Panic

[mamawsandy]

When I think of the word, Panic, I think of the panic attacks that I am prone to. I don't worry about bird flu or any other pandemic, but I do have panic attacks in times of extreme stress. I don't worry about bird flu because I am a child of the King, and I know that my life is in His hands.
mamawsandy

[Slava]

This is a follow-up suggestion to a previous suggestion of a way to use the word. Here's that one, with discussion of bird flu: http://www.alphadictionary.com/bb/viewtopic.php?t=1003

Can anyone think of another time this has happened? Oink, oink.

[Stargzer]

Well, I'm not sure there was really a panic, but given the similarity between the latest swine flu and the WWI Spanish Flu (as well as my age group and other factors), I opted for the shot. I may be in the Hands of the King, but if He didn't want us to have vaccines, he'd have killed off Jenner, Pasteur, Salk, Savin, and all the others long before they had a chance to make their discoveries.

[LukeJavan8]

Having visited the shrine/temple to Pan at what in
Biblical Times was Caesarea Philippi, I am reminded
that the root of the word is the name of this
Loki-like, mischievous god. He stirred up PANdemonium
and PANic as part of his daily fare.

[Slava]

He stirred up PANdemonium
and PANic as part of his daily fare.

Actually, the two pans aren't really related. The pan in pandemonium is from Greek "all." The pan of panic is related to the Pan of myth, but it's just a similarity, not an actual tie-in.

[LukeJavan8]

If its riotous and lawless the root can be traced:

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

Pandemonium \Pan`de*mo"ni*um\, n. [NL., from Gr. pa^s, pa^n, all
+ dai`mwn a demon.]
1. The great hall or council chamber of demons or evil
spirits. --Milton.
[1913 Webster]

2. An utterly lawless, riotous place or assemblage.
[1913 Webster]

3. A condition of unrestrained disorder and chaotic, riotous
uproar.
[1913 Webster +PJC]

[Slava]

If its riotous and lawless the root can be traced:

That's not how it works. The two pans share letters, not meaning.

Panic is fear caused by Pan.

The pan in pandemonium simply means "all."

Plus, pandemonium is a "riotous place or assemblage." In current modern usage, go to any college bar on a weekend and you'll see and hear pandemonium, but no one's in a state of panic.

[LukeJavan8]

pandemonium
n : a state of extreme confusion and disorder [syn: chaos, bedlam,
topsy-turvydom, topsy-turvyness]

[Perry]

Mankind is capable of producing extreme pandemonium without any help from Pan or any other diety.

[LukeJavan8]

And does a good job at it, for sure!

[Slava]

I cannot but disagree with you less.