The Number 23
...hahaha...a movie trailer. A movie about the prime number 23 created in Hollywood by the Hollywoodians which is a religious subsect of Islam.
http://www.number23movie.com/
Boycott it.
Oh and this is rather amusing:
http://youtube.com/contest/23Confessions
I think I'll tape one and call it:
Go to Hell.
Jim Carey on the murder of Dr. Rashid Khalifa:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H24V-u7fNJM
http://www.youtube.com/profile?user=LonelyGirl15Recaps
Not sure whether to laugh or cry over that one. It's only too sad that people today are so incredibly vacuous and raising such vacuous children. Oh well, the meek shall inherit the earth regardless of AIMS testing.
"The right of freedom of speech consists in speaking the truth."
26.3.07
What About Mars?
No more problems says the package
the cure came in, no more
warning labels and the price tag
no longer legible. It began
with flashy children and fast cars
then people started talking
about the leftover stuff
after the move out,
wondered what would happen
to the crystal ball and Japanese flag.
Where to put Mars now?
Whose house next?
No more problems says the package
the cure came in, no more
warning labels and the price tag
no longer legible. It began
with flashy children and fast cars
then people started talking
about the leftover stuff
after the move out,
wondered what would happen
to the crystal ball and Japanese flag.
Where to put Mars now?
Whose house next?
Judaism Versus Palestinianism
Versus...er...?...CANADIANISM?
". . . I am a Jew.
Hath not a Jew eyes? Hath not a Jew hands, organs,
dimensions, senses, affections, passions; fed with
the same food, hurt with the same weapons, subject
to the same diseases, heal'd by the same means,
warm'd and cool'd by the same winter and summer,
as a Christian is? If you prick us, do we not bleed?
If you tickle us, do we not laugh? If you
poison us, shall we not die?" (III, i, 58-66)
Shylock. Yea. Right.
16:123 So We have taught thee the inspired (Message), "Follow the ways of Abraham the Hanifa*, and he joined not gods with Allah."
The second citation is from the sura which deals mostly with genetics and EUGENICS called merely, The Bee.
Hmm, yes and Eve had no navel. Problem is, the Jews (Hanifas*) were offered a deal by Allah called "The Covenant" in which they promised to accept the prophets of Allah's choice. It has less to do with the actual assassination of prophets and more to do with the acceptance of Allah's dictates when referring to a group of people called "The Jews" who are loyal to their ethnicity as opposed to loyal to their Creator.
Way back when, the hanifa* known as the patriarch Abraham (SAW) found his wife Sarah (pbuh) to be barren, the couple decided to have him father a child with her maidservant, an African woman named Hagar(pbuh). This child is the great grand-daddy of all the Arab tribes who was given the name Ismael(pbuh). It was this son, the FIRST BORN son of the Hebrew prophet (noting that the Y chromosome is passed unchanged to the son as opposed to the X which is not) that was offered for sacrifice at the Ka'aba in Mecca.
The Bible stories relate that it was Isaac but this makes no sense as it would be highly unusual for a prophet to offer a second born son unless the prophet had been tricked as was the case with Essau (pbuh) which is a story from the Tanakh. And truth be told, Sarah requested that Hagar and her infant son Ismael be sent far away from Abraham and herself because she couldn't handle the fact that she had not produced the prophet Abraham with a son.
Most Bibles relate that Hagar herself decided to leave but this makes no sense either not to mention the fact that if a person wants to leave, they do not make an exodus to the first and dryest desert they can find i.e. Mecca. Abraham took Hagar(who was most likely a black woman) there to the ancient well that was buried (and perhaps he had knowledge of this). The well is called Zam Zam and has been known to be buried and rediscovered several times. Prior to the birth of the last HEBREW prophet Mohamed (SAW)...and yes....genetically speaking the Ismailis are all Hebrew.....the well had been filled with numerous swords including the swords of David (SAW) and Solomon (SAW). The great grandfather of the prophet and great grand father of the prophet's right hand man (Emir Ali abi Taleb,pbuh) had a dream about the well and the swords it contained. He wanted his son to dig up the well (he was directed to do so in the dream) to retrieve the swords but he was unable to do that because he only had one son at the time (this was a couple generations before the birth of either man, Ali (pbuh) or Mohamed (SAW). The residents of Mecca where the well is located had lapsed into idol worship (yet again) and would have fought him over this act. When he eventually married other women who provided for him numerous sons, he was able to retrieve these swords which are currently on display at the Topkapi Palace in Istanbul and claim the right he knew his lineage possessed as leaders of the Hebrew-Ismaeli people (as well, it is said they knew they were also the lineage of the Hebrews that would produce the last prophet i.e. the Messiah).
These swords are inscribed with the names of each owner and if you ask me, are incredibly important religious artifacts. Forget the Shroud of Turin (which in fact may have been the burial cloth of Yehye (SAW) which the Hebrew scholars used to check daily prior to the birth of Mohamed (SAW) to see if it was "weeping blood" because they knew that when it did, it was a signal that the last prophet was to be born and it did begin weeping in the days preceeding the prophet's birth)....forget that.
Those swords are the swords* which you find on the Saudi Arabian flag. They belong to the leaders of Monotheism and in particular, the type of Monotheism which is called Islam. A distinct form of it and not open for all sorts of comparisons and likenesses. Islam isn't what you can call an imitative type of religion or one that shares authority with other ideologies. In fact, it isn't an ideology...it is from Allah. Not from human hands. It is both the first religion and last religion, the great grand daddy of religion AND the great grand son. It is the religion i.e. Criterion with which the universe and all that is in it was created and it is the Criterion which describes the destruction of same. It is not only all encompassing in terms of human matters but in terms of animal and plant matters, Milky Way matters and the Speed of Light matters.
Islam does rely on some of the ancient texts and details found in places such as the "Bible" and the "Torah" but noting that neither of those texts exists in its original language nor is either one complete and authoritative. Why, just in the past few years a new Bible has been issued and declared the "Authoritative" edition. It is called The New Jerusalem Bible. I find it quite helpful but I also take it with a grain of salt. This is the linguistic basis for the proofs (called Ayat) in the Quran which demonstrate what a poem can do and what a poet cannot do.
How many poets can write a Quran which is not only an index to theology, biology, genetics, folklore, astrophysics, luminescence, etc etc etc and make it such that it makes absolute numerical sense when read as a gematric table? And btw, the Hebrews do have bits and pieces from the more or less "original" texts handed down via a variety of oral and written traditions. They analyse these numerically as well to determine the hidden meanings and relationships of words "as they appeared" then, not as they appear now in English which we all must know, is not a numerical system. Furthermore, Islam is actually an ORAL tradition. The actual recording of the text onto paper is considered a secondary line of preservation. The Quran was memorized by the early muslims and by thousands of them. To this day it is recited and to make mistakes when reciting it is obvious even to a non Arabic speaker like me. After all, it rhymes besides the fact that it makes sense on such an incredible number of levels.
The "Jews" (which actually refers to the Hebrews and what you might call, the Hanifa's i.e. upright people (as in the case of Abraham, SAW)) ...the Hanifas who did follow the law delivered by Moses (Musa, SAW) and resusitated by Jesus (Isa, SAW) ..they followed it and taught it....up until there was this ethnocentric squabble between the two camps: the unauthorized followers of Jesus known as "Christians" and the Wahhabi type sect of Hebrews called the Pharisees...a squabble regarding the authority that goes along with being a member of the actual tribe or family from which a prophet originates.
Thing is, they forgot that Abraham was everyone's great great grand daddy.
But not us. The Quran relates this genetic line quite clearly and the logic of the eugenics and natural selection of Allah. The Arabs actually are the "safekeepers" of the language and text...policemen of sorts....but the fact is....we all come from Adam and Eve. There are not other "species" with special religious frameworks. There is only one religion and it is called Islam.
All other religions are merely sects of Islamic Monotheism and in the case of "Judaism" it is a sect of ethnocentric people who are truly out of touch with Allah.
I continue to not only invite Jews to Islam but I hasten to say: I strongly encourage you to accept it as so many of your previous generations did who are now called:
Jordanians, Egyptians, Yemenis*, Palestinians, Kurds, etc etc etc.
Afterall, a person selects their faith but they have nothing to say about their Y chromosome analyses. Judaism is named after the Jews, Hinduism is a class system of unknown origin with ethnic precursors, Buddism is named after a human being.
There is only one religion. It is called Islam. It is the religion of natural causes based on the Creation itself and is named simply:
SUBMISSION.
And some people on this planet just fail to see the necessity of that nor do they realize Islam is not the religion of the Arab-Hebrew-Hanifa-Arabs, but the religion of all people for all times...it just happened to be delivered in ONE language and that language is Arabic. No more and no less. And by all means, it was spread with the sword and by jihad. Like this Jihad of mine called spreading the logic of the truth.
The al-Battar sword was taken by the prophet Muhammad as booty from the Banu Qaynaqa. It is called the "sword of the prophets" and is inscribed in Arabic with the names of David, Solomon, Moses, Aaron, Joshua, Zechariah, John, Jesus, and Muhammad. It also has a drawing of King David when cut off the head of Goliath to whom this sword had belonged originally. The sword also features an inscription which has been identified as Nabataean writing.
*The Shi'i SAYYEDS are literally the grandchildren of the prophet and any one of them (like SAYYED Nasrallah, the Secretary General of Hezbollah who has defeated Israel not once but thrice in "Divine" victories that defy logical explanation to non believers) can be genetically tested and found to have the same Y chromosomes within their ranks, the same Y chromosome of the Hanifas. THIS is their power and it isn't a power that is liimited to nuclear weapons of mass destruction like those of the kafr. Other Shi'i like myself are simply followers of the family of the prophet called the "Ahlul Bayt" i.e. "House/family" of the prophet. The Shi'i SAYYEDS are recognizable as they wear a BLACK TURBAN. No one dares wear it except those with a known blood relationship and hence, Y chromosomal relationship, to the Prophets i.e. Hanifas.
Versus...er...?...CANADIANISM?
". . . I am a Jew.
Hath not a Jew eyes? Hath not a Jew hands, organs,
dimensions, senses, affections, passions; fed with
the same food, hurt with the same weapons, subject
to the same diseases, heal'd by the same means,
warm'd and cool'd by the same winter and summer,
as a Christian is? If you prick us, do we not bleed?
If you tickle us, do we not laugh? If you
poison us, shall we not die?" (III, i, 58-66)
Shylock. Yea. Right.
16:123 So We have taught thee the inspired (Message), "Follow the ways of Abraham the Hanifa*, and he joined not gods with Allah."
The second citation is from the sura which deals mostly with genetics and EUGENICS called merely, The Bee.
Hmm, yes and Eve had no navel. Problem is, the Jews (Hanifas*) were offered a deal by Allah called "The Covenant" in which they promised to accept the prophets of Allah's choice. It has less to do with the actual assassination of prophets and more to do with the acceptance of Allah's dictates when referring to a group of people called "The Jews" who are loyal to their ethnicity as opposed to loyal to their Creator.
Way back when, the hanifa* known as the patriarch Abraham (SAW) found his wife Sarah (pbuh) to be barren, the couple decided to have him father a child with her maidservant, an African woman named Hagar(pbuh). This child is the great grand-daddy of all the Arab tribes who was given the name Ismael(pbuh). It was this son, the FIRST BORN son of the Hebrew prophet (noting that the Y chromosome is passed unchanged to the son as opposed to the X which is not) that was offered for sacrifice at the Ka'aba in Mecca.
The Bible stories relate that it was Isaac but this makes no sense as it would be highly unusual for a prophet to offer a second born son unless the prophet had been tricked as was the case with Essau (pbuh) which is a story from the Tanakh. And truth be told, Sarah requested that Hagar and her infant son Ismael be sent far away from Abraham and herself because she couldn't handle the fact that she had not produced the prophet Abraham with a son.
Most Bibles relate that Hagar herself decided to leave but this makes no sense either not to mention the fact that if a person wants to leave, they do not make an exodus to the first and dryest desert they can find i.e. Mecca. Abraham took Hagar(who was most likely a black woman) there to the ancient well that was buried (and perhaps he had knowledge of this). The well is called Zam Zam and has been known to be buried and rediscovered several times. Prior to the birth of the last HEBREW prophet Mohamed (SAW)...and yes....genetically speaking the Ismailis are all Hebrew.....the well had been filled with numerous swords including the swords of David (SAW) and Solomon (SAW). The great grandfather of the prophet and great grand father of the prophet's right hand man (Emir Ali abi Taleb,pbuh) had a dream about the well and the swords it contained. He wanted his son to dig up the well (he was directed to do so in the dream) to retrieve the swords but he was unable to do that because he only had one son at the time (this was a couple generations before the birth of either man, Ali (pbuh) or Mohamed (SAW). The residents of Mecca where the well is located had lapsed into idol worship (yet again) and would have fought him over this act. When he eventually married other women who provided for him numerous sons, he was able to retrieve these swords which are currently on display at the Topkapi Palace in Istanbul and claim the right he knew his lineage possessed as leaders of the Hebrew-Ismaeli people (as well, it is said they knew they were also the lineage of the Hebrews that would produce the last prophet i.e. the Messiah).
These swords are inscribed with the names of each owner and if you ask me, are incredibly important religious artifacts. Forget the Shroud of Turin (which in fact may have been the burial cloth of Yehye (SAW) which the Hebrew scholars used to check daily prior to the birth of Mohamed (SAW) to see if it was "weeping blood" because they knew that when it did, it was a signal that the last prophet was to be born and it did begin weeping in the days preceeding the prophet's birth)....forget that.
Those swords are the swords* which you find on the Saudi Arabian flag. They belong to the leaders of Monotheism and in particular, the type of Monotheism which is called Islam. A distinct form of it and not open for all sorts of comparisons and likenesses. Islam isn't what you can call an imitative type of religion or one that shares authority with other ideologies. In fact, it isn't an ideology...it is from Allah. Not from human hands. It is both the first religion and last religion, the great grand daddy of religion AND the great grand son. It is the religion i.e. Criterion with which the universe and all that is in it was created and it is the Criterion which describes the destruction of same. It is not only all encompassing in terms of human matters but in terms of animal and plant matters, Milky Way matters and the Speed of Light matters.
Islam does rely on some of the ancient texts and details found in places such as the "Bible" and the "Torah" but noting that neither of those texts exists in its original language nor is either one complete and authoritative. Why, just in the past few years a new Bible has been issued and declared the "Authoritative" edition. It is called The New Jerusalem Bible. I find it quite helpful but I also take it with a grain of salt. This is the linguistic basis for the proofs (called Ayat) in the Quran which demonstrate what a poem can do and what a poet cannot do.
