Today's Topics:
Etymology of God
the art of commercialism -- cock n' balls cereal
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Date: Wed, 24 Oct 90 10:31:44 PDT
From: thant%horus.esd.sgi.com@sgi.com
Subject: Etymology of God
To: subgenius@mc.lcs.mit.edu
Exodus 3:14
And God said unto Moses, "I AM THAT I AM."
Exodus 6:2-3
God also said to Moses "I am the LORD. As God the Almighty I appeared
to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, but my name, LORD, I did not make known
to them."
In the original Hebrew, the names of God were AHYH (alef, he, yod, he),
and YHVH (yod, he, vau, he). The latter is known as the tetragrammaton.
They are the first person singular, and third person singular formed from
the root word HYH, 'to be.'
The tetragrammaton was held sacred, especially by the Talmudists. It is
forbidden to pronounce the Lord's name. (See Leviticus 24:16.) When
reading sacred texts, the reader was supposed to replace the tetragrammaton
with the word 'adonai,' which means 'lord.'
The Hebrew alphabet is composed of consonances. The reader was supposed to
be familiar with the vowel sounds used in the pronunciation of the words.
When the Jewish culture started expanding into other languages, Jewish
scholars started adding diacritical marks to the texts to preserve the
correct pronunciation.
Since the tetragrammaton was only supposed to be pronounced in very
specific circumstances, the diacritical marks added to the tetragrammaton
were the vowels for the word 'adonai.' In the Middle Ages, a Christian
Scholar imagined that the diacritical marks were actually for the
consonances in the tetragrammaton, and he wrote 'Jehova.' Modern scholars
now belive it is pronounced 'Yahveh.'
Since it was forbidden to pronounce the Lord's name, it is not unreasonable
to assume that, in refering to Yahveh, people would spell it, or more
briefly, say just the first letter, 'yod.'
Some of the symbols of Freemasonry appear in two forms, one with a modern
'G' and one with the Hebrew yod. In fact, one of the symbols signifying
God is an upward pointing triangle with a single yod in the middle.
Might the word 'god' be a corruption of the word 'yod'?
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Date: Wed, 24 Oct 90 09:20:47 PDT
From: laurab%thebundys.esd.sgi.com@sgi.com
Subject: the art of commercialism -- cock n' balls cereal
To: Niels.P.Mayer.hipsters@smarmy.corp.sun.com, SUBGENIUS@mc.lcs.mit.edu
niels, why don't you call kelloggs - i'm sure they'd be real interested....
> To: hipsters@smarmy.Corp.Sun.COM, SUBGENIUS@mc.lcs.mit.edu
> Subject: the art of commercialism -- cock n' balls cereal
> Organization: Hewlett-Packard Labs, Software & Systems Lab, Palo Alto, CA.
> Date: Mon, 22 Oct 90 23:18:54 PDT
> From: Niels P. Mayer <mayer@hplnpm.hpl.hp.com>
>
>
> I was just sitting down w/ a bowl-o-cereal readin them thar list mails.
> When I thoughts about something massively commercial, something that kids
> would love to eat, and something that would piss off Jesse Helms in a big
way.
>
> Yup -- thats when I thought of COCK N' BALLS cereal. They'd be like capn'
> crunchberries, but shaped, ahh... differently. Later on, depending on
> market success, funding for research into other sex-cereal variants could
> occur, e.g. NUTS & HONEY, T&A CRUNCH, TOASTED REAM-O's, etc.
>
> Anybody know how to go about making and selling pornographic cereal?
> Sales would be easy in certain districts of San Francisco, as well as in
> trendy adult-type stores.
>
> Since yer all a bunch of shifty-eyed creeps, I hereby copyright the look
> and feel of the hitherto aforementioned cereals and the notion of a
> bedside metaphor.
>
> (c) Copyright 1990, Niels Mayer, all rights reserved.
>
> Send lawyers guns, and money!
> -- Niels.
>
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