beyond hope wrote:Somewhat off-topic, but I had a thought about how to reduce tensions with Islam. The rock in the middle of Mecca is supposed to be a meteorite, isn't it? What if we took a durable piece of stone, carved "knock the terrorism off" into it in arabic, and dropped it from orbit? Instant "message from Allah..."
The writing would probably burn/melt off.
You could just drop it from an airplane...
I pity the guy who`d get crushed by it when this fall on him.
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Then again, no one would believe it was a message from Allah if it didn't kill at least one person when it fell.
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Darth Wong wrote:I do like the irony of them dying during a religious ceremony in which they hurl rocks at what they believe to be Satan. "Religion of peace", eh?
Wait, your telling me the devil is a rock?
It's their goofy rock-throwing religious ceremony, not mine.
Don't get me wrong, I'm not accusing you of anything. I just find the whole idea... absurd. I mean... come on, its a rock.
On a side note, does anyone know how this particular rock was selected to be the "devil"?
Devolution is quite as natural as evolution, and may be just as pleasing, or even a good deal more pleasing, to God. If the average man is made in God's image, then a man such as Beethoven or Aristotle is plainly superior to God, and so God may be jealous of him, and eager to see his superiority perish with his bodily frame.
Previously, I wrote:
IIRC, Muslims are supposed to believe that anyone who dies while on the Hajj goes straight to heaven. So why even bother preventing deaths? Just call them blessed and start collecting fees from the next few million who want to go. A few hundred here or there won't mean anything as long as the women keep popping out the children.
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