How many poets can write a Quran which is not only an index to theology, biology, genetics, folklore, astrophysics, luminescence, etc etc etc and make it such that it makes absolute numerical sense when read as a gematric table? And btw, the Hebrews do have bits and pieces from the more or less "original" texts handed down via a variety of oral and written traditions. They analyse these numerically as well to determine the hidden meanings and relationships of words "as they appeared" then, not as they appear now in English which we all must know, is not a numerical system. Furthermore, Islam is actually an ORAL tradition. The actual recording of the text onto paper is considered a secondary line of preservation. The Quran was memorized by the early muslims and by thousands of them. To this day it is recited and to make mistakes when reciting it is obvious even to a non Arabic speaker like me. After all, it rhymes besides the fact that it makes sense on such an incredible number of levels.
The "Jews" (which actually refers to the Hebrews and what you might call, the Hanifa's i.e. upright people (as in the case of Abraham, SAW)) ...the Hanifas who did follow the law delivered by Moses (Musa, SAW) and resusitated by Jesus (Isa, SAW) ..they followed it and taught it....up until there was this ethnocentric squabble between the two camps: the unauthorized followers of Jesus known as "Christians" and the Wahhabi type sect of Hebrews called the Pharisees...a squabble regarding the authority that goes along with being a member of the actual tribe or family from which a prophet originates.
Thing is, they forgot that Abraham was everyone's great great grand daddy.
But not us. The Quran relates this genetic line quite clearly and the logic of the eugenics and natural selection of Allah. The Arabs actually are the "safekeepers" of the language and text...policemen of sorts....but the fact is....we all come from Adam and Eve. There are not other "species" with special religious frameworks. There is only one religion and it is called Islam.
All other religions are merely sects of Islamic Monotheism and in the case of "Judaism" it is a sect of ethnocentric people who are truly out of touch with Allah.
I continue to not only invite Jews to Islam but I hasten to say: I strongly encourage you to accept it as so many of your previous generations did who are now called:
Jordanians, Egyptians, Yemenis*, Palestinians, Kurds, etc etc etc.
Afterall, a person selects their faith but they have nothing to say about their Y chromosome analyses. Judaism is named after the Jews, Hinduism is a class system of unknown origin with ethnic precursors, Buddism is named after a human being.
There is only one religion. It is called Islam. It is the religion of natural causes based on the Creation itself and is named simply:
SUBMISSION.
And some people on this planet just fail to see the necessity of that nor do they realize Islam is not the religion of the Arab-Hebrew-Hanifa-Arabs, but the religion of all people for all times...it just happened to be delivered in ONE language and that language is Arabic. No more and no less. And by all means, it was spread with the sword and by jihad. Like this Jihad of mine called spreading the logic of the truth.
The al-Battar sword was taken by the prophet Muhammad as booty from the Banu Qaynaqa. It is called the "sword of the prophets" and is inscribed in Arabic with the names of David, Solomon, Moses, Aaron, Joshua, Zechariah, John, Jesus, and Muhammad. It also has a drawing of King David when cut off the head of Goliath to whom this sword had belonged originally. The sword also features an inscription which has been identified as Nabataean writing.
*The Shi'i SAYYEDS are literally the grandchildren of the prophet and any one of them (like SAYYED Nasrallah, the Secretary General of Hezbollah who has defeated Israel not once but thrice in "Divine" victories that defy logical explanation to non believers) can be genetically tested and found to have the same Y chromosomes within their ranks, the same Y chromosome of the Hanifas. THIS is their power and it isn't a power that is liimited to nuclear weapons of mass destruction like those of the kafr. Other Shi'i like myself are simply followers of the family of the prophet called the "Ahlul Bayt" i.e. "House/family" of the prophet. The Shi'i SAYYEDS are recognizable as they wear a BLACK TURBAN. No one dares wear it except those with a known blood relationship and hence, Y chromosomal relationship, to the Prophets i.e. Hanifas.
25.3.07
The Mysterious Account
of Miriam's (pbuh) Temple Stay
(subtitled: Putting the Da Vinci Code Myth to Rest, among others please see:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_holy_grails)
Ah! Ye are those who fell to disputing (Even) in matters of which ye had some knowledge! but why dispute ye in matters of which ye have no knowledge? It is Allah Who knows, and ye who know not! Quran, 3:66
Why is the Sura about the Virgin Mary (Miriam, pbuh) the 19th Sura?
I have often wondered about that. The sura itself is an outright declaration of her role in all of this long winding tale of humanity's most major religious predecessors i.e. the "family" tree of the prophets. It appears that Miriam (the Virgin Mary, pbuh) was sequestered in the Hebrew temple during prepubescence/pubescence to control who would father the prophet that the rabbis were on watch for (it is noted that whenever a prophet was to be born, the Hebrew scholars knew about it as they had certain knowledges which had been handed down through the ages). In the Bible Miriam's 'husband' Joseph iselevated to the status of being from the line of David (Dawood, SAW) ..... but really folks, use your OWN noggins. What significance is he (Joseph,pbuh) if the prophet Jesus (Isa, SAW) is said to have been 'immaculately conceived' (per the Christian and Muslim accounts)? Jews on the other hand, denied Isa (Jesus, SAW) was anything other than "Raboni" or 'teacher'.
Why the discrepancy? This is one major paternity suit if you ask me. It has led to wars, famines, bloodshed and the "creation" of a whole branch of religion not authorized to exist in ANY sacred text: Christianity which more or less falls within the type of fellowship that believes Jesus (a human being) was synonomous with God (although there are exceptions in certain sects like the Copts and Orthodox). Not to mention it is the reason for the creation of a state within muslim lands for one type of ethnic people: The Jews which was established by the other confused party, the Christians. And the reason we are now in a state of perhaps, no turning back. A war to end all wars. Hopefully, the outcome will be favorable to human survival. Or maybe not!
It appears to me that when Miriam (pbuh) was sequestered to isolate her from potential "mates" in the Hebrew temple, it was a means of controlling the lineage of prophets by handpicking the father of her child. Guess what? She turned up pregant even though the only contact she had with anyone at all was the contact she had with the prophet Zachariah (pbuh, the father of St. John the Baptist i.e. Yehye, SAW) who was a short time later into the drama, murdered on the Temple stairs in cold blood. It is interesting to note that when Yehye is mentioned in the Quran, we are told that it is the first time in history that the name "Yehye" was conferred upon any prophet whereas his father's name "Zacharaiah" was a common name amongst prophets and there are at least a half dozen different "Zachariahs" mentioned in the Tanakha (Torah). Why the mention then? What is the importance of the double murder of Zachariah AND Yehye (John the Baptist) in relationship to a unique name i.e. Yehye?
19:7
(His prayer was answered): "O Zakariya! We give thee good news of a son: His name shall be Yahya: on none by that name have We conferred distinction before."
That fact and the placement of Miriam at "19" is a means of indicating the importance of this particular story in a canon (Tanakh, Injeel, Zabur, Quran) which contains thousands of personal dramas. This ONE drama in particular has an importance beyond any drama in any sacred text and as well, it is only the Quran that gives you these incredibly important and MISSING details which are found no where else. Were these details cleansed from what we call "the Bible"? No one knows really but I assure the reader, these are the missing pieces in the modern drama called "religion".
19:37
But the sects differ among themselves: and woe to the unbelievers because of the (coming) Judgment of a Momentous Day!
The manner (per Quran) in which Miriam was "assigned" a protector is notably significant in that the Quran tells us that the rabbis "drew straws" for her once she was assigned to stay sequestered in the temple. It isn't clear whether that means literally drawing straws for her as a means forassigning the right of fathering a child with her or simply as a means of assigning a "protector" for her from potential 'less than satisfactory' Hebrew suitors NOT of the known royal/divine lineage i.e. David/Solomon. In any event, it was Zachariah (murdered later per Bible lore) that pulled the odd straw which deemed him her "guardian". In the Quran we are told that Zachariah discovered Miriam in her room and that she has been supplied with food from somewhere . Because he is the only one (theoretically) in contact with her personally he questions from where she obtained the food to which she answered, "it is from Allah." Details regarding Miriam are also found elsewhere in the Quran but in particular in the fourth Sura called the Family of Imran (her father who was of known prophetic lineage but not of the direct lineage of David/Solomon).
The case of Miriam and her son Isa (Jesus, SAW) was the first time in Hebrew i.e. Torah history that a MAJOR prophet was born without a direct paternal lineage to the Hebrew prophets of David and Solomon (SAW). Perhaps this is the reason the Jews do not give Isa his "due" and the reason Christians remain so confused regarding his role in the astounding tale of religious and moral human history. Certainly it is the reason the "authors" of the Bible construct a lineage for Joseph without a logical reason to do so.
But why is her Sura given this most important place in the Quran at a position of 19?
It is because this is what divides the "believers" now? The ideas surrounding the birth and attempted assassignation of the next to last prophet is THE problem of modernity and modern religions. It is referred to in the Quran as "The Lie*".
19:89
Indeed ye have put forth a thing most monstrous!
19:90
At it the skies are ready to burst, the earth to split asunder, and the mountains to fall down in utter ruin,
19:91
That they should invoke a son for (Allah) Most Gracious.
This is the significance (at least one of them) of the numerical order of the Sura "Miriam", i.e. Sura number 19:
http://www.quranmiracles.com/mmwh/mmlhread.asp?id=48
*Note: It is "illegal" for me to deliver facts that are not actually mentioned directly in the Quran. In this case, the reason for the "drawing of straws" is not given but we are allowed to deduce a few facts from this detail. Using one's logic to do this is called Itjihad. This applies also to the mention of "The Lie". The Lie is mentioned but not in the sense that the Quran reveals "THIS is the Lie". There is however no other thing in my estimation that constitutes such a weighty predicament for all believers of any stripe and relegates it to the status of being something that establishes a "fact" when in fact, the whole case of prophets and the three major contenders centers around this extremely important misconception regarding Jesus Christ i.e. Isa (SAW).
**Using citations such as "pbuh" or "SAW" is a means of giving respect to notable persons (pbuh) and prophets (SAW) and a means of distinguishing one from the other. For instance, Yehye was a prophet and is noted by using SAW after his name whereas Miriam is not a prophet but a person who is given recognition of her role by wishing "peace be upon her" whenever writing her name. Unlike other believers who mock prophets in the media, muslims are required to note the respect they have for these important historical figures.
***The word derives from the Arabic verbal root jahada "struggle", the same root as that of jihad; the itis inserted because the word is a derived stem VIII verb. The common etymology is worth noting, as both words touch on the concepts of struggle or effort. In the case of form VIII verbs, this means to "struggle with oneself", as through deep thought. Itjihad is a method of legal reasoning that does not rely on the traditional schools of jurisprudence, or madhabs.
****The "unique" nature of mentioning Yehye's (SAW)name in conjunction with the other details perhaps involves the notion that of all the mentioned prophets (out of a pool of some 40,000+) it is only Jesus (Isa, SAW) and Adam (Adam, SAW) who were created WITHOUT sperm. In other words, the 19th Sura is unique in a number of ways including one of naming names and defining similarities. This can only be reasoned and is not necessarily why it is the case. I think though it makes sense but reserve that it could also have other implications. It is said that the Quran can be read on seven levels of interpretation. I probably only know of four of them.
*****Islamic Factoid: Jesus (Isa, SAW) was not crucified. He hasn't died but was 'taken away' for the time being. It is precisely this distinction (besides the honor muslims assign to ALL prophets from beginning (Adam, SAW) to end (Mohamed, SAW) that makes a muslim more than a mere monotheist. A muslim is a very specific thing and shares some things in common with other 'sects" of monotheism (like circumcision, kosherism, belief in angels, etc). NO sect however except for Islam accepts the Quran and the role of last prophet.
of Miriam's (pbuh) Temple Stay
(subtitled: Putting the Da Vinci Code Myth to Rest, among others please see:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_holy_grails)
Ah! Ye are those who fell to disputing (Even) in matters of which ye had some knowledge! but why dispute ye in matters of which ye have no knowledge? It is Allah Who knows, and ye who know not! Quran, 3:66
Why is the Sura about the Virgin Mary (Miriam, pbuh) the 19th Sura?
I have often wondered about that. The sura itself is an outright declaration of her role in all of this long winding tale of humanity's most major religious predecessors i.e. the "family" tree of the prophets. It appears that Miriam (the Virgin Mary, pbuh) was sequestered in the Hebrew temple during prepubescence/pubescence to control who would father the prophet that the rabbis were on watch for (it is noted that whenever a prophet was to be born, the Hebrew scholars knew about it as they had certain knowledges which had been handed down through the ages). In the Bible Miriam's 'husband' Joseph iselevated to the status of being from the line of David (Dawood, SAW) ..... but really folks, use your OWN noggins. What significance is he (Joseph,pbuh) if the prophet Jesus (Isa, SAW) is said to have been 'immaculately conceived' (per the Christian and Muslim accounts)? Jews on the other hand, denied Isa (Jesus, SAW) was anything other than "Raboni" or 'teacher'.
Why the discrepancy? This is one major paternity suit if you ask me. It has led to wars, famines, bloodshed and the "creation" of a whole branch of religion not authorized to exist in ANY sacred text: Christianity which more or less falls within the type of fellowship that believes Jesus (a human being) was synonomous with God (although there are exceptions in certain sects like the Copts and Orthodox). Not to mention it is the reason for the creation of a state within muslim lands for one type of ethnic people: The Jews which was established by the other confused party, the Christians. And the reason we are now in a state of perhaps, no turning back. A war to end all wars. Hopefully, the outcome will be favorable to human survival. Or maybe not!
It appears to me that when Miriam (pbuh) was sequestered to isolate her from potential "mates" in the Hebrew temple, it was a means of controlling the lineage of prophets by handpicking the father of her child. Guess what? She turned up pregant even though the only contact she had with anyone at all was the contact she had with the prophet Zachariah (pbuh, the father of St. John the Baptist i.e. Yehye, SAW) who was a short time later into the drama, murdered on the Temple stairs in cold blood. It is interesting to note that when Yehye is mentioned in the Quran, we are told that it is the first time in history that the name "Yehye" was conferred upon any prophet whereas his father's name "Zacharaiah" was a common name amongst prophets and there are at least a half dozen different "Zachariahs" mentioned in the Tanakha (Torah). Why the mention then? What is the importance of the double murder of Zachariah AND Yehye (John the Baptist) in relationship to a unique name i.e. Yehye?
19:7
(His prayer was answered): "O Zakariya! We give thee good news of a son: His name shall be Yahya: on none by that name have We conferred distinction before."
