This is helpful, thanks.
a friend who's an Islamic studies scholar
You know your phone is tapped, right?
In our kitchen, after every political conversation, we lean towards our telephone and bellow "god bless America!"
It was the burgundy tux with the ruffled shirt and pink bowtie, wasn't it.
I am definitely not an expert, but I took a seminar with an expert so that makes me still not an expert. I wonder if some of the confusion relates to the difference between voluntary and compulsory Islam. In the reading of Islam I studied a difference was made between the fact that all creatures are compulsorily islam because everything submits to God by virtue of being created by him. Voluntary islam is a choice, hence 'voluntary' and, at least theologically, all members of Islam (the religion) are voluntary members because the have assumed the trust of God. This isn't very good. but it might help a little
One of my groomswomen wore a tux that she just happened to already own, saving her the rental fee. Another wore the same dress as the bridesmaids. Two groomsmen and Molly's brother (who stood on her side) wore rented tuxes that I have no recollection of.
The only thing worse than analytic philosophy is ninja philosophy.
There is nothing more awesome than ninja philosophy. For one thing no one expects it. And their are nunchucks.
You can tell a lot about a man by the rental tux he makes his groomsmen wear. Just saying.
So true. My oldest sister's first husband's party (including myself, as ring bearer) wore kind of turquoisey, Carolina blue-ish tuxes with ruffled shirts. The marriage lasted less than a year. On the other hand, it was 1981.
It was the burgundy tux with the ruffled shirt and pink bowtie, wasn't it.
Powder blue is my bet.
6 shows that Rob the hippie has more class than most people.
An valiant attempt to stir the shit this late in the day (early in the weekend), B.
a friend who's an Islamic studies scholar
You know your phone is tapped, right?
The knife set if probably not the ideal wedding gift.
including myself, as ring bearer
Oooh, pictures! Please?
The only thing worse than analytic philosophy is ninja philosophy.
A ninja analytic philosopher would either be extremely dangerous to argue with, or would worry incessantly about the problem of other ninjas.
Actually that sounds like it would define pretty much all philosophers regardless of their ninja status.
Oooh, pictures! Please?
I will gladly send you a link if I ever dig them out of my parents' formidable store of mementos.
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2Kgs.1 - And they answered him, He was an hairy man, and girt with a girdle of leather about his loins. And he said, It is Elijah the Tishbite.
The Scrolls - And the Lord made an bet with Satan to test Job's loyalty and the Lord, for no apparent reason to Job, smote him on the head and again on the ear and pushed him into an thick sauce so as to make Job sitcky and vile and then He slew a tenth part of Job's kine and Job calleth out: 'Why doth thou slay my kine? Kine are hard to come by. Now I am short kine and I'm not even sure what kine are.'
It all kinda reminds me of tax-protester arguments about the Constitution. You know the type: the flag in the courtroom has gold fringe on it, therefore the court is secretly an admiralty court with no jurisdiction over civilian landlubbers and I don't have to pay my taxes.
18: Probably spend most of their time arguing about whether the blade heading towards their head counted as a blade or particles of steel arranged blade-wise.
22: I had a tax professor in college whose father was a tax protester who didn't believe that the constitutional amrndment had been properly ratified. His case had been going on for more than 20 years. His son realized at one point taht he had to be careful not to represent himself as his lawyer. Yje sister was in better shape.
They were all quite friendly with the IRS agent who actually kind of liked the old man.
Islam doesn't recognize original sin, for example, so young children don't need to be brought back into a proper relationship with God.
I have always wondered what the idea of original sin means for young children with respect to judgment on the last day in christian theology. Their faith and works would not count if an individual is saved by either. Would they all be carted off to aplacenotheaven on account of original sin?
Purgatory for the babies in most versions. Hell for everyone else. That's why you gotta get baptised RIGHT AWAY!
26: Catholicism kicked around the idea of Limbo for unbaptized babies and virtuous pagans for a while, but it never really took, and I think now the position is that it's really God's problem, and surely God's not sending a bunch of little kids to hell.
and surely God's not sending a bunch of little kids to hell
Not if they tried to take him in a fight...
God could take as many incorporeal children as could dance on the head of a pin.
30: Of course, he would.
Then he'd send them to hell.