Kit Sober

Ode to the English Plural We'll begin with a box, and the plural is boxes, But the plural of ox becomes oxen, not oxes. One fowl is a goose, but two are called geese, Yet the plural of moose should never be meese. You may find a lone mouse or a nest full of mice, Yet the plural of house is houses, not hice. If the plural of man is always called men, Why shouldn't the plural of pan be called pen? If I speak of my foot and show you my feet, And I give you a boot, would a pair be called beet? If one is a tooth and a whole set are teeth, Why shouldn't the plural of booth be called beeth? Then one may be that, and there would be those, Yet hat in the plural would never be hose, And the plural of cat is cats, not cose. We speak of a brother and also of brethren, But though we say mother, we never say methren. Then the masculine pronouns are he, his and him, But imagine the feminine: she, shis and shim! There is no egg in eggplant nor ham in hamburger; neither apple nor pine in pineapple. English muffins weren't invented in England . We take English for granted, but if we explore its paradoxes, we find that quicksand can work slowly, boxing rings are square, and a guinea pig is neither from Guinea nor is it a pig. And why is it that writers write, but fingers don't fing, grocers don't groce and hammers don't ham? Doesn't it seem crazy that you can make amends but not one amend? If you have a bunch of odds and ends and get rid of all but one of them, what do you call it? If teachers taught, why didn't preachers praught? If a vegetarian eats vegetables, what does a humanitarian eat? Sometimes I think all the folks who grew up speaking English should be committed to an asylum for the verbally insane. In what other language do people recite at a play and play at a recital? We ship by truck but send cargo by ship... We have noses that run and feet that smell. We park in a driveway and drive in a parkway. And how can a slim chance and a fat chance be the same, while a wise man and a wise guy are opposites? You have to marvel at the unique lunacy of a language in which your house can burn up as it burns down, in which you fill in a form by filling it out, and in which an alarm goes off by going on. And in closing, if Father is Pop, how come Mother's not Mop? ________________________________________________________ HUMOR OF THE DAY: Etymological Conundra Is there another word for synonym? When a building's completed shouldn't it be called a built? Whose idea was it to have a letter "s" in the word "lisp"? Why has the word "monosyllabic" got five syllables? Why is "abbreviation" such a long word? Why is it so hard to remember the spelling of "mnemonic"? Why is it that the word "big" is smaller than the word "little," while the words "small" and "large" are the same size? Why is the word "synonymous" spelled differently than the word "same"? Why isn't phonetic spelled the way it sounds? Why do "overlook" and "oversee" mean opposite things? Why is there no other word for "thesaurus"? ________________________________________________________ A paraprosdokian is a figure of speech in which the latter part of a sentence or phrase is surprising or unexpected in a way that causes the reader or listener to re-frame or reinterpret the first part. It is frequently used for humorous or dramatic effect. I want to die peacefully in my sleep, like my grandfather. Not screaming and yelling like the passengers in his car. The last thing I want to do is hurt you. But it's still on the list. If I agreed with you, we'd both be wrong. We never really grow up; we only learn how to act in public. Do not argue with an idiot. He will drag you down to his level and beat you with experience. Knowledge is knowing a tomato is a fruit; Wisdom is not putting it in a fruit salad. The early bird might get the worm, but the second mouse gets the cheese. Evening news is where they begin with 'Good evening,' and then proceed to tell you why it isn't. To steal idea from one person is plagiarism. To steal from many is research. A bus station is where a bus stops. A train station is where a train stops. My desk is a work station. How is it one careless match can start a forest fire, but it takes a whole box to start a campfire? Dolphins are so smart that within a few weeks of captivity, they can train people to stand on the very edge of the pool and throw them fish. A bank is a place that will lend you money if you can prove that you don't need it. Whenever I fill out an application, in the part that says "In an emergency, notify:" I put " A DOCTOR." I didn't say it was your fault, I said I was blaming you. Why does someone believe you when you say there are four billion stars, but check when you say the paint is wet? Behind every successful man is his woman. Behind the fall of a successful man is usually another woman. A clear conscience is usually the sign of a bad memory. You do not need a parachute to skydive. You only need a parachute to skydive twice. The voices in my head have some good ideas! 8 out of 10 of them say "Don't shoot". I discovered I scream the same way whether I'm about to be devoured by a great white shark or if a piece of seaweed touches my foot. Some cause happiness wherever they go.. Others, whenever they go. There's a fine line between cuddling and holding someone down so they can't get away. I used to be indecisive. Now I'm not so sure. You're never too old to learn something stupid. To be sure of hitting the target, shoot first and call whatever you hit the target. Nostalgia isn't what it used to be. A bus is a vehicle that runs twice as fast when you are after it as when you are in it. Change is inevitable, except from a vending machine.

