COMPLETELY off topic!

[naamagatus]

--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at y..., "catlady_de_los_angeles" <catlady at w...> 
wrote:
> 
> Except, said the lecturer, that the word 'shalom' which we 
translate 
> 'peace' really is more closely related to meanings 
like 'contentment' 
> and 'satifaction' ('equilibrium', he said, but I don't understand 
> that at all). And Shulamittu, 'the satisfier', as a title of Ishtar 
> had, he said, an explicitly sexual meaning. Ishtar is a very sexual 
> goddess, but she *satisfies* by giving food and by giving victory 
as 
> well as by sex...

Sorry, but 'shalom' translates quite closely to 'peace', although it 
is etymologicaly related to 'shalem', meaning 'whole'. BTW, there is 
a certain brand of academics who go for the sexual angle, almost at 
all costs. I don't quite know how to describe this attitude - a kind 
of sophisticated eroticism or whatever. Also a good way to draw 
students to deadly dull courses. I've just about had it, anyway.


Naama, who thinks sleazy professors are sleazier than anything else