שמע ישראל יהוה אלהינו יהוה אחד
Where Weirdoes Wander!
(Lost in the fog of self-righteousness and a 'publik skool' education.)
Main Entry: Weirdo –
1. A man or woman who is extraordinarily strange or eccentric
2. Informal: a person who behaves in a bizarre or eccentric manner
3. A deranged, potentially dangerous person.
Pronunciation: 'wir·dō
Function: noun; slang
Inflected Form(s): plural weird·os; also weird·oes
Date: circa 1955
I love the World Wide Web, don't you? One can meet such a varied and interesting set of weirdos 'out' there. It makes for some interesting and, often times, amusing web surfing. This is especially the case if you, like me, have been to ump-teen web-sites, mIRC chat rooms and even the Pal-Talk system. I have often wondered as of late if the reason so many (so few, actually, in relation to the numbers in other organized religions) people call themselves 'messie-anic Towrah keepers', 'Sabbath keepers', etc, etc is based exclusively on the proclivity (propensity, tendency, inclination, predisposition, penchant, predilection or what have you) to be such weirdos that main stream xtians would not associate with them so that they had to find another outlet to feel 'holy' while retaining much, if not all of the xtianity precepts and tenets they learned all their lives, excepting minor changes of course– Whew! Some tsiytsith here, a different 'roast kosher hot dogs sing cum by yahYahh' day there. A motley kind of 'nah-nah nuh nah-nahhh' type of religious play-acting and a misguided association with a provable by Towrah standards –condemned– religious system– Whew!
This particular set of 'bloviates' will be dedicated to many of the 'lacking in fore thought, ignorant, foolish, self-absorbed, idiotic, mentally deficient, frivolous, pretentious, droll, self-righteous and ludicrous, self-proclaimed rabbonnies [sic]*1, prophets and teachers, astoopit [sic] and just plain braggadocios jactitatous (false boastings or claims)...well, you get the picture by now– things that have "reared an ugly head".
It is especially amusing when the faction or individual involved goes to great lengths to voluntarily raise their head! And so many numerous individuals do volunteer; almost to the point of begging. Des moi!
Hopefully these 'bloviates' will be somewhat amusing to you, but maybe you will learn something as well.
Q:
"I'd like to ask you a question, but I am afraid of ending up on your 'weerdo' [sic] page. You seem pretty harsh to them. What are your criteeria [sic] for just answering somebody without embarrassing them?"
A:
"First, please note that I have had this web-site for almost five years (07-2007 to 01-2012). During that time I have revamped it several times– adding and removing articles, link pages, study pages, correcting bad 'Ibriy (Hebrew), spelling and grammer mistakes, uploading new His Name Tanakh versions etc, etc. I have received numerous emails asking questions, informing me about mistakes (thanks, I do appreciate that) and just plain disagreeing with me (and that is ok, too). The vast majority of what I receive is well written and even when disagreeing with me or stating flat-out a dislike for something I have written, usually polite."
During that five year period of time I have put two wWw pages up on this web-site, although I have received more than two rather nasty emails (I did not find them funny enough to warrant a 'page'). The two pages in this section fall under the same categories– self-righteous foolishness.
The first one They Call Me Rabonnie (Shaving god on the mountain-top!) involves a group that somehow managed to get my personal email address, and although I did not know any of them, they passed it around and proceeded to spam me as well as send unsolicited er, uhm, teachings to me. After I politely requested that they stop, the 'high-prophet-priest' got a little testy and refused to stop spamming me. Even after Mr. Testy's rather self-aggrandizing email I continued to get more invitation-spam to this non-existent prayer group he claimed I was being invited to (all the links were to his web-site) and I ultimately had to change my email address. That last holyized-writ [sic] is the email which is posted at the above link. When someone asks you to leave them alone– you really ought to. Please read the article.
The second one nv8: The GREAT (Prophet, proPHET on tHe WALL who's the GreaTEST of thEm ALL?) was just plain idiotic. There is no other way to describe it. Staying up until the wee-hours of the night to cut-and-paste pictures from someone's web-site and email those pictures to them (like, uh, I've seen them a'ready!) and make different cOloreD aNd diFferEnt sIzed fOnts is ridiculous enough, but the inane platitudes and the inference that I have disregard for learning was a bit much. The change from happy-orange to purple-passion-rage was a nice touch, though. When someone tells you to leave them alone– you really ought to. Please read the article.
*1 – Sic is a Latin word meaning thus, so, as such, or just as that. In writing, it is placed within square brackets and usually italicized–[sic]–to indicate that an incorrect or unusual spelling, phrase, punctuation, and/or other preceding quoted material has been reproduced verbatim from the quoted original and is not a transcription error.
It had a long vowel in Latin (sīc), meaning that it was pronounced /'si:k/ (like the English word, "seek"); however, it is normally anglicized to /'sɪk/ (like the English word, "sick"). -
Wikipedia
It is also often used in original works to indicate the author made a deliberate mistake for the sake of emphasis.
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