Thanks. No words. Hope the views go over 6.5 billion. He is a living lesson. Every church, every school, every prison, every business should show this. (I got it from my boss at work yesterday.) Thanks so much for the words to the song.

http://manneli.com/movies/Nature/Giraffe-Birth.html Such miraculous tenderness.

Thanks.

I had a dear friend (now deceased), maiden name Lucy Williams, who was interested in Scottish things such as tartans and the Scottish festivals held in San Jose, CA, which she and her husband attended. I know that the tartans are some of the prettiest materials out of which to have stuff made (clothes and blankets I have had). I recently learned that two of my favorite skirts, black/grey/white plaids) were "mourning tartans." Anyone else interested in these things currently? (Or is this from too long ago?) What's the relationship between Irish and Scottish? (They appear to be so close yet so separate.) Thanks.

In and out of years, it's still a precious day. From the Pentecost birthday cakes of yesteryear to the new experiences in the different churches attended. Happy Birthday Church!!! So glad you were born!!!

Purchased Larry Panarello's book, "The True Justice of a Just God" off Amazon.com. It stands on its own without twi references. He cited Bullinger, Kittel, and Bishop KC Pillai. I have always loved him and prayed for him. So glad to read this work which appears at first glance to carry Larry's view of the heart of God's kindness into the world. I fully concur with God's viewpoint that each of us know only in part and I am always thankful to read or hear or say some of that "part" which the Good Lord shows to another of His precious little ones. That being said I love Larry's book.

I didn't think it was an easy test. I got 93% but I minored in American History, event though that was 40 years ago I like reading stuff about America and its history. Fascinating to me.

If life came from the breath of God, In the beginning of Genesis God "made" living creatures. And in the illucidation of that event, Genesis 2:7 states, "7And the LORD God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul." Breath life. The first word study I did circa 1972 was of that word "ruach." It was lovely to behold that "breath" becomes "pneuma" "spirit" in the New Testament. The first usage of "ruach" is when God came to Adam in the "cool" of the day (Genesis 3:8) when God came to them after the fall (how tender is that!) The story of the young boy who was asked where God was and responded with, "Show me where God isn't" seems appropriate. As I see it, when God breathed the breath of life that life went everywhere inside of the creature man. Whether one acknowledges or gives thanks God's life is throughout us, in every part of us. That 'life" whatever it is was breathed into us by God. (Well not all of me. I have a plastic and metal knee. No life there at that place.)

Amen Roy! Nice topic and introduction. I am so thankful for computers so I can review and revise so easily. I remember with a shudder the typewriters and carbon paper copies and what an ordeal it was to correct an error on the page. When I took my first "Word Processing" class (circa 1982) and was shown that I could hit the backspace key to erase an error I thought I had been transported to heaven. And "spell check"? What grace and kindness that is! Bible translations in my opinion show a different view of the Lord from the words chosen by the translators. I love each one for the special love-ly view it gives. Of course I have spent so many many hours in the KJV with its particular richness and am able to sink into the heart of that version easily. The movie "KJB" gives precious insight into the work and struggles of King James and of those translators which gave us this precious volume.

This thread got me rereading "The Gift of the Holy Spirit" and it is so precious because of the life of the Lord in there. It is a valuable book written by the one who learned the words from the Holy Spirit first hand and hoped to help others by sharing what the Holy Spirit taught him. In my opinion JE Stiles was a man who truly longed to help people who yearned for the Holy Spirit to achieve the desire of their heart, which is most precious.