That fact and the placement of Miriam at "19" is a means of indicating the importance of this particular story in a canon (Tanakh, Injeel, Zabur, Quran) which contains thousands of personal dramas. This ONE drama in particular has an importance beyond any drama in any sacred text and as well, it is only the Quran that gives you these incredibly important and MISSING details which are found no where else. Were these details cleansed from what we call "the Bible"? No one knows really but I assure the reader, these are the missing pieces in the modern drama called "religion".
19:37
But the sects differ among themselves: and woe to the unbelievers because of the (coming) Judgment of a Momentous Day!
The manner (per Quran) in which Miriam was "assigned" a protector is notably significant in that the Quran tells us that the rabbis "drew straws" for her once she was assigned to stay sequestered in the temple. It isn't clear whether that means literally drawing straws for her as a means forassigning the right of fathering a child with her or simply as a means of assigning a "protector" for her from potential 'less than satisfactory' Hebrew suitors NOT of the known royal/divine lineage i.e. David/Solomon. In any event, it was Zachariah (murdered later per Bible lore) that pulled the odd straw which deemed him her "guardian". In the Quran we are told that Zachariah discovered Miriam in her room and that she has been supplied with food from somewhere . Because he is the only one (theoretically) in contact with her personally he questions from where she obtained the food to which she answered, "it is from Allah." Details regarding Miriam are also found elsewhere in the Quran but in particular in the fourth Sura called the Family of Imran (her father who was of known prophetic lineage but not of the direct lineage of David/Solomon).
The case of Miriam and her son Isa (Jesus, SAW) was the first time in Hebrew i.e. Torah history that a MAJOR prophet was born without a direct paternal lineage to the Hebrew prophets of David and Solomon (SAW). Perhaps this is the reason the Jews do not give Isa his "due" and the reason Christians remain so confused regarding his role in the astounding tale of religious and moral human history. Certainly it is the reason the "authors" of the Bible construct a lineage for Joseph without a logical reason to do so.
But why is her Sura given this most important place in the Quran at a position of 19?
It is because this is what divides the "believers" now? The ideas surrounding the birth and attempted assassignation of the next to last prophet is THE problem of modernity and modern religions. It is referred to in the Quran as "The Lie*".
19:89
Indeed ye have put forth a thing most monstrous!
19:90
At it the skies are ready to burst, the earth to split asunder, and the mountains to fall down in utter ruin,
19:91
That they should invoke a son for (Allah) Most Gracious.
This is the significance (at least one of them) of the numerical order of the Sura "Miriam", i.e. Sura number 19:
http://www.quranmiracles.com/mmwh/mmlhread.asp?id=48
*Note: It is "illegal" for me to deliver facts that are not actually mentioned directly in the Quran. In this case, the reason for the "drawing of straws" is not given but we are allowed to deduce a few facts from this detail. Using one's logic to do this is called Itjihad. This applies also to the mention of "The Lie". The Lie is mentioned but not in the sense that the Quran reveals "THIS is the Lie". There is however no other thing in my estimation that constitutes such a weighty predicament for all believers of any stripe and relegates it to the status of being something that establishes a "fact" when in fact, the whole case of prophets and the three major contenders centers around this extremely important misconception regarding Jesus Christ i.e. Isa (SAW).
**Using citations such as "pbuh" or "SAW" is a means of giving respect to notable persons (pbuh) and prophets (SAW) and a means of distinguishing one from the other. For instance, Yehye was a prophet and is noted by using SAW after his name whereas Miriam is not a prophet but a person who is given recognition of her role by wishing "peace be upon her" whenever writing her name. Unlike other believers who mock prophets in the media, muslims are required to note the respect they have for these important historical figures.
***The word derives from the Arabic verbal root jahada "struggle", the same root as that of jihad; the it
****The "unique" nature of mentioning Yehye's (SAW)name in conjunction with the other details perhaps involves the notion that of all the mentioned prophets (out of a pool of some 40,000+) it is only Jesus (Isa, SAW) and Adam (Adam, SAW) who were created WITHOUT sperm. In other words, the 19th Sura is unique in a number of ways including one of naming names and defining similarities. This can only be reasoned and is not necessarily why it is the case. I think though it makes sense but reserve that it could also have other implications. It is said that the Quran can be read on seven levels of interpretation. I probably only know of four of them.
*****Islamic Factoid: Jesus (Isa, SAW) was not crucified. He hasn't died but was 'taken away' for the time being. It is precisely this distinction (besides the honor muslims assign to ALL prophets from beginning (Adam, SAW) to end (Mohamed, SAW) that makes a muslim more than a mere monotheist. A muslim is a very specific thing and shares some things in common with other 'sects" of monotheism (like circumcision, kosherism, belief in angels, etc). NO sect however except for Islam accepts the Quran and the role of last prophet.
24.3.07
Teaching Islam To Nonbelievers
To thee have We granted the Fount (of Abundance).
I have been leading a series of lectures in Bisbee for nearly seven weeks now. My goal was to dispel some of the misconceptions people have about Islam. I also stated that my goal was not to "convert" the students in my lecture series but in that, I know that Islam itself is a system of Allah choosing whom Allah will and if something I say to my students leads them to further investigation and 'conversion', then so be it, the seed of belief was already in them, the notorious MUSTARD SEED. I told them early on about what my bias is and asked them to consider their own. My bias is that I do believe the Quran is the Word of Allah and nothing less, that I take it LITERALLY and I did my best to relate to them the logic of that. The logic of that is based in the Arabic language as the transmission mode of what the Quran refers to as "the communications" of Allah or "Our communications" as it is worded verbatim in the text.
What I've found is that the American society is far away from belief. It is far astray in terms that most people have a very, very difficult time conceiving of a Creator let alone the Angels and the Djinn. I have been really challenged over the weeks by my students because they can become irritated at what it is I have to say. They apparently do not understand that I am not the one saying it....Allah is the one saying it...in the Quran and those communications follow a distinct logic. The problem however with my students overall (with the exception of the believers in the group) is that the unbelievers (athiests and so called "agnostics") is that they possess the FIRST BIAS. The First Bias as I like to call it is that they do not believe in Allah or God (whatever word you choose to use). The first thing a person needs to UNDERSTAND the logic of the Quran is this simple belief and it is contained in the Shehada which is the statement of "WITNESS" a person makes when actually accepting/embracing Islam as a way of life:
"There is only one 'ilah (ALLAH) and he has no sons and no partners and his messenger and prophet is Mohamed". What distinguishes a monotheist from a muslim is the second part of that statement i.e. that Mohamed (SAW) is the messenger and prophet of Allah. It is also what distinguishes other "types" of believers i.e. Christians/Jews/Others from muslims. A muslim is a DISTINCT type of believer but not one that ignores the existence of other types which never accepted the communications i.e. the QURAN and accepted it as the actual word of Allah. Let alone what distinguishes a Jew from all other types of believers that accepted the next to last prophet, Jesus (Isa, SAW) and hence, they are the focus of much of Allah's attention in the Quran as complete and serial rejectors of the prophets (who all originated in the genetic Hebrew bloodline). Due to the fact that Allah "chose" them above all others (Allah chooses whom Allah will) then they are in a very serious bind when it comes to the communications. Not from me but from Allah.
My group of students is composed of one fundamentalist Christian (and anti Arab believer - a teacher from the high school), one non practicing Jew (who is very Jewish in an ethnic sense but not a religious one), one woman who desires to accept Islam, another woman who is "Islam" friendly and inquisitive, a man who has never declared to be anything really but seems to want to be something, and yet another who seems to be interested in Islam from either a historical perspective or simply one for entertainment's sake and last but not least, a Canook who left a fundamentalist background for a "universalist" one but cannot conceive of the linkage between science (nature) and religion let alone politics and the all encompassing view Islam has of humanity and the societies in which we exist in together.
Out of all the lectures I have given, it was the last one that provided for me the biggest challenge overall. It was the lecture that questions what the Quran has to say about genetics versus what Darwin had to say and how Darwin's view has become obsolete even to non believing laboratory scientists. It is the case that Darwinism and all of it that Darwinism entails as a basis for societal/political practices has caused most of the disruption in the "God Beliefs" of people in Western society in my opionion and in the opinion of the Turkish muslim philosopher, Harun Yehye. In fact, I was not in agreement with the manner in which Yehye promotes "anti Darwinism" but now that I have seen it up close and personal, I am a believer in Anti Darwinism. That is because Darwinism is taught as a 'religion' in the sense that it cannot be questioned and to question it is to become an "apostate" (kafir in Islamic terminology) to this Western society. Nothing that I can see has caused greater damage to the souls of humanity.
So when one of my students was confronted with my Darwinian challenges he asked, "So, you (muslims) do not believe in evolution?"
How can a person answer that? It isn't that muslims do not believe in evolution "per se" but is evolution really understood by the people who believe in it? Any more than Islam is understood by everyone who believes in that as well?
NO. It isn't. People seem to have confused the two things: Evolution and Adaptation.
Two different things entirely. Evolution is the COMPLETE change of one species into another regardless of the time span required for such a change. For example, evolutionists have promoted the idea that fish somehow turned completely into birds. This is truly laughable when you think about the steps required for fish to transform into land going beasts let alone, sky going and non water filtering respiratory creatures who build nests instead of deposit eggs on underwater grasses or by simply depositing them for the currents to carry this way and that. Forget the fact that fish had to learn to sit on their eggs and completely ignore that fish are COLD BLOODED and birds are WARM BLOODED. And why then are there still fish since we know that for things to evolve it is due to the EXTREME force exerted by the NEED to adapt to varying environmental changes? The list of rhetorical questions that refute the ludicrous concept of absolute evolution are quite long and I won't go into to them now. Hopefully, I wouldn't need to as people have brains and ought to investigate ALL of their beliefs (not just the ones they like either).
Adaptation though, is another matter altogether. Islam puts forth the argument that all body plans were initially created but Islam does not negate that those types of things experienced progress and vascillation through "stages" and sometimes were changed by complete changes (human beings) but that all human beings are of the same type (NOT apes/monkeys) but of different RACES which are now extinct. We humans tend to not think we are like the Dodo bird and can experience RACIAL/SPECIES SPECIFIC extinctions that are the results of the deleterious effects of HUMAN BEHAVIOR. Western systems tend to think that kind of thinking is "for the birds". Heh.
For instance, homoerectus whateveris (to paraphrase the lineages of bones discovered by the Leakey's et.al.), were simply like Eskimoes. And we know for a fact that these types of small indigenous cultures from the Aborigines to the Apaches...are at risk for not only "social" extinction but actual "genetic" extinction through intermarriage, language and social deterioration and disease (as would be the case with the serious genetic mishaps on the Arabian Peninsula where first cousin marriages are the norm and have known detrimental effects on the offspring of those individuals in terms of increasing the morbidity and mortality of specific populations i.e. Saudis the best example of that that I know of).
In a nutshell, it has become clear to me what was not clear before. The Quran states that most people will not "believe" and it is true. Most will not because most cannot as they have been given a serious handicap in their thinking by a significantly huge number of DARWIN FANATICS. Most people will not believe without the intervening periods of vast social change like the one we are experiencing now in which humans are forced (as the Quran states: willingly or unwillingly) to face the seriousness of following a certain set of dictates NOT of human origin but of DIVINE origin.
It does beg the question, "What about the Jews then?" Are we responsible for what becomes of their small "indigenous" tribe in light of the idea that Islam relates that we all originate from the same two persons, Adam and Eve (Huwa, pbut) and in all actuality are all of one species and Allah gives everyone free will to choose "his way or the highway"? That is the question and if I was a Jew or any other type of actual "rejector" then I'd be investigating very seriously what Allah has said his plan is for those who disagree with his words. I'd be what you call, "motivated". It has bothered me for some time that Christians who supposedly believe in "God" would ignore ANYTHING God might have said. I ask them, "If you knew God left a message under that rock over there, wouldn't you want to go see what it said? Wouldn't you be overwhelmed with love for God and a desire to understand his plan and turn that rock over?" That one causes most Christian believers to tremble a little in stupification of their own "ignorance" as in ignoring something very, very important to them.
As for the unbelievers and the arrogant, who cares really what becomes of them. I certainly don't and have no control over it.
How to get people to see the logic of this thing called Islam? Well, Allah knew that was not only difficult but a job for Allah only. And that is why Sura "one-o-nine" was revealed to us as muslims:
The Disbelievers (Kafr)
109:1
Say : O ye that reject Faith!
109:2
I worship not that which ye worship,
109:3
Nor will ye worship that which I worship.
109:4
And I will not worship that which ye have been wont to worship,
109:5
Nor will ye worship that which I worship.
109:6
To you be your Way, and to me mine.
To thee have We granted the Fount (of Abundance).
Therefore to thy Lord turn in Prayer and Sacrifice.
For he who hateth thee, he will be cut off (from Future Hope).
I have been leading a series of lectures in Bisbee for nearly seven weeks now. My goal was to dispel some of the misconceptions people have about Islam. I also stated that my goal was not to "convert" the students in my lecture series but in that, I know that Islam itself is a system of Allah choosing whom Allah will and if something I say to my students leads them to further investigation and 'conversion', then so be it, the seed of belief was already in them, the notorious MUSTARD SEED. I told them early on about what my bias is and asked them to consider their own. My bias is that I do believe the Quran is the Word of Allah and nothing less, that I take it LITERALLY and I did my best to relate to them the logic of that. The logic of that is based in the Arabic language as the transmission mode of what the Quran refers to as "the communications" of Allah or "Our communications" as it is worded verbatim in the text.
What I've found is that the American society is far away from belief. It is far astray in terms that most people have a very, very difficult time conceiving of a Creator let alone the Angels and the Djinn. I have been really challenged over the weeks by my students because they can become irritated at what it is I have to say. They apparently do not understand that I am not the one saying it....Allah is the one saying it...in the Quran and those communications follow a distinct logic. The problem however with my students overall (with the exception of the believers in the group) is that the unbelievers (athiests and so called "agnostics") is that they possess the FIRST BIAS. The First Bias as I like to call it is that they do not believe in Allah or God (whatever word you choose to use). The first thing a person needs to UNDERSTAND the logic of the Quran is this simple belief and it is contained in the Shehada which is the statement of "WITNESS" a person makes when actually accepting/embracing Islam as a way of life:
"There is only one 'ilah (ALLAH) and he has no sons and no partners and his messenger and prophet is Mohamed". What distinguishes a monotheist from a muslim is the second part of that statement i.e. that Mohamed (SAW) is the messenger and prophet of Allah. It is also what distinguishes other "types" of believers i.e. Christians/Jews/Others from muslims. A muslim is a DISTINCT type of believer but not one that ignores the existence of other types which never accepted the communications i.e. the QURAN and accepted it as the actual word of Allah. Let alone what distinguishes a Jew from all other types of believers that accepted the next to last prophet, Jesus (Isa, SAW) and hence, they are the focus of much of Allah's attention in the Quran as complete and serial rejectors of the prophets (who all originated in the genetic Hebrew bloodline). Due to the fact that Allah "chose" them above all others (Allah chooses whom Allah will) then they are in a very serious bind when it comes to the communications. Not from me but from Allah.
