I have two chimps within, Laziness and Hyperactivity. They smoke cigs, drink yerba, fling shit at each other, and devour the face of anyone who gets close to either.
They also devour my dreams.
They can. Catholicism has no “hard” restriction against drinking moderate amounts of alcohol, only against the excess. This is often justified through John 2:1-11, where Jesus transforms water into wine to animate a party. In fact some convents even brew their own wine or beer.
inb4 I’m not Catholic but raised in a Catholic household.
…it’s kind of weird I’m talking about this given my nickname, but oh well.
TL;DR: “beyond”.
NTL;R (not too long, reading):
First you have an Ancient Greek word, ⟨μετά⟩ metá “between, along with, besides, following, afterwards”. It’s a messy word, given it works as a preposition and adverb and even prefix, and depending on the case of the following word you can tweak the meaning further.
Then you have Aristotle writing two collections of works, that were eventually called:
Whoever called the second book this way (not Aristotle himself, I think?) meant the book was supposed to be read after the first one, because it’s considerably more abstract than the first one. And it leans more into what we call today Philosophy, while the first one would be more of what we’d call Science.
Time goes by. People started interpreting “Metaphysics” as if it meant “Beyond Physics”, or “The Nature beyond Nature”, due to its content. And then they picked that prefix, and plopped it in other words to imply recursion, like:
“The meta” is usually “the metagame”.
Siegfrieda sometimes watches anime with me. Pic related:
The series is My Unique Skill Makes Me OP Even at Level 1. But she basically watches any series.