The complete article is here. I included this quote because this woman found peace when she forgave, which was a miracle in her her life and allowed her peace at the end of her life. The hospice nurse who provided this example is a kind kind of Christian who loves and prays for all her patients, and the link provided can take you to more stories from her time as a hospice nurse. In my opinion, loving kindness provides an extra measure of grace for those who have not known God's mercy in their lives by which they can find rest to their souls. Mother Teresa also had a ministry and began her earth shattering career by simply providing a measure of compassion and dignity to abandoned homeless people who were dying on the streets of Calcutta. There is just no telling what miracles a touch of kindness can bring to a suffering soul at any stage of his/her life. And, in my opinion, being able to forgive is one of the greatest miracles that can come to a soul callused from walking in a cruel environment.

Better than paper towels and a less expensive. Because we now use a coffee press to make coffee, we have a bunch of these that seemed too good to throw away so this email hint seemed especially nice. I thought you would like it, too. Coffee filters.... Who knew! And you can buy 1,000 at the Dollar Tree for almost nothing even the large ones. 1. Cover bowls or dishes when cooking in the microwave.Coffee filters make excellent covers. 2. Clean windows, mirrors, and chrome... Coffee filters are lint-free so they'll leave windows sparkling. 3. Protect China by separating your good dishes with a coffee filter between each dish. 4. Filter broken cork from wine. If you break the cork when opening a wine bottle, filter the wine through a coffee filter. 5. Protect a cast-iron skillet. Place a coffee filter in the skillet to absorb moisture and prevent rust. 6. Apply shoe polish. Ball up a lint-free coffee filter. 7. Recycle frying oil. After frying, strain oil through a sieve lined with a coffee filter. 8. Weigh chopped foods. Place chopped ingredients in a coffee filter on a kitchen scale. 9. Hold tacos. Coffee filters make convenient wrappers for messy foods. 10. Stop the soil from leaking out of a plant pot. Line a plant pot with a coffee filter to prevent the soil from going through the drainage holes. 11.. Prevent a Popsicle from dripping. Poke one or two holes as needed in a coffee filter. 12. Do you think we used expensive strips to wax eyebrows? Use strips of coffee filters.. 13. Put a few in a plate and put your fried bacon,French fries, chicken fingers, etc on them. It soaks out all the grease. 14. Keep in the bathroom. They make great "razor nick fixers." 15. As a sewing backing. Use a filter as an easy-to-tear backing for embroidering or appliqueing soft fabrics. 16. Putbaking sodainto a coffee filter and insert into shoes or a closet to absorb or prevent odors. 17. Use them to strain soup stock and to tie fresh herbs in to put insoups and stews. 18. Use a coffee filter to prevent spilling when you add fluids to your car. 19. Use them as a spoon restwhile cooking and clean up small counter spills. 20. Can use to hold dry ingredients when baking or when cutting a piece of fruit or veggies.. Saves on having extra bowls to wash. 21. Use them to wrap Christmas ornaments for storage. 22. Use them to remove fingernail polish when out of cotton balls. 23. Use them to sprout seeds.. Simply dampen the coffee filter, place seeds inside, fold it and place it into aplastic baggieuntil they sprout. 24. Use coffee filters as blotting paper for pressed flowers. Place the flowers between two coffee filters and put the coffee filters in phone book.. 25. Use as a disposable "snack bowl" for popcorn, chips, etc. OH YEAH THEY ARE GREAT TO USE IN YOUR COFFEE MAKERS Sure saves washing dishes too.

Full Civic Literacy Exam (from 2008 survey) Are you more knowledgeable than the average citizen? The average score for all 2,508 Americans taking the following test was 49%; college educators scored 55%. Can you do better? Questions were drawn from past ISI surveys, as well as other nationally recognized exams. This is not an easy test and can be quite humbling. http://www.americanc...urces/quiz.aspx One of my favorites: http://freerice.com (this sends free rice and exercises your vocabulary) USA States: http://www.pibmug.com/files/map_test.swf (this is also a test of how good you are with a mouse because some states you need to be careful where you drop the state name or else you get an "X")

