How to pronounce “forsaken” in English

Right now, I could strangle Guitar Ted through his wolf man beard, curl up on Trinity's porch and beg Pastor Mike for forgiveness and sanctuary, 'safe in God's hands'. This whole thing, pogoingaround pantless in some forsaken hamlet on a diet of power bars and gas station coffee, waiting in the deep-freeze for a pack of bicyclists, for the love of God? Right now, I blame GuitarTed. We are tracking the Trans Iowa, a 300 plus mile, non-stop, endurance bike race through some of Iowa's most beautiful and least vehicle hospitable quadrants. A race, entirely the

committees, marked by fits and starts, fights and full-stops, conducted by a combative group of exhausted, drunken, broke, petty, partisan, scheming, squabbling, bloviating, back-stabbing,grandstanding, god-forsaken, posturing, restless, cow-tipping, homesick, cloistered, claustrophobic, sensory-deprived, under-oxygenated, fed up, talked out, overheated delegates so distraughtand despairing they threatened violence, secession, foreign allegiance and even prayer.

Similar thoughts had no doubt wondered to the mind of the rest of us, but we were wary of articulating them.I settled here and here I am still in this house in a forsaken wilderness.

In a last ditch attempt at self-assessment I decided to look at my life through the eyes of loved ones, for they see everything, especially the ugly.From years of drug use, from lying with, to lying to angels, friends I had forsaken taking so much more than I had given.I streamlined self-centeredness into a science, but there was a righteousness there.

at MIT got all pumped up out of their minds because they wirelessly transmitted energy a distance of seven feet through the air. Nikola Tesla once light 200 light bulbs froma power source 26 miles away and he did it in 1899 with a machine he built from spare parts in the middle of a god-forsaken wasteland of a mountain range. To this day, nobody canreally figure out how the hell he pulled that crap off because two-thirds of the schematics existed only in the darkest recesses of Tesla's brain.