The Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant Megathread

[crazy canuck]

I too can define my own data set to get whatever result I want.

Exactly the point. 

[Barrister]

Also NIMBYism is almost as fun to say as fungible.

My favorite word is "Thixotropic", meaning to lose viscocity if mechanical energy is applied to a fluid, like how if you shake ketchup is starts flowing.

My favourite word is aa.  It's a type of lava.  You pronounce each "a" separately, like "ah-ah".

[crazy canuck]

Also NIMBYism is almost as fun to say as fungible.

My favorite word is "Thixotropic", meaning to lose viscocity if mechanical energy is applied to a fluid, like how if you shake ketchup is starts flowing.

My favourite word is aa.  It's a type of lava.  You pronounce each "a" separately, like "ah-ah".

So most people thing you are an alcoholic with a speech impediment?

[sbr]

Onomatopoeia for me.

[derspiess]

Mine has been Platyhelminthes since high school.

[Admiral Yi]

"Ostensible"

[Jacob]

Oleaginous and egregious are personable favourites of mine.

[DGuller]

Mine is "intractable". 

[mongers]

For what it's worth, Humanity.

[grumbler]

Defenestration.

[Valmy]

The bolded bit: the thing is NONE OF THEM ARE TRUE. Their religions are not fact so there is no such thing as "true religion" since no religion is true. Islam is what muslims do while practicing Islam.

Thanks for that Viking.  Here I thought all religions were true.

[Ed Anger]

Live air strike on CNN. My insta boner broke a lamp.

[Martinus]

I like "orthogonal".

[Eddie Teach]

You people sure like a lot of lame words. 

[Viking]

The bolded bit: the thing is NONE OF THEM ARE TRUE. Their religions are not fact so there is no such thing as "true religion" since no religion is true. Islam is what muslims do while practicing Islam.

Thanks for that Viking.  Here I thought all religions were true.

I think you missed the point. Islam, like all other religions, is not based on truth. So ultimately there is no such thing as "true Islam" or "real Islam". There is no such thing as "having a wrong interpretation" or "misunderstanding the real meaning of christmas". There is only what people do and the reasons they do what they do.

You can't say that Abu-Bakr-Al-Baghdadi has somehow misunderstood Islam or has a wrong interpretation of it. This is no such thing as a correct understanding of Islam and there is no such thing as a correct interpretation. It's all fiction.