A man slept through prayer time and the devil peed in his ear: "It was mentioned before the Prophet that there was a man who slept the night till morning (after sunrise). The Prophet said, 'He is a man in whose ears (or ear) Satan had urinated'" (Hadith Vol. 4, Book 54, #492).

hmmmm, there seems to be a theme here

Don't pass wind while praying: "Allah's Apostle said, 'The angels keep on asking Allah's forgiveness for anyone of you, as long as he is at his Mu,salla (praying place) and he does not pass wind (Hadath). They say, 'O Allah! Forgive him, O Allah! be Merciful to him'" (Hadith, Vol. 1, Book 8, #436).

Vikings: Why do that? Who will I fight with then?

Artful Dodger: If I don't close it first

Vikings: true. Eventually that fs will thrive again (with BK3.0)

Artful Dodger: to volatile, only place for that is in a fellowship http://brainking.com/en/Board?bc=2278

Jim Dandy: we need a philosophy/religion board

Vikings: oh yeah

Jim Dandy: I agree, I was just being a little facetious

GTCharlie: I think it's the other way around.Religon uses their imaginary man in the sky as a pawn towards the other religons imaginary man in the sky

What is the majority religion in the world? if there was a vote which religion would win? maybe there's more than 1 God.. using us as pawns to fight their proxy battles

Artful Dodger: are you saying that muslims worship an infidel?

GTCharlie: YOu need to get on the right page here. They are not the same God. Just because Allah is Arabic for "God" doesn't mean that they are actually worshiping the same Deity. YOu have made a fatal error in logic.

Allah = God in Arabic.
Muslims worship Allah
Therefore Muslims worship the same God as do the Christians and Jews.

GTCharlie: well that is your opinion as much of religious debate is, however the bible has the same claim



1. "For this reason a man shall leave his father and his mother, and be joined to his wife; and they shall become one [echad] flesh. " Genesis 2:24
2. "there is no one like Yahweh our God." Exodus 8:10
3. "Yahweh, He is God; there is no other besides Him." Deuteronomy 4:35
4. "Yahweh, He is God in heaven above and on the earth below; there is no other." Deuteronomy 4:39
5. "See now that I, I am He, And there is no god besides Me" Deuteronomy 32:39
6. "Hear, O Israel! Yahweh is our God, Yahweh is one [echad]!" Deuteronomy 6:4
7. "You are great, O Lord God; for there is none like You, and there is no God besides You" 2 Samuel 7:22
8. "For who is God, besides Yahweh? And who is a rock, besides our God?" 2 Samuel 22:32
9. "Yahweh is God; there is no one else." 1 Kings 8:60
10. "You are the God, You alone [bad], of all the kingdoms of the earth." 2 Kings 19:15
11. "O Lord, there is none like You, nor is there any God besides You" 1 Chronicles 17:20
12. "You alone [bad] are Yahweh." Nehemiah 9:6
13. "For who is God, but Yahweh? And who is a rock, except our God" Psalm 18:31
14. "You alone [bad], Lord, are God." Isaiah 37:20
15. "Before Me there was no God formed, And there will be none after Me." Isaiah 43:10
16. "‘I am the first and I am the last, And there is no God besides Me." Isaiah 44:6
17. "Is there any God besides Me, Or is there any other Rock? I know of none." Isaiah 44:8
18. "I am Yahweh, and there is no other; Besides Me there is no God." Isaiah 45:5
19. "Surely, God is with you, and there is none else, No other God." Isaiah 45:14
20. "I am Yahweh, and there is none else." Isaiah 45:18
21. "Is it not I, Yahweh? And there is no other God besides Me, A righteous God and a Savior; There is none except Me." Isaiah 45:21
22. "I am God, and there is no other; I am God, and there is no one like Me" Isaiah 46:9
23. "And Yahweh will be king over all the earth; in that day Yahweh will be the only one [echad], and His name the only one[echad]." Zechariah 14:9
24. "No one can serve two masters; for either he will hate the one [hen] and love the other, or he will be devoted to one [hen] and despise the other. You cannot serve God and wealth." Matthew 6:24
25. "For this reason a man shall leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife, and the two shall become one
26. [hen] flesh"? " Matthew 19:5 "But do not be called Rabbi; for One [hen] is your Teacher, and you are all brothers." Matthew 23:8
27. "Do not be called leaders; for One [hen] is your Leader, that is, Christ." Matthew 23:10
28. ""The foremost is, ‘Hear, O Israel! The Lord our God is one [hen] Lord; " Mark 12:29
29. "you do not seek the glory that is from the one and only [monos] God?" John 5:44
30. "I and the Father are one
31. [hen]." John 10:30 "This is eternal life, that they may know You, the only [monos] true God" John 17:3
32. "The glory which You have given Me I have given to them, that they may be one [hen], just as We are one [hen]" John 17:22
33. "since indeed God is one [hen]" Romans 3:30
34. "to the only [monos] wise God, Amen." Romans 16:27
35. "there is no God but one [hen]" 1 Corinthians 8:4
36. "yet for us there is but one [hen] God, the Father, from whom are all things and we exist for Him; and one [hen] Lord, Jesus Christ, by whom are all things, and we exist through Him." 1 Corinthians 8:6
37. "Now a mediator is not for one party only; whereas God is only one [hen]." Galatians 3:20
38. "There is one [hen] body and one [hen] Spirit, one [hen] hope, one [hen] Lord, one [hen] faith, one [hen] baptism, one [hen] God and Father of all who is over all and through all and in all." Ephesians 4:4-6
39. "Now to the King eternal, immortal, invisible, the only [monos] God" 1 Timothy 1:17
40. "which He will bring about at the proper time—He who is the blessed and only [monos] Sovereign, the King of kings and Lord of lords, who alone [monos] possesses immortality and dwells in unapproachable light, whom no man has seen or can see. To Him be honor and eternal dominion! Amen." 1 Timothy 6:16
41. "For there is one [hen] God, and one mediator also between God and men, the man Christ Jesus," 1 Timothy 2:5
42. "You believe that God is one [hen]. You do well; the demons also believe, and shudder." James 2:19
43. "For certain persons deny our only [monos] Master and Lord, Jesus Christ." Jude 4
44. "the only [monos] God our Savior, through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen." Jude 25

