[AGL] Saddam

[michele mason]

Interesting—I thought it biblical. I got a fab new study Bible from 
Joseph for Christmas. Am luvin tryin it out.  mm

On Dec 30, 2006, at 3:38 PM, Michael Eisenstadt wrote:


> 2. The first ethical lessons are, however, back at the moment of 

> choice.

> Cain stands on the threshold given him by the knowledge of good and 

> evil as

> he feels the anger rise up inside himself. He has a choice and God 

> gives him

> advice to help him choose good and not evil. Sin is like an animal 

> lying in

> wait, perhaps a wild animal, perhaps a domestic animal - a cat or a 

> dog -

> "that lies in repose at the door of one's dwelling," [8.] which has its

> attractions and its quirks but is domesticated from the wild and under

> continually re-asserted and re-negotiated control. You must find a way 

> to

> deal with it, says God, deal with the enemy inside you, rather than 

> project

> it onto the other.

> ----- Original Message -----

>

> Carolyn,

>

> The paragraph above is from a Presbyterian sermon (in New Zealand). 

> Google

> returns ONLY this

> citation. When I clicked on 8 (thinking maybe is was a Bible verse), 

> the

> link went nowhere. Maybe

> it is biblical but if it is, Google does not have access to it. I 

> dislike

> the above paragraph because of

> its fuzzy lack of focus and sense. The sermonizer is riffing on her 

> mental

> associations. I think it is a great fraud

> to compose passages that seem at first hearing to make some kind of 

> sense.

> If i had my druthers

> (where are my druthers?) I'd  prefer to listen to the plainsong of the

> fundamentalist preacher, black

> or white, limning out her favorite catchphrases in preacher lingo with 

> great

> gasps of breath and

> meaningless sounds.

>

> Here is this great dumbo who spent the last 30 years playing gold in 

> the

> desert. 30 years of

> repose at the door. And there is "big man" in the noose getting his 

> just

> deserts in the desert.

>> From now on, whenever I mock, I will say Muktada al-Sadr.

>

> On line at the Whole Foods behind a customer and the counter girl 

> conversing

> too long

> in Arabic, i muttered "Lochar! Lochar f'telik." So far as I know this 

> is

> Casablanca slang

> when playing the dozens, lochar being a turnip like the cupola of a 

> mosque.

> The response

> is a turnip up yours. Best not say lochar a'muk. I am pretty sure 

> a'muk is

> your mother's.

> I did startle the customer who palpably startled.

>

> Best to John,

>

> Mike

>

> From: <globe at zipcon.net>

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> Sent: Saturday, December 30, 2006 2:57 PM

> Subject: **JUNK** [AGL] Saddam

>

>

>>    I was a little shocked that guards from Muqtada al-Sadr's group was

>> chosen

>> to carry out his execution. Iraq's a tough place.  I think we 

>> understand

>> very

>> little about their attitudes towards life and death.

>>

>>  "As the noose was tightened around Hussein's neck, one of the

>> executioners

>> yelled, "long live Muqtada al-Sadr," Haddad said.

>>

>> Hussein mockingly uttered one last phrase before he died: "Muqtada

>> al-Sadr,"

>> according to Haddad.

>>

>> An executioner read from the Quran and then carried out the hanging.

>> Hussein

>> died "very, very quickly" just after 6 a.m., al-Rubaie said.".

>>

>>  On a different note, does anyone know where "repose at the door" 

>> phrase

>> comes

>> from?  At certain points in the funeral and lying in state of 

>> President

>> Ford the

>> term is used.  My husband has told me that it is probably a gentile

>> coverup for

>> lying dead or some new age funeral director's phraselogy.  I thought 

>> maybe

>> it

>> Roman but I was made fun of there also with... "lying asleep at the 

>> porta"

>>

>> Carolyn

>>

>