the world

[Laurence Horn]

At 9:36 AM -0400 9/29/04, David Bowie wrote:
>From:    "Mullins, Bill" <Bill.Mullins at US.ARMY.MIL>
>
>: Discussion of "the world" have centered on it being "not in the army"
>: or "not stationed away from home".
>
>: From Wall Street Journal, 4/29/91, article Darby, an advice
>: columnist in the Texas Prison system newspapers.
>: "The current Darby wrote for newspapers "in the world," as inmates
>: describe what's beyond the red-brick prison walls, so submitting stories
>: to the Echo came naturally.
>
>Among adherents of several (generally conservative, in my observation)
>religions, the phrase "the world" is often used to mean something like
>"those who aren't part of our particular belief system", with a connotation
>of "those sinners over there".
>
cf. also "gentile", or "goy"

Larry