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Belated Blessings... or Early ones for Lughnasadh? 🤭

Late, as I have been away, but hope all who celebrate it had a good one

May your Gods and Goddesses be around you, may your Kith be with you, may your kin be healthy and and happy. May you find inspiration and sustenance of spirit.

Solstice blessings to all on here at the height of the season. 

 

On 5/24/2021 at 11:01 PM, Stonehugger said:

Maybe DV is a bit of a code; a special handshake; a shibboleth.

For some, maybe.  But others just hope to be asked what it means or why they are saying it.  It's all about conversations to evangelicals.

Maybe DV is a bit of a code; a special handshake; a shibboleth.

(This conversation is making me think of the "wee donkey" in Line of Duty.)

Edited May 24 by Stonehugger

Well, I suppose if you exclaim the name of someone else's deity, it is suitably meaningless and innocuous to the exclaimer.  Thinking about it, I occasionally use "Jesus wept" - old habit from way back, probably even my pre-Christian days, let alone pre-pagan.

Regarding "god willing", I know Christians who use that habitually, or even "DV", though it escapes me as to why strongly anti-catholic types would refer to Latin.  I do have an issue with it - for the evangelicals, it is part of their evangelising strategy to advertise their "faith" and "dependence on god".  At best (as they see it), it will give them the chance to start a "conversation" (thinly veiled personal preaching session), and at worst, it is a form of subliminal planting of a message.

And that issue is quite apart from the fact I've never seen an instance of god's will that is not, quite clearly, based on the desires of the individual human.

I didn’t have a problem with Insha’llah, whatever we were discussing would probably get done.

 What I didn’t want to hear was: IBM:-   Insha’llah, ‘Bukra,’ and ‘Ma’lesh,

It is said with very varying degrees of sincerity and means God willing, tomorrow, whatever (who cares?)

 Salt has been very precious so spilling it mattered and was obviously the devil’s fault.

 When I tried to explain de-icing roads in the uk the first thing I was asked was, “How do you get it back?”

 How many Pagans yell or mutter, “Good God” or “Christ!” Or even “bloody”?
 

On 5/20/2021 at 11:45 PM, hedgerose said:

the Beduin community, and wider Muslim community peppering their speech with God Willing

My daughter lives in Dubai and says that "inshallah" [God willing] means "I'll do it when/if I get round to it!"

Edited May 23 by Stonehugger