Word For The Day, A Day of Sorrow, 9/12/01

The Verbivores | 9/12/01 | Teacher

[RikaStrom]

Today is a day of sorrow, pain and coming together. There will be no grades given today. Please come in and let your fellows know you are alive and well and offer sympathy and comfort to each other. Please keep praying that we will find more survivors in the rubble.

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gehenna \: gi-'he-n&\, noun

1. A place or state of torment or suffering.
2. The abode of condemned souls; hell.
3. A place where the wicked are punished after death

4. A deep, narrow glen to the south of Jerusalem, where the idolatrous Jews offered their children in sacrifice to Molech (2 Chr. 28:3; 33:6; Jer. 7:31; 19:2-6). This valley afterwards became the common receptacle for all the refuse of the city. Here the dead bodies of animals and of criminals, and all kinds of filth, were cast and consumed by fire kept always burning. It thus in process of time became the image of the place of everlasting destruction. In this sense it is used by our Lord in Matt. 5:22, 29, 30; 10:28; 18:9; 23:15, 33; Mark 9:43, 45, 47; Luke 12:5. In these passages, and also in James 3:6, the word is uniformly rendered "hell," the Revised Version placing "Gehenna" in the margin.

Etymology: Late Latin, from Greek Geenna, from Hebrew GE' HinnOm, literally, valley of Hinnom. Date: 1594

[RikaStrom]

Good Morning Class. Those of you, who are here, please let us know who you’ve had contact with and who we are missing.

I actually picked this word for yesterday. I find that rather odd. I know many of the sentences today will be along the same lines. That’s ok. Here is my example with WFTD:

The horror of yesterday has taken a toll on how reasonable I am likely to be when listening to the idiotic liberals spout their nonsense of “don’t respond with violence”. The devil take that. I want us to respond with violence. An act of war was committed upon us by the most vile of cowards. He and his suicide bombers are not going to find their version of heaven when they die, they are going to be in Gehenna, with the devil’s pitchfork inserted in their murderous arses!

Review Thread One

Review Thread Two

[RikaStrom]

Please come in, sound off and let us know that you and yours are well.

[RikaStrom]

Please come in, sound off and let us know that you and yours are well.

[RikaStrom]

Please come in, sound off and let us know that you and yours are well.

[CholeraJoe]

First with tears in my eyes.

[RikaStrom]

Please come in, sound off and let us know that you and yours are well.

[xsmommy]

am i a sad second?

[RikaStrom]

Please come in, sound off and let us know that you and yours are well.

[RikaStrom]

Please come in, sound off and let us know that you and yours are well.

[RikaStrom]

Please come in, sound off and let us know that you and yours are well.

[RikaStrom]

Hi you two. I am glad you are both safe and sound. I have a bunch of people driving in from various places as they were not able to land where they were intending to go. So far, we are all wee.

I have to go notarize some things, and maybe by the time I get there, my eyes will have cleared.

[CholeraJoe]

am i a sad second?

Yup.

Homework, Miss Rika: Congress must declare war on the responsible individuals and the countries that harbor them. The military and inteliigence organizations will then send them to Gehenna.

[Argh]

I hope Silly's OK. Since hearing about this I've been too outraged and, last night, nauseated, to feel much sadness. Gehenna's too good for those bastards. You all have my best wishes.

[xsmommy]

Local DC news reporting that 80 bodies have been removed from the Pentagon, no survivors. No school today, liberal leave for fed employees.

Yesterday was surreal, today begins Gehenna....

[lovecraft]

I vote for a change of the word of the day. The new word is....

BLOOD.

Blood was shed on the streets. Now I want blood to run in the desert. I want blood...

[CholeraJoe]

I've heard from Silly and he's still free and well. xs heard from hobbes1 and he's ok too. Loan Palm was posting eyewitness accounts yesterday.

[Roebucks]

Mournful heart for America and the familes of all involved.

May God Bless you all and may God Bless America!

All of us were afected either directly or indirectly yesterday. I pray America awakens from its slumber with the righteous rage to combat this evil.

[Argh]

Re your sentence: I couldn't make myself stick around for details, but last night one of the Seattle TV stations reported about 100 people were protesting downtown there against "over-reaction". Bloody douchebags.

[Slip18]

Silly sounded okay on a thread last night. He was describing what it felt like to be in the Manhattan Gihenna. He was just quite tired from the stress of it all.

Manhattan Gihenna sounds like a cocktail!

[Argh]

That's a relief, thanks guys.