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mrfixit
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Posted 3/25/2002 8:24 AM (GMT -6)

Do you think "tits" is a good word to use in a pastor's sermon?

Electra
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Posted 3/25/2002 8:34 AM (GMT -6)

quote:
Do you think "tits" is a good word to use in a pastor's sermon?

Do you think that a father calling his son “as worthless as tits on a bull” qualifies as a pastoral concern? Do you think that there might be some fathers or sons in a congregation of 5000 who can relate to an experience like that? Do you think it’s important to reach these men with the good news about what Jesus thinks they’re worth?

Electra

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I can decide what I give
But it’s not up to me
What I get given
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Edited by - Electra on 03/25/2002 3:39:35 PM

PotOnWheel
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Posted 3/25/2002 8:46 AM (GMT -6)

The phonetic spelling would be-e-e "Teeets."

At least that is the way the dariy farmers I've known have pronounced the word.

My brother-in-law who did a "cow dating service" for ABC called them that too. They have antibacterial aplication to put on them to prevent chapping and/or infection.

Moooo

Springs
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Posted 3/25/2002 9:30 AM (GMT -6)

I don't think mispronouncing words during a pastor's sermon is good. For instance pedastle should not be pronouced pedastool.
I also don't think the word bifurcate is good. Just don't like the sound of it. Could be divisive.

What ever can we do?
Should we switch churches?
-S

"The heavens declare the glory of God; the skies proclaim the work of his hands." Ps. 19:1

Edited by - Springs on 03/25/2002 3:55:06 PM

dust
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Posted 3/25/2002 10:29 AM (GMT -6)

Mr. Fixit:

Thanks for logging on and welcome. I’m glad you dared to voice your opinion here. It’s said that this site is open to hearing diverse perspectives on things and your perspective is just as important as any around here. Personally, I don’t come from a background where it would be okay to say such a thing in church but that isn’t my final word on anything.

How do YOU feel about it? Was there something more you had to say?

dust

Psalm 103:13,14
Just as a father has compassion on his children, So the Lord has compassion on those who fear Him.
For He Himself knows our frame; He is mindful that we are but dust.

Electra
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Posted 3/25/2002 10:42 AM (GMT -6)

quote:
The phonetic spelling would be-e-e "Teeets."

At least that is the way the dariy farmers I've known have pronounced the word.

My brother-in-law who did a "cow dating service" for ABC called them that too. They have antibacterial aplication to put on them to prevent chapping and/or infection.

Moooo

Whether its tits or teeets, the point still stands—they don’t belong on a bull.

As for the question about whether they belong in sermons…depends on the context.

Electra

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I can decide what I give
But it’s not up to me
What I get given
•·~ Bjørk

Mephi2K
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Posted 3/25/2002 10:49 AM (GMT -6)

Everyone's entitled to their opinion. So here's mine...

I detest prudery in the church. Just another layer of unreality. Restraint, tact, and propriety is one thing. Prudery and puritanical censorship is another. Of course, there's Paul's "weaker/stronger Christian" idea to consider. But perhaps prudes (like libertines) just need to grow up.

Again, just my opinion.

Opinionated,

Electra
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Posted 3/25/2002 10:49 AM (GMT -6)

quote:
I don't think misprouncing words during a pastor's sermon is good. For instance pedastle should not be pronouced pedastool.

Mispronunciations or improvements? For example, “pedastool” rhymes with “cool,” “drool,” and “snool,” but “pedastle” has virtually no poetic possibilities. Also, I think “obliverate” makes the usual “obliterate” seem tame in comparison.

Electra

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I can decide what I give
But it’s not up to me
What I get given
•·~ Bjørk

Edited by - Electra on 03/25/2002 3:53:26 PM

BJS
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Posted 3/25/2002 10:50 AM (GMT -6)

Good Christian cows do not speak of such vulgar things.

Edited by - bjs on 03/25/2002 4:02:35 PM

Electra
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Posted 3/25/2002 10:52 AM (GMT -6)

quote:
Mr. Fixit:

Thanks for logging on and welcome. I’m glad you dared to voice your opinion here. It’s said that this site is open to hearing diverse perspectives on things and your perspective is just as important as any around here. Personally, I don’t come from a background where it would be okay to say such a thing in church but that isn’t my final word on anything.

How do YOU feel about it? Was there something more you had to say?

dust

Where are my manners???

WELCOME MRFIXIT!!! —AND YOU TOO, DUST!!!

Thanks for sharing. Electra

~·•·~·•·~·•·~·•·~
I can decide what I give
But it’s not up to me
What I get given
•·~ Bjørk

PotOnWheel
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Posted 3/25/2002 11:31 AM (GMT -6)

This GAL was all I could find when i looked for that very funny cow above, on the same website.

I'm just being GOOFY, as I have been since the beginning on this thread. (I apologize to the thread's founder!!! And anyone else.)

Edited by - PotOnWheel on 03/25/2002 7:37:31 PM

PotOnWheel
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Posted 3/25/2002 11:36 AM (GMT -6)

Look, a heffer:

PotOnWheel
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Use your imagination. :}

Springs
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Posted 3/25/2002 12:14 PM (GMT -6)

An entry for the threefold structure of reality thread:

Posts by Pot on Wheel as of 3/25/02

1,333.

Congrats!

