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"The hands that help are holier than the lips that pray." - Robert Green Ingersoll
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of frogs
Jun 2000
time: 06:23
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Originally posted by CyberShy
I voted 16+
Most of them are very small prayers. And I pray at least 2 times a day longer then a few minutes. |
Are You really from Netherlands, the Antichrist of nations?
Hey!! You are from Delft! Do You know Allard Hoefelt?
Probably not...
I've been to Delft. And of all the Dutch cities, I liked it the best. It's so lovely it makes me sick.
Though the first thing I've seen when going out of car in Delft was not that cute.
There was a channel, with cute flowers in it, cute ducks on it, with cute buildings around and cute flowers on them.
Anyway, I looked at this cute channel, and tracked the moves of a duck, and it made me notice disturbed waters it headed towards, and I've noticed that the waters were disturbed by a girl with long hair vomitting into the channel. Behind here, there was a Turkish restaurant, but I don't know if that's where the lady came from. She was just standing and doing her thing.
But such things happen. In La Rochelle, I've seen a guy pissing in the very center of the city. But not by the tree or by the wall, in the middle of the road, with a lot of tourists around.
I only remembered this Delft incident because this Turkish restaurant. The guy from Delft I knew used to be very pro-Greek, and in result, very anti-Turkish. He'd like this image I guess.
Last edited by Heresson on 18-02-2005 at 01:52
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FUKCOV - Former United Kingdom Colony of Virginia
Dec 2000
time: 00:23
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Originally posted by Provost Harrison
G-d? |
Its customary among observant jews to avoid writing out the his name.
"Writing the Name of God
Jews do not casually write any Name of God. This practice does not come from the commandment not to take the Lord's Name in vain, as many suppose. In Jewish thought, that commandment refers solely to oath-taking, and is a prohibition against swearing by God's Name falsely or frivolously (the word normally translated as "in vain" literally means "for falsehood").
Judaism does not prohibit writing the Name of God per se; it prohibits only erasing or defacing a Name of God. However, observant Jews avoid writing any Name of God casually because of the risk that the written Name might later be defaced, obliterated or destroyed accidentally or by one who does not know better.
The commandment not to erase or deface the name of God comes from Deut. 12:3. In that passage, the people are commanded that when they take over the promised land, they should destroy all things related to the idolatrous religions of that region, and should utterly destroy the names of the local deities. Immediately afterwards, we are commanded not to do the same to our God. From this, the rabbis inferred that we are commanded not to destroy any holy thing, and not to erase or deface a Name of God.
It is worth noting that this prohibition against erasing or defacing Names of God applies only to Names that are written in some kind of permanent form, and recent rabbinical decisions have held that writing on a computer is not a permanent form, thus it is not a violation to type God's Name into a computer and then backspace over it or cut and paste it, or copy and delete files with God's Name in them. However, once you print the document out, it becomes a permanent form. That is why observant Jews avoid writing a Name of God on web sites like this one or in BBS messages: because there is a risk that someone else will print it out and deface it.
Normally, we avoid writing the Name by substituting letters or syllables, for example, writing "G-d" instead of "God." In addition, the number 15, which would ordinarily be written in Hebrew as Yod-Heh (10-5), is normally written as Tet-Vav (9-6), because Yod-Heh is a Name. See Hebrew Alphabet for more information about using letters as numerals. "
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lord of the mark
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FUKCOV - Former United Kingdom Colony of Virginia
Dec 2000
time: 00:23
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Originally posted by chegitz guevara
Expounding on what LotM has written.
This is how some have come to call the Big G, Jehovah (also Yahweh). The Hebrew letters YHWH (JHWH in Latin) are the initials of God. It's my understanding Hebrew doesn't use written vowels, so we don't really know what the ancient pronounciation. As one person poiunted out, it could be Yahoowahoo. |
guev is correct, but its even funnier. jews dont pronounce the 4 letter name of G-d (in ancient times the priests were allowed to). The consonants are YHVH. Since Hebrew didnt use vowels prior to the 9thc CE, and the name hadnt been pronounced in the 800 years since the temple was destroyed, in theory no one knew how to pronounce it. Instead Jews pronounce the word Adoni (my lord) wherever YHVH comes up in the bible or in prayer. As a REMINDER to say adonai, the scribes inserted the vowels for Adonai into the YHVH. Later Christians, reading the YHVH with the vowels for adonai, got the idea it should be pronounced yahovah, though almost certainly no one ever pronounced it that way.
Note - in fact it IS possible to figure out how it was pronounced. Though it was taboo to pronounce the whole name, the two parts are found, apparently in other hebrew names and words. Forex the name Isaiah includes the syllable YH - meaning G-d and ALWAYS pronounced Yah - based on similar analysis its widely beleived the name was Yahveh or Yahweh.
and oh yes, the word Yahoo IS derived from the name Yah.
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