2006-12-27 17:47:42 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
That's EXACTLY what I was thinking. You said "He Who Cannot Be Named" and IMMEDIATELY I thought "hey, that's Voldemort!"
Damn... isn't that sad? Just ring a bell and I start salivating. Classical conditioning in all it's splendor.
2006-12-27 17:49:10 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋
What's the problem with somebody else showing some respect in the manner they've been told? Does the world you inhabit have a surplus of respect or something?
2006-12-28 01:57:01 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yeah, so what is with the inability to use the vowel. I think you people are misinterpreting what was meant again. God is also described as not describable and as being beyond understanding. I think more like the Tao than like a bogie man. God has quite a few names, including El Shaddai.
2006-12-28 01:52:45 · answer #3 · answered by Barabas 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Who is Voldemort?
2006-12-28 02:02:14 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Primarily because Christians would affirm God can be named. Jesus stated any who know Him know the Father.
2006-12-28 01:53:19 · answer #5 · answered by Joe Cool 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Jews do not casually write any Name of God. This practice does not come from the commandment not to take the Lord's Name in vain, as many suppose. In Jewish thought, that commandment refers solely to oath-taking, and is a prohibition against swearing by God's Name falsely or frivolously (the word normally translated as "in vain" literally means "for falsehood").
Judaism does not prohibit writing the Name of God per se; it prohibits only erasing or defacing a Name of God. However, observant Jews avoid writing any Name of God casually because of the risk that the written Name might later be defaced, obliterated or destroyed accidentally or by one who does not know better.
The commandment not to erase or deface the name of God comes from Deut. 12:3. In that passage, the people are commanded that when they take over the promised land, they should destroy all things related to the idolatrous religions of that region, and should utterly destroy the names of the local deities. Immediately afterwards, we are commanded not to do the same to our God. From this, the rabbis inferred that we are commanded not to destroy any holy thing, and not to erase or deface a Name of God.
It is worth noting that this prohibition against erasing or defacing Names of God applies only to Names that are written in some kind of permanent form, and recent rabbinical decisions have held that writing on a computer is not a permanent form, thus it is not a violation to type God's Name into a computer and then backspace over it or cut and paste it, or copy and delete files with God's Name in them. However, once you print the document out, it becomes a permanent form. That is why observant Jews avoid writing a Name of God on web sites like this one or in newsgroup messages: because there is a risk that someone else will print it out and deface it.
Normally, we avoid writing the Name by substituting letters or syllables, for example, writing "G-d" instead of "God." In addition, the number 15, which would ordinarily be written in Hebrew as Yod-Heh (10-5), is normally written as Tet-Vav (9-6), because Yod-Heh is a Name. See Hebrew Alphabet for more information about using letters as numerals.
2006-12-28 01:49:27 · answer #6 · answered by ? 4 · 2⤊ 3⤋
Man! I’m converting to the faith of the flying spaghetti monster. He is WAY more lenient when it comes to this stuff.
2006-12-28 01:53:14 · answer #7 · answered by Lilliana 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I really wish the Jews would replace "Adonai" with "You know who".
2006-12-28 01:59:23 · answer #8 · answered by The Man Comes Around 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Oh My God! This is Hilarious!!
2006-12-28 01:49:19 · answer #9 · answered by Joe Schuler 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
it's okay if you write out my entire name
2006-12-28 01:49:50 · answer #10 · answered by JACK 2 · 2⤊ 1⤋