RE "vp's thorn in the flesh" From my opinion: The Apostle Paul's thorn in the flesh was what he kept struggling with as he served the Lord. JE Stiles, Mother Teresa, Oral Roberts, David Wilkerson -- These people could relate to their thorn in the flesh because they struggled and endeavored to walk with the Lord and serve Him their whole life and we can find evidence of their struggles as we review their life's work. Nicky Cruz, Billy Graham, and others that we know personally who live to the best of their ability before the Lord can today find hope and comfort and inspiration in identifying what was Paul's "thorn in the flesh." I am reading now "One Holy Fire" by Nicky Cruz and he identifies and is open about many of the personal struggles he overcame in order to serve the Lord. And how his wife had to take a big risk to marry him because of the baggage that he brought to their marriage from his abusive and wicked-spirit filled life before he was saved. vp is not in this category. The "thorn in the flesh" speaks of a struggle before the Lord. vp did not have that. He was not one who was struggling to serve the Lord, in my opinion. He was an abuser and a user of people. A thief and a plagiarizer of others' ideas and work. If he had a ministry and then abandoned it (as I once believed), then at that time he abandoned his ministry there was a decision of some kind before the Lord and perhaps at that time the "thorn in the flesh" concept would be applicable. To be able to identify vp's "thorn in the flesh" would be to know of that struggle, if he had a ministry and if there was a time of struggle for him. In my experience and from the information gleaned from others who have been willing to bare their souls to help others understand the reality of what we endured in twi, I certainly am no longer able to say that vp had a ministry before the Lord (as I once believed). I believe he leeched off many many people's spiritual walk with the Lord and appropriated their/our gleanings as his own. He may have been a true psychopath. I don't know. He has faced the Lord and his judgment has been/will be made (I am not sure of that timetable). vp's judgment is between him and the Lord in my opinion. I do not believe that it is appropriate to compare whatever vp was thinking with the effort of personal struggles that the Apostle Paul went through to ensure that we had the precious stuff that he brought into the world. As the Apostle Paul poured out such things as, "beloved I wish above all things thou may prosper and be in health," and Paul was honest and true before the Lord and of a different category than vp. To compare vp and the precious ones who have struggled and who continue to struggle against the ministers of satan to serve the Lord is comparing apples and oranges, in my opinion. I listened to vp "do" Ephesians two times with all his stolen and intellectual knowledge. But there was never any life of the spirit in vp's words. I am only thankful that I was able to find out why, and remain ever grateful for Transchat, for Waydale, and especially for the Greasespot Cafe which showed me why I was not brought closer to the Lord by vp's works.Mich@el M@rt1n told me to read Ephesians every day. D3l Dunc@n healed my brain. Bi11 Sch1ey. There are so many to whom I owe my life before the Lord. But I do not know that vp is among them.

Precious Ex. my point is that people such as yourself with tender hearts for the Lord who had a ministry before the Lord could have done so much more if you/they/we were under a ministry that was functioning in a godly manner. Those that became selfish used others rather than helping them.

Voyage of the Dawn Treader is now in dvd. I thought it was a most excellent movie that would be good for the whole family, including children. (Children in tow provide and excuse for the adults to be there too.)

I have no help regarding peeling walnuts but have recently received a nice email that included that walnuts are good for the brain (they look like little brains). Pecans also fit this description. The email said that God had made certain foods look like the organs that benefitted from eating them (like sliced carrots look like the cornea of our eye (and mom always said, "eat your carrots they are good for your eyes), beans look like kidneys and help kidney function. I don't remember what all, but I have since been eating more walnuts and pecans. (Can you tell my brain has improved?)

The Catholic Bishops from the two archdioceses have a bet on the NBA winners

Thanks Wordwolf. Your quote reminded me of a wonderful teaching by E11ie W1ls0n many years ago and inspired me to start a topic over in the Bible stuff section of the Greasespot Cafe because it was a perfect example to me of when faith gets the stamp of approval from the Lord (the working of His mighty power) and of the precious integrity of the King James Bible. Thanks, again. From a Guidepost article by a hospice nurse who relays lasting impressions of last words by precious people who are leaving this life The complete article is here.

