DefinitionsIngenuous; Innocence/ Innocent; Nocent; NocuousTo Be Naïveté; NaïveSedulous; Sincere; Sophisticated (Antonyms);
The Oxford English Dictionary states:
“The original sense [of ingenuous] was ‘noble, generous’, giving rise to ‘honourably straightforward, frank’, hence
‘innocently frank’ (late 17th century)”, and provides:
“late 16th century: from Latin ingenuus literally ‘native, inborn’, from in-, ‘into’ + an element related to gignere, ‘beget’”
as its etymological origin. (www.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/english/ingenuous). Innocence, Innocent: • Innocence: freedom from wrong, sin or guilt; the state of being untouched by evil; • Innocent: not injurious; not arising from or involving evil intent or motive; morally pure; producing no ill effect or result; not deserving punishment etc. [Etymology: from Latin ‘innocentia’ from ‘innocent-’ (in- + nocent-) pres. ppl stem of ‘nocere’ (hurt, injure) ... meaning unhurtful, harmless]. Synonyms: not guilty, guiltless, guileless, artless, simple, naive Not surprisingly, the word innocent (as in, ‘harmless’, ‘innoxious’; ‘sinless’, ‘guiltless’; ‘artless’, ‘naive’; ‘simple’, &c.) stems from the same root as the word nocent (as in, ‘harmful’, ‘hurtful’, ‘injurious’; ‘guilty’, ‘criminal’, &c.) does ... namely: the Latin nocēns, nocent-, pres. part. of nocēre, ‘to harm’, ‘hurt’, ‘injure’, with the privative ‘in-‘ affixed as a prefix (i.e., in- + nocent). Viz.:
Nocuous (adj.): harmful; noxious; (adv.): nocuously (n.): nocuousness. [C17: from Latin nocuus,
from nocēre, ‘to hurt’]. ~ (Collins English Dictionary). RICHARD: It is always cute to see how the cultured sophisticates respond to my stressing the importance of
naiveté in becoming free of the human condition ... apparently the words <gullible> and <naïve> go hand-in-hand for them. Yet to be
naive Such people are said to have ‘lost their innocence’: human beings have not ‘lost their innocence’ ... they never had it in the first place. Innocence To believe it all to be some ‘sick joke’ (as some other people claim) is preposterous, for such an attitude cuts one off
from the perfection of this pure moment of being alive here in this fantastic actual universe. To be Naïveté Itself: To be naïveté itself (i.e., naïveté embodied as ‘me’), which is to be the closest one can to innocence whilst
remaining a ‘self’ (innocence is where ‘self’ is not), one is both likeable and liking for herewith lies tenderness, sweetness and
togetherness, closeness whereupon moment-to-moment experiencing is of traipsing through the world about in a state of wide-eyed wonder and
amazement as if a child again (guileless, artless, ingenuous, innocuous) – yet with adult sensibilities whereby the distinction betwixt being
naïve and being gullible is readily separable – simply marvelling at the sheer magnificence of this oh-so-material universe’s absoluteness
and unabashedly delighting in its boundless beneficence, its limitless largesse, with a blitheness and a gaiety such that the likelihood of the
magical fairy-tale-like nature of this paradisaical terraqueous globe becoming ever-so-sweetly apparent, as an experiential actuality, is almost
always imminent. See also: RICHARD: Maybe it is suffice to say at this stage that I do stress how essential the pure intent of naiveté is ... yet because ‘naïve’ and ‘gullible’ are so closely linked (via the trusting nature of a child in concert with the lack of knowledge inherent to childhood) in the now-adult mind most peoples initially have difficulty separating the one from another. Perhaps it may be helpful to report that, when I first re-gained naiveté (which is the closest a ‘self’ can approximate to innocence) at age 33 years, I would exclaim to whoever was prepared to listen that ‘it is like being a child again ... but with adult sensibilities’ (naïve but not gullible). I was soon to discover, however, that being child-like is not it – children are not innocent – and that innocence is totally new to anyone’s experience (it is just that a child is more prone to readily allowing the moment to live one, from time-to-time, than a cynical adult is). Thus the pure intent of naiveté provides the collateral assurance ‘I’ require to safely give ‘myself’ permission to allow this moment to live me (rather than ‘me’ trying to live in the present) and to let go the controls. Yet it is the direct experience itself which is the fundamental factor when it comes to making the curious decision to abandon both one’s present course and that of one’s peers and plunge into the adventure of a lifetime. Viz.:
This is what is important. Naive or naïve (adj.): having or showing unaffected simplicity of nature; *unsophisticated*; ingenuous; (adv.):
naively; (n.): naiveness. [1645-55; from French, feminine of naïf, Old French naif, ‘natural’, ‘instinctive’ from
Latin nātīvus, ‘native’]. [Emphasis added]. ~ (Webster’s College Dictionary).
RICHARD: There is a marked distinction betwixt spontaneity and impetuosity (aka impulsiveness) ...
acuity and/or perspicacity, in the applied form of discrimination, discernment (as in being expedient, provident, judicious,
prudent) in conjunction with pragmatism, practicality, sensibility, simplicity, and so forth, gives ready access for any
introspective/ creative process to take place. With no identity in situ/no affective faculty extant, to stuff things up, it is all
quite effortless. sedulous: from the Latin sēdulus, from sēdulō, derivative of the
phrase “sē dolō” (lit. ‘without guile’): ‘assiduously’, ‘diligently’ (Latin dīligere = ‘to esteem’,
‘to value’, ‘to choose’). Sincere/Sincerity: The word ‘sincere’ can be traced back to the Latin sincerus, meaning ‘whole’ or ‘pure’ or ‘sound’, and which is arguably derived from the roots ‘sin-’ (one) and ‘crescere’ (to grow) in that the Latin ‘sincerus’ originally referred to a plant which was of pure stock – not a mixture or hybrid – and thus came to mean anything which was genuine (as in ‘true’ or ‘correct’) and not falsified, adulterated, contaminated. Sincerity is to be in accord with the fact/being aligned with factuality/ staying true to facticity (as in being authentic/
guileless, genuine/ artless, straightforward/ ingenuous). To Be Sincerity: [Richard]: Because you are evidently
paying so much attention to that previous post of mine I would like to emphasise a couple of important aspects to it
regarding sincerity/ naiveté. The operative words in that part-sentence
are [quote] ‘... to be the key ...’ [endquote] and with particular emphasis on the word ‘be’ (rather than
‘have’ for instance). Reach down inside of yourself intuitively (aka feeling it out) and go past the rather superficial emotions/ feelings (generally in the chest area) into the deeper, more profound passions/ feelings (generally in the solar plexus area) until you come to a place (generally about four-finger widths below the navel) where you intuitively feel you elementarily have existence as a feeling being (as in ‘me’ at the core of ‘my’ being ... which is ‘being’ itself). Now, having located ‘being’ itself,
gently and tenderly sense out the area immediately below that (just above/ just before and almost touching on the
sex centre).
Sophisticated (Antonyms):
The Third Alternative (Peace On Earth In This Life Time As This Flesh And Blood Body) Here is an actual freedom from the Human Condition, surpassing Spiritual Enlightenment and any other Altered State Of Consciousness, and challenging all philosophy, psychiatry, metaphysics (including quantum physics with its mystic cosmogony), anthropology, sociology ... and any religion along with its paranormal theology. Discarding all of the beliefs that have held humankind in thralldom for aeons, the way has now been discovered that cuts through the ‘Tried and True’ and enables anyone to be, for the first time, a fully free and autonomous individual living in utter peace and tranquillity, beholden to no-one.
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