Talk:Epiphany (feeling)

message: This all got a bit confusing: all the talk here was about Epiphany rather than Epiphany (feeling). I've moved the discussion that was here to Talk:Epiphany. Gareth Hughes 23:12, 22 Jan 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Moves

message: While there is an ongoing discussion on whether Eureka effect should be merged with the Aha! effect (at Talk:Aha!_effect#Proposed_merger), I also think we should consider whether those two articles should not be merged with this one. --Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| talk to me 04:36, 16 October 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: What has epiphany got to do with feeling? Either the entry is about feeling or it is about epiphany. Why is feeling in brackets? Epiphany is a 'shining forth.' It is a 'breaking in' from another realm or dimension. P.S. Sutton  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Philip s sutton (talk • contribs) 19:52, 3 November 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: Don't epiphanies make you feel good? ;-)   I agree though: if there's anything worth saving in this article it could go under Joycean epiphany or Epiphany, figurative use of. I also think Epiphany ought to move to Epiphany (disambiguation) to make room for the main article, which is never a holiday where I live.Sparafucil (talk) 04:35, 24 January 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Merger with [[Eureka effect]] 

message: The above link breaks in cell my phone while chatting..... the ending bracket was not considered. This has happen with whatsapp chat.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epiphany_(feeling). I tried creating a redirect #REDIRECT to [] from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epiphany_(feeling  but it seems to be restricted  Ganesh J. Acharya (talk) 06:39, 19 December 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: There's nothing Wikipedia can do about your broken cell phone software.  You need to contact technical support for the phone manufacturer (or for whatever third-party chat application you are using), or switch to a different phone or chat application which doesn't have this bug. —Psychonaut (talk) 09:54, 19 December 2013 (UTC)
thread_title: Link Breaks

message: Would someone further break down the word 'epiphany' into Greek 'epi' (top, above) and 'phaenein' (to show); similar to the etymology for 'apophania'? Thanks.
71.139.166.86 (talk) 19:21, 1 February 2014 (UTC)
replies: text: Before the meaning of the word was corrupted irreparably in the 20th century, it meant "the outward [epi] appearance [phanein], in this world, of a divine being from another world."Lestrade (talk) 23:54, 18 February 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Etymology 

message: Is the word "irrelevant" the best choice to convey the meaning in the "Myth" section in the sentence quoted below:
:"Epiphanies can be distinguished by a (usually spiritual) vision, as epiphanies are often triggered by irrelevant incidents or objects."
:Perhaps "seemingly irrelevant" would be better, if it doesn't sound too awkward, as this is what seems to follow from the examples given above? The falling apple incident proved that the small object's motion was not completely "irrelevant" to Moon's motion, even though it seemed so to people before Newton, and the same can be told about Archimedes and his "Eureka!". 
:One might argue that the very choice of apple (or bath) in the original experiment was "irrelevant", but this leads to more questions. If it hadn't been that apple/bath, would it have been the same person who made the discovery? (See here for inspiration.  C. Trifle (talk) 13:50, 2 December 2015 (UTC)
replies: text:  As follows from the reference (now number 8) mentioned in the above sentence, there is likely a misquotation in the sentence. In "Moments of Moments", page 43, line 20 (end of the paragraph), it is written about epiphany as "distinguished from" rather than "distinguished by" vision, which has a different meaning that contradicts the reference. Even if the sentence might be right, it sounds as OR. Therefore I think the best choice is to qoute the original sentence.C. Trifle (talk) 13:31, 11 December 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Irrelevant?