite, delight, longing: it reflects the full spectrum of human longing -- from holy yearning for the Lord to destructive cravings that bring judgment. Desire can become a conduit of divine favor, but self-focused or lazy desires implode, harming both the individual and the community.

separate: parad 6504 (Hebrew) divide, disperse, scatter; God separates constructively to protect and bless, whereas man's self-interested isolation tends to feed folly, from which God's redemptive aim is to gather a holy people to Himself.

wise judgment: tushiyyah 8454 (Hebrew) wisdom, sound knowledge, resourcefulness; has the ideas of competent wisdom, practical counsel, enduring success and strategic help, always assuming the only sure source of such soundness is the Lord Himself; any human share in it is derivative and covenantal. Those who respectfully submit to His name receive it, and those who resist Him forfeit it.

quarrel: gala 1566 (Hebrew) uncover, reveal, disclose; an abrupt bursting forth, loss of restraint that releases contention into the open, the moment quarrelsome impulses willfully but foolishly cross the threshold and erupt into visible, loud, and damaging conflict, often with another person but always in rebellion against God's statutes.

[wisdomfish]

What is the source of quarrels and conflicts among you? Is the source not your pleasures that wage war in your body’s parts? You lust and do not have, so you commit murder. And you are envious and cannot obtain, so you fight and quarrel. You do not have because you do not ask. You ask and do not receive, because you ask with the wrong motives, so that you may spend what you request on your pleasures. You adulteresses, do you not know that friendship with the world is hostility toward God? Therefore whoever wants to be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of God. [James 4:1-4]

[gijoe-forever]

“…he’s down… his throat has been torn out by some animal!”

[diaryofadissembler]

396: Life's too short to waste it over small stuff.

Image description: a three panel comic with polaroid frames. the panel shows two ducks in a pond swimming slowly into the background of the picture. the text on the panel reads: “In another universe we'd still argue about the same shit for days.” Text underneath reads: “J. krupitza / inspired by asofterworld.com” end Image description

[wisdomfish]

James 4:1-4

What causes quarrels and what causes fights among you? Is it not this, that your passions are at war within you? You desire and do not have, so you murder. You covet and cannot obtain, so you fight and quarrel. You do not have, because you do not ask. You ask and do not receive, because you ask wrongly, to spend it on your passions. You adulterous people! Do you not know that friendship with the world is enmity with God? Therefore whoever wishes to be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of God.