The Nice People Thread, No.16: A Universe of Niceness.

SingleSue

silvercar wrote: »

Amazing result. Not least because I think there is a big jump between gcse and anything further.

At the moment the maths module is amongst his strongest peformances. He is studying hard though and not just coasting along as a lot of the stuff in it he has never seen or experienced before.

Apparently calculus is weirdly weird but enjoyable according to him and algebra is easy!

Strange boy.....

Pyxis

I've just been doing a Codeword puzzle, and came across a word I hadn't seen before so had to look it up: dybbuk.

Silver, you may know it, as it's a Jewish word, relating a malevolent dislocated soul.

(Erm...... not because you have a lot to do with dislocated malevolent souls, but because of its Jewish origins! )


Wiki says:

"In Jewish mythology, a dybbuk (Yiddish: dabaq from the Hebrew verb meaning "adhere" or "cling") is a malicious possessing spirit believed to be the dislocated soul of a dead person. It supposedly leaves the host body once it has accomplished its goal, sometimes after being helped.[1][2]"

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dybbuk


* the first a is supposed to have a little bar over the top and the b is supposed to have a little underscore, but the Unicode ban meant that it, and the Hebrew letters, were turned into berserk numbers and exclamations, so have had to edit as best I can!

silvercar

Pyxis wrote: »

I've just been doing a Codeword puzzle, and came across a word I hadn't seen before so had to look it up: dybbuk.

Silver, you may know it, as it's a Jewish word, relating a malevolent dislocated soul.

(Erm...... not because you have a lot to do with dislocated malevolent souls, but because of its Jewish origins! )


Wiki says:

"In Jewish mythology, a dybbuk (Yiddish: dabaq from the Hebrew verb meaning "adhere" or "cling") is a malicious possessing spirit believed to be the dislocated soul of a dead person. It supposedly leaves the host body once it has accomplished its goal, sometimes after being helped.[1][2]"

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dybbuk


* the first a is supposed to have a little bar over the top and the b is supposed to have a little underscore, but the Unicode ban meant that it, and the Hebrew letters, were turned into berserk numbers and exclamations, so have had to edit as best I can!

Definitely should keep away from dybbuks. Souls are meant to go to Heaven, so one hanging around having been separated from the person but not gone to heaven is bad news.

Pyxis

silvercar wrote: »

Definitely should keep away from dybbuks. Souls are meant to go to Heaven, so one hanging around having been separated from the person but not gone to heaven is bad news.

Well, I keep a string of special stones at my doors, to keep bad witches out, and that works, ('cos never seen any bad witches by here), so maybe it works for dybbuks too?

Or, could put up a sign saying No Hawkers, Circulars, Politicians or Dybbuks.



Seriously, though, is there a differentiation between souls who are just lost and need guidance to get into Heaven and souls who have become malevolent, or are all such souls ipso facto malevolent?








Ps. Had to laugh....... autocarrot turned 'ipso' into 'iPhone' :rotfl:
Obviously not a Latin scholar autocarrot! :rotfl:

silvercar

Some explanations here. I don't really know much about it, other than they are bad news.

https://www.ranker.com/list/scary-stories-about-the-jewish-dybbuk/lyra-radford

Seriously, though, is there a differentiation between souls who are just lost and need guidance to get into Heaven and souls who have become malevolent, or are all such souls ipso facto malevolent?

Souls are generally thought to take up to a year to get to heaven. Close relatives/ friends of the deceased often take on extra praying/ good deeds/ charity work in that time to help the soul reach Heaven. I think the view is that even lost souls won't take more than a year.

Serious religious scholars sometimes study this sort of mysticism that is thought to be way too advanced for ordinary folk.

GDB may know more??

Pyxis

silvercar wrote: »

Some explanations here. I don't really know much about it, other than they are bad news.

https://www.ranker.com/list/scary-stories-about-the-jewish-dybbuk/lyra-radford



Souls are generally thought to take up to a year to get to heaven. Close relatives/ friends of the deceased often take on extra praying/ good deeds/ charity work in that time to help the soul reach Heaven. I think the view is that even lost souls won't take more than a year.

Serious religious scholars sometimes study this sort of mysticism that is thought to be way too advanced for ordinary folk.

GDB may know more??

That link was interesting......... the dybbuk box etc.

Reminds me of The Turn of the Screw and how the children were gradually taken over by what would have been the dybbuks of Quint and the governess.



That's very interesting about souls taking a year to get to Heaven........... I shall ponder on that.

silvercar

All quiet here!

I've been away for a family weekend in central England with OHs family. Now home to recover!

Pyxis

I've been wondering about Pastures............


Pastures, did you get your tooth sorted out?

michaels

So the lack of spring whilst pretty miserable for the kids, has had the advantage that apart from a few days at the end of Jan my hay fever hasn't been too bad...unfortunately that has resulted on spring happening all at once for all the trees over the last few days and I am suffering and how

LydiaJ

michaels wrote: »

So the lack of spring whilst pretty miserable for the kids, has had the advantage that apart from a few days at the end of Jan my hay fever hasn't been too bad...unfortunately that has resulted on spring happening all at once for all the trees over the last few days and I am suffering and how

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