My group of students is composed of one fundamentalist Christian (and anti Arab believer - a teacher from the high school), one non practicing Jew (who is very Jewish in an ethnic sense but not a religious one), one woman who desires to accept Islam, another woman who is "Islam" friendly and inquisitive, a man who has never declared to be anything really but seems to want to be something, and yet another who seems to be interested in Islam from either a historical perspective or simply one for entertainment's sake and last but not least, a Canook who left a fundamentalist background for a "universalist" one but cannot conceive of the linkage between science (nature) and religion let alone politics and the all encompassing view Islam has of humanity and the societies in which we exist in together.
Out of all the lectures I have given, it was the last one that provided for me the biggest challenge overall. It was the lecture that questions what the Quran has to say about genetics versus what Darwin had to say and how Darwin's view has become obsolete even to non believing laboratory scientists. It is the case that Darwinism and all of it that Darwinism entails as a basis for societal/political practices has caused most of the disruption in the "God Beliefs" of people in Western society in my opionion and in the opinion of the Turkish muslim philosopher, Harun Yehye. In fact, I was not in agreement with the manner in which Yehye promotes "anti Darwinism" but now that I have seen it up close and personal, I am a believer in Anti Darwinism. That is because Darwinism is taught as a 'religion' in the sense that it cannot be questioned and to question it is to become an "apostate" (kafir in Islamic terminology) to this Western society. Nothing that I can see has caused greater damage to the souls of humanity.
So when one of my students was confronted with my Darwinian challenges he asked, "So, you (muslims) do not believe in evolution?"
How can a person answer that? It isn't that muslims do not believe in evolution "per se" but is evolution really understood by the people who believe in it? Any more than Islam is understood by everyone who believes in that as well?
NO. It isn't. People seem to have confused the two things: Evolution and Adaptation.
Two different things entirely. Evolution is the COMPLETE change of one species into another regardless of the time span required for such a change. For example, evolutionists have promoted the idea that fish somehow turned completely into birds. This is truly laughable when you think about the steps required for fish to transform into land going beasts let alone, sky going and non water filtering respiratory creatures who build nests instead of deposit eggs on underwater grasses or by simply depositing them for the currents to carry this way and that. Forget the fact that fish had to learn to sit on their eggs and completely ignore that fish are COLD BLOODED and birds are WARM BLOODED. And why then are there still fish since we know that for things to evolve it is due to the EXTREME force exerted by the NEED to adapt to varying environmental changes? The list of rhetorical questions that refute the ludicrous concept of absolute evolution are quite long and I won't go into to them now. Hopefully, I wouldn't need to as people have brains and ought to investigate ALL of their beliefs (not just the ones they like either).
Adaptation though, is another matter altogether. Islam puts forth the argument that all body plans were initially created but Islam does not negate that those types of things experienced progress and vascillation through "stages" and sometimes were changed by complete changes (human beings) but that all human beings are of the same type (NOT apes/monkeys) but of different RACES which are now extinct. We humans tend to not think we are like the Dodo bird and can experience RACIAL/SPECIES SPECIFIC extinctions that are the results of the deleterious effects of HUMAN BEHAVIOR. Western systems tend to think that kind of thinking is "for the birds". Heh.
For instance, homoerectus whateveris (to paraphrase the lineages of bones discovered by the Leakey's et.al.), were simply like Eskimoes. And we know for a fact that these types of small indigenous cultures from the Aborigines to the Apaches...are at risk for not only "social" extinction but actual "genetic" extinction through intermarriage, language and social deterioration and disease (as would be the case with the serious genetic mishaps on the Arabian Peninsula where first cousin marriages are the norm and have known detrimental effects on the offspring of those individuals in terms of increasing the morbidity and mortality of specific populations i.e. Saudis the best example of that that I know of).
In a nutshell, it has become clear to me what was not clear before. The Quran states that most people will not "believe" and it is true. Most will not because most cannot as they have been given a serious handicap in their thinking by a significantly huge number of DARWIN FANATICS. Most people will not believe without the intervening periods of vast social change like the one we are experiencing now in which humans are forced (as the Quran states: willingly or unwillingly) to face the seriousness of following a certain set of dictates NOT of human origin but of DIVINE origin.
It does beg the question, "What about the Jews then?" Are we responsible for what becomes of their small "indigenous" tribe in light of the idea that Islam relates that we all originate from the same two persons, Adam and Eve (Huwa, pbut) and in all actuality are all of one species and Allah gives everyone free will to choose "his way or the highway"? That is the question and if I was a Jew or any other type of actual "rejector" then I'd be investigating very seriously what Allah has said his plan is for those who disagree with his words. I'd be what you call, "motivated". It has bothered me for some time that Christians who supposedly believe in "God" would ignore ANYTHING God might have said. I ask them, "If you knew God left a message under that rock over there, wouldn't you want to go see what it said? Wouldn't you be overwhelmed with love for God and a desire to understand his plan and turn that rock over?" That one causes most Christian believers to tremble a little in stupification of their own "ignorance" as in ignoring something very, very important to them.
As for the unbelievers and the arrogant, who cares really what becomes of them. I certainly don't and have no control over it.
How to get people to see the logic of this thing called Islam? Well, Allah knew that was not only difficult but a job for Allah only. And that is why Sura "one-o-nine" was revealed to us as muslims:
The Disbelievers (Kafr)
109:1
Say : O ye that reject Faith!
109:2
I worship not that which ye worship,
109:3
Nor will ye worship that which I worship.
109:4
And I will not worship that which ye have been wont to worship,
109:5
Nor will ye worship that which I worship.
109:6
To you be your Way, and to me mine.
23.3.07
In Memoriam of Mothers
My mother was the most patient explainer of death. She was vacuous when it came to love but competent at giving it all the same. I'll never forget her visit after my father had died the year preceeding. We were driving over to 19th Avenue and Northern to visit her brother Everett in the hospital. He was dying. Her sister had died only months before from lung cancer.
Everywhere she looked she noticed hearses (where there were none) and graveyards (none either). It was death on every corner yet I'd just started life. I was married and had a three year old daughter. I was in college and training to be a nurse.
I became fed up with her terrible desire to see death. I told her so and she became so hurt she swore she'd never come visit me again.
By the time I had my second child, she and I had more or less forgotten our exchange a few years before. She was so frail and sick then that she required a caretaker to drive her on necessary voyages (to hospitals mostly). She came up to stay with me after the birth as all good mothers ought even though she could barely support her own weight on her osteoporotic bones. She weighed no more than a hundred pounds by then.
On the third post partum day while I was taking a nap, she had her caretaker(Tim) pack her things and ready to leave. I came down the stairs and saw her bags by the door and burst into tears. I just couldn't take it but she said that she was just too sick to stay on and burden me anymore. She was having diarrhea and worried about soiling the carpets. I had to let her go but it wasn't easy. Post partum depression never needs an excuse to set in and mine lasted for years until she finally passed away some twelve years ago now and that depression was replaced by mourning her loss which really, has never actually ended.
You never get enough of your mother, especially if she is friendly with the hours of death. She'd explained to me as a very young child that my father only had a few months to live yet he stayed on for another decade. We spent ten or more years talking about nothing but death.
Now, I know why. She was preparing me for hers.
From the Sura called The Women
[4.97] Surely (as for) those whom the angels cause to die while they are unjust to their souls, they shall say: In what state were you? They shall say: We were weak in the earth. They shall say: Was not Allah's earth spacious, so that you should have migrated therein? So these it is whose abode is hell, and it is an evil resort
My mother was the most patient explainer of death. She was vacuous when it came to love but competent at giving it all the same. I'll never forget her visit after my father had died the year preceeding. We were driving over to 19th Avenue and Northern to visit her brother Everett in the hospital. He was dying. Her sister had died only months before from lung cancer.
Everywhere she looked she noticed hearses (where there were none) and graveyards (none either). It was death on every corner yet I'd just started life. I was married and had a three year old daughter. I was in college and training to be a nurse.
I became fed up with her terrible desire to see death. I told her so and she became so hurt she swore she'd never come visit me again.
By the time I had my second child, she and I had more or less forgotten our exchange a few years before. She was so frail and sick then that she required a caretaker to drive her on necessary voyages (to hospitals mostly). She came up to stay with me after the birth as all good mothers ought even though she could barely support her own weight on her osteoporotic bones. She weighed no more than a hundred pounds by then.
On the third post partum day while I was taking a nap, she had her caretaker(Tim) pack her things and ready to leave. I came down the stairs and saw her bags by the door and burst into tears. I just couldn't take it but she said that she was just too sick to stay on and burden me anymore. She was having diarrhea and worried about soiling the carpets. I had to let her go but it wasn't easy. Post partum depression never needs an excuse to set in and mine lasted for years until she finally passed away some twelve years ago now and that depression was replaced by mourning her loss which really, has never actually ended.
You never get enough of your mother, especially if she is friendly with the hours of death. She'd explained to me as a very young child that my father only had a few months to live yet he stayed on for another decade. We spent ten or more years talking about nothing but death.
Now, I know why. She was preparing me for hers.
From the Sura called The Women
[4.97] Surely (as for) those whom the angels cause to die while they are unjust to their souls, they shall say: In what state were you? They shall say: We were weak in the earth. They shall say: Was not Allah's earth spacious, so that you should have migrated therein? So these it is whose abode is hell, and it is an evil resort
A Few Doors Down, the Three Words
These houses are either
empty or sad, constantly
changing hands -
in the dusty keep
of the ages, the dark tunnels
of heat and mouse steps,
voices come and go
via those places and back
where funerals are less eager
to offer rides and pastries.
a body transparent
a body on a table
a body of ash and water
a table set for three
a body full of holes
with a finger trapped
in a book to mark the place
a body sewn to the finger
caught in the book
of estates and tailors
A gold crown
in a nearby town
belongs only to the dentist.
The rain is patient this year
April is patient,
the lilacs that live
two hundred years
the scrub oak
the generations of poppies
on the hill scattered,
are all patient.
So many to clothe
this year in grass and seedlings,
so many Armageddons to attend.
Why is it that people cry
over corpses and why is it
they do not cry about death?
You've seen one of us die,
you've seen them all.
No one goes there to visit the dead.
No one goes there to cry
or whisper or clasp.
They go there to wonder
about themselves
with mouse steps,
side-stepping in the aisles
careful not to bunch up
or bump into one another.
Their faces tell lies and more lies.
No one thinks they'll get caught.
Her son dressed as honestly
as he'd been raised
in a crisp white shirt
each button a little lock.
Her husband looked gray
as the mourners snuck in and out,
his patience exhausted.
He closed the door himself
and shut off the lights.
We were counterweights
that is all he had to say.
The Declining Day
By (the Token of) Time (through the ages),
Verily Man is in loss,
Except such as have Faith, and do righteous deeds,
and (join together) in the mutual teaching of Truth,
and of Patience and Constancy.
These houses are either
empty or sad, constantly
changing hands -
in the dusty keep
of the ages, the dark tunnels
of heat and mouse steps,
voices come and go
via those places and back
where funerals are less eager
to offer rides and pastries.
a body transparent
a body on a table
a body of ash and water
a table set for three
a body full of holes
with a finger trapped
in a book to mark the place
a body sewn to the finger
caught in the book
of estates and tailors
A gold crown
in a nearby town
belongs only to the dentist.
The rain is patient this year
April is patient,
the lilacs that live
two hundred years
the scrub oak
the generations of poppies
on the hill scattered,
are all patient.
So many to clothe
this year in grass and seedlings,
so many Armageddons to attend.
Why is it that people cry
over corpses and why is it
they do not cry about death?
You've seen one of us die,
you've seen them all.
No one goes there to visit the dead.
No one goes there to cry
or whisper or clasp.
They go there to wonder
about themselves
with mouse steps,
side-stepping in the aisles
careful not to bunch up
or bump into one another.
Their faces tell lies and more lies.
No one thinks they'll get caught.
Her son dressed as honestly
as he'd been raised
in a crisp white shirt
each button a little lock.
Her husband looked gray
as the mourners snuck in and out,
his patience exhausted.
He closed the door himself
and shut off the lights.
We were counterweights
that is all he had to say.
The Declining Day
By (the Token of) Time (through the ages),
Verily Man is in loss,
Except such as have Faith, and do righteous deeds,
and (join together) in the mutual teaching of Truth,
and of Patience and Constancy.
22.3.07
I won't however, hold my breath if you don't mind.
http://www.thecrimson.com/article.aspx?ref=517849
Walt, the Belfer professor of international affairs, and co-author John J. Mearsheimer of the University of Chicago set off a storm of controversy last March when they published a paper arguing that the pro-Israel lobby, led by the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, has distorted foreign policy through its influence on academia, the media, and think tanks. Their essay also argued that the lobby was a “critical element” in the decision to invade Iraq in 2003.
The forthcoming book will be published by New York-based Farrar, Straus and Giroux and is due out in September, according to Walt, who declined to answer other questions about the book. Mearsheimer did not respond to phone calls to his office in Chicago.
Since the publication of their essay last March, the claims made by Walt and Mearsheimer have divided the academic community.
New York University professor Tony Judt, who wrote a New York Times op-ed supporting the pair shortly after their article appeared, said in an interview yesterday that the professors’ work has forced a discussion of the Israeli lobby’s influence, a previously taboo topic.
“The article and subsequent furor have opened up the debate as never before [and] the book will presumably do more of the same,” Judt said.
http://www.thecrimson.com/article.aspx?ref=517849
Walt, the Belfer professor of international affairs, and co-author John J. Mearsheimer of the University of Chicago set off a storm of controversy last March when they published a paper arguing that the pro-Israel lobby, led by the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, has distorted foreign policy through its influence on academia, the media, and think tanks. Their essay also argued that the lobby was a “critical element” in the decision to invade Iraq in 2003.
The forthcoming book will be published by New York-based Farrar, Straus and Giroux and is due out in September, according to Walt, who declined to answer other questions about the book. Mearsheimer did not respond to phone calls to his office in Chicago.
