100's dead in Hajj Stampede

i'm thinkin i'm thinkin

(nahh...better not)

(crosses himself)

muslims believe that if one dies in mecca he or she automatically gains entrance into heaven. they understand the risks they take by going on hajj with two million other people.

Well a pilgrimage to Hajj beats wearing a semtex jacket

Well for a guaranteed entry to heaven a pilgrimage to Hajj beats wearing a semtex jacket

Missy Jem wrote: Well for a guaranteed entry to heaven a pilgrimage to Hajj beats wearing a semtex jacket

or castrating muslim men in front of their wives and spearing babies with bayonets like those christian nutters did in lebanon back in the 1980s.

Darwin in action :D

i don't think it is appropriate to make fun of this topic.

I am not the grin merely denoted I'm not quite as cold and hard hearted about the issue as my words suggest.

A rock throwing ceremony though...

:hmm:

Could be an Easter to remember!!!

ok!! whose flip flops are these??

:\peek:

STOP IT!

woo hoo!! :\peek:

(snigger)

I scared mysellf on that one....

AgentWood wrote: muslims believe that if one dies in mecca he or she automatically gains entrance into heaven. they understand the risks they take by going on hajj with two million other people.

In the name of board harmony...

So, does this fall under the Pope's category of "olde tyme religun" (and thus is open to derision), or am I supposed to respect it as a cultural difference?

Are you drunk?

That's directed at ThrashingTiger not you Mr Gnu!

thrashingtiger wrote: Plesae stop all this~ It;s the 21st cetutry . let's just love eachother There is nothing else to lose!

Religion and Reality TV will bring down the World.

Richard Dawkins is a pinko!

I say....tell them all God said the sea was a cool place to live.

Let's have a society based on discussion and reality, not muthical fairy kings doling out vengance and inspiring his followers to hate in the name of his love. I may let the budhists stick around, although they are unlikely to buy into the "hey everyone, the sea is holy" line.

Or an Atomic Bomb

Missy Jem wrote: Or an Atomic Bomb

Y'konw for all I slag bush off, there are days when you're all safer in his hary lil paws than mine. Very often I find myself thinking....DO IT, wipe the monkeys out, it's time the cockroaches took a crack at it.

it's one of the weird things I always wonder why people dont get..... it doesn't REALLy matter what we do, tomorrow we could crack off all our nukes and all our BC weapons, and burn all the oil at once and do everything bad. We'd fuck the place up We'd wipe our selves out We'd take a lot of others with us We'd be gone The Earth would care...oooooh not very much and just get on with the next thing.

Only human arrogance makes us think the world has to be the way it has been for the last few thousand years forever.

But - no New Order? That's a scary thought.

*Shudder*

Missy Jem wrote: But - no New Order? That's a scary thought.

*Shudder*

Steve grows serious for once....... There's a little speech given by the commander in Babylon5, that nearly reduces me to tears. Someone asks him why we should bother being out in space...

"No. We have to stay here, and there's a simple reason why. Ask ten different scientists about the environment, population control, genetics - and you'll get ten different answers. But there's one thing every scientist on the planet agrees on: whether it happens in a hundred years, or a thousand years, or a million years, eventually our sun will grow cold, and go out. When that happens, it won't just take us, it'll take Marilyn Monroe, and Lao-tsu, Einstein, Maruputo, Buddy Holly, Aristophanes - all of this. All of this was for nothing, unless we go to the stars."

Obviously he ommitted New Order as he knows that in 2034 the remaining members and their back catalogue were nabbed by some musically clued up bug eyed monsters.

Missy Jem wrote: Are you drunk?

That's directed at ThrashingTiger not you Mr Gnu!

I knew you were a good looking bird.

someone spotted Bin Laden workin in the Burger King at the end of the HAJJ main road. so they went for it. not to get Binny though. but the special buy one get one free offer on bacon burgers!

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Steve Campbell wrote:

Steve grows serious for once....... There's a little speech given by the commander in Babylon5, that nearly reduces me to tears.

Crybaby.

That's what I love about Welles' The Time Machine. So much science fiction assumes it's all over within 50 years. 1984, for one. Terminator 2 had us all dead in 1997. I didn't see The Day After Tomorrow, but that sure sounds soon. But Welles' time traveler punches the accelerator and heads to 802,701 A.D.

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nice bab 5 quote steve,and its in the light of that i say that i couldnt care less about a bunch of individuals at any religious event being trampled,blown up,squished whatever. religion and telivision is the opium of the masses and the fact that they got flattened on a holy day at a holy site is just gods way of saying that he dont exsist.