Talk:Metanoia

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metanoia

Contents 1 Needs more wiki 2 Article is Complete Catshit 3 Needs more cowbell 4 Jung

[edit] Needs more wiki

This ain't wiki Mathiastck 22:04, 18 April 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Article is Complete Catshit

- - The primary usage of metanoia is as the root of the New Testament term repent, not the obscure reference treated as the primary subject in this laughably pedantic article. Evidently the self-appointed admin doesnt care about content accuracy.

I have to admit I have never heard this used as a rhetorical term before either. I'm not exactly familiar with the religious term either, but at least I've heard it. As far as I can tell, the two different senses should be swapped. But I'm not certain enough. --Jorend 19:28, 23 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Needs more cowbell

Or, at least removal of this inane line: "Considering Jesus Christ died for all sin, how could one think they could turn from sin without first accepting Jesus Christ?" A tad too POV, most likely a troll. -SaulPerdomo 05:15, 19 August 2006 (UTC)

Cowbell'd up.  :) --Jorend 19:28, 23 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Jung

I think C.G. Jung used this term in a non-religious way, to describe the wrenching changes in perspective that occur now and then as one progresses through life [1]. Maybe that could be added to the article.

See also: wikt:metanoia

67.117.130.181 14:59, 15 December 2006 (UTC) The Jung reference is helpful as the word seems to have been commandeered by religious interests. Repentance is not synonymous with metanoia but a step on the way, an acknowledgemrnt of faulty thinking preceding a paradigm shift. Metanoia as a part of speech was taught in my grammar school of the 1950s