Funny, she doesn't look Jewish!!!

[Guest]

I think Cat Stevens killed his career when he said he supported the Ayatollah's hit order on DAMMIT, what was that writer's name? The one who had to live in hiding after he wrote #%^#@ name of that book?

He did no such thing. The press thoroughly misquoted him while he was addressing a student gathering in London. I presume his suffering over this has more to do with the effects on a misunderstanding of Islam than with his career.

Perdita

Edited to add this.

 

[shereads]

Salmon Rushdie????

Bingo. You win the dinette set and the year's supply of Tide.

And the book was The Satanic Verses. Like most things that are banned, it became a best seller.

 

[gauchecritic]

They won't even write the word god when it applies to old "cross me and you're dead" Yahweh.

I thought that was the point of the three letters, that although you're not allowed to write any of His Names down in full you can use a 3 letter reference. (sort of ancient dewey-alphabetical system). I was led to believe that westerners added 'ah' and 'e' to YWH in order to make it pronounceable, but that it wasn't actually one of His Names. (What with Him being legion and everything)

Gauche

 

[dr_mabeuse]

I thought that was the point of the three letters, that although you're not allowed to write any of His Names down in full you can use a 3 letter reference. (sort of ancient dewey-alphabetical system). I was led to believe that westerners added 'ah' and 'e' to YWH in order to make it pronounceable, but that it wasn't actually one of His Names. (What with Him being legion and everything)

Gauche

The name of God is written in Hebrew using the "tetragramaton", 4 Hebrew letters: Yod, He, Vau, He. As far as I know, there's no exoteric explanation for what the letters mean. There's a big esoteric meaning, but nothing overt. They don't stand for anything and they're not a Hebrew word.

There's another way to represent it too, but I seem to have forgotten it.

The name "Jehovah" supposedly comes from taking the consonant sounds of the tetragramaton and adding the vowel sounds from "Adonai", which is another way the bible refers to God, which means "Exalted One" or something.

The name of God is supposedly so powerful that even the tetragramaton is imbued with power and mystical significance. Jews usually refer to God in Hebrew as "Ha Shem", which just means "the name", just to be on the safe side.

It's very interesting that the other Hebrew name for God in the bible, "Elohim", is plural and means "Lords".

---dr.M.

 

[shereads]

The name "Jehovah" supposedly comes from taking the consonant sounds of the tetragramaton and adding the vowel sounds from "Adonai", which is another way the bible refers to God, which means "Exalted One" or something.

Can't hear or even read "Jehovah" without picturing John Cleese trying to do crowd control at the stoning.

 

[RobertEdwardLee]

Her summer concert tour draws more than the next three acts combined. I don't think she is doing too badly.

 

[shereads]

Her summer concert tour draws more than the next three acts combined. I don't think she is doing too badly.

It's her new Spiritual Persona, the one thing she hadn't done yet. No one ever said she wasn't a marketing genius.


Make that two things. In 2006, watch for The Vow of Chastity Tour.