"W7TI" wrote in message
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On Sat, 20 Sep 2003 04:38:04 GMT, ånønÿmøu§
wrote:

On Thu, 18 Sep 2003 01:28:43 GMT, Fred Nachbaur
wrote:

Yup. The one I like also is "Trust in God, but tie up your camel."

Cheers,
Fred

My joke guy sent me this one today ... It sounds too weird to be true ...

Since America is typically represented by an eagle, Saddam should have
read up on his Muslim passages...
The following verse is from the Quran, (the Islamic Bible)

Quran (9:11) -- For it is written that a son of Arabia would awaken a
fearsome Eagle.
The wrath of the Eagle would be felt throughout the lands of Allah and
lo, while some
of the people trembled in despair still more rejoiced; for the wrath of
the Eagle cleansed
the lands of Allah; and there was peace.

( Note the verse number)

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I did a search of the Quran with USC's search engine:

http://www.usc.edu/dept/MSA/reference/searchquran.html

and the word "eagle" does not appear anywhere in the Quran.
You've been had.

--
Bill, W7TI


The word "eagle", "hawk, and "raven" aren't in the Koran. However "bird"
appears in 14 books.
The word "Arabia" appears only once as the root word of the adjective
"Arabian:

Ha Mim
[41.44] And if We had made it a Quran in a foreign tongue, they would
certainly have said: Why have not its communications been made clear? What!
a foreign (tongue) and an Arabian! Say: It is to those who believe a
guidance and a healing; and (as for) those who do not believe, there is a
heaviness in their ears and it is obscure to them; these shall be called to
from a far-off place.

Nice joke though!

ps. Read the Koran and read the bible and judge for yourself which makes
more sense.
Ghost

W7TI wrote:
You might as well ask which makes more sense: A novel by Tom Clancy or
one by James Michener?

As of late? Faulkner or Kafka.

Jeff

--
"They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary
safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." Benjamin Franklin
"A life lived in fear is a life half lived."
Tara Morice as Fran, from the movie "Strictly Ballroom"

W7TI wrote:
You might as well ask which makes more sense: A novel by Tom Clancy or
one by James Michener?

As of late? Faulkner or Kafka.

Jeff

--
"They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary
safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." Benjamin Franklin
"A life lived in fear is a life half lived."
Tara Morice as Fran, from the movie "Strictly Ballroom"

"W7TI" wrote in message
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On Wed, 24 Sep 2003 21:12:50 -0700, ":-: Ghost Chip :-:"
wrote:

ps. Read the Koran and read the bible and judge for yourself which makes
more sense.

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"Sense" is not a prerequisite for religious belief, unfortunately. If
you don't have that religious belief, neither the Bible or Koran are
very meaningful, so the question of which makes more sense is
irrelevant. Oddly enough, if you *are* a believer the question of sense
is still irrelevant, but for a different reason.

You might as well ask which makes more sense: A novel by Tom Clancy or
one by James Michener?

BT

Good point!
Ghost
--
"The difference between fiction and reality
is that fiction must make sense."
Tom Clancey

"W7TI" wrote in message
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On Wed, 24 Sep 2003 21:12:50 -0700, ":-: Ghost Chip :-:"
wrote:

ps. Read the Koran and read the bible and judge for yourself which makes
more sense.

__________________________________________________ _______

"Sense" is not a prerequisite for religious belief, unfortunately. If
you don't have that religious belief, neither the Bible or Koran are
very meaningful, so the question of which makes more sense is
irrelevant. Oddly enough, if you *are* a believer the question of sense
is still irrelevant, but for a different reason.

You might as well ask which makes more sense: A novel by Tom Clancy or
one by James Michener?

BT

Good point!
Ghost
--
"The difference between fiction and reality
is that fiction must make sense."
Tom Clancey

:-: Ghost Chip :-: wrote:

ps. Read the Koran and read the bible and judge for yourself which makes
more sense.
Ghost
----------------------
They are both trash, but the Quran has no redeeming new testament to
take back most of the really stupid vicious **** in the original
like the bible does, even though the new testment would be better
off without the antique Abrahamic viciousness. It seems that the
whole wandering starving in the desert crap that people in that part
of the world went through warped the **** out of them and made them
have sick distorted visions about themselves which caused them to
lie a lot to try to control and manipulate each other.

Even the new testament is written in a style as if by a total asshole
trying to further manipulate others in a style I don't think that
guy Yeshua would have supported. The last thing he told the bunch of
them together is that they didn't understand him at all and couldn't
even stay awake with him. He was likely so right that none of them
should even have TRIED to interpret his message.

-Steve
--
-Steve Walz ftp://ftp.armory.com/pub/user/rstevew
Electronics Site!! 1000's of Files and Dirs!! With Schematics Galore!!
http://www.armory.com/~rstevew or http://www.armory.com/~rstevew/Public

:-: Ghost Chip :-: wrote:

ps. Read the Koran and read the bible and judge for yourself which makes
more sense.
Ghost
----------------------
They are both trash, but the Quran has no redeeming new testament to
take back most of the really stupid vicious **** in the original
like the bible does, even though the new testment would be better
off without the antique Abrahamic viciousness. It seems that the
whole wandering starving in the desert crap that people in that part
of the world went through warped the **** out of them and made them
have sick distorted visions about themselves which caused them to
lie a lot to try to control and manipulate each other.

Even the new testament is written in a style as if by a total asshole
trying to further manipulate others in a style I don't think that
guy Yeshua would have supported. The last thing he told the bunch of
them together is that they didn't understand him at all and couldn't
even stay awake with him. He was likely so right that none of them
should even have TRIED to interpret his message.

-Steve
--
-Steve Walz ftp://ftp.armory.com/pub/user/rstevew
Electronics Site!! 1000's of Files and Dirs!! With Schematics Galore!!
http://www.armory.com/~rstevew or http://www.armory.com/~rstevew/Public