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Your Word of the Day: Gormless Yes, it's a real word. And no, there isn't an opposite, as in having gorm, or being gormful.

One doesn't really expect ministers of religion to peddle lies. To knowingly tell untruths. Situation primed for abuse, even where it didn't matter.

I think generally the food was good when I was in rez (and Craig was Prez). Sometimes a little weird, to my way of thinking, but usually there was someone who loved that meal. For the evening meal: Sloppy Joes - wot?? (very popular with others). Brats? Hot dogs? (Is this really food?) Fruit salad (as 5pm meal) - most hated it, I totally loved it and ate very large amounts. And that fermented cabbage thingy. People eat that? Yes. Special silver service at the "head table" with nice tablecloth and nice cutlery. Really. Either they should have made coffee/tea available to everyone - or everyone should be drinking water, inc and especially at head table. Go and drink your coffee privately, or not at all. Could be worse - they could have been drinking a nice wine or a beer. That really would rub salt in the sore. "All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others." (The infamous proclamation by the pigs who control the government in the novel Animal Farm, by George Orwell.)

Wow: from Waysider's post: "Contributor: Way International. Organic Gardening Department" - whatever was that!!

Here, you might say, "Come here, you big lummock" (or "lummox") to someone, a semi-affectionate term. Again, more dialectical than common.

That's a wheelbrace, GSG, for getting the nuts off that hold the wheel onto the car. Lugs are also what you get in hair - no, not animals, or nits - but knots. (I think that's more of a dialect word than common parlance.) You get lugs in your hair = your hair has lots of knots and tangles. It's luggy. "Lesbian until graduation" LOL!

Waxit, we were made complete in Christ, who observed all the tenets of the law. We were circumcised with him (so, for males, that's the end of mutilation of private parts). We were buried with him; we were baptised in him, we were raised with him. Jesus took away our sin and our sins. I wonder, do you think Jesus is alive and well, observing the sabbath in heaven or wherever he is? We who believe kept the law with him, we kept the sabbath with him, and we are freed from the law with him. For the dead are not subject to any laws. I believe that Jesus is alive and well in his spiritual body, in my church (and in many others) and in that form he observes a sabbath rest (of sorts) on Sundays and other days too. I say "of sorts" because the good work of my church doesn't stop on Sundays, but we're out there looking out for hurt and needy people, and fellowshipping with each other. We do that on Mondays, Tuesdays, Wednesdays, Thursdays, Fridays AND SATURDAYS. I believe Jesus is with each one of us as we do that, too.

What is your real reason for not accepting the grace of God, and having to do one better than Jesus?

Waxit, many count the first day of the week as MONDAY. How does that suit your argument? Who's to say Monday isn't the first day?

That should read, "You think old laws apply to you, but you are actually free from them."

Lug wrench. Sounds like somebody's pulling my leg - if not my ears. "Lugs" is a slang word for ears. And "lughole" is an ear canal.

Ignore? Or accept the heart of it? The heart of it is: rest, on a regular basis. And I have told you, time and again, how it is that I personally honour God and God's rest. I did ask you why God would be so petty as to demand that rest be on one particular day only, and condemn all those who love him but honour him on a different day. You didn't answer that. It's good that you honour God on a regular basis each week; I'm glad that you so choose. I think you're going to be awfully upset if you find that the calendar isn't as you think and you find you are sabbathing on, say, Wednesday, or Tuesday. Oops! I do not accept your (church's) assertion that one can know what day the original "7th day" was. Nor do I think it necessary to know.

Do you see how judgmental this sounds? "I agree to differ" but you're sill wrong and you're gonna be shocked come judgment time, because you think you have special exemption and I, Waxit, say that you don't. Waxit, it may be the other way round! You think old laws apply to you and you are actually free from them. Maybe Jesus will say, "Waxit, why do you keep putting yourself into bondage? Do you like shackles, when I paid the price for you? Is what I did somehow not enough for you?"

Ye shall not add unto the word … BUT THEN YOU DO ADD by including the words "7TH DAY SABBATH"!!!!!!

