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Kulindahr said:
The best poetry in the Quran was plagiarized from Christian hymns written in the fourth and fifth centuries.
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For example? Because if not inspired by, and enhanced through the Arabic language system, but merely "plagiarized" from decadent IVth and Vth century Christian hymns, it would make quite miserable "poetry".
Anyway, the best rhythm in the Qur'an is not shaped as, or derived from, "poetry".
 
belamyi said:
For example? Because if not inspired by, and enhanced through the Arabic language system, but merely "plagiarized" from decadent IVth and Vth century Christian hymns, it would make quite miserable "poetry".
Anyway, the best rhythm in the Qur'an is not shaped as, or derived from, "poetry".
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That's the most annoying aspect: I can find sources that say what material has been plagiarized but none that specify even which sura a specific bit ended up in. It also doesn't help that perhaps the foremost book on the matter was published under a pseudonym -- though that was probably a wise move given previous Muslim responses to perceived insults to Mohammed.

The start of these discoveries began when someone noticed that there were lots of what looked like Aramaic loan words and decided to turn the Arabic back to Aramaic to see what it might have looked like, and then someone noticed that some of it sounded a lot like some hymns by St Ephrem the Syrian.

Looking at possible Aramaic behind the Arabic actually resolves some problems. One is that in the account of Abraham being ordered to sacrifice his son Isaac the Arabic reads "he set him down upon his forehead", but turned back into Aramaic it comes out, "he tied him to the firewood" -- the latter making much more sense. Another that is rather eye-catching is that the promise of seventy virgins in Paradise becomes a promise of grapes or raisins, which would be idiomatic for all the wine anyone could desire and the best delicacies.

In searching for sources I came across an interesting and perhaps wild proposal that Islam began as a form of Christian Adoptionism -- I'm going to need a major batch of persuasion on that!

Another changes Mohammed from the last prophet to the great witness to all prophets.
 
Fascinating.

In one of my more Einsteinian moments, I tried to imagine inventing a machine which could ride on a light beam. And then I tried to imagine 2 parallel beams of light with my machine riding on one of them and looking over at the other beam of light. What would I see?

That video was like a dream come true.
 
I sense they need the "hosts" and the silly sountrack :rotflmao: :vomit: to try make it relevant and momentous for people who, otherwise, would just see there a fart at hyperslow speed but, still, it spoilt the experience for me.
 
American citizens are now the biggest group of foreign tourists in BCN: over one million in 2023.
 
belamyi said:
I sense they need the "hosts" and the silly sountrack :rotflmao: :vomit: to try make it relevant and momentous for people who, otherwise, would just see there a fart at hyperslow speed but, still, it spoilt the experience for me.
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I agree. The presenters added nothing and provided no explanation.
 
gsdx said:
Fascinating.

In one of my more Einsteinian moments, I tried to imagine inventing a machine which could ride on a light beam. And then I tried to imagine 2 parallel beams of light with my machine riding on one of them and looking over at the other beam of light. What would I see?

That video was like a dream come true.
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Transverse electromagnetic waves do not radiate except along their axis of propagation. So a beam of light is invisible from the side. Only when it passes through a diffusing medium is part of the beam scattered, becoming visible when that part travels directly at you. But you're still not seeing any light "from the side".
 
pigface said:
Transverse electromagnetic waves do not radiate except along their axis of propagation. So a beam of light is invisible from the side. Only when it passes through a diffusing medium is part of the beam scattered, becoming visible when that part travels directly at you. But you're still not seeing any light "from the side".
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Oh, then just fly perpendicularly, and let's forget about this fantasy... :cool:
 
The term gargoyle comes from the French gargouille—the noise of both water and air mixing in the throat.
 
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