Since the publication of their essay last March, the claims made by Walt and Mearsheimer have divided the academic community.
New York University professor Tony Judt, who wrote a New York Times op-ed supporting the pair shortly after their article appeared, said in an interview yesterday that the professors’ work has forced a discussion of the Israeli lobby’s influence, a previously taboo topic.
“The article and subsequent furor have opened up the debate as never before [and] the book will presumably do more of the same,” Judt said.
21.3.07
On the Brighter Side
http://www.esinislam.com/Matters_of_fact/Islam_flourishing_among_the_African_Americans_despite_US_discriminations.htm
Islam is the fastest-growing religion in the United States, particularly among African Americans, who are undeterred by the government’s increased scrutiny of Muslims since the September 11, 2001 attacks, according to a Reuters article.
Muslim converts from the American black community say they embraced the Islamic religion because of the disciplines of its prayers, its emphasis on worshippers’ submission to Allah (SWT) and its affinity with people who are oppressed.
Some black Muslim converts are also suspicious of the U.S. government’s warnings about the emergence of new enemies since the 9/11 attacks because of memories of how authorities demonized civil rights leaders Martin Luther King and Malcolm X. As a result, they are willing to embrace Islam as a legitimate alternative to Christianity, the majority religion among U.S. blacks.
A new black Muslim convert in Atlanta told Reuters he embraced Islam when he visited Africa for the first time. After reading the holy Qur’an, Mark King says he realized that its blessed teachings were similar to his own beliefs, not least in fighting injustice.
http://www.esinislam.com/Matters_of_fact/Islam_flourishing_among_the_African_Americans_despite_US_discriminations.htm
Islam is the fastest-growing religion in the United States, particularly among African Americans, who are undeterred by the government’s increased scrutiny of Muslims since the September 11, 2001 attacks, according to a Reuters article.
Muslim converts from the American black community say they embraced the Islamic religion because of the disciplines of its prayers, its emphasis on worshippers’ submission to Allah (SWT) and its affinity with people who are oppressed.
Some black Muslim converts are also suspicious of the U.S. government’s warnings about the emergence of new enemies since the 9/11 attacks because of memories of how authorities demonized civil rights leaders Martin Luther King and Malcolm X. As a result, they are willing to embrace Islam as a legitimate alternative to Christianity, the majority religion among U.S. blacks.
A new black Muslim convert in Atlanta told Reuters he embraced Islam when he visited Africa for the first time. After reading the holy Qur’an, Mark King says he realized that its blessed teachings were similar to his own beliefs, not least in fighting injustice.
Wha? Cattle Mutilations?
Yer kidding me. Nope. 30,000 to date in North America:
Read on:
http://www.ob1.com/fyfecow.html
On January 31, 1993, a rancher in the Dawson Community led investigators to the carcass of a Black Angus cow. The animal's genitals and rectum had been cored out in one large incision that left a hole the size of coffee can. The animal's jaw had been completely stripped in an oval incision that encompassed The entire right side of the animal's face. The tongue was completely gone, cut deep down into the throat. There was no blood present on the animal itself, nor on the ground surrounding it.
Further examination revealed a flaky white material on the animal's right rib cage and on the ground five (5) feet from the carcass. The material was placed in the empty wrapper of a cigarette pack and transported to the Fyffe Police Department where it was transferred to a glass jar. While removing the flaky particles from the cigarette wrapper, the material came in contact with the brass tip of a ball-point pen. Within one second of contact with the brass, the material melted into an almost clear liquid. To reduce the risk of this happening to the remaining material, the rest was shaken out into a jar where it remained unaffected. This white, flaky material was then air expressed to a molecular biologist at a leading eastern University for analysis.
[004:119] And surely I will lead them astray, and surely I will arouse desires in them, and surely I will command them and they will cut the cattle' ears, and surely I will command them and they will change Allah's creation. Whoso chooseth Satan for a patron instead of Allah is verily a loser and his loss is manifest.
More importantly, it is this same type of aluminum compound which, when combined with Iron produces Lava. Lava...love lava. But, the people in the WTC who died probably wouldn't feel the same way about this substance used to melt the building:
http://www.whatreallyhappened.com/thermite.htm
Yer kidding me. Nope. 30,000 to date in North America:
Read on:
http://www.ob1.com/fyfecow.html
On January 31, 1993, a rancher in the Dawson Community led investigators to the carcass of a Black Angus cow. The animal's genitals and rectum had been cored out in one large incision that left a hole the size of coffee can. The animal's jaw had been completely stripped in an oval incision that encompassed The entire right side of the animal's face. The tongue was completely gone, cut deep down into the throat. There was no blood present on the animal itself, nor on the ground surrounding it.
Further examination revealed a flaky white material on the animal's right rib cage and on the ground five (5) feet from the carcass. The material was placed in the empty wrapper of a cigarette pack and transported to the Fyffe Police Department where it was transferred to a glass jar. While removing the flaky particles from the cigarette wrapper, the material came in contact with the brass tip of a ball-point pen. Within one second of contact with the brass, the material melted into an almost clear liquid. To reduce the risk of this happening to the remaining material, the rest was shaken out into a jar where it remained unaffected. This white, flaky material was then air expressed to a molecular biologist at a leading eastern University for analysis.
[004:119] And surely I will lead them astray, and surely I will arouse desires in them, and surely I will command them and they will cut the cattle' ears, and surely I will command them and they will change Allah's creation. Whoso chooseth Satan for a patron instead of Allah is verily a loser and his loss is manifest.
More importantly, it is this same type of aluminum compound which, when combined with Iron produces Lava. Lava...love lava. But, the people in the WTC who died probably wouldn't feel the same way about this substance used to melt the building:
http://www.whatreallyhappened.com/thermite.htm
Just Water Eh?
Such turbulent behavior has engaged scientists for centuries, and artists as well; Leonardo da Vinci loved to draw the characteristic eddies of moving water. The great eighteenth-century Swiss mathematician Leonhard Euler analyzed fluid motion, but omitted the effects of friction. Unfor-tunately, when Euler used his equation to design a fountain for Frederick the Great, it failed to work. Now we know the correct equation, but it is brutally difficult to solve, and it leaves unanswered the central question: how does deterministic laminar flow break into random whorls? This commonplace effect that we experience daily is a great unsolved problem of classical physics, in some ways as challenging as quantum mechanics.
http://www.emory.edu/ACAD_EXCHANGE/2006/aprmay/perkowitz.html
Sura Al Nur, The Light:
Or (the Unbelievers' state) is like the depths of darkness in a vast deep ocean, overwhelmed with billow topped by billow, topped by (dark) clouds: depths of darkness, one above another: if a man stretches out his hands, he can hardly see it! for any to whom Allah giveth not light, there is no light!
Sura Al Baqra, The Cow
Thenceforth were your hearts hardened: They became like a rock andeven worse in hardness. For among rocks there are some from whichrivers gush forth; others there are which when split asunder sendforth water; and others which sink for fear of Allah. And Allah is not unmindful of what ye do.
Deuterium is a stable isotope of hydrogen, meaning that it is not radioactive and has a very long life span. Deuterium is still the same element as hydrogen but it has one neutron making it twice as heavy as protium. Deuterium was discovered by Harold Urey, in 1932. Deuterium was the first isotope to be separated from its element in pure form. It is believed that deuterium was created during the initial phase of the big bang. A free neutron will decay in ten minutes unless it interacts with a proton to form a nucleus of a deuterium atom. Most of these deuterium atoms combined to form helium but a few extra were left over and remained deuterium.
When two deuterium ions bond with one oxygen ion, deuterium oxide, heavy water, is formed. It looks the same as and tastes similar to regular water, but some of it's characteristics are different. Heavy water is different from regular water in physical properties. Heavy water boils at 101.41 degrees Celsius and freezes at 3.79 degrees Celsius. The heat capacity, heat of fusion, heat of vaporization, and entropy of deuterium oxide are all higher than the values for water. Heavy water is also more viscous than water is. Deuterium oxide is not as good of a solvent as water is either. Deuterium will form stronger bonds than hydrogen will.
Approximately one of every six thousand drops of water is actually deuterium oxide. The overall deuterium to hydrogen ratio on earth is 1:6600.
Such turbulent behavior has engaged scientists for centuries, and artists as well; Leonardo da Vinci loved to draw the characteristic eddies of moving water. The great eighteenth-century Swiss mathematician Leonhard Euler analyzed fluid motion, but omitted the effects of friction. Unfor-tunately, when Euler used his equation to design a fountain for Frederick the Great, it failed to work. Now we know the correct equation, but it is brutally difficult to solve, and it leaves unanswered the central question: how does deterministic laminar flow break into random whorls? This commonplace effect that we experience daily is a great unsolved problem of classical physics, in some ways as challenging as quantum mechanics.
http://www.emory.edu/ACAD_EXCHANGE/2006/aprmay/perkowitz.html
Sura Al Nur, The Light:
Or (the Unbelievers' state) is like the depths of darkness in a vast deep ocean, overwhelmed with billow topped by billow, topped by (dark) clouds: depths of darkness, one above another: if a man stretches out his hands, he can hardly see it! for any to whom Allah giveth not light, there is no light!
Sura Al Baqra, The Cow
Thenceforth were your hearts hardened: They became like a rock andeven worse in hardness. For among rocks there are some from whichrivers gush forth; others there are which when split asunder sendforth water; and others which sink for fear of Allah. And Allah is not unmindful of what ye do.
Deuterium is a stable isotope of hydrogen, meaning that it is not radioactive and has a very long life span. Deuterium is still the same element as hydrogen but it has one neutron making it twice as heavy as protium. Deuterium was discovered by Harold Urey, in 1932. Deuterium was the first isotope to be separated from its element in pure form. It is believed that deuterium was created during the initial phase of the big bang. A free neutron will decay in ten minutes unless it interacts with a proton to form a nucleus of a deuterium atom. Most of these deuterium atoms combined to form helium but a few extra were left over and remained deuterium.
When two deuterium ions bond with one oxygen ion, deuterium oxide, heavy water, is formed. It looks the same as and tastes similar to regular water, but some of it's characteristics are different. Heavy water is different from regular water in physical properties. Heavy water boils at 101.41 degrees Celsius and freezes at 3.79 degrees Celsius. The heat capacity, heat of fusion, heat of vaporization, and entropy of deuterium oxide are all higher than the values for water. Heavy water is also more viscous than water is. Deuterium oxide is not as good of a solvent as water is either. Deuterium will form stronger bonds than hydrogen will.
Approximately one of every six thousand drops of water is actually deuterium oxide. The overall deuterium to hydrogen ratio on earth is 1:6600.
DARWIN IS DEAD
Sura called Time
76:1
Has there not been over Man a long period of Time, when he was nothing - (not even) mentioned?
76:28
It is We Who created them, and We have made their joints strong; but, when We will, We can substitute the like of them by a complete change.*
*Note: In Arabic, words are gender specific and "we" is used as it is in French as the Royal We and does not imply multiple creators.
"It is a striking, but not much mentioned fact that, though geneticists have been breeding fruit-flies for sixty years or more in labs all round the world- flies which produce a new generation every eleven days-they have never yet seen the emergence of a new species or even a new enzyme."21
Although an almost incomprehensible number of species inhabit Earth today, they do not form a continuous spectrum of barely distinguishable intermediates. Instead, nearly all species can be recognized as belonging to a relatively limited number of clearly distinct major groups, with very few illustrating intermediate structures or ways of life. ( Robert L. Carroll, Patterns and Processes of Vertebrate Evolution, Cambridge University Press, 1997)
If my theory be true, numberless intermediate varieties, linking most closely all of the species of the same group together must assuredly have existed... Consequently evidence of their former existence could be found only amongst fossil remains.(Charles Darwin, The Origin of Species: A Facsimile of the First Edition, Harvard University Press, 1964, p. 179)
And be careful for those Moby Bears:
"I can see no difficulty in a race of bears being rendered, by natural selection, more and more aquatic in their structure and habits, with larger and larger mouths, till a creature was produced as monstrous as a whale" - Charles Darwin, The Origin of Humor, er, Species.
Sura Ya Sin, 36
Glory be to the One, who created in pairs all things that the earth produces, as well as themselves, and other things they do not know.
The Arabic word “azvaj” is the plural of “zavj” meaning “pairs,” “matches,” “partners.” There are three sorts of pairs in the Creation as described in the verse:
a- Pairs that grow from the earth, i.e., plants that have species of differentiated sex;
b- Human pairs, males and females. Also some included human characteristics like bravery / cowardice; love / hate; generosity / stinginess, etc.
c- Pairs unknown: men did not know anything about the creation in pairs at the time of the descent of the Quran.
Sura Yunus
Say: "Of your 'partners', can any originate creation and repeat it?" Say: "It is Allah Who originates creation and repeats it: then how are ye deluded away (from the truth)?"
Sura called Time
76:1
Has there not been over Man a long period of Time, when he was nothing - (not even) mentioned?
76:28
It is We Who created them, and We have made their joints strong; but, when We will, We can substitute the like of them by a complete change.*
*Note: In Arabic, words are gender specific and "we" is used as it is in French as the Royal We and does not imply multiple creators.
"It is a striking, but not much mentioned fact that, though geneticists have been breeding fruit-flies for sixty years or more in labs all round the world- flies which produce a new generation every eleven days-they have never yet seen the emergence of a new species or even a new enzyme."21
Although an almost incomprehensible number of species inhabit Earth today, they do not form a continuous spectrum of barely distinguishable intermediates. Instead, nearly all species can be recognized as belonging to a relatively limited number of clearly distinct major groups, with very few illustrating intermediate structures or ways of life. ( Robert L. Carroll, Patterns and Processes of Vertebrate Evolution, Cambridge University Press, 1997)
If my theory be true, numberless intermediate varieties, linking most closely all of the species of the same group together must assuredly have existed... Consequently evidence of their former existence could be found only amongst fossil remains.(Charles Darwin, The Origin of Species: A Facsimile of the First Edition, Harvard University Press, 1964, p. 179)
And be careful for those Moby Bears:
"I can see no difficulty in a race of bears being rendered, by natural selection, more and more aquatic in their structure and habits, with larger and larger mouths, till a creature was produced as monstrous as a whale" - Charles Darwin, The Origin of Humor, er, Species.
Sura Ya Sin, 36
Glory be to the One, who created in pairs all things that the earth produces, as well as themselves, and other things they do not know.
