[SOC] Euro crisis explaned

[Michael Coslo]

On Dec 12, 2011, at 8:20 AM, Paul Fulbrook wrote:

> I am afraid I had to look it up - I am not really much wiser for it... Still 
> it passed the time while I was waiting for the dentist's injection to wear 
> off!
> 
> A jeremiad is a long literary work, usually in prose, but sometimes in 
> verse, in which the author bitterly laments the state of society and its 
> morals in a serious tone of sustained invective, and always contains a 
> prophecy of society's imminent downfall.

Sounds like 75 meters every evening.

> 
> Generally, the term jeremiad is applied to moralistic texts that denounce a 
> society for its wickedness, and prophesy its downfall. The jeremiad was a 
> favorite literary device of the Puritans especially in sermons like "Sinners 
> in the Hands of an Angry God" by Jonathan Edwards.

Wrong, someone's predictive typing bollixed up the title.  It's actually "Swimmers in the Hands of an Angry Cod."

There is a recurring Cod thing going on here.

> [2] Authors from Gildas to 
> Robert Bork have had this label hung on their works. Extending that 
> tradition in a reflective vein is the autobiographical work of freed 
> American slave Frederick Douglass, who lamented the moral corruption that 
> slavery wrought on America - from both a Jeffersonian and Christian 
> tradition. In contemporary usage, it is frequently pejorative, meant to 
> suggest that the tone of the text is excessively pessimistic and 
> overwrought.


What's the word for trying to kill something by taking it seriously? 

- 73 de Mike N3LI -