How is "Tanakh" pronounced? Teh-NAHK?
Very close, except that the "kh" at the end is that lovely "I'm globbing something up in my throat" sound. Which a lot of English-speakers have trouble with, so if you can't do it, don't worry.
Angel: Will you just shut up for once?! Illyria: What? Angel: My God, the speechifying. Has it ever occurred to you that now might not be the best time for when-we-were-muck stories?
'Time Bomb'
Spike's Bitches 37: You take the killing for granted.
[NAFDA] Spike-centric discussion. Lusty, lewd (only occasionally crude), risqué (and frisqué), bawdy (Oh, lawdy!), flirty ('cuz we're purty), raunchy talk inside. Caveat lector.
amych - Sep 12, 2007 2:49:35 pm PDT #5326 of 10001
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?
Pix - Sep 12, 2007 2:53:33 pm PDT #5327 of 10001
The status is NOT quo.
Oh I can do the globby sound. I worked at a Jewish private school for a year. And I actually do have a pretty solid understanding of the basics of Judaism and most of the holidays as a result. I just somehow managed to miss the whole Torah/Tanakh distinction. The kids all just used "Bible" for the most part.
I feel much better now.
askye - Sep 12, 2007 2:55:18 pm PDT #5328 of 10001
Thrive to spite them
I went to Southern Baptist Churches as a kid and at one point I was going there and to an Episcopal elementary school, that was interesting. I was taught that Catholics weren't true Christians (a couple of the churches had Chick Tracts out for the taking, if you want an idea of their theology).
The only thing I can remember specifically said about Catholics, was that all of the praying to saints and to Mary was wrong and also going to confession was wrong. Baptists, but especially Southern Baptists, but a big emphasis on a personal relationship with God and that once you are saved you have a direct relationship with God without any sort of middleman (with the SBCs seeing confession, saints, and Mary as some kind of middleman) and only God can forgive your sins and only you can ask for forgiveness of your sins. They didn't have a problem with preachers baptizing people because the baptism is more of a symbolic act (although I was told everyone should be baptized) and not really a requirement for being saved.
Susan W. - Sep 12, 2007 2:56:51 pm PDT #5329 of 10001
Good Trouble and Righteous Fights
When I was trying to remember messianic passages, I kept humming several of them...and it occurred to me that for a good listing of favorite Christian messianic passages, both Old and New Testament, you could do a heck of a lot worse than looking at the text of Handel's Messiah:
And then you could bring in the music, too...
Pix - Sep 12, 2007 3:02:34 pm PDT #5330 of 10001
The status is NOT quo.
I'm outta here. Thanks again, everyone, and Happy New Year to those celebrating!
billytea - Sep 12, 2007 3:05:33 pm PDT #5331 of 10001
You were a wrong baby who grew up wrong. The wrong kind of wrong. It's better you hear it from a friend.
Someone gave me a copy of The Watchtower at the bus stop this morning. (She was very pretty, dressed smartly and smiled at me. I would have taken a live badger had she handed it to me)
I'd probably accept the badger before I took a copy of the Watchtower. Then at least I'd have something to give the Watchtower to.
The guys in Russia, etc. who split from the Catholic Church, um... long long long long time ago....
I'm not sure they ever split from the Catholic Church. IIRC, Russia had the choice of converting to Catholicism or ORthodox Christianity, and liked the Orthodox pitch better. I could be misremembering, though.
My CCD 8th-grade teacher actually taught us that Genesis didn't rule out evolution at all, but reinforced it instead (God created the animals in the order that they ended up evolving
Yeah, not so much. Genesis' order is: land plants, the sun and moon, aquatic life and birds, land animals, humanity. Doesn't match the evolutionary record that closely. If you have people who tend to get into the details, well, they're going to get into the details.
Zenkitty - Sep 12, 2007 3:16:53 pm PDT #5332 of 10001
Every now and then, I think I might actually be a little odd.
Religion convo is fascinating, as always. Buffistae are smart.
ICatchupN
Happy birthdays to Trudy, Kara, Polter-Cow, and billytea!
Camping is wonderful. Camping in the Olympic Peninsula is awesome. Truly. I wonder if a reward like that would motivate even me to loose weight? ... Probably not.
Omnis, may the new job possibility work out in the best way for you!
P.-C., may your future wife appear on your horizon soon and may you recognize each other immediately and with great relief!
ooga shaka ooga shaka I can't fight this feeling Deep inside of me
vw bug - Sep 12, 2007 3:18:35 pm PDT #5333 of 10001
Mostly lurking...
I just wished Ms. Kara a happy birthday, and I told her that her present was still coming. She said, "That's ok. I'll be celebrating my birthday for a few more weeks."
Laga - Sep 12, 2007 3:44:34 pm PDT #5334 of 10001
You should know I'm a big deal in the Resistance.
I seem to have succumbed to this cold I've been fighting on the eve of a routine DRs appointment. Can I can in sick to my doctor?
Emily - Sep 12, 2007 3:54:54 pm PDT #5335 of 10001
"In the equation E = mc⬧, c⬧ is a pretty big honking number." - Scola
Genesis' order is: land plants, the sun and moon, aquatic life and birds, land animals, humanity.
Huh? Granted, there seems to be earth before sun, but it looks to me like: heaven and earth, light and dark, sky, land, then vegetation.
And I'm going away to prep for class before you get a chance to respond. Sorry!