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disastrous
[dizæstrəs]
피해가 큰
비참한
누구나 행복하고 '좋은 날' 보기를 원하지만 현실은 그렇지 않다.
그런데 성경 말씀 가운데 '좋은 날'을
그렇게 어렵지 않게 만날 수 있다고 가르치고 있다
“Whoever would love life and see good days
must keep their tongue from evil
and their lips from deceitful speech.
누구든지 삶을 사랑하고 좋은 날 보기를 원하는 사람은
그들의 입술을 악에서 멀리 하고 그들 자신을 속이는 말을 하지 말라
(1 Peter / 베드로전서 3:10)
위 성경 말씀과 비슷한 표현 하나를 공유하련다
Careless talk can be DISATROUS not only for any relationship
but also for running business.
부주의한 말은 그 어떤 대인관계에서는 물론
사업 운영에도 피해가 클 수 있다.
큰 피해가 disastrous war (fire, event, harvest)
극심한 전쟁 (화재, 사건, 수확)에만 쓰는 것은 아니다.
Just as climate change could have DISASTROUS effects on our planet.
so the radiation leak has had a calamitous effect upon the environment.
기후변화가 우리의 행성 (行星)에 비참한 퍄해를 주는 것 처럼
방사선 유출도 환경에 끔찍한 영향을 끼진다
옛날 가요에 "별들에게 물어봐'라는 것이 있었는데
지구 (그 또한 별들 가운데 하나지만) 는
별들의 영향을 많이 받았다고 생각했다.
그래서 disastrous 도 '별'과 관계가 있다는 것이
언어학자들의 주장이다.
dis (잘못된 / ill) + astron (Greece 어로 별)
astrum (Tatin 어로 별) 로 이루어진 언어의 뿌리를 하고 있다
물론 현대인들은 그들의 생각과 다르지만
언어의 구성은 그렇다
비참한 일들은 천재 (天災)와 인재 (人災)가 있는데
옛 사람들의 크고 작은 어려움을 전자에 원인을 두는 반면
현대인들은 후자인 인재에 무게를 두고 있다
Carelessness in driving often results in DISASTROUS accidents.
운전에서의 부주의는 가끔 끔찍한 사고의 결과를 낳는다
성경에는 '하나님의 사람'의 말을 무시해서
큰 해양 사고가 있었음을 말하고 있다
“Men, I can see that our voyage is going to be disastrous
and bring great loss to ship and cargo, and to our own lives also.”
(하나님의 사람 바울 / Paul) 은
여러분 나는 우리의 항해가 비참하게 될 것이며
선박과 하물 (荷物) 그리고 우리의 샘명까지도 위테로움을 볼 수 있다
(Act / 사도행전 27:10)
한 나라의 그릇된 복지 정책의 결과는 비참하다
It may be good for today, but it is disastrous for tomorrow.
"ill" (see dis-) + astro "star, planet," from Latin astrum, from Greek astron "star"
DISATREOUS harvest ,war,event, sight
suffer a DISATRROUS
Switzerland was hit hard, with disastrous harvests leading to famine.
“Men, I can see that our voyage is going to be disastrous and bring great loss to ship and cargo, and to our own lives also.”
(Act 27:10)
“An improper payment is fulfilled by welfare administration
Welfare Fraud
A wrong welfare may be good for today,
but it is DISATREOUS for tomorrow.
잘못된 복지는 오늘에 좋을지 모르다
내일에는 비참하게 된다
조금 다른 분야의 disastrous ~
We ourselves are racing toward it, aren't we?
Nihilism used to be a quieter thing, that may lead to DISASTROUS silence..
우리 자신들은 앞으로 달려나가고 있지 않는가?
그러나 허무주의는 비교적 조용한 편인데
그것은 끔찍한 침묵이 될지도 모른다
(Psychology Today, May 5, 2023)
welfare administration
Careless talk can be disastrous for a business.
Climate change could have disastrous effects on Earth.
The radiation leak has had a disastrous effect on/upon the environment.
The human rights situation is disastrous
It's not as if it was a disastrous performance.
Carelessness in driving often results in disastrous accidents.
a disastrous fire swept through the museum"
disastrous accident[tragedy]
"Our motivations may be pure, but the results are just as disastrous."
England's cricketers have had another disastrous day.
Half the city was destroyed by a disastrous fire.The bad weather could have a disastrous effect on the area's tourism industry.
Eric R. Maisel Ph.D.
Rethinking Mental Health
ANXIETY
The Existentialism of End Time
Personal Perspective: Updating nihilism
as the species wanes.
Posted May 5, 2023
Reviewed by Tyler Woods
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KEY POINTS
We've always been worried about death. But what about the death of the species?
A radical existential response may be the best response to the fact that our species is waning.
The radical existential response is a new blend of doing nothing and doing everything in our power.
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It has always been our job to deal with death. Now it looks like we must also deal with the death of the species.
That is what I feel in my bones, both our personal mortality and the end of it all.
That second blow may do us each in, psychologically, if that is how you, too, are feeling.
Can people experiencing this stomach it?
Can they tolerate it?
