{"id":43408,"date":"2025-12-29T12:25:49","date_gmt":"2025-12-29T18:25:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/?p=43408"},"modified":"2025-12-29T12:38:54","modified_gmt":"2025-12-29T18:38:54","slug":"word-of-the-day-1083","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2025\/12\/29\/word-of-the-day-1083\/","title":{"rendered":"Word Of The Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Gnosis<\/em>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><b>Gnosis<\/b>\u00a0is the common\u00a0<a title=\"Greek language\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Greek_language\">Greek<\/a>\u00a0noun for\u00a0<a title=\"Knowledge\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Knowledge\">knowledge<\/a>\u00a0(<a class=\"extiw\" title=\"wikt:\u03b3\u03bd\u1ff6\u03c3\u03b9\u03c2\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wiktionary.org\/wiki\/%CE%B3%CE%BD%E1%BF%B6%CF%83%CE%B9%CF%82\">\u03b3\u03bd\u1ff6\u03c3\u03b9\u03c2<\/a>,\u00a0<i>gn\u014dsis<\/i>, f.).\u00a0The term was used among various\u00a0<a title=\"Hellenistic religion\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Hellenistic_religion\">Hellenistic religions<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a title=\"Hellenistic philosophy\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Hellenistic_philosophy\">philosophies<\/a>\u00a0in the\u00a0<a title=\"Greco-Roman world\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Greco-Roman_world\">Greco-Roman world<\/a>.\u00a0It is best known for its implication within\u00a0<a title=\"Gnosticism\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Gnosticism\">Gnosticism<\/a>,\u00a0where it signifies a\u00a0<a title=\"Spirituality\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Spirituality\">spiritual<\/a>\u00a0<a title=\"Knowledge\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Knowledge\">knowledge<\/a>\u00a0or insight into\u00a0<a class=\"mw-redirect\" title=\"Humans\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Humans\">humanity<\/a>&#8216;s real nature as divine, leading to the deliverance of the divine spark within humanity from the constraints of earthly existence.<em> [<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Gnosis\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Wikipedia<\/strong><\/a>]<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Noted in &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/lgbcouragecoalition.substack.com\/p\/how-a-private-conversation-about\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>How a Private Conversation about Gender Got Me Fired from My Dream Job<\/em><\/a>&#8220;, anonymous, <del><strong><em>LGB<\/em><\/strong>:<\/del> <em><strong>Courage Coalition<\/strong><\/em>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>When I carefully, painstakingly pointed this out\u2014like walking on eggshells\u2014the pushback was swift and severe. Hell hath no fury like a woke woman mildly disagreed with by a \u201ccis white man.\u201d The women in the training absolutely piled on me. One Black woman from South Carolina told me that my anger was \u201cblinding\u201d me and that I needed to \u201clisten\u201d more. I\u2019m fairly certain that she meant \u201clisten\u201d to her, because, as a woman of color\u2014or better yet, a \u201cBlack femme\u201d\u2014she is in possession of a kind of wisdom, a gnosis if you will, or at least a vantage point atop the woke hierarchy that I, a \u201cwhite cis gay,\u201d will never fathom.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gnosis: Gnosis\u00a0is the common\u00a0Greek\u00a0noun for\u00a0knowledge\u00a0(\u03b3\u03bd\u1ff6\u03c3\u03b9\u03c2,\u00a0gn\u014dsis, f.).\u00a0The term was used among various\u00a0Hellenistic religions\u00a0and\u00a0philosophies\u00a0in the\u00a0Greco-Roman world.\u00a0It is best known for its implication within\u00a0Gnosticism,\u00a0where it signifies a\u00a0spiritual\u00a0knowledge\u00a0or insight into\u00a0humanity&#8216;s real nature as divine, leading to the deliverance of the divine spark within humanity from the constraints of earthly existence. 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