10 Things You Didn't Know about Ruth

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  • Mormon Red Death
    BYU Delenda Est
    • Nov 2008
    • 8077

    #16
    Since this is the lesson next sunday I therefore bump this thread
    "Be a philosopher. A man can compromise to gain a point. It has become apparent that a man can, within limits, follow his inclinations within the arms of the Church if he does so discreetly." - The Walking Drum

    "And here’s what life comes down to—not how many years you live, but how many of those years are filled with bullshit that doesn’t amount to anything to satisfy the requirements of some dickhead you’ll never get the pleasure of punching in the face." – Adam Carolla

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    • Babs
      Not a Lawyer
      • Nov 2008
      • 17128

      #17
      Originally posted by ERCougar View Post
      I was sharing this with my wife and she offered an 11th fact...
      Oprah was supposed to be named after Orpah but her mother misspelled it. Probably a fortunate error.
      Not true. Her name is legally (or was at her birth) Orpah. It was in pronunciation only that it became Oprah. It's interesting that people assume that the mother misspelled her daughter's name. I can't help but wonder Oprah's socioeconomic upbringing has anything to do with that.

      Nice post, KL.

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      • RC Vikings
        Known Heterosexual
        • Nov 2008
        • 8789

        #18
        I bet you didn't know that he still holds some World Series pitching records. Truly the greatest player the game has ever seen.

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        • Green Lantern
          Has overcome great fear
          • Aug 2009
          • 2289

          #19
          Using this in my lesson with the 16 year olds today. Thanks KL.
          Kids in general these days seem more socially retarded...

          None of them date. They hang out. They text. They sit in the same car or room and don't say a word...they text. Then, they go home and whack off to internet porn.

          I think that's the sad truth about why these kids are retards.

          --Portland Ute

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          • Green Lantern
            Has overcome great fear
            • Aug 2009
            • 2289

            #20
            Originally posted by Katy Lied View Post
            I love the Old Testament. It is filled with earthy stories of men and women living in the dirt and chasing a hardscrabble existence filled with superstition and fear and freakishly odd customs and being terribly cruel to each other, and at the same time walking and talking with God on a daily basis.
            I nominate this blurb for the cover of the next OT Sunday School manual.
            Kids in general these days seem more socially retarded...

            None of them date. They hang out. They text. They sit in the same car or room and don't say a word...they text. Then, they go home and whack off to internet porn.

            I think that's the sad truth about why these kids are retards.

            --Portland Ute

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            • LA Ute
              Receiver of Memory
              • Nov 2008
              • 19512

              #21
              Originally posted by Katy Lied View Post
              I've been researching Ruth in hopes of being able to speak about her in an upcoming Sacto Talk assignment, but it's probably not appropriate. Nevertheless, if you study related accounts like the Hebrew-Engish Bible, or writings from http://www.torah.org or even wikipedia, you get a lot more backstory. Can't vouch for the veracity of these items (who can) but interesting nonetheless.
              We had this lesson in GD today and so I dug up this thread on my Droid. It added a lot of interesting background for me personally but I didn't bring up any of these points in class because of the bolded language. Thanks, KL!
              “There is a great deal of difference in believing something still, and believing it again.”
              ― W.H. Auden


              "God made the angels to show His splendour - as He made animals for innocence and plants for their simplicity. But men and women He made to serve Him wittily, in the tangle of their minds."
              -- Robert Bolt, A Man for All Seasons


              "It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye."
              --Antoine de Saint-Exupery

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