The Arabic word “azvaj” is the plural of “zavj” meaning “pairs,” “matches,” “partners.” There are three sorts of pairs in the Creation as described in the verse:
a- Pairs that grow from the earth, i.e., plants that have species of differentiated sex;
b- Human pairs, males and females. Also some included human characteristics like bravery / cowardice; love / hate; generosity / stinginess, etc.
c- Pairs unknown: men did not know anything about the creation in pairs at the time of the descent of the Quran.
Sura Yunus
Say: "Of your 'partners', can any originate creation and repeat it?" Say: "It is Allah Who originates creation and repeats it: then how are ye deluded away (from the truth)?"
20.3.07
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070320/ap_on_re_mi_ea/israel_norway
JERUSALEM -
Israel's foreign ministry canceled a planned Tuesday meeting with a top Norwegian diplomat in a sign of displeasure the day after he met with Palestinian government leaders from the Islamic Hamas group, Norwegian and Israeli officials said.
Norway's deputy foreign minister, Raymond Johansen met Palestinian Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh of Hamas and other government officials on Monday, becoming the first high-ranking Western official to visit leaders of the violent Islamic movement, which has killed more than 200 Israelis in dozens of suicide bombing attacks.
Sura Al Baqra
[2.11] And when it is said to them, Do not make mischief in the land, they say: We are but peace-makers.
[2.12] Now surely they themselves are the mischief makers, but they do not perceive.
**One of the biggest problems we muslims have with the "Jews" is that it is mostly true about them, ie what he Quran says about them. They are not peace makers and behave like Pharoah:
http://www.aina.org/news/20070317151234.htm Reminds me of what the Jews did to the Muslims in the "Battle of the Trench".
http://desertpeace.blogspot.com/2007/03/rachels-work-lives-on.html Jews murdering Americans with impunity.
http://www.muckrakerreport.com/id374.html Jews encouraging Americans to die for Israel.
http://rawstory.com/news/2007/Kristof_US_should_stop_biting_tongue_0317.html US patsies never criticize Israel in their ME anti war malarkey. That is Irish for BULL SHIT.
http://www.wakeupfromyourslumber.com/node/750 Jews impersonating Arabs ALL the damn time or didn't you people know that Ehud Barak showed up in Beirut disguised as an old Arab woman in order to assassinate the leader of the PLO named Arafat?
http://www.counterpunch.org/lamb02262007.html Jews targeting Arab business competitors in war time and peace time. I thought they were democratic and all but fact is folks, when they bombed Liban Lait, a Lebanese dairy which markets in Europe and competes with Israeli dairies...did they really think there was a Hezbollah at the bottom of the yogurt or a banana in his pocket?
Screw Israel. No right to exist. No right to stay and no right for Jews to sit pretty and ignore this and feel all warm and fuzzy inside about their "jewish homeland" as it is called. If you are a Jew and don't like this blog then go to hell. And if you agree then why are you sitting there and saying nothing?
YOU are complicit in their crimes and therefore, go to hell. It is not the time to remain silent in the face of the outrages perpetrated by Israel and for Israel.
JERUSALEM -
Israel's foreign ministry canceled a planned Tuesday meeting with a top Norwegian diplomat in a sign of displeasure the day after he met with Palestinian government leaders from the Islamic Hamas group, Norwegian and Israeli officials said.
Norway's deputy foreign minister, Raymond Johansen met Palestinian Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh of Hamas and other government officials on Monday, becoming the first high-ranking Western official to visit leaders of the violent Islamic movement, which has killed more than 200 Israelis in dozens of suicide bombing attacks.
Sura Al Baqra
[2.11] And when it is said to them, Do not make mischief in the land, they say: We are but peace-makers.
[2.12] Now surely they themselves are the mischief makers, but they do not perceive.
**One of the biggest problems we muslims have with the "Jews" is that it is mostly true about them, ie what he Quran says about them. They are not peace makers and behave like Pharoah:
http://www.aina.org/news/20070317151234.htm Reminds me of what the Jews did to the Muslims in the "Battle of the Trench".
http://desertpeace.blogspot.com/2007/03/rachels-work-lives-on.html Jews murdering Americans with impunity.
http://www.muckrakerreport.com/id374.html Jews encouraging Americans to die for Israel.
http://rawstory.com/news/2007/Kristof_US_should_stop_biting_tongue_0317.html US patsies never criticize Israel in their ME anti war malarkey. That is Irish for BULL SHIT.
http://www.wakeupfromyourslumber.com/node/750 Jews impersonating Arabs ALL the damn time or didn't you people know that Ehud Barak showed up in Beirut disguised as an old Arab woman in order to assassinate the leader of the PLO named Arafat?
http://www.counterpunch.org/lamb02262007.html Jews targeting Arab business competitors in war time and peace time. I thought they were democratic and all but fact is folks, when they bombed Liban Lait, a Lebanese dairy which markets in Europe and competes with Israeli dairies...did they really think there was a Hezbollah at the bottom of the yogurt or a banana in his pocket?
Screw Israel. No right to exist. No right to stay and no right for Jews to sit pretty and ignore this and feel all warm and fuzzy inside about their "jewish homeland" as it is called. If you are a Jew and don't like this blog then go to hell. And if you agree then why are you sitting there and saying nothing?
YOU are complicit in their crimes and therefore, go to hell. It is not the time to remain silent in the face of the outrages perpetrated by Israel and for Israel.
"In physical cosmology, a cosmological horizon marks a limit to observability, and marks the boundary of a region that an observer cannot see into directly due to cosmological effects."
Cosmological Horizon
"Observations of the universe are limited by the physical properties of light. Terrestrial observations are limited by the fact that light propagates in straight lines, while the surface of Earth is curved. The distance one can see can be increased by observing from a higher vantage point, but there is a limit: an observer on an infinitely tall platform could only see one quarter of the way around Earth's circumference. Astronomical observations are limited by the fact that light propagates with a finite velocity, c. The only objects that can be seen are those whose emitted light has had enough time, since the beginning of the Universe, to reach Earth today. In both cases, the physical limit to vision is called the horizon."
"In any case, it is interesting to note that the cosmological horizon is a maximal limit of perception and not an actual boundary. Much like an individual who is unable to see the edges of the Pacific Ocean while they are floating n the middle of it; we can only see the light from areas of space within the cosmological horizon."
55:33O ye assembly of Jinns and men! If it be ye can pass beyond the zones of the heavens and the earth, pass ye! not without authority shall ye be able to pass!
55:34Then which of the favours of your Lord will ye deny?
Cosmological Horizon
"Observations of the universe are limited by the physical properties of light. Terrestrial observations are limited by the fact that light propagates in straight lines, while the surface of Earth is curved. The distance one can see can be increased by observing from a higher vantage point, but there is a limit: an observer on an infinitely tall platform could only see one quarter of the way around Earth's circumference. Astronomical observations are limited by the fact that light propagates with a finite velocity, c. The only objects that can be seen are those whose emitted light has had enough time, since the beginning of the Universe, to reach Earth today. In both cases, the physical limit to vision is called the horizon."
"In any case, it is interesting to note that the cosmological horizon is a maximal limit of perception and not an actual boundary. Much like an individual who is unable to see the edges of the Pacific Ocean while they are floating n the middle of it; we can only see the light from areas of space within the cosmological horizon."
55:33O ye assembly of Jinns and men! If it be ye can pass beyond the zones of the heavens and the earth, pass ye! not without authority shall ye be able to pass!
55:34Then which of the favours of your Lord will ye deny?
19.3.07
The Dawn
By the break of Day
By the Nights twice five;
By the even and odd
http://www.quranmiracles.com/19/19read.asp?id=38
By the break of Day
By the Nights twice five;
By the even and odd
http://www.quranmiracles.com/19/19read.asp?id=38
http://www.wakeupfromyourslumber.com/node/957
http://www.counterpunch.org/adwan03172007.html
http://www.muckrakerreport.com/id374.html
Israel using human shields? Invading other countries? Imprisoning people in ghettoes? Strip searching young muslim and Christian women (not Jews of course)?
No way man! What a Godawful surprise!
While commonly associated with Nazi Germany, the swastika symbol is more than 3,000 years old. The term "Swastika" was originally the name for a hooked cross in Sanskrit, and swastikas have been found on artifacts, such as coins and pottery, from the ancient city of Troy.
Not only are swastikas associated with ancient Troy, the symbols are found in many other cultures, such as Chinese, Japanese, Indian and southern European. By the Middle Ages, the swastika was a well-known symbol and had many different names, depending on the country. In some cultures, such as in ancient China, the symbol is turned counterclockwise (sauvastika).
Throughout its history, the swastika represented life, sun, power, strength and good luck. In the early 20th century, it was still considered a positive symbol. During World War I, it was found on shoulder patches of members of the American 45th Division and the Finnish air force. Only after the Nazi period did its connotation change.
German nationalists chose to use the swastika in the mid-19th century because it was associated with the Aryan race and Germanic history. At the end of the 19th century, German nationalists used the symbol on periodicals and for the official emblem of the German Gymnasts’ League. By the 20th century, it was a common symbol used in Germany to represent German nationalism and pride, for example, as the emblem for the Wandervogel, a German youth group. Swastikas also were used, however, in anti-Semitic periodicals.
The swastika officially became the emblem for the Nazi Party on August, 7, 1920, at the Salzburg Congress. Describing the new flag in Mein Kampf, Hitler said the swastika symbolized the victory of the Aryan man.
Today the symbol is most commonly associated with Nazi Germany, the Holocaust, neo-Nazis and other hate groups.
Same difference if you ask me.
http://www.counterpunch.org/adwan03172007.html
http://www.muckrakerreport.com/id374.html
http://www.counterpunch.org/weir03152007.html
Israel using human shields? Invading other countries? Imprisoning people in ghettoes? Strip searching young muslim and Christian women (not Jews of course)?
No way man! What a Godawful surprise!
While commonly associated with Nazi Germany, the swastika symbol is more than 3,000 years old. The term "Swastika" was originally the name for a hooked cross in Sanskrit, and swastikas have been found on artifacts, such as coins and pottery, from the ancient city of Troy.
Not only are swastikas associated with ancient Troy, the symbols are found in many other cultures, such as Chinese, Japanese, Indian and southern European. By the Middle Ages, the swastika was a well-known symbol and had many different names, depending on the country. In some cultures, such as in ancient China, the symbol is turned counterclockwise (sauvastika).
Throughout its history, the swastika represented life, sun, power, strength and good luck. In the early 20th century, it was still considered a positive symbol. During World War I, it was found on shoulder patches of members of the American 45th Division and the Finnish air force. Only after the Nazi period did its connotation change.
German nationalists chose to use the swastika in the mid-19th century because it was associated with the Aryan race and Germanic history. At the end of the 19th century, German nationalists used the symbol on periodicals and for the official emblem of the German Gymnasts’ League. By the 20th century, it was a common symbol used in Germany to represent German nationalism and pride, for example, as the emblem for the Wandervogel, a German youth group. Swastikas also were used, however, in anti-Semitic periodicals.
The swastika officially became the emblem for the Nazi Party on August, 7, 1920, at the Salzburg Congress. Describing the new flag in Mein Kampf, Hitler said the swastika symbolized the victory of the Aryan man.
Today the symbol is most commonly associated with Nazi Germany, the Holocaust, neo-Nazis and other hate groups.
Same difference if you ask me.
The Day After the Beach:
http://www.wakeupfromyourslumber.com/node/938
17.3.07
15.3.07
From the Zaburزبور , more commonly called, Proverbs which is attributed to Solomon and part of the Psalms of the ancient Jews contained in what is known today as the Torah or Tanakha:
The Sayings of Agur*
I am myself the stupidest of people,
bereft of human intelligence,
I have not learned wisdom,
and I lack the knowledge of the holy ones,
Who has mounted to the heavens, then come down again?
Who has gathered the wind in the clasp of his hand?
Who has wrapped the waters in his cloak?
Who has set all the ends of the earth firm?
What is his name?
What is his child's name?
Do you know?
Every word of God is unalloyed,
a shield to those who take refuge in him,
To his words make no addition,
lest he reprove you
and account you a liar.
Two things I beg of you,
do not grudge me them before I die:
keep falsehood and lies from me,
give me neither poverty nor riches,
grant me only my share of food,
for fear that, surrounded by plenty,
I should fall away
and say "Yahweh - who is Yahweh?"
or else, in destitution, take to stealing
and profane the name of my God.
Do not blacken a slave's name to his master,
lest he curse you and you suffer for it.
There is a breed of person that curses his father
and does not bless his mother;
a breed that, laying claim to purity,
has not yet been cleansed of filth;
a breed haughty of eye,
with disdain in every glance;
a breed with swords for teeth,
with knives for jaws,
devouring the oppressed from the earth
and the needy from the land.
*Agur was the son of Jakey of Massa (in Northern Arabia).
The Sayings of Agur*
I am myself the stupidest of people,
bereft of human intelligence,
I have not learned wisdom,
and I lack the knowledge of the holy ones,
Who has mounted to the heavens, then come down again?
Who has gathered the wind in the clasp of his hand?
Who has wrapped the waters in his cloak?
Who has set all the ends of the earth firm?
What is his name?
What is his child's name?
Do you know?
Every word of God is unalloyed,
a shield to those who take refuge in him,
To his words make no addition,
lest he reprove you
and account you a liar.
Two things I beg of you,
do not grudge me them before I die:
keep falsehood and lies from me,
give me neither poverty nor riches,
grant me only my share of food,
for fear that, surrounded by plenty,
I should fall away
and say "Yahweh - who is Yahweh?"
or else, in destitution, take to stealing
and profane the name of my God.
Do not blacken a slave's name to his master,
lest he curse you and you suffer for it.
There is a breed of person that curses his father
and does not bless his mother;
a breed that, laying claim to purity,
has not yet been cleansed of filth;
a breed haughty of eye,
with disdain in every glance;
a breed with swords for teeth,
with knives for jaws,
devouring the oppressed from the earth
and the needy from the land.
*Agur was the son of Jakey of Massa (in Northern Arabia).
On Being Different, Unusual,
Impractical and Saved:
From the Qur'an, 42:49-50, the Counsel:
Allah's is the kingdom of the heavens and the earth
He creates what he pleases
He grants to whom he pleases daughters and grants
to whom he pleases sons,
Or, He makes them of BOTH sorts, male and female
AND He makes whom he pleases barren***!
Surely He is the Knowing Powerful
And from the Bee, Sura number 16 which coincidentally (or maybe not!) is the haploid number of male drones who fertilize the diploid (32) Queen Bee rather than the diploid drones who, if they were to fertilize the eggs would manage to create a new species of bee with 64 chromosomes and why stop there! Why not have bees with a squillion chromosomes, what the hell! You see, bees practice a kind of eugenics that conserve all the genetic material of both parents as opposed to humans who are less conservative and exercise a bit more "free will" in their reproduction techniques by using only half of the information contained in the humble strands of DNA:
16:3
He has created the heavens and the earth for just ends: Far is He above having the partners they ascribe to Him!
