Most people have heard of the Tower of Babel and the infamous Nimrod. It's Biblical. Nimrod orders a tower to be built so hig that he can be equal to God. When he thinks the tower is high enough, he takes his bow an arrow and tries to shoot God out of the sky. The tower is destroyed and the language of the people "confounded", so they would not be able to understand one another and never again band together to undertake another such venture.
Coming to the USA, I have experienced, humourously in some instances, this confounding first hand.
At around the age of 10, the laundry had not been done, leaving no room in the dirty laundry hamper. My solution to the problem was to neatly stuff my dirty clothes between my bed and the wall. Thw would-be mother complained to "Daddy" who asked me about it. I explained I didn't know where else to put them without making a mess. His reply was "In the future, use the floor below." So I did.
Within a week there was nowhere to walk in my bedrooom. Again he came in and demanded to know what was now going on. I replied that he had told me to use the floor below. His palm went to his forehead and he groaned. "I meant, put them in the basement."
In Germany, we learned to write script by pen and ink. Pencils were indelible and used mainly for addressing packages and writing figures. In the USA, I was introduced to pencils, which had erasers. I learned to use the unmanageable things with the dull, fat points, horrified that the teacher that I could not write in print but only in script, and had no idea what one did with the pink thing on the other end but chew on it. In learning about "erasing", I couldn't quite do it. I went to the teacher and stated the problem. Her reply was "Use some elbow grease."
I went to the back of the room and began searching the supply lockers. She asked me what I was doing back there, I was supposed to be erasing. "Well," I said, "you told me to use some elbow grease so I'm looking for it." Needless to say, the clasroom roared, and some people remembered it for years.
Not so funny is some of the Christian churches trying to pass of as "Speaking in Tongues" some person appearing to have a seizure and babbling unintelligible utterances comprehensible to no one, not even themselves. That is babble, so named after the Tower od Bable, and not the Gift of Tongues. The gift of tongues is visited upon God's chosen, recorded in Bible as Christ's Apostles, that they would be able to understand and speak in whatever language they found themselves to be in. Very few people have this gift, The Pope coming the closest.
I had an issue with the word "Sanctions". As used by Bush, it is definition #5 in the dictionary. As used in the other 4 definitions in most countries and the Bowling, Golf and other Leagues, it means granted permission to be part of and proceed. What ever happened to the unmistakable word "Embargo"?
Which brings and issue to question. How do they come up with the count of the number of children Osama bin Laden (I almost said Obama sin Laben) has fathered? Obviously, he was "wanted".......in places other than the sighting scope of a US military rifle. How many people would surrender a man so precious as to be worth $25,000,000.00? And even in America, how many would want to have such a man?
Think about what comes out of your mouths. You may not be saying what you think you said.
In translation and interpretation,
my name is
Reign Peace (everywhere but America)
(Regine Pegi)
Coming to the USA, I have experienced, humourously in some instances, this confounding first hand.
At around the age of 10, the laundry had not been done, leaving no room in the dirty laundry hamper. My solution to the problem was to neatly stuff my dirty clothes between my bed and the wall. Thw would-be mother complained to "Daddy" who asked me about it. I explained I didn't know where else to put them without making a mess. His reply was "In the future, use the floor below." So I did.
Within a week there was nowhere to walk in my bedrooom. Again he came in and demanded to know what was now going on. I replied that he had told me to use the floor below. His palm went to his forehead and he groaned. "I meant, put them in the basement."
In Germany, we learned to write script by pen and ink. Pencils were indelible and used mainly for addressing packages and writing figures. In the USA, I was introduced to pencils, which had erasers. I learned to use the unmanageable things with the dull, fat points, horrified that the teacher that I could not write in print but only in script, and had no idea what one did with the pink thing on the other end but chew on it. In learning about "erasing", I couldn't quite do it. I went to the teacher and stated the problem. Her reply was "Use some elbow grease."
I went to the back of the room and began searching the supply lockers. She asked me what I was doing back there, I was supposed to be erasing. "Well," I said, "you told me to use some elbow grease so I'm looking for it." Needless to say, the clasroom roared, and some people remembered it for years.
Not so funny is some of the Christian churches trying to pass of as "Speaking in Tongues" some person appearing to have a seizure and babbling unintelligible utterances comprehensible to no one, not even themselves. That is babble, so named after the Tower od Bable, and not the Gift of Tongues. The gift of tongues is visited upon God's chosen, recorded in Bible as Christ's Apostles, that they would be able to understand and speak in whatever language they found themselves to be in. Very few people have this gift, The Pope coming the closest.
I had an issue with the word "Sanctions". As used by Bush, it is definition #5 in the dictionary. As used in the other 4 definitions in most countries and the Bowling, Golf and other Leagues, it means granted permission to be part of and proceed. What ever happened to the unmistakable word "Embargo"?
Which brings and issue to question. How do they come up with the count of the number of children Osama bin Laden (I almost said Obama sin Laben) has fathered? Obviously, he was "wanted".......in places other than the sighting scope of a US military rifle. How many people would surrender a man so precious as to be worth $25,000,000.00? And even in America, how many would want to have such a man?
Think about what comes out of your mouths. You may not be saying what you think you said.
In translation and interpretation,
my name is
Reign Peace (everywhere but America)
(Regine Pegi)
