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Started by Admiral Yi, July 22, 2009, 03:15:40 PM

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Sheilbh

#2281
March 13, 2013, 09:39:39 PM
Quote from: jimmy olsen on March 13, 2013, 08:01:28 AM
Quote from: Sheilbh on March 10, 2013, 08:52:52 PM
Yeah. Day's up. Ibn Hanbal.

I quite liked the story. It does highlight what's always struck me, that that story isn't necessarily about unconditional forgiveness and tolerance which is often how its presented.
Elaborate
....On what?
Let's bomb Russia!

jimmy olsen

#2282
March 13, 2013, 11:08:55 PM Last Edit: March 13, 2013, 11:12:23 PM by jimmy olsen
Quote from: Admiral Yi on March 13, 2013, 09:00:33 PM
dynsaty?
dynasty!  :mad:

Now stop using my typos to distract the masses from the fact that you don't know your motherland's history.
It is far better for the truth to tear my flesh to pieces, then for my soul to wander through darkness in eternal damnation.

Jet: So what kind of woman is she? What's Julia like?
Faye: Ordinary. The kind of beautiful, dangerous ordinary that you just can't leave alone.
Jet: I see.
Faye: Like an angel from the underworld. Or a devil from Paradise.
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jimmy olsen

#2283
March 13, 2013, 11:10:20 PM
Quote from: Sheilbh on March 13, 2013, 09:39:39 PM
Quote from: jimmy olsen on March 13, 2013, 08:01:28 AM
Quote from: Sheilbh on March 10, 2013, 08:52:52 PM
Yeah. Day's up. Ibn Hanbal.

I quite liked the story. It does highlight what's always struck me, that that story isn't necessarily about unconditional forgiveness and tolerance which is often how its presented.
Elaborate
....On what?
What you think the story is neccessarily about.

Hard not to see it as not about unconditional forgiveness when all humans, even Saints, have sinned and are thus unfit to judge.
It is far better for the truth to tear my flesh to pieces, then for my soul to wander through darkness in eternal damnation.

Jet: So what kind of woman is she? What's Julia like?
Faye: Ordinary. The kind of beautiful, dangerous ordinary that you just can't leave alone.
Jet: I see.
Faye: Like an angel from the underworld. Or a devil from Paradise.
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jimmy olsen

#2284
March 13, 2013, 11:11:02 PM
Quote from: Viking on March 13, 2013, 08:56:13 PM
Crown Prince Sado?

It has to be said, "In a BDSM play accident"
If only he knew the safe word. :(
It is far better for the truth to tear my flesh to pieces, then for my soul to wander through darkness in eternal damnation.

Jet: So what kind of woman is she? What's Julia like?
Faye: Ordinary. The kind of beautiful, dangerous ordinary that you just can't leave alone.
Jet: I see.
Faye: Like an angel from the underworld. Or a devil from Paradise.
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1 Karma Chameleon point

Sheilbh

#2285
March 13, 2013, 11:19:08 PM Last Edit: March 13, 2013, 11:23:35 PM by Sheilbh
Quote from: jimmy olsen on March 13, 2013, 11:10:20 PMWhat you think the story is neccessarily about.

Hard not to see it as not about unconditional forgiveness when all humans, even Saints, have sinned and are thus unfit to judge.
:lol: I was mainly flippant. But it seems more about an awareness of our own faults and a sort of tolerance of others' than forgiveness. Christ forgives but that's because he can. He could also stone her to death.

Depending on status of sin some humans could stone her. The Ibn Hanbal story made me laugh because there's an old Catholic joke about the Virgin Mary doing exactly the same.

Edit: Also it doesn't per se condemn stoning for adultery. It's a little bit Tariq Ramadan.
Let's bomb Russia!

Eddie Teach

#2286
March 13, 2013, 11:34:24 PM
Quote from: Admiral Yi on March 13, 2013, 09:00:33 PM
dynsaty?

Making typos is Tim's dynsaty. I mean his destiny.
To sleep, perchance to dream. But in that sleep of death, what dreams may come?

Admiral Yi

#2287
March 26, 2013, 04:09:29 PM
What did the Bolsheviks and Mensheviks call their party/group/terror cell before they split?

May be a gimme for some; I didn't know it or forgot it if I ever did.

Syt

#2288
May 09, 2013, 06:30:54 AM
24+ hour rule (and it was the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party). :P



New question: which American president was the first to host an Iftar (the breaking of the fast at sunset during Ramadan) in the White House?
I am, somehow, less interested in the weight and convolutions of Einstein's brain than in the near certainty that people of equal talent have lived and died in cotton fields and sweatshops.
—Stephen Jay Gould

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Viking

#2289
May 09, 2013, 06:38:13 AM
Jefferson.
First Maxim - "There are only two amounts, too few and enough."
First Corollary - "You cannot have too many soldiers, only too few supplies."
Second Maxim - "Be willing to exchange a bad idea for a good one."
Second Corollary - "You can only be wrong or agree with me."

A terrorist which starts a slaughter quoting Locke, Burke and Mill has completely missed the point.
The fact remains that the only person or group to applaud the Norway massacre are random Islamists.

Syt

#2290
May 09, 2013, 06:44:04 AM
I am, somehow, less interested in the weight and convolutions of Einstein's brain than in the near certainty that people of equal talent have lived and died in cotton fields and sweatshops.
—Stephen Jay Gould

Proud owner of 42 Zoupa Points.

Viking

#2291
May 09, 2013, 07:30:56 AM
Which was the first US President to be an unambiguously Trinitarian Christian.


First Maxim - "There are only two amounts, too few and enough."
First Corollary - "You cannot have too many soldiers, only too few supplies."
Second Maxim - "Be willing to exchange a bad idea for a good one."
Second Corollary - "You can only be wrong or agree with me."

A terrorist which starts a slaughter quoting Locke, Burke and Mill has completely missed the point.
The fact remains that the only person or group to applaud the Norway massacre are random Islamists.

The Brain

#2292
May 09, 2013, 07:32:44 AM
Obama.
Women want me. Men want to be with me.

Viking

#2293
May 09, 2013, 07:36:33 AM
no,

btw, I'm using wikipedia as the arbiter here due to the often controversial nature of the question and my precieved biases.
First Maxim - "There are only two amounts, too few and enough."
First Corollary - "You cannot have too many soldiers, only too few supplies."
Second Maxim - "Be willing to exchange a bad idea for a good one."
Second Corollary - "You can only be wrong or agree with me."

A terrorist which starts a slaughter quoting Locke, Burke and Mill has completely missed the point.
The fact remains that the only person or group to applaud the Norway massacre are random Islamists.

Razgovory

#2294
May 09, 2013, 10:18:21 AM
None, since the word "unambiguously" is used, there is probably someone, somewhere who claims they aren't a real christian.
I've given it serious thought. I must scorn the ways of my family, and seek a Japanese woman to yield me my progeny. He shall live in the lands of the east, and be well tutored in his sacred trust to weave the best traditions of Japan and the Sacred South together, until such time as he (or, indeed his house, which will periodically require infusion of both Southern and Japanese bloodlines of note) can deliver to the South it's independence, either in this world or in space.  -Lettow April of 2011

Raz is right. -MadImmortalMan March of 2017
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