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BibleProject
3rd Commandment: Do Not Carry the Name in Vain
If it's not, it's... What's the word?
BibleProject
3rd Commandment: Do Not Carry the Name in Vain
Yeah, Shav.
BibleProject
3rd Commandment: Do Not Carry the Name in Vain
It feels like that's what we're getting at.
BibleProject
3rd Commandment: Do Not Carry the Name in Vain
Does it fulfill its purpose?
BibleProject
3rd Commandment: Do Not Carry the Name in Vain
That's right, yeah.
BibleProject
3rd Commandment: Do Not Carry the Name in Vain
Ruined the purpose.
BibleProject
3rd Commandment: Do Not Carry the Name in Vain
So Shav is actually the negative.
BibleProject
3rd Commandment: Do Not Carry the Name in Vain
Shav is the failure to fulfill the purpose.
BibleProject
3rd Commandment: Do Not Carry the Name in Vain
Yeah, that's it.
BibleProject
3rd Commandment: Do Not Carry the Name in Vain
There's gotta be an English word for that.
BibleProject
3rd Commandment: Do Not Carry the Name in Vain
But it seems like when something's futile, you're saying it had no purpose, right?
BibleProject
3rd Commandment: Do Not Carry the Name in Vain
That's what you're saying.
BibleProject
3rd Commandment: Do Not Carry the Name in Vain
Something's futile.
BibleProject
3rd Commandment: Do Not Carry the Name in Vain
It doesn't actually have a purpose.
BibleProject
3rd Commandment: Do Not Carry the Name in Vain
But if you said something's ineffective,
BibleProject
3rd Commandment: Do Not Carry the Name in Vain
then you're saying it has a purpose.
BibleProject
3rd Commandment: Do Not Carry the Name in Vain
It just didn't actually do the thing it was meant to do.
BibleProject
3rd Commandment: Do Not Carry the Name in Vain
Nugatory.