[Vision2020] Your Baptism "i Faderens og Sønne ns og den Helligaands Navn"

[Nick Gier]

>Date: Fri, 08 Dec 2006 10:36:35 -0800
>To: Andreas Schou <ophite at gmail.com>
>From: Nick Gier <ngier at uidaho.edu>
>Subject: Re: [Vision2020] Your Baptism "i Faderens og Sønne ns og den 
>Helligaands Navn"
>
>Greetings:
>
>Since a native son Andreas has thrown the first stone at the alleged 
>beauty of the Danish language, I will now cast my stone. Because of my 
>knowledge of German, I was reading Danish in three months, but I am still 
>struggling with the pronunciation after 40 years.  Even Danes say that 
>Danish sounds as if someone is speaking with a mouth full of potatoes.
>
>I now wish I had married a Norwegian or Swede so that I would have had a 
>chance to speak a really beautiful Scandinavian language.
>
>Thanks to Ralph for the best belly laugh on the Vision in a great 
>while.  I thought Kirkers were supposed to be kings of humor, but 
>heirdoug, incredibly enough, wanted a biblical reference for baptism 
>"wearing off." That, as my mom always said, "takes the cake" for obtuseness!
>
>Nick Gier

"Truth is the summit of being; justice is the application of it to human 
affairs."
--Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Abstract truth has no value unless it incarnates in human beings who 
represent it, by proving their readiness to die for it."
  --Mohandas Gandhi

"Modern physics has taught us that the nature of any system cannot be 
discovered by dividing it into its component parts and studying each part 
by itself. . . .We must keep our attention fixed on the whole and on the 
interconnection between the parts. The same is true of our intellectual 
life. It is impossible to make a clear cut between science, religion, and 
art. The whole is never equal simply to the sum of its various parts." 
--Max Planck

Nicholas F. Gier
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