the world

[Beverly Flanigan]

At 03:38 PM 9/29/2004, you wrote:
>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

"in the world, but not of the world," is the phrase I recall.