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condor
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What does the word god mean to you??
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Nothing. I pray to dog because i'm dyslexic
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the Supreme Being and the principal object of faith
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Dig me...But don't...Bury me
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Who ??
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leave me out of this, you heathen
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god (n.)Old English god "supreme being, deity; the Christian God; image of a god; godlike person," from Proto-Germanic *guthan(source also of Old Saxon, Old Frisian, Dutchgod, Old High German got, German Gott, Old Norse guð, Gothic guþ), from PIE *ghut-"that which is invoked" (source also of Old Church Slavonic zovo "to call," Sanskrit huta-"invoked," an epithet of Indra), from root*gheu(e)- "to call, invoke."
But some trace it to PIE *ghu-to- "poured," from root *gheu- "to pour, pour a libation" (source of Greek khein "to pour," also in the phrase khute gaia "poured earth," referring to a burial mound; see found (v.2)). "Given the Greek facts, the Germanic form may have referred in the first instance to the spirit immanent in a burial mound" [Watkins]. See also Zeus. In either case, not related togood. Popular etymology has long derived Godfrom good; but a comparison of the forms ... shows this to be an error. Moreover, the notion of goodness is not conspicuous in the heathen conception of deity, and ingood itself the ethical sense is comparatively late. [Century Dictionary, 1902] Originally a neuter noun in Germanic, the gender shifted to masculine after the coming of Christianity. Old English godprobably was closer in sense to Latinnumen. A better word to translate deusmight have been Proto-Germanic *ansuz, but this was used only of the highest deities in the Germanic religion, and not of foreign gods, and it was never used of the Christian God. It survives in English mainly in the personal names beginning in Os-. I want my lawyer, my tailor, my servants, even my wife to believe in God, because it means that I shall be cheated and robbed and cuckolded less often. ... If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him. [Voltaire] God bless you after someone sneezes is credited to St. Gregory the Great, but the pagan Romans (Absit omen) and Greeks had similar customs. God's gift to _____ is by 1938. God of the gaps means "God considered solely as an explanation for anything not otherwise explained by science;" the exact phrase is from 1949, but the words and the idea have been around since 1894. God-forbids was rhyming slang for kids ("children"). God squad "evangelical organization" is 1969 U.S. student slang.God's acre "burial ground" imitates or partially translates German Gottesacker, where the second element means "field;" the phrase dates to 1610s in English but was noted as a Germanism as late as Longfellow. How poore, how narrow, how impious a measure of God, is this, that he must doe, as thou wouldest doe, if thou wert God. [John Donne, sermon preached in St. Paul's Jan. 30, 1624/5] Related Entriesdemigodfoundgiddygod-awfulgodchildgod-damngod-daughtergoddessgodfathergod-fearinggodforsakengodfreygodheadgodismgodlessgodlikegodlygodmothergodparentgodsendSee all related words (30) Share Alphabetical list gobo gobsmacked goby go-by go-cart god god-awful godchild god-damn god-daughter goddess ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ IntroductionSourcesLinks 词根词源词典 App微信公众号 Who did thisFollow us on Facebook Donate with PayPalYe Olde Swag ShoppeSponsored Words Web design and development by MaoningTech. © 2001-2017 Douglas Harper |
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I usually use the word as part of cursing to be honest. The concept of a god is meaningless to me. I'm as connected to religion as I am to the illuminati or the flat Earth brigade.
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Ultimately bored by endless ecstasy!
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The dumbest invention of mankind - apparently Gods is a better idea than A God. Hell (also a bad idea), even the atom bomb is a better idea.
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For the thousandth time, Jimi Hendrix.
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A John Lennon song.
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The Gates Of Delirium
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It's dog spelled backwards
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While my temptation -- not like the last temptation of Christ -- would be to merely pull a dictionary definition of God, I perceive God as a fabricated construct of man that can lead to, and be a part of, dangerous delusions.
I'm an agnostic atheist, by the way, although I'm quite a hard atheist, as I can't say with certainty that a god in some form could not exist, but I don't believe that God is a necessary assumption and see God as a persistent notion of stone age thinking when man understood much less about the cosmos. The vaguer the conception of god the more likely (I could posit), but one can, in a sense, define God into existence. Condor, what does God mean to you? |
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Just a fanboy passin' through.
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^hell yeah absolutely nothing
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Endless Love
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"The wind is slowly tearing her apart"
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Something For Nothing all the way
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