If you were very drunk, you might be p1$$ed as a f@rt. (Why a f@rt, I have no idea.)

Now, here's a misleading one. "I'm p1$$ed." In the UK, this means "I'm drunk," but in the US means "I'm angry/annoyed/unhappy," which in the UK might be "I'm p!$$ed off."

Ecky Thump? Never heard of. I don't like The Two Ronnies. Bit too daft, for my liking. Blackadder could be surprisingly good.

Working in the garden today. So many fallen leaves - you'd think it was autumn. Or, on the other side of the pond, fall.

Waxit, I don't agree at all with you about that, and I can't see anything that will convince me to. I thank you that you've offered a thought-provoking discussion - from the heart in my case, from (it often seems) the website of another church/cult in your case, though I accept that you wholly believe what you are writing. This discussion has caused me to re-examine and deepen some of my theology, but I am not going to put myself under the legalism of another cult. I'm sure you know the old adage: "A man convinced against his will /Is of the same opinion still." We shall just have to agree to differ - your church, differing from almost the whole of the rest of Christianity, which doesn't recognise this 7th day/Saturday stuff. Do check out some of the other threads here. You might get to know some of us better. WordWolf has started a new thread on differences between US English and UK English. You might think of a few examples from some of those other countries you've lived in.

Programmes (not spelling) would have to be very old for me to know them. I haven't had a TV in 30 or more years. I watch things sometimes at friends' houses, and some things (not BBC) I can watch on catch-up over the Net. Don't miss having a TV, listen to excellent programmes on the radio. I was a big Goodies fan, though, in my youth.

Hey, WW, what do you like watching?

Are you queuing for your groceries in the supermarket in the US? Or are you in the line for your shopping at the store?

You're being insulting and arrogant again. No, I'm not answering your questions any more, until you learn to assimilate that which is already written, which, despite your protestations, is an answer. And no thanks, I don't want the free book that your current church is peddling. I don't know anything about Jewish sabbaths, except that the Jews find ways to make life easy for themselves, rather than the severe restrictions that rabbis placed on them. If you were referring to rules in Leviticus and other Books of the Law, these are not Jewish but addressed to all the Israelites and the vast number of hangers-on who travelled with them out of Egypt. Judah should have observed all those Levitical laws; rabbis laid other traditions on top, known as "a hedge around the Torah." These, though perhaps originally kindly meant, ended up being severely restrictive. "Don't light fires" was one such: because a man might need light a fire to heat water to do his job, or to cause metal to melt enough to be worked, etc. But that became "don't light fires even if it's cold or to cook your meal," which is not what God intended. "Don't carry things" was another such tradition: because a man might be carrying his work tools or some necessary thing to facilitate his work. But that became, "don't carry anything on the sabbath" and so (in "recent" times), Jews sew or pin a handkerchief onto their jacket, so that it's "part of the garment" and therefore they're not "carrying it" to blow their noses, which is clearly nonsense. You didn't answer my question: why were you posting here on Saturday mid-afternoon? That'd be "work," wouldn't it?

My answer to you, Waxit: Jesus said, in Matt 11, the following. And I come to him. I take his yoke, which is light and easy. I don't need to try to find my own righteousness, by following the heavy and unfulfillable requirements of the law. Those requirements are set out in detail in (is it?) Leviticus. You can try this too, Waxit: take the yoke of Jesus upon you. Fulfil Jesus's requirements and commandments. You will find them easy, not burdensome.

Yes, you might need a bit of a dictionary to understand some expressions. A lot of novels are by (prolific) US authors. They refer to things that aren't necessarily obvious to a non-US citizen, or talk about places or events that might be commonly understood in the US, but it takes a bit of work with a different geography or history. Well, of course you put things in the boot of a car. A boot might also be a wheel immobiliser (note spelling). And the engine goes under the bonnet (not the hood). A jumper is a dress??? An unbuttoned top garment might be a jumper, sweater, aran, jersey, guernsey (or gansey) and various other things too. Jersey and Guernsey are two of the Channel Islands, and have distinctive knitting patterns. Aran is a Scottish island with distinctive knitting pattern.