16:4
He has created man from a sperm-drop; and behold this same (man) becomes an open disputer!
16:5
And cattle He has created for you (men): from them ye derive warmth, and numerous benefits, and of their (meat) ye eat.
16:6
And ye have a sense of pride and beauty in them as ye drive them home in the evening, and as ye lead them forth to pasture in the morning.
16:7
And they carry your heavy loads to lands that ye could not (otherwise) reach except with souls distressed: for your Lord is indeed Most Kind, Most Merciful,
16:8
And (He has created) horses, mules, and donkeys, for you to ride and use for show; and He has created (other) things of which ye have no knowledge.
The interesting thing to note about the Sura called the Bee (well, there are several things actually but this is one) is that it contains within it not only the suggestion of the eugenics of Allah, but the entire process of how food is brought to market including the fact that it is driven there on the backs of animals created specifically as beasts of burdens. For example:
16:10
It is He who sends down rain from the sky: from it ye drink, and out of it (grows) the vegetation on which ye feed your cattle.
There is a sense of the purposefulness of the plan in many Suras but especially in The Bee. When at first a person reads the Qur'an, a person with no experience and no faith either, they tend to see these passages as just more Bible Stories of the ancients. But no....not in this case when in fact it starts out with a big "Wha?" Allah states, I created you from a spermatazoa and you dare to question my authority in these matters? How dare you, you fools! And truth be told, when a person becomes fully aware of the capacity of the Qur'an to comment on human nature, human biology, the food chain and natural selection (which is naturally, Allah's selection of the fittest and it is NOT random and not at all based on competition save for the evil doers who feel there is never enough to go around)...when a person comes to the final conclusion regarding the integrity of the Qur'an, a person can no longer ignore the rules. How it is...only a fool would do that and even then, Allah promises that a soul will follow willingly or unwillingly. One only has to look at the news on any given day and see that people are struggling whole heartedly against natural law in their societies. Natural Law which is necessarily, the Law of the Creator of all things including Jesus Christ (Isa, SAW), including Jonah (SAW), including Musa (Moses, SAW) and including you and me plus our dogs, cats and circular saws:
16:12
He has made subject to you the Night and the Day; the sun and the moon; and the stars are in subjection by His Command: verily in this are Signs for men who are wise.
16:13
And the things on this earth which He has multiplied in varying colours (and qualities): verily in this is a sign for men who celebrate the praises of Allah (in gratitude).
The Qur'an is so thorough that it even comments on modern definitions of infinity which are popularly accepted (ignored and avoided by the Greeks who didn't require a mathematical model for infinity (calculus/algebra) in order to square a corner or stack a wall)...popularly accepted "nowdays" as infinity that is "countable and uncountable":
16:18
If ye would count up the favours of Allah, never would ye be able to number them: for Allah is Oft-Forgiving, Most Merciful.
The notion of countable and uncountable infinities requires a decent understanding of the world of real numbers and the world of transcendental numbers. Take a stick of known size (say a six inch stick) and divide it up into smaller and smaller sections (the notion of Borges Map of the World)...you will never achieve the final division of course and it used to be in mathematics that it was similar to the speed of light...one could approach it but never attain it which of course, is also in the book in the Sura called The Beneficent (a Sura which details several of the favors for you):
55:33
O ye assembly of Jinns and men! If it be ye can pass beyond the zones of the heavens and the earth, pass ye! not without authority shall ye be able to pass!
55:34
Then which of the favours of your Lord will ye deny?
It was that infinity was a "known" quantity but it was unusually hard to gather the facts of it due to its very nature. In other words, it is both countable and uncountable and without it, modern mathematics would not be what it is and we as humans would not have been able to construct a universe that can be discussed logically between each other. We'd still be building the Parthenon and gosh, we'd be very tired of all the repetition of forms.
16:72
And Allah has made for you mates (and companions) of your own nature, and made for you, out of them, sons and daughters and grandchildren, and provided for you sustenance of the best: will they then believe in vain things, and be ungrateful for Allah's favours?-
Allah made mates for you "of your own nature", kind of like the bees who we are expected to study at some point in time to understand the nature of haploidy/diploidy and of course "euploidy" not to mention polyploidy, aneuploidy (which, believe it or not is the cause of cancer) and the soon to be famous:
Eurekaploidy. I discovered that one. No one knows about it yet.
Heh.
***!
Of those he makes barren on purpose, it is the Klinefelter's male, not the Turner's mosaic female, that he makes barren. And for a reason. One that many people nowdays, are rather fond of NOT calling: Gender Confusion. A wide spread problem in a society where sixth grade children have begun having sex under their computer lab desks. Sheesh. For that matter, it might be tres inconvenient for men to be "fertilizable" because certainly, they do not possess a uterus and that much is for sure. As opposed to the humble Honey Bee eggs, ALL OF WHICH are viable and hatch regardless of being fertilized in the proper manner or not.
Impractical and Saved:
From the Qur'an, 42:49-50, the Counsel:
Allah's is the kingdom of the heavens and the earth
He creates what he pleases
He grants to whom he pleases daughters and grants
to whom he pleases sons,
Or, He makes them of BOTH sorts, male and female
AND He makes whom he pleases barren***!
Surely He is the Knowing Powerful
And from the Bee, Sura number 16 which coincidentally (or maybe not!) is the haploid number of male drones who fertilize the diploid (32) Queen Bee rather than the diploid drones who, if they were to fertilize the eggs would manage to create a new species of bee with 64 chromosomes and why stop there! Why not have bees with a squillion chromosomes, what the hell! You see, bees practice a kind of eugenics that conserve all the genetic material of both parents as opposed to humans who are less conservative and exercise a bit more "free will" in their reproduction techniques by using only half of the information contained in the humble strands of DNA:
16:3
He has created the heavens and the earth for just ends: Far is He above having the partners they ascribe to Him!
16:4
He has created man from a sperm-drop; and behold this same (man) becomes an open disputer!
16:5
And cattle He has created for you (men): from them ye derive warmth, and numerous benefits, and of their (meat) ye eat.
16:6
And ye have a sense of pride and beauty in them as ye drive them home in the evening, and as ye lead them forth to pasture in the morning.
16:7
And they carry your heavy loads to lands that ye could not (otherwise) reach except with souls distressed: for your Lord is indeed Most Kind, Most Merciful,
16:8
And (He has created) horses, mules, and donkeys, for you to ride and use for show; and He has created (other) things of which ye have no knowledge.
The interesting thing to note about the Sura called the Bee (well, there are several things actually but this is one) is that it contains within it not only the suggestion of the eugenics of Allah, but the entire process of how food is brought to market including the fact that it is driven there on the backs of animals created specifically as beasts of burdens. For example:
16:10
It is He who sends down rain from the sky: from it ye drink, and out of it (grows) the vegetation on which ye feed your cattle.
There is a sense of the purposefulness of the plan in many Suras but especially in The Bee. When at first a person reads the Qur'an, a person with no experience and no faith either, they tend to see these passages as just more Bible Stories of the ancients. But no....not in this case when in fact it starts out with a big "Wha?" Allah states, I created you from a spermatazoa and you dare to question my authority in these matters? How dare you, you fools! And truth be told, when a person becomes fully aware of the capacity of the Qur'an to comment on human nature, human biology, the food chain and natural selection (which is naturally, Allah's selection of the fittest and it is NOT random and not at all based on competition save for the evil doers who feel there is never enough to go around)...when a person comes to the final conclusion regarding the integrity of the Qur'an, a person can no longer ignore the rules. How it is...only a fool would do that and even then, Allah promises that a soul will follow willingly or unwillingly. One only has to look at the news on any given day and see that people are struggling whole heartedly against natural law in their societies. Natural Law which is necessarily, the Law of the Creator of all things including Jesus Christ (Isa, SAW), including Jonah (SAW), including Musa (Moses, SAW) and including you and me plus our dogs, cats and circular saws:
16:12
He has made subject to you the Night and the Day; the sun and the moon; and the stars are in subjection by His Command: verily in this are Signs for men who are wise.
16:13
And the things on this earth which He has multiplied in varying colours (and qualities): verily in this is a sign for men who celebrate the praises of Allah (in gratitude).
The Qur'an is so thorough that it even comments on modern definitions of infinity which are popularly accepted (ignored and avoided by the Greeks who didn't require a mathematical model for infinity (calculus/algebra) in order to square a corner or stack a wall)...popularly accepted "nowdays" as infinity that is "countable and uncountable":
16:18
If ye would count up the favours of Allah, never would ye be able to number them: for Allah is Oft-Forgiving, Most Merciful.
The notion of countable and uncountable infinities requires a decent understanding of the world of real numbers and the world of transcendental numbers. Take a stick of known size (say a six inch stick) and divide it up into smaller and smaller sections (the notion of Borges Map of the World)...you will never achieve the final division of course and it used to be in mathematics that it was similar to the speed of light...one could approach it but never attain it which of course, is also in the book in the Sura called The Beneficent (a Sura which details several of the favors for you):
55:33
O ye assembly of Jinns and men! If it be ye can pass beyond the zones of the heavens and the earth, pass ye! not without authority shall ye be able to pass!
55:34
Then which of the favours of your Lord will ye deny?
It was that infinity was a "known" quantity but it was unusually hard to gather the facts of it due to its very nature. In other words, it is both countable and uncountable and without it, modern mathematics would not be what it is and we as humans would not have been able to construct a universe that can be discussed logically between each other. We'd still be building the Parthenon and gosh, we'd be very tired of all the repetition of forms.
16:72
And Allah has made for you mates (and companions) of your own nature, and made for you, out of them, sons and daughters and grandchildren, and provided for you sustenance of the best: will they then believe in vain things, and be ungrateful for Allah's favours?-
Allah made mates for you "of your own nature", kind of like the bees who we are expected to study at some point in time to understand the nature of haploidy/diploidy and of course "euploidy" not to mention polyploidy, aneuploidy (which, believe it or not is the cause of cancer) and the soon to be famous:
Eurekaploidy. I discovered that one. No one knows about it yet.
Heh.
***!
Of those he makes barren on purpose, it is the Klinefelter's male, not the Turner's mosaic female, that he makes barren. And for a reason. One that many people nowdays, are rather fond of NOT calling: Gender Confusion. A wide spread problem in a society where sixth grade children have begun having sex under their computer lab desks. Sheesh. For that matter, it might be tres inconvenient for men to be "fertilizable" because certainly, they do not possess a uterus and that much is for sure. As opposed to the humble Honey Bee eggs, ALL OF WHICH are viable and hatch regardless of being fertilized in the proper manner or not.
13.3.07
In Memory of Judy Hearn, who died in her sleep with her finger resting gently in a book to mark her place. My thoughts and prayers go to her four children and husband Jeff. Judy opened her business in 1973 and operated Singletree on Main Street in Bisbee which had moved for the last time into the old Irma Courteol building where Bisbee girls used to find their fashion, immortalized in the movie LA Confidential. I remember the first shop she and Radical Ann opened up in the old tortilla factory. She was a survivor in business and in life to those who know her story well. She was a weaver of great renown.
She'll be greatly missed by us all.
Bisbee, Arizona March 12, 2007
Painting: City of Lights by Judy Perry whose work is always featured at Singletree:
She'll be greatly missed by us all.
Bisbee, Arizona March 12, 2007
Painting: City of Lights by Judy Perry whose work is always featured at Singletree:
12.3.07
Are Gender Problems
Getting You Down?
Getting You Down?
http://www.hawaii.edu/PCSS/online_artcls/intersex/management.html
An article regarding the creation of males, females and a very common genetic disorder in both sexes (Turner's Syndrom (1 in 5000 human births) and Klinefelter's (1 in 700 births))socialization, hormone replacement therapy, transexualism, etc.
From the article:
Another case is that of a well known Olympic figure. He wrote of his story in 1988.42 Erika Schinegger won the Olympic gold medal for Austria for women's downhill skiing in 1966. After the win she was given a sex test and declared unequivocally XY. When told of the test findings she immediately transitioned to living as Erik, a male. Erik said he never truly felt he was a typical girl. He had never been interested in romantic boy friends and was always more attracted to women. As Erika, however, she just thought that was her lot in life. I've interviewed Erik and one of his physicians. None of the physicians she had been seen by previously wanted to tell her of the mistake for fear it would be too psychologically damaging. Switching sex never occurred to her until the condition and situation was revealed. Follow up showed that she was born in a small town, delivered by a midwife, and pronounced a girl due to a severe hypospadic condition. When she was made aware of the situation her transformation to male living was rapid. The hypospadic condition was repaired and her psychological adjustment to the change was appropriate. Erik is now a married ski instructor.
From the Qur'an, 42:49-50, the Counsel:
Allah's is the kingdom of the heavens and the earth
He creates what he pleases
He grants to whom he pleases daughters and grants
to whom he pleases sons,
Or, He makes them of BOTH sorts, male and female
AND He makes whom he pleases barren
Surely He is the Knowing Powerful
***Fertility in males with Klinefelter's cannot be improved with testosterone therapy but enlarged breast size can be influenced with testosterone therapy in Klinefelter's males as well as an increased sense of "well being". Additionally, the type of Klinefelter's in which there is more than one X chromosome, there is an increased possibility for criminality which might be influenced with early recognition and hormone replacement therapy.
***Fertility in females with "monosomy" type Turner's syndrome is absent but females with "mosaic" type Turner's syndrome are usually fertile.
8.3.07
For Sale
http://www.svherald.com/articles/2003/09/22/news/news4.txt
The Walter Douglas house qualifies for this distinction. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places by the U.S. Department of Interior, it was rated as excellent on all three of its criteria for excellence of architecture, the importance of its owner (business tycoon Walter Douglas) and significance to history. It also was named House of the Week by the Wall Street Journal and was again awarded that distinction on Friday.
The architect, Walter C. Trost, a student of the renowned architect Henry Sullivan from Chicago and father of prairie-style architecture, and classmate of Frank Lloyd Wright, was given unlimited funds by the mining company to build a showcase home. Access to large sums of money allowed Trost to let his imagination fly.
He said the mining company spared no expense in funding this house. "They had more money than they knew what to do with," he said.
The mining company wanted to make it a showcase home for Walter Douglas, the general manager of mining operations in Arizona, for entertaining and doing business with people from around the world. Douglas commissioned Henry C. Trost to design the home. The house is considered the largest and best example of Trost's work and is considered an exquisite example of mission revival style.
