| Hey, so I found the light switch cover! |
[Jan. 15th, 2007|11:15 am] |
I knew it had to be on my hard drive somewhere. There's no way I'd get rid of it. |
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[Nov. 22nd, 2006|06:16 pm] |
Daily Kos is wanking about the draft and whether it is the solution to all of America's problems. There is thousand comments with false dichotomies, willful misunderstanding, and accusations of just about anything from sounding conservative to sucking at history. Normally I'd just go ahead and post it, but 1) it kind of is serious business, and 2) otf_wank doesn't need this sort of encouragement. So I'll just look at it sadly and shake my head.
But not too sadly, because I have a tasty pizza, wine, a Twitch City DVD set and about twelve hours to go until my flight, so there! |
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[Dec. 14th, 2004|10:04 am] |
| [ | mood |
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| [ | music |
| | Crazy Little Thing Called Love | ] |
Birthday wishes to ![[info]](http://www.journalfen.net/img/userinfo.gif) cleolinda!
*throws sparkles everywhere* |
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[Nov. 27th, 2004|08:58 pm] |
I <3 all these anonymice who can't tell deleterius and f_w apart. One would think that the journalfen.net in the address bar would tip them off that these are two different communities, but they must all be over 35. |
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[Oct. 31st, 2004|01:54 pm] |
WTF is wrong with LJ? I need my daily dose of crack, dammit!
*reads f_w desperately* |
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| GIP |
[Jul. 12th, 2004|02:47 pm] |
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I have a new default icon. *sniffle* It's a little sad to replace my lovely Addams Family icon with this one, but all things change, and so must my default icon. |
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| GIP! |
[May. 18th, 2004|11:29 am] |
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I have a new pretty icon! *dances* Want/take/have, btw. |
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[Apr. 7th, 2004|12:37 pm] |
So I thought I'd do this here, like in my livejournal.
This is from Wikipedia.
The word "Jew" is a tribal name which predates recorded history. There are competing views as to the name's origin. The most common view is that the Middle English word Jew is from the Old French qiu, earlier juieu, from the Latin iudeus from the Greek corresponding to the Hebrew y'hudi, ultimately from Judah, an ancient Hebrew patriarch, the fourth son of the patriarch Jacob according to Genesis, and the tribe descended from him. The Old English equivalent was Iudeas.
Genesis chapter 29 verse 35 says that Judah's mother, the matriarch Leah, named him Judah because she wanted to praise God for giving birth to so many sons: "She said, 'This time let me praise (odeh) God,' and named the child Judah (Yehudah)." In Hebrew , the name "Judah" contains the four-letter Tetragrammaton , the special holy ineffable name of God according to Judaism.
An alternative and much less common view is that Jew is from Jewry from the greek evrei meaning "Hebrew," which some speculate comes from the ancient Egyptian 'hiberu,' which meant "stranger." Under the latter view, Abraham, Israel and other patriarchs are regarded as Jews while under the former only the descendants (ethnically or physically) of the Judaeans would be Jews, strictly speaking.
In one place in the Talmud, the word Israelite refers to somebody who is Jewish but does not necessarily practice Judaism as a religion: "An Israelite even though he has sinned is still an Israelite." In this usage, the distinction is not made between "Jew" and "Israelite" and they are both called Jew. In modern English, this terminology is not used; one can refer to "religious Jews" or "secular Jews."
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