beLIEve

  • ღ*KiM*ღ
    18 years ago

    Yeah it's like shark.
    Emphasise the word shARK and hey - you have Noah's ark on your hands! I mean how weird is that?
    [Notice the sarcasm]

    I don't see what your point is?

  • Kevin
    18 years ago

    Coincidence? Are you sure Angelina?

    The word "believe" is an overly simple example of what the thread creator was trying to say I think. A word like;

    "disease" is a better one when you break it down. An insult to ease? To health...or a disability to being healthy? What is even more interesting is the word;

    "Therapist" Which if you break it down can become "The Rapist". Strange eh? then do the same for words like "Wonderful"...taken as they sound when broken down you either have;

    "Full of wonder" or "Wonder fool"

    Coincidence...as they great[?] Carl Sagan is fond of saying...I'll let you decide.

  • Bret Higgins
    18 years ago

    The entymology of the word is not as straight forward as most people would think.

    believe Look up believe at Dictionary.com
    O.E. belyfan, earlier geleafa (Mercian), gelefa (Northumbrian), gelyfan (W.Saxon) "believe," from P.Gmc. *ga-laubjan "hold dear, love," from PIE base *leubh- "to like, desire" (see love). Spelling beleeve is common till 17c.; then altered perhaps by influence of relieve. As a synonym for "Christian," believer is attested from 1549. To believe on instead of in was more common in 16c. but now is a peculiarity of theology; believe of also sometimes was used in 17c.

  • Bret Higgins
    18 years ago

    Ok, write a poem about it and let us know when it's done.

  • Kevin
    18 years ago

    Being full of wonder
    and a fool
    those who see may call me
    beautiful

    In my mind less of a dis
    ease that I forget
    they try to make me hot
    but I stay cool.

    I wrote this in 39 seconds, roughly...I know I know...genius....yeah...hear it all the time...

  • Italian Stallion
    18 years ago

    bump