(urth) seeking the truth

Jeff Wilson jwilson at io.com
Thu Aug 5 21:50:51 PDT 2010


On 8/5/2010 10:56 PM, Ryan Dunn wrote:
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> On Aug 5, 2010, at 11:36 PM, Jeff Wilson wrote:
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>> My guess would be that the examiner is the crown's representative, the way medical examiners / coroners determine the cause of death, and that a fulgurator who uses "lightning" for divination, is a polygraph examiner writ large.
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> Really? I wouldn't have guessed polygraph examiner from fulgurator, but I could be off target.
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> I see traces to the Latin root fulgur which means a flash of lightning. In Latin, a fulgurator can be a hurler of lightning, as in Jupiter. But it also can mean a person who interprets flashes of lightning.
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> But perhaps more appropriately I see the medicinal "fulguration" which uses diathermy to destroy areas of tissue. Diathermy uses electrical currents to heat up parts of the body (skin, etc.). This can be used to clot bleeding vessels, relieve pain, or kill dead tissue.

We already know that the torturers supply medical attention to clients, 
so that would not be a separate specialty. There is also an association 
of electrical gear with lightning in Gurloes' misremembrance of what 
makes The Revolutionary go.


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