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I realize your mouth is a river unto Thy personalities, but, if you are going to sporge the Lounge with etymology, why not at least see if the word has ever been used here before (it has), and at least post something about the origins of the word.

The Greeks considered the navel (omphalos) the locus of the Soul in man, hence "omphaloskepsis" means, in a broad sense, introspection with perhaps a sub-text (using today's lingo) of "meditation."

The Omphalos, or navel-stone, at Delphi was considered a spiritual as well as geographic "center" of the Cosmos [^].

In order to redeem this emetic post, I offer the following thought:

"a river unto Thy personalities" is an example, in rhetoric, of a paraprosdokian, an "unexpected" finish to the use of a figure of speech [^].
«There is a spectrum, from "clearly desirable behaviour," to "possibly dodgy behavior that still makes some sense," to "clearly undesirable behavior." We try to make the latter into warnings or, better, errors. But stuff that is in the middle category you don’t want to restrict unless there is a clear way to work around it.» Eric Lippert, May 14, 2008

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