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Help[Opinions] Re: Concepcion
in reply to a message by ✧･ﾟ: *Magpie*:･ﾟ✧
I think it's beautiful in a way. I think names that allude to a spiritual concept using a mundane one, based on a mythology, are elevating in a way. They predict people's understanding of meaning beyond the mundane literal one, and that's sort of uplifting just in itself.
As a name for people who consider the material world as the only true reality, who (as I tend to do myself) evaluate names based on whether they sound cool - "Conception" would be a bad name, sure. If we only think of a mundane meaning, and don't engage our symbolic imagination, we'll be limited to thinking it is "bad." Conception, like egg and sperm? Seems ugly and weird, not namey.
Like ... Echo is a myth-allusion-name too - and could be "good" among people who only take a literal meaning. I think Echo is "bad," though, not because the word is "bad" but because we have the myth, and I think what it alludes to seems tragic and without redemption. Even though I'm not Catholic or even Christian, I can appreciate a universally intelligible symbolic meaningfulness of the immaculate conception. Just like I can appreciate the meaningfulness of, say, Pankaja, even though I'm not Hindu. I don't assume I appreciate any of the meanings at the depth they're intended, but I can at least recognize that they are meaningful beyond the literal.
- mirfak
As a name for people who consider the material world as the only true reality, who (as I tend to do myself) evaluate names based on whether they sound cool - "Conception" would be a bad name, sure. If we only think of a mundane meaning, and don't engage our symbolic imagination, we'll be limited to thinking it is "bad." Conception, like egg and sperm? Seems ugly and weird, not namey.
Like ... Echo is a myth-allusion-name too - and could be "good" among people who only take a literal meaning. I think Echo is "bad," though, not because the word is "bad" but because we have the myth, and I think what it alludes to seems tragic and without redemption. Even though I'm not Catholic or even Christian, I can appreciate a universally intelligible symbolic meaningfulness of the immaculate conception. Just like I can appreciate the meaningfulness of, say, Pankaja, even though I'm not Hindu. I don't assume I appreciate any of the meanings at the depth they're intended, but I can at least recognize that they are meaningful beyond the literal.
- mirfak
This message was edited 7/18/2021, 1:53 PM
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