Wordwolf had this to say over on the "Forgiveness" thread, and I didn't want to derail that topic, but remembered a wonderful teaching that so inspired me that E11ie Wi1s0n did circa 1969-1970, From the From the Forgiveness thread in "About the Way" forum E11ie Wi1s0n many years ago gave one of those teachings that inspired me for years that twi was a place for people who loved to read the Bible for what it really said. She taught at a woman's advance circa 1970 (I didn't attend, but Jane Yerem1an lent me the tape from her tape library in Alameda). E11ie taught that the grammar of the response to the king (KJV) showed that the only question the three Jews had was whether or not the king was going to throw them in the firey furnace. The king was given to fits of rage and repentence and was currently in the "rage" stage. With God, however, there was no change neither shadow of turning, and Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego had no doubt that God was going to deliver them. Ellie's teaching has been precious to me over the years because of the thoroughness required for our faith. And gave me an example to aim for -- Oh I yearn to have faith like those guys. That's the pipeline for God's grace and kindness to flow. Wordwolf's posting of these two versions also gives a prime example of how personal opinion enters into the translator's versions. Seeing the movie "KJB" which is (to me) a wonderful and amazing film showing the creation of the King James Bible gave me an even greater respect and admiration for the awesome Godliness of the translators who humbled themselves and their work before God Almighty in their work. The NASB translators added those words "of explanation" but the additions were personal opinions, which are fine, but not when someone says that is what the God meant to say, in my opinion.

Thanks Pawtucket. So glad she got out. So sorry it was a cult she got into.

Thanks. Refreshing and liberating explanations. Thanks, again :)

I had hoped that this book was in the "public domain" so it could be posted at Greasespot Cafe and had emailed Pawtucket my request. But from the book I obtained at Amazon.com it was reprinted (and copyrighted) by Revell in 1971, and therefore cannot be legitimately freely posted without the publsher's permisison. In my opinion this book is a clear example of the difference between twi and other truly alive Christians as resource for direction into "normal" Christian living which is empowered by the Holy Spirit.

The "Original topic" I was hoping for was an examination of the selfishness which twi inbred into people. I believe selfishness was inbred and is part of the curse of the extwi cult mentality came about through the focus on "my benefits" vs the motivation of helping others, making the world a better place, making parents proud of us, etc. The doctrines of "word over the world" became "twi over the world" and the kindness of Christ got lost in the efforts to bring people and primarily their benefits to twi, which nurtured selfishness. In my opinion it is the compassion for others which is implemented by God's kindness (side Biblical note: "His" is in italics in Ephesians 2:7 because all kindness is "His") In my opinion one of the "words of death to the spirit" which twi delivered was the ridicule and insulting of "being a chanel for the Lord" In my opinion, God's love and power and might is not from me at all, but is from Him by His kindness and grace, and it is in my opinion accurately portrayed by such analogies as the lamp being plugged into the electrical outlet. The power which lights the bulb is not our own. And also the bulb itself is a gift of His kind grace. Ridiculing and rejecting this "chanel" concept in my opinion is another "type" of the selfish philosophy. By ignoring the power source and strength, as well as the creation itself which is the gift of God, arrogance and selfishness is likewise further entrenched in a twi cult mentalty. There is another movie by Sherwood Pictures, "Courageous" to build the concept of fatherhood and being a good dad here (GT exemplifies a good dad in his "pedophile" thread). Sherwood Pictures was started by some guys from this church in response to a challenge from their pulpit to figure out how and implement a plan to make an impact in the world, to give Jesus into the world so in need of Him. These Sherwood Picture guys not only have a great product of nobility and courage and true Christian living, but also the people who are part of the production become better people by their association with it. There are people who have taken pfal and then done other things in the world, but I would say that their explicity avoidance of acknowledging any association with twi is an indication that they understand at some level the wickedness of that place. It's more like a filthy thing they (and we) touched and try to wash their (our) hands of than an impact of the Lord for which they (we) are truly thankfull. I know of one who came under twi when he was a weak Christian and that touch did nothing to help but only hurt his life and the impact he could have made in the world. I don't know of anyone who puts their twi years proudly on their resume, and for me it was with a sigh of relief when that physical association (WOW and corpse) dropped off the requried "5-year history" generally required in resumes. I was especially blessed because that time limit passed while I was on one job so I didn't need to include twi on any resume. There is also at least one thread around this place somewhere regarding suggested verbiage to obscure involvement in an obscure cult in the cornfields of Ohio. Really -- who can be proud of a year spent housecleaning, and time spent learning to build up your own ego and arrogance based upon how important you are because you have this vast knowledge of the Bible.) Working for and with an organization of integrity such as Billy Graham's or Sherwood Baptist Church is a source of pride because these groups do make the world a nicer place by reaching forth God's hand into people's lives in need.