The home has 12 bedrooms, six fireplaces, maple floors and leaded glass windows whose details match the details in the bookcases and wall and window trim. Matching paneled walls, eight foot pocket doors, massive beamed ceilings, hall arches and original brass wall lamps are found throughout the home.
Four of the six fireplaces were made with Gruebe tile imported from Italy. Each tile would, at today's prices, cost $250. That would bring the cost of one to around $10,000 in tiles alone.
http://www.svherald.com/articles/2003/09/22/news/news4.txt
The Walter Douglas house qualifies for this distinction. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places by the U.S. Department of Interior, it was rated as excellent on all three of its criteria for excellence of architecture, the importance of its owner (business tycoon Walter Douglas) and significance to history. It also was named House of the Week by the Wall Street Journal and was again awarded that distinction on Friday.
The architect, Walter C. Trost, a student of the renowned architect Henry Sullivan from Chicago and father of prairie-style architecture, and classmate of Frank Lloyd Wright, was given unlimited funds by the mining company to build a showcase home. Access to large sums of money allowed Trost to let his imagination fly.
He said the mining company spared no expense in funding this house. "They had more money than they knew what to do with," he said.
The mining company wanted to make it a showcase home for Walter Douglas, the general manager of mining operations in Arizona, for entertaining and doing business with people from around the world. Douglas commissioned Henry C. Trost to design the home. The house is considered the largest and best example of Trost's work and is considered an exquisite example of mission revival style.
The home has 12 bedrooms, six fireplaces, maple floors and leaded glass windows whose details match the details in the bookcases and wall and window trim. Matching paneled walls, eight foot pocket doors, massive beamed ceilings, hall arches and original brass wall lamps are found throughout the home.
Four of the six fireplaces were made with Gruebe tile imported from Italy. Each tile would, at today's prices, cost $250. That would bring the cost of one to around $10,000 in tiles alone.
7.3.07
Lebanon uncovers European-run spy network
2/28/2007 4:45:00 PM GMT
Lebanese security officials have uncovered a European-run intelligence network that spies on the resistance movement Hezbollah, a local newspaper reported on Wednesday.
According to As Safir, Lebanon’s General Security Department arrested an inspector at the Rafiq Hariri International Airport in Beirut after “noticing suspicious action.”
The daily said the inspector, from the northern port city of Tripoli, was one of the top members of the spy network. It didn’t say when he was detained, but noted that he has been referred to the military judiciary.
Lebanon Interior Minister, Hassan Sabeh, was informed of the incident, and ordered security officials to “put an end to these acts that disturb security”, the newspaper said.
As Safir also reported that security experts following the inspector found out that he was trying to recruit airport staff and other civilians to work for European spy services.
The report suggested that the network aimed at “monitoring Hezbollah centers and institutions as well as military positions."
It said maps, pictures and videotapes of Hezbollah offices in Beirut and in south and east Lebanon were seized during a raid on the inspector's house.
"A digital camera used in the photographing task was also confiscated," As Safir said.
Israel’s intelligence service, the Mossad, has been working under the cover of European intelligence agencies’ names, the newspaper said.
It appears that the Mossad was doing the same thing with the recently uncovered network, it added.
Last June, Lebanon uncovered a “terror network” that was used by the Mossad to carry out attacks inside Lebanon, mainly against Hezbollah and Palestinian resistance groups.
The Lebanese army said at the time that a retired police officer, identified as Mahmoud Abu Rafeh, was the head of the terror network, and that he confessed to assassinating a number of Hezbollah and Palestinian fighters on behalf of the Mossad. j
I am so shocked. I wonder if this is how THIS got there?
3/3/2007 2:00:00 PM GMT
Lebanese authorities reported having uncovered 31 chemical explosive charges in south Lebanon
After nearly six months of extensive search by U.S. and European intelligence agencies for lethal "liquid explosives", that followed a foiled plot to attack passenger aircraft on flights across the Atlantic, the Lebanese authorities reported having uncovered 31 chemical explosive charges in south Lebanon.
Of course it is. Dummie. It is a trick question. Both articles from CNN/CIA/MOSSAD affiliated Al Jazeera.
2/28/2007 4:45:00 PM GMT
Lebanese security officials have uncovered a European-run intelligence network that spies on the resistance movement Hezbollah, a local newspaper reported on Wednesday.
According to As Safir, Lebanon’s General Security Department arrested an inspector at the Rafiq Hariri International Airport in Beirut after “noticing suspicious action.”
The daily said the inspector, from the northern port city of Tripoli, was one of the top members of the spy network. It didn’t say when he was detained, but noted that he has been referred to the military judiciary.
Lebanon Interior Minister, Hassan Sabeh, was informed of the incident, and ordered security officials to “put an end to these acts that disturb security”, the newspaper said.
As Safir also reported that security experts following the inspector found out that he was trying to recruit airport staff and other civilians to work for European spy services.
The report suggested that the network aimed at “monitoring Hezbollah centers and institutions as well as military positions."
It said maps, pictures and videotapes of Hezbollah offices in Beirut and in south and east Lebanon were seized during a raid on the inspector's house.
"A digital camera used in the photographing task was also confiscated," As Safir said.
Israel’s intelligence service, the Mossad, has been working under the cover of European intelligence agencies’ names, the newspaper said.
It appears that the Mossad was doing the same thing with the recently uncovered network, it added.
Last June, Lebanon uncovered a “terror network” that was used by the Mossad to carry out attacks inside Lebanon, mainly against Hezbollah and Palestinian resistance groups.
The Lebanese army said at the time that a retired police officer, identified as Mahmoud Abu Rafeh, was the head of the terror network, and that he confessed to assassinating a number of Hezbollah and Palestinian fighters on behalf of the Mossad. j
I am so shocked. I wonder if this is how THIS got there?
Liquid explosives found South Lebanon
3/3/2007 2:00:00 PM GMT
Lebanese authorities reported having uncovered 31 chemical explosive charges in south Lebanon
After nearly six months of extensive search by U.S. and European intelligence agencies for lethal "liquid explosives", that followed a foiled plot to attack passenger aircraft on flights across the Atlantic, the Lebanese authorities reported having uncovered 31 chemical explosive charges in south Lebanon.
Of course it is. Dummie. It is a trick question. Both articles from CNN/CIA/MOSSAD affiliated Al Jazeera.
6.3.07
American Gothic
The simulacrum is never that which conceals the truth — it is the truth which conceals that there is none.The simulacrum is true.=Ecclesiastes, from Baudrillard's The Precession of the Simulacra.
It used to be the skyand vast dominion meant
this side next, fill it up or erase it.
All the water in the far off sea was clean
under and outrageously deep, freshening the edges.
Once upon a time mom and dad
could fill a car for the weekend
with gum and wrappers
as children fell asleep in the corners,
jarred and blinking in the glow
of good intentions.
There was no where to run, no real need to
and plenty of jargon to fill the time.
Nothing needed to be done about
the same old secrets: engine on, engine off.
Easy does it and upsy daisy in the rigamarole,
we kept the getty-up and go
in the thingamajig under the hood.
Time doesn't pass in these juke boxes anymore,
there's more fidget in a pesky market
than on the streets where everyone used to ride
look no hands and by the seat of the pants
all torn and socks full of thorns.
The weeds mattered more than the sanctions
when girls got up slow and boys grew up thin.
Way back when a window was mostly pegs and putty
instead of glide and shine, no one minded a crack.
No one bothered to count the missing bits
of paint or the patches on a pair,
it was expected. Life needed to end somewhere.
We could stitch the universe with a thread,
organize the world with a rake and we sure did.
Thanks to the Love Contract between Israel and the US:
http://www.dailystar.com.lb/article.asp?edition_id=1&categ_id=1&article_id=80181
5.3.07
Radio Nablus
We know how the old women cry
from Nablus,
into the radios that carry
voices into the transient beyond
where kinship is a violation
and walls are the dominion.
Grandmothers of the ya habibi
yah ayooni, send us a bag full
of bulghur cleaned and tightened
by your old hands, send us
your own on Radio Nablus.
Send us something and we
will bring you perfume and slippers
the next time we come.
How she cries, that old woman
on the radio, for Hadi and Iman
to pour the tea and kiss the hand.
Her generic voices are dry
commands of echo and ache
on the seas of return, listen, stay.
http://www.quran-radio.ps/about_us_italy.asp
We know how the old women cry
from Nablus,
into the radios that carry
voices into the transient beyond
where kinship is a violation
and walls are the dominion.
Grandmothers of the ya habibi
yah ayooni, send us a bag full
of bulghur cleaned and tightened
by your old hands, send us
your own on Radio Nablus.
Send us something and we
will bring you perfume and slippers
the next time we come.
How she cries, that old woman
on the radio, for Hadi and Iman
to pour the tea and kiss the hand.
Her generic voices are dry
commands of echo and ache
on the seas of return, listen, stay.
http://www.quran-radio.ps/about_us_italy.asp
4.3.07
Is this true? No way. Israel and Israelis are such very nice people.
March 2, 2007 -- ISRAEL'S DOUBLE GAME IN SOUTHEAST ASIA: ARMING TERRORISTS WITH KHMER ROUGE WEAPONS
WMR's report yesterday on the U.S. naval buildup in Southeast Asia, particularly in Cambodia, coincides with a major Israeli intelligence and weapons smuggling operation in the region.
Israel has been a major, albeit covert, player in Southeast Asia since Israeli multi-billionaire tycoon Shaul Eisenberg began supplying weapons to Cambodia's genocidal Khmer Rouge regime in the 1970s. Eisenberg, a close business partner of China's military, was also an early arms supplier to Khmer Rouge leader Pol Pot. Eisenberg was active with Asia's Jewish community during World War II, not as an compatriot of the Allies but as a close intelligence and business partner of Japan's Imperial government, which was allied with Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy in the Axis Alliance. Escaping Nazi-controlled Europe, Eisenberg settled in the Far East, making his primary bases of operation Japanese-occupied Shanghai and Japan itself. In Shanghai, Eisenberg, along with Imperial Japanese military intelligence units, formed units of future Jewish terrorist groups -- the Irgun and the Shanghai Betar (Betar was founded in the 1930s by the Polish Zionist Yakob Jabotinsky, a supporter of Italian Fascist leader Benito Mussolini, to battle the British for control of Palestine and the ideological godfather of later neoconservative oracle Leo Strauss). The Japanese taught the Jewish paramilitary forces in Shanghai, including some who escaped from Joseph Stalin's Jewish Autonomous Region creation in the Soviet Far East on the Chinese border, how to disrupt colonial occupiers' logistics and command and control elements, strategies that had been successful against the British, Dutch, French, and American colonial authorities in Asia. The Irgun and Betar gangs would eventually use the knowledge gained from the Japanese in their terror campaign against British and Arab forces in Palestine following World War II. Eventually, Irgun and Betar veterans would form the present-day Likud Party, now headed by Binyamin Netanyahu, a noted extreme right-winger.
http://www.waynemadsenreport.com/
WMR visited Phnom Penh, Cambodia and discovered that the Mossad and Cambodian criminal syndicate allies continue to obtain bought-back Cambodian weapons from Cambodian government warehouses and are selling them to guerrilla groups throughout Asia, including Sri Lanka's Tamil Tigers, anti-Laotian Hmongs, the small anti-communist Free Vietnam Movement, and Burmese tribal guerrilla groups.
WMR photographed a number of Zim shipping containers portside along the Mekong River in Phnom Penh. From this and other port facilities, including the port of Sihanoukville, bought-back Cambodian weapons , some originally provided to the Khmer Rouge by Eisenberg and the Chinese, are making their way to insurgent groups around Asia, possibly including Iraqi guerrillas battling U.S. forces in Iraq.
Not far from Zim's Mekong port facilities in Phnom Penh sits a quiet and unassuming Mossad surveillance station. From this vantage point, Israeli operatives keep a close eye on Mekong river traffic and any "new players" who arrive into town. With new oil deposits being discovered in contested waters of the Gulf of Thailand, border skirmishes in the region are likely to increase, driving up the demand for small arms in the region. The cached weapons in Cambodia stand to make Israeli intelligence a handsome profit.
Dubai Ports? Oh yea. Evil Arabs. Forgot about that!
Zim Integrated Shipping (Isreali Firm Supports DPW, Will appear on CNN "Situation Room" Today)
www.zim.com ^
Posted on 03/02/2006 8:22:01 AM PST by new yorker 77
Zim Integrated Shipping Services Ltd is one of the largest container-shipping companies in the world. Zim offers transportation services along most of the major international trading routes to customers throughout the world. From its corporate headquarters in Haifa, it operates an intermodal system, which combines sea, land, and air transportation, enabling the Company to provide fast, reliable, frequent, and complete door-to-door services around the world.
Since its establishment in 1945, Service to clients through modernization and improvement have always been the hallmark of our company.
(Excerpt) Read more at zim.com ...
3.3.07
The War at Home
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/6400179.stm
The cause of the losses, which range from 30% to more than 70%, is a mystery, but experts are investigating several theories.
American bee colonies have been hit by regional crises before, but keepers say this is the first national crisis.
Bees pollinate more than $14bn (£7bn) worth of US seeds and crops each year, mostly fruits, vegetables and nuts.
The mystery disappearances highlight the important link that honeybees play in the chain that brings fruit and vegetables to supermarkets and dinner tables.
The crisis threatens numerous crops, from avocados to kiwis and California almonds - one of the most profitable in the US.
"I have never seen anything like it," California beekeeper David Bradshaw, 50, told the New York Times.
"Box after box after box are just empty. There's nobody home."
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/6400179.stm
The cause of the losses, which range from 30% to more than 70%, is a mystery, but experts are investigating several theories.
American bee colonies have been hit by regional crises before, but keepers say this is the first national crisis.
Bees pollinate more than $14bn (£7bn) worth of US seeds and crops each year, mostly fruits, vegetables and nuts.
The mystery disappearances highlight the important link that honeybees play in the chain that brings fruit and vegetables to supermarkets and dinner tables.
The crisis threatens numerous crops, from avocados to kiwis and California almonds - one of the most profitable in the US.
"I have never seen anything like it," California beekeeper David Bradshaw, 50, told the New York Times.
"Box after box after box are just empty. There's nobody home."
Heh.
http://www.uruknet.info/?p=m31032&s1=h1
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/pages/rosnerPage.jhtml
Where do you hide a crime? Right out in the open. No one cares.
No one ever did.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/pages/rosnerPage.jhtml
Where do you hide a crime? Right out in the open. No one cares.
No one ever did.
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