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Seymour
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Posted 3/25/2002 3:23 PM (GMT -6)

I once invited my dad to hear a sermon preached by my all time favorite theology professor. Within the opening minute of the sermon he said “tit” once and “hind teeet” (phonetically) twice. It made me blush because I didn’t know what my dad would think of it.

It made it a little better that he was talking about his pet pig who was a runt because he only got the hind teeet of his mother.

Somehow he connected this to the pigs that Jesus sent the demons into and how it wasn’t fair to scapegoat the pigs like that. It was a scandal to him that pigs were unclean when he had many pigs who were clean.

So maybe it was a perfect fit to scandalize the congregation by using the word “tit.” (How’s that for poetic usage?)

EMILY: “Oh, earth, you’re too wonderful for anybody to realize you. Do any human beings ever realize life while they live it?--every, every minute?”
STAGE MANAGER: “No. The saints and poets, maybe--they do some.”

hope
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Posted 3/26/2002 2:27 AM (GMT -6)

It's so good, since hotornot.com thread is dying out, to have another thread to come to for some light hearted humor. Not to over ride the original intent of this thread...

It was really funny though. My cousin's parents were in the service to see their grandchildren sing. When Doc Said "Tit's" Her dad just turned beat red and started chuckling and shaking his head. I couldn't help but be amused by his reaction. Although the story itself was sad.

I think anyone that has attended Woodland Hills for any length of time knows not to expect the norm. And to not expect Doc to be reigned in by by the traditional constraints of the evangelical community. He preaches in tennis shoes for pete's sake! That's one of the things that I love about the church. It's REAL not glossed over.

Hope

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might-be-don
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Posted 3/26/2002 3:02 AM (GMT -6)

As long as he didn't say "boobs on a bull", I think it's ok .

peace and love, don

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hope
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Posted 3/26/2002 3:27 AM (GMT -6)

Might-be-don: As long as he didn't say boobs...

Hope:What about "breasts on a bull"? or pomegranits like in the Song of Solomon?

Hope

1 Corinthians 13:13 "And now these three remain: faith,hope and love. But the greatest of these is love."

PotOnWheel
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Posted 3/26/2002 4:00 AM (GMT -6)

Well, we all had a COW over this.

Well, it was ME who first went *barnyard* on this thread. My appologies to mrfixit

But for those
who speak publicly...
its time
for reflection.

I gather this was not said in Northwest Iowa by big Dutch farmers. They speak of earthy things casually. BUT, they are also very, very homogeneous culturally. Such things are said with an accent.

PROTECT THOSE IN YOUR CHARGE!

might-be-don
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Posted 3/26/2002 4:19 AM (GMT -6)

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Hope:What about "breasts on a bull"? or pomegranits like in the Song of Solomon?

WHoops... I was thinking about ( my apology to John Travolta ) urban cowboys riding mechanical bulls in bars with steerhorns over the doors. You know, boobs on bulls. That would have been a very demeaning comment to make about them there folks.

peace and love, don

A quote from Rev. Gregory A. Boyd, PhD ... " Has anyone seen my keys? "

mrfixit
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Posted 3/26/2002 5:04 AM (GMT -6)

Well, I brought this up because I was curious as to what y'all would say. Greg speaking in such a way, is not all that unexpected. You really never know what he's going to say.

Fortunatly, I was in the atrium in and caught the comment on the televison with not many people around. I rolled on the floor with laughter while a few around wondered what was so funny. Greg is refreshing.

I consider the thread closed and I don't care to comment on the phoenetics or otherwise origins of the word, or politicizing it or anything else. Greg frequently missquotes, misspronouces, etc (e. g. heefer with long e), but that should be a different thread.

I'll quit laughing now...

mrfixit

hope
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Posted 3/26/2002 7:25 AM (GMT -6)

Mr. Fixit, I find it very interesting how much we can read into a question that in and of itself isn't implying anything. Had we seen your face though I'm sure we would've seen that hint of laughter and a gleam in your eye to show your good humor.

Hope

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Seymour
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Posted 3/26/2002 12:46 PM (GMT -6)

What was the context of Doc using the word "tit's" in a sermon???

I'd love to know.

EMILY: “Oh, earth, you’re too wonderful for anybody to realize you. Do any human beings ever realize life while they live it?--every, every minute?”
STAGE MANAGER: “No. The saints and poets, maybe--they do some.”

Semeia
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Posted 3/26/2002 3:03 PM (GMT -6)

Seymour, Electra's first post gives the context. He was talking about negative life scripts that we listen to, as opposed to listening to what God says about us, about us being His spotless bride, His beloved.

He was using it as an example of an abusive statement a person might have heard that comes to define who they think they are: "as worthless as tits on a bull".

It was a powerful sermon.

Semeia

"The opposite of sin is not virtue, but faith."--Soren Kierkegaard

PotOnWheel
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Posted 3/26/2002 4:03 PM (GMT -6)

Caption: Great Tit flying to feeder

Semeia, you got me started again!

The "Tit" must be a British bird.

Edited by - PotOnWheel on 03/26/2002 9:05:06 PM

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Posted 3/28/2002 7:59 AM (GMT -6)

tits tits tits tits tits tits.

"Remember, education is MORE about confronting views you don't hold than absorbing views you already hold.
"~Gregory A Boyd

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