Sunday, April 8, 2012

Re-creativity and Recreation

'Recreation' has two common senses. One, when it is pronounced 'rec-reation', it connotes 'relaxing pastime', while, when parsed as 're-creation', it means 'copy of a product'. Thus, both can be distinguished from a third etymologically sound possibility, 'new process of creativity', for which 're-creativity' can be used. 'Re-creative' could, for example, characterize religiosity based on the events of Genesis 1, i. e. a religiosity in which reverence for the deity is expressed by creative acts. Now, the idiosyncrasy of the term 're-creativity' corresponds to the general lack of recognition of such piety in Biblical religions, even among those who read Genesis 1 'literally'. Conversely, the very possibility of such religiosity exposes the arbitrariness of the more prevalent alternative, i. e. of that alternative defined by the perdition-redemption theme that is addressed to the deity of Genesis 2-3.

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