Is this nihilism the bottom line nihilism, the mother of all nihilisms?
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It feels as if it is.
Because many of us are racing and hustling, not only do we sense that end but we feel ourselves racing toward it, propelled by all the new realities.
If the end of it all could just stay on the horizon, far enough away from us, that would be one thing.
But we ourselves are racing toward it, aren't we?
Nihilism used to be a quieter thing, that 3 a.m. disastrous silence.
Now it is noisy and fast and pressing: despair as a migraine.
disastrous (adj.)
1580s, "ill-starred, unlucky," a sense now obsolete, from French désastreux (16c.), which is from désastre (see disaster) or else from Italian desastroso. The modern meaning "calamitous, ruinous, of the nature of a disaster," is from c. 1600. Related: Disastrously; disastrousness.
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disaster (n.)
"anything that befalls of ruinous or distressing nature; any unfortunate event," especially a sudden or great misfortune, 1590s, from French désastre (1560s), from Italian disastro, literally "ill-starred," from dis-, here merely pejorative, equivalent to English mis- "ill" (see dis-) + astro "star, planet," from Latin astrum, from Greek astron "star" (from PIE root *ster- (2) "star").
The sense is astrological, of a calamity blamed on an unfavorable position of a planet, and "star" here is probably meant in the astrological sense of "destiny, fortune, fate." Compare Medieval Latin astrum sinistrum "misfortune," literally "unlucky star," and English ill-starred.
I have the sense that AI will hasten the end. That fascism will overrun us. That stupidity is winning. That massacres are coming. That, likewise, enslavement is coming. That the Doomsday clock is about to strike the hour. The conventional answers are antidepressants, the newest sushi restaurant, a funny HBO series, and more racing, as those of us feeling this way simultaneously race away from the end time and toward it. The conventional answers are not working.
That other answer, that all civilizations crash and burn, and that you and I are just part of the great cycle of being, an existential kumbaya moment, where maybe heroes and heroines and warriors and who-knows-whats come forward in the ashes of yet another inevitably-failed society and make the next thing happen, just doesn’t sound very heart-warming. Not to my ear, at least. It’s the exact equivalent of saying, well, hey, there will still be some folks left after the bomb. That vision is supposed to sustain someone with a raging existential migraine?
Of course, the question is, given that you and I were going to die anyway, does this current existential extremity actually matter? How has the job of living really changed in the face of this deeper void? Has it changed? Are our existential challenges any different now or not really different at all? As mortals, we were only passing through anyway—what’s different now?
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Well, maybe foolishly, it nevertheless feels as if this is new and different and more difficult. Maybe the feeling that we matter is just an artifact of being alive, as useful as an appendix, and it is this new blow to mattering that is making it feel so difficult? Maybe if those of us feeling this way just stopped all of our wishful thinking, that this life counts, that the species ought to be sustained, that we can possibly save our grandchildren, maybe then this new extremity would just float away like a soap bubble? Maybe the difficulty is, after all, just attachment.
And yet.
Physicists debate whether the standard model can hold up. The standard model? Are we more interested in quarks than us? Maybe. Maybe this is the same old solace to take, in pondering, in debating, in writing a brilliant article or a charming sentence, in winning a prize, in reveling in tenure. But can tenure last? Can universities last? I'm certainly feeling all of that shuddering and crumbling. Is the answer to hole up in a cave, making sure not to watch Dr. Strangelove, but a cooking show instead?
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Radical self-interest is a well-known idea. Maybe radical self-interest will still work. More of "me, me, me." I am a lone individual, after all, designed with selfish genes and insatiable appetites. Let me just be that person, unapologetically a beast, whether carnivorous or vegan, whether hungry for sex or peanuts. Let me frame everything as “What does the me, me, me want?” and “How can the me, me, me get the good stuff?”
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Or…
Maybe there is nothing to try. Or maybe there is something you and I might dub the "radical existential response," updated for the end of times, the last, biggest, wildest effort—beyond heavy lifting, beyond anything named by any kimono-clad French postmodernist. The radical existential response will mean being satisfied by a gesture, just as Sisyphus is presumably satisfied by his small smile. It will mean doing two things at once: eliminating expectations, so that not having shoes just means tougher feet, and fighting, against whom and for what reasons remaining three-quarters unknowable.
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Does this feel like a “this civilization is ending but something just fine will come along next” moment? If it does, maybe that’s a vision to hang your hat on. But even if that were true, the individual—you, me, our children, our grandchildren—are certainly still in for it. Practically speaking, all hell is going to break loose, it seems to me. Still, psychologically, we have that one resource, which is maybe that much more valuable and that much more available with crisis: the radical existential response.
What does that response sound like? “I intend to do nothing while doing as much as I can.” Let me quietly peel a potato—and then lob it like a hand grenade. Or just dice it and make some nice hash browns. Or maybe make a hash of dicing it and laugh and stand on one leg and be a living comedy. Or maybe smash a tyrant and read a banned book from cover to cover. I’m certain I don’t know what the answer is, but, while all of that is working itself out, I think that my only choice is the radical existential response, from here to eternity.