Monday Poetry Prompt: Judgement

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1. 

   The leader denied the readers their prompt
   Did he forget or with work was he swamped?
   What punishment shall fit?
   To be fair but also legit?
   One week without the grapes that are stomped!

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   Posted by JeanMarie | December 17, 2018, 3:43 PM
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     Excellent though the punishment would be counterproductive.

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     Posted by Bartholomew Barker | December 17, 2018, 5:31 PM
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2. 

   No 🍷 for you!😈😁

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   Posted by JeanMarie | December 17, 2018, 5:49 PM
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   In ancient Greek ‘kritik’ stood for both 

   subjective criticism and objective judgement.

   ‘Krisis’ was a legal term denoting civic order.

   In Latin it came to mean the moment before judgement.

   Crisis.

   Crisis and judgement are connected.

   For Aristotle, crisis is perpetual in political society. 

   For Christianity, worldly crisis deferred 

   means perpetual crisis of conscience. 

   Medical ‘crisis’ once included symptoms and diagnosis, 

   divided between perfect and imperfect (possibility of relapse), acute and chronic. Crisis. Critical. Judgement.

   17th century, a fresh application of the medical terminology

    to the ‘body politic’

   Edmund Burke’s ‘crisis’ closer to medical, 

   Thomas Paine’s closer to theological. 

   Similarly, while you see the shift to theological meaning 

   from 1627-1714 in the form of Rudyerd, Baillie and Steele, 

   or Parliamentarian, Covenentor and Whig, 

   the theological tone in Rousseau is countered 

   by what seems to be a silence 

   where you might expect to find a predecessor 

   to Burke – Hobbes.

   What was Hobbes’ judgement?

   Crisis. Critical. Chronic. Acute.

   Body. Polis. Theos. Judgement.

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   Posted by Jeremy Ray Jewell | December 17, 2018, 9:41 PM
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