Discussion Thread from the Funny Anti-Religious Pictures thread.

[frankfrank]

Merge ASSEMBLY and PRESS,
then merge PETITION and SPEECH...

and, WHAT DO YOU GET?

I don't know, but they're separated by a set of imaginary goalposts, lol.

 

[belamyi]

^ You get "PUBLIC OPINION"

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Oh, and the other one: "DEMOnstration".

 

[frankfrank]

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I couldn't stop laughing for a couple minutes!

Serious Islam question - sort of a two-part: At least here in the "West" I've often heard about Muslims genuflecting, while facing East. What if, though, they're in some place such as Indonesia or Syria, where Mecca is not to the east? And, if a devout Muslim faces in the actual direction of Mecca, rather than arbitrarily facing east wherever they are, do they face Mecca according to the direction on a globe, or do they use a Mercator map, which can have a very different outcome?

For example, if a Muslim in California wants to face toward Mecca, he/she will need to face nearly toward the North Pole, though a Mercator map0 would have them facing nearly due-east.

 

[gsdx]

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^ I believe they face Mecca, no matter which direction it is. I remember watching a documentary on a new British battleship and the head chef was Muslim. He couldn't go up on deck to pray, of course, so the captain granted him the use of a small room. It was about twice as long as it was wide. All the chef did was to put a hand-painted sign with the word 'MECCA' on the wall. No matter which direction the ship was travelling, he was always facing Mecca for his prayers.

 

[Kahaih]

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In most photos, paintings and sculpture, Christians are looking/praying upward. Are we to assume, then, that they are also flat-earthers?

And, when they pop their clogs, do they have to wait until the 'Pearly Gates' are lined up straight above them to make their attempt?

 

[Zeno Lorea]

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^ I believe they face Mecca, no matter which direction it is. I remember watching a documentary on a new British battleship and the head chef was Muslim. He couldn't go up on deck to pray, of course, so the captain granted him the use of a small room. It was about twice as long as it was wide. All the chef did was to put a hand-painted sign with the word 'MECCA' on the wall. No matter which direction the ship was travelling, he was always facing Mecca for his prayers.

I find this very hard to believe.

Anyway, since the world is round, no-one outside KSA is ever "facing Mecca" because in a straight line from where you are standing, you always end up in outer space. But of course Mo didn't get that.

 

[gsdx]

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I find this very hard to believe.

Anyway, since the world is round, no-one outside KSA is ever "facing Mecca" because in a straight line from where you are standing, you always end up in outer space. But of course Mo didn't get that.

For the very same reason that when you fly in a straight line in any direction, you always end up back where you started.

Never knowing where Mecca was, it was a solution to the chef's problem.

It's in the BBC Two documentary Britain's Biggest Warship series on the HMS Queen Elizabeth.

Sheesh.

 

[Harke the Boeotarch]

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I find this very hard to believe.

Anyway, since the world is round, no-one outside KSA is ever "facing Mecca" because in a straight line from where you are standing, you always end up in outer space. But of course Mo didn't get that.

Originally it was supposedly Petra instead of present-day-Mecca. The complex far more closely resembles the city alledgedly in the Quran, also the first mosques faced in the direction of Jordan.

Youtube has a wonderful documentary.

 

[Zeno Lorea]

^ Moreover, there's quite a lot of mosques built by leaders in exile which don't face Mecca, that is, they would be in the correct position to face Mecca if they had been built somewhere else, usually the capital of their lost domain. Tourists always love those.

Never read the Koran myself but yes, there were a lot of changes to scripture, rituals and so on in the first +/- 150 years of Islam.

 

[Harke the Boeotarch]

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A little bit of knowledge is a dangerous thing.

 

[Harke the Boeotarch]

^

The translations are usually so awful reading them is impossible. I also don´t get how many Muslims are supposed to read the Quran every day, yet are supposedly illiterate.

 

[Harke the Boeotarch]

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This is kind of funny too.

 

[belamyi]

^

The translations are usually so awful reading them is impossible. I also don´t get how many Muslims are supposed to read the Quran every day, yet are supposedly illiterate.

Just the same way you can know all The Beatles' songs by heart and be unable to speak English... or read English texts and need someone to explain their meaning to you.

Not to speak of the fact that, like most great literary classics, the Qur'an is full of crucial obscure, more or less single, occurrences... https://www.brandeis.edu/projects/fse/muslim/diff-verse.html

 

[Zeno Lorea]

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Loved the Nike stones in #6900. Best one in months.

 

[Harke the Boeotarch]

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Loved the Nike stones in #6900. Best one in months.

Rainy Day Woman is better...

 

[Kulindahr]

^
That link does with a couple of Arabic words the same thing that the King James translators did with some Old Testament Hebrew words -- left them untranslated. The most common example is "selah" which appears many times in the Psalms; a rabbi I studied with called it "a liturgical hiccup" and said no one knows what it means.

 

[belamyi]

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This is kind of funny too.

They need more brains, and that is not something that can be supplied.

 

[belamyi]

If so many people who "use more books", in Academia, end up with the same vacuity and parroting that the one-book-people...

 

[Harke the Boeotarch]

^
That link does with a couple of Arabic words the same thing that the King James translators did with some Old Testament Hebrew words -- left them untranslated. The most common example is "selah" which appears many times in the Psalms; a rabbi I studied with called it "a liturgical hiccup" and said no one knows what it means.

We have that with Rock Music and that isn't even one hundred years old. Unless you can explain the lyrics of Hotel California to me.

 

[Harke the Boeotarch]

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Only if you take whatever you believe in now as the moral code for the whole of humanity, for all time.

Get educated.