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It is a strange, stark, scary, wonderful, desperately sad, terrifyingly eye opening, amazing thing when finally seeing you’ve held inconsistent or opposing ideas that simply cannot coexist and therefore undermine and undercut each other.
Strange because it has not been seen before. The thoughts in opposition have lain deep below conscious thought.
Assumptions are beliefs we don’t think about but do act upon. They are a hidden or subconscious thoughts from which our attitudes, actions, behaviour or decisions can be made.
Dictionary: “Something accepted as true without proof”
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I came across a clip the other day exploring the meaning of the Hebrew word for ‘placenta’. I don’t know if it’s a bit of a stretch but having done some of my own scratching around I do find it plausible. The word in Hebrew is “shilyah” and it covers not only the placenta but also the afterbirth/umbilical cord and is also used as “toward her young one”.
‘Shilyah’ is a compound word made of “shil” (Shilo) and “Yah”.
‘Shilo’ means: “The one to whom it belongs”.
“Yah” (or Jah) being: a short form of Yahweh the proper name of God Hebrew Bible.
So what?
Referring to the entire contents of the womb, the products of conception… “Shilyah – The One to whom it belongs – Yahweh”
“”Presque vu” from French, meaning “almost seen” is the tip of the tongue phenomenon, in which you know that you know something, but can’t quite recall it.
“Jamais vu” is the feeling that something familiar appears strange and unfamiliar. It is the opposite of “déjà vu”, which is the feeling of familiarity that occurs in an unfamiliar/new context.”
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It still amuses me after all these years that when a child asks a question or the meaning of a word it so often turns out to NOT to be the question or answer that first crosses my mind.
This mornings word meaning/question was “Mum, what is a mistress?”
Continue reading “Mismatched definitions”
There are three ways I see the word disappointment used.
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When I was a teenager working in my main place of employment there was a dude who worked in a different department who utterly scared the whoops out of me within my first week or two. I saw him frequently around the place and others in my department always walked with me through a certain section where he was known to often be. And if I was alone I always walked the loooong way round.
Continue reading “Long range fright”
More than once I’d have heard Pastors/teachers speak about how when we believe we’ve heard something from God, we need to stick absolutely to the purity of what He said, but that we have a tendency to add.
Continue reading “Adding to His voice”