Logos

[billy]

Okay, it was one damn word, but one damn word is important

Let me weigh in here:

Strive: Seems a bit out to me because of the fighting connotation and I agree that the speaker can't be fairly matched here (if this were a romulus and remus poem maybe but feels wrong here).

Abide: I sort of like this one because it does a few things. It's more versatle than strive. It has the connotations of not allowing, or not enduring, or not dwelling. It's also a cool biblical word from John 15 (which I hadn't thought of before this point). There's imagery of branches abiding in the wine and drawing nourishment from it. I like this quote which again I feel like a bit of bonehead for not thinking on already:

(paraphrase) If you abide in me and my words abide in you ask whatever you wish of me and it will be done for you.

Thrive: This is actually another entirely different twist. Though I think I will need to keep the will in to pull it off. Thrive would suggest that just as the humans cultivated the garden god planted seeds (words from the word) into them and this constant tending would no longer occur. The only seed left is hope (which is also a bit like pandora).

I think strive is out but that's my initial feel on the other words.

Thanks for the discussion

tfu: fuck it Todd, use thrive...you know you want to