Right before I go out to a ritzy restaurant for dinner is NOT the time to read the "comma, motherfucker" tip. Now I have to go reapply my makeup. Ah, iibnf... if I had a dollar for every time I quoted her, I'd be rich.
I predict it's going to ruin you forever. I can no longer read sentences ending with prepositions without mentally adding on that comma motherfucker, which can make for some mighty strange internal memos and chatty emails!
The word "jihad" is thrown around a lot, and most people know it means "holy war" and is discussed in the Koran
Well...according to a few things I've read, the word jihad actually means 'struggle' or 'striving', and not necessarily in a military context (though there is a geunine military use for it). The term for 'holy war' in Arabic is a two-word phrase, which I can't remember all of but which includes the word harb, meaning war. According to a lot of scholars, the two are etymologically and properly separate concepts.
The use of jihad to mean 'holy war' seems to be a relatively recent appropriation by people who don't know as much about their own religion as they think they do...
if an Islamic country is invaded and occupied by a non-Islamic government/army who then tries to set up a secular/non-Islamic government, the faithful muslim is religiously obligated to fight a war against them.I believe at least parts of the Qu'ran argue against this: there are some passages that suggests that so long as the government in question
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Well, if you want to be all shades of gray about it! No, seriously, that's really interesting, and I figured it probably wasn't as cut and dried as all that. It just seems that if that *is* a recognized way of interpreting the text that the administration would've taken in into consideration. I mean, surely they had at least a few advisors familiar with Islam when they were planning this mess? There are always, always, always going to be people who choose to interpret religious text in the most violent extreme way possible, because that's what people do....
Well, if you want to be all shades of gray about it!
~giggles~ Me and my habit of overcomplicating things, eh?
It just seems that if that *is* a recognized way of interpreting the text that the administration would've taken in into consideration.
Not necessarily. Politicians, and increasingly even civil servants, are extraordinarily good at ignoring what they don't want to hear, or don't want to deal with, in favour of presenting something that seems simple, cut-and-dried and easy to sell on the evening news...I think they must get special training in it.
I mean, surely they had at least a few advisors familiar with Islam when they were planning this mess?
The US administration? From what I've heard, not really. What political interviews I've seen on the subject have had difficulty finding someone who even knows the difference between Shi'ite and Sunni.
There are always, always, always going to be people who choose to interpret religious text in the most violent extreme way possible, because that's what people do....Yes, and
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Oh my gosh, not motherfucker! I never say that. I say 'moron'. (Or 'moran', depending on how l33t I'm feeling.)
It's not the obscenity issue, it's just that my mother is so unappealing as to make anyone's nuts (or ovaries) crawl up into their abdominal cavity at the idea of fucking her.
Shudder.
Churchill is often quoted as having said: 'Ending a sentence with a preposition is something up with which I will not put', but I find 'Ending a sentence with a preposition is something I won't put up with, MORON!' works just fine.
LOL! I would swear your original post said motherfucker, mainly because ever since I read it (which was years ago), whenever I read something that has sentences ending with prepositions, my mind helpfully inserts that 'comma motherfucker'! You've ruined me, I say!!
I think it might have been someone else entirely, although I'm not sure, but I have no memory of saying the whole comma, something, thing anyway.
I do mentally end sentences with 'moron' a lot, and remember making a post about that on LJ, but it was more to do with dealing with a lot of morons at that particular place than anything dealing with grammar.
Can't swear to it, though, as I often post things in LJ and other people remember them better than myself.
Hey, don't apologize! I was never particularly patriotic until I took a government class and began to actually understand the concepts behind the constitution and the bill of rights. I think it's an awesome, amazing document and everything we do to undermine it makes us less free, less of a democracy, and ironically does more to destroy our country than any terrorist could ever do. It makes me want to weep, too. :-(
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Well...according to a few things I've read, the word jihad actually means 'struggle' or 'striving', and not necessarily in a military context (though there is a geunine military use for it). The term for 'holy war' in Arabic is a two-word phrase, which I can't remember all of but which includes the word harb, meaning war. According to a lot of scholars, the two are etymologically and properly separate concepts.
The use of jihad to mean 'holy war' seems to be a relatively recent appropriation by people who don't know as much about their own religion as they think they do...
if an Islamic country is invaded and occupied by a non-Islamic government/army who then tries to set up a secular/non-Islamic government, the faithful muslim is religiously obligated to fight a war against them.I believe at least parts of the Qu'ran argue against this: there are some passages that suggests that so long as the government in question ( ... )
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~giggles~ Me and my habit of overcomplicating things, eh?
It just seems that if that *is* a recognized way of interpreting the text that the administration would've taken in into consideration.
Not necessarily. Politicians, and increasingly even civil servants, are extraordinarily good at ignoring what they don't want to hear, or don't want to deal with, in favour of presenting something that seems simple, cut-and-dried and easy to sell on the evening news...I think they must get special training in it.
I mean, surely they had at least a few advisors familiar with Islam when they were planning this mess?
The US administration? From what I've heard, not really. What political interviews I've seen on the subject have had difficulty finding someone who even knows the difference between Shi'ite and Sunni.
There are always, always, always going to be people who choose to interpret religious text in the most violent extreme way possible, because that's what people do....Yes, and ( ... )
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It's not the obscenity issue, it's just that my mother is so unappealing as to make anyone's nuts (or ovaries) crawl up into their abdominal cavity at the idea of fucking her.
Shudder.
Churchill is often quoted as having said: 'Ending a sentence with a preposition is something up with which I will not put', but I find 'Ending a sentence with a preposition is something I won't put up with, MORON!' works just fine.
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I do mentally end sentences with 'moron' a lot, and remember making a post about that on LJ, but it was more to do with dealing with a lot of morons at that particular place than anything dealing with grammar.
Can't swear to it, though, as I often post things in LJ and other people remember them better than myself.
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