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From: MassiveProng on 5 Feb 2007 09:01 On Mon, 05 Feb 2007 07:58:12 -0600, unsettled <unsettled(a)nonsense.com> Gave us: >Your definitions are unique. Your idiocy is not.
From: unsettled on 5 Feb 2007 09:02 Eeyore wrote: > > MassiveProng wrote: > > >>unsettled <unsettled(a)nonsense.com> Gave us: >> >>>Ken Smith wrote: >>> >>>>Eeyore <rabbitsfriendsandrelations(a)hotmail.com> wrote: >>>> >>>> >>>>>I don't know how you handle these things in the USA but in the UK a full-size >>>>>electric stove is a permanently installed device that an electrician fits to a >>>>>specific power point that includes ( as it happens ) an isolating switch. >>>> >>>>When new stuff gets put in, these days, it gets plugged in. Even stuff >>>>that you normally think of as permanent will have a way to plug and unplug >>>>it. This reduces the skill level needed to do a safe installation. >>>> >>>>BTW: In California, nothing is permanently installed. It may tumble out >>>>the door any minute. >>> >>>We're consumer oriented here in the US rather than union >>>oriented, for the most part. >> >> Well, THAT was a one hundred percent meaningless remark. > > > No doubt it was meant to be profound in some pathetic PHB management way. login: Eeyore Password: oblivious
From: Eeyore on 5 Feb 2007 09:05 jmfbahciv(a)aol.com wrote: > Eeyore <rabbitsfriendsandrelations(a)hotmail.com> wrote: > >unsettled wrote: > > > >> Islam is now ~1400 years old. We can look at what > >> Christianity was doing about the year 1400. Much of > >> what was going on wasn't very pretty. > > > >You may to be interested to know that I concur with the view that the > >behaviour of religions is related to their age too. > > > > > >> Luther was born in 1483. If the evolution of Islam tracks that of > >> Christianity at all, their great reformer should be coming along any time > >> now. The conditions happen to be ripe. Funny how that works. > > > >Yes. I've been thinking that it's time for some kind of 'reform Islam' that > >takes them into a modern forward-thinking technological era instead of a > regressive > >agrarian tribal/fuedal one. > > And that is exactly what I've been talking about for 15,000 posts. You've been doing a jolly fine job of hiding it ! Those riddles you're so fond of obviously don't help. > What we are seeing is the struggle between modernization and > keeping things at the status quo. Those who do not want to change > are trying to destroy the cause of those who want to mondernize. > > Modernization means including Western civilization's progress. > > Until WWI and the final breakup of the Ottoman Empire, there was > no WEstern civilization influcence to tempt most Muslims. Even > those who were the first embassadors to Europe in the late > 1800s could not understand most of the European lifestyle. > There was no way they could send back explanations for certain > things like entertainment, science, art and medicine. I'm increasingly convinced that many Muslims, even those living in the west now here in fact, still don't fully understand our culture actually. That may explain why they react so badly to bits of it. I suspect they may take bits of it too 'literally'. See the business about the Dutch 'cartoons' for example. The other thing is that I think they're unused to thinking for themselves as much as we do. Graham
From: Phil Carmody on 5 Feb 2007 09:13 jmfbahciv(a)aol.com writes: > In article <45C6525A.BB423643(a)hotmail.com>, > Eeyore <rabbitsfriendsandrelations(a)hotmail.com> wrote: > > > > > >jmfbahciv(a)aol.com wrote: > > > >> Eeyore <rabbitsfriendsandrelations(a)hotmail.com> wrote: > >> > > >> >There's a Cambridge Mass too. > >> > >> Son, that is a town; it is not a school. > > > >City actually. Same as ours. > > I think it's a town. I'd have to check what it's carter is. > I don't remember a mayor of Cambridge. Maybe you could look at the City of Cambridge's own home page: http://www.ci.cambridge.ma.us/ > >Cambridge is a city in the Greater Boston area of Massachusetts, United > States. > >It was named in honor of Cambridge, England. > >http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cambridge%2C_Massachusetts > > > >The city of Cambridge is an old English university town and the > administrative > >centre of the county of Cambridgeshire. > >http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cambridge > > The difference between town and city is the style of government. Oh, you and your absolutes. You'd be funny if it wasn't so sad. What you provide is not a universal definition. To the more practical, such as cartographers, it's simply a matter of size and density. To others, it might be the representation of the parishes within a in a diocese. This does mean that there are definitions which make Ely a city, and Cambridge not, at least according to some cam.misc regulars. Phil -- "Home taping is killing big business profits. We left this side blank so you can help." -- Dead Kennedys, written upon the B-side of tapes of /In God We Trust, Inc./.
From: Phil Carmody on 5 Feb 2007 09:29
jmfbahciv(a)aol.com writes: > "T Wake" <usenet.es7at(a)gishpuppy.com> wrote: > ><jmfbahciv(a)aol.com> wrote in message > >> The heads of religion decide what people can eat, wear, use, > >> and make. They have been in control from the start of Islam. > > > >Your two sentences are no more applicable to "Islam" than any other > >religion. > > Christianity doesn't concern itself about eating nor sanitary habits. > It doesn't establish a lifestyle nor daily habits as part of its > catecism. So Christianity has never concerned itself with fasting and abstinence? Odd, as such things seems to crop up in the decisions of the Council of Jerusalem, and in the synoptic gospels. And there's nothing to do with sanitary habits either. Oh - except little things like the big J himself saying "when thou fastest, anoint thine head, and wash thy face;" Food rituals and sanitary habits in one verse! Christ, you've shot holes in both feet simultaniously. Does being so ill-informed hurt? Phil -- "Home taping is killing big business profits. We left this side blank so you can help." -- Dead Kennedys, written upon the B-side of tapes of /In God We Trust, Inc./. |