believe what you want

Vikings: Allah is jut Arabic for God, but weasel words and twisting thru out the years allows anyone to justify anything

GTCharlie: not according to the muslim faith

Allah's Messenger called Ali [and said]: “Proceed on and do not look about until Allah grants you victory,” and Ali went a bit and then halted and did not look about and then said in a loud voice: “Allah's Messenger, on what issue should I fight with the people?” Thereupon he (the Prophet) said: ”Fight with them until they bear testimony to the fact that there is no god but Allah and Muhammad is his Messenger…” (Sahih Muslim 5917)

Jim Dandy: Of course you are right, Jews, Christians, Muslims all worship the same God, along with mostly the same prophets, Abraham had 3 wives, etc... organized religion..gotta love it nothing but blood and mass murder thru out the ages .

Artful Dodger: In late 2003 President Bush said, in response to a reporter’s question, that he believed Muslims and Christians "worship the same God." .....................are you calling GW ignorant?

Jim Dandy: I've checked it out. You are wrong. clearly wrong. I doubt seriously that you have investigated this seriously. Clearly the Muslim god is NOT the same as the Christian God. But make your case for your claim.

Jim Dandy: I have and considering the violent nature of the muslim faith going back to and including the time of mohamad (who was himself a terrorist) I'm not sup prized one bit

Vikings: check it out, you'll be surprised

Jim Dandy: Muslim faith requires acts to get to heaven to live in sin where as in the christian faith you get to heaven by grace not by acts to live in a perfect place (no sin). Therefore, they cannot be the same god

Vikings: mohammad is their prophet, not their "god"

Jim Dandy: um, I'm aware that it is NOT the same. You are mistaken. Very mistaken.

Jim Dandy: Impossible

Artful Dodger: You are aware that "their god" is also the Christian and Jewish GOD, are you?

Obamacare supposed to create new jobs, reduce costs, lower the deficit and improve access?
But, no jobs created, costs are up and will rise even more, the deficit is ballooning, and access to a care provider is projected to get scarce. At best, access will be limited and wait times will be longer (in many cases waiting lists will decide who gets what care and when).

So much for improvements.

And even still, there will be MILLIONS with no health care coverage.

What a waste.

Pew: Jews Leaving Dems
Clarice Feldman
It turns out the Obamessiah really can pull off a miracle. Charles Blow of the NYT reports on a Pew poll which shows that Obama has performed the impossible. He's breaking the traditional hold the Democratic Party has had on Jewish voters:
... the number of Jews who identify as Republican or as independents who lean Republican has increased by more than half since the year he was elected. At 33 percent it now stands at the highest level since the data have been kept. In 2008, the ratio of Democratic Jews to Republican Jews was far more than three to one. Now it's less than two to one.

This is no doubt a reaction, at least in part, to the Obama administration having taken a hard rhetorical stance with Israel, while taking "special time and care on our relationship with the Muslim world," as Robert Gibbs, the White House press secretary, put it in June. If that sounds like courtship, it is.

(It should be noted that the Pew poll was taken before Obama's bold support for the right of Muslims to build a community center and mosque a few blocks north of ground zero.)

Ferris Bueller: BS and rubbish. Wake up people. um, it was ISLAMIC terrorists - MUSLIMS - that perpetrated this horrific act. They did this in the name of their god. And, this is par for the course with these extremist Muslims. It's not an isolated case but terrorist act in a long line of terrorist actions perpetuated by these extremest Muslims.

And what were the main-stream Muslims saying and doing in the aftermath of the 911 attacks?

Nothing.

YOu never make a solid argument. You just produce blather that is meaningless. What the hell does "ratcheting up the rhetoric" really mean? Can you spell it out or are you always going to hide behind comments devoid of substance and argument? I like to see you ONCE back up your position with a well-reasoned argument supported with SOME EVIDENCE. Are you capable of that?

I would like to correct a post I made....1st hung parliament since WW2 not WW1....it is up to either party to now woo the independants of which there are 4...I don't know what happens if neither side can get the numbers to govern...I don't think they would have another election, but then....who knows?

Jim Dandy:  Good point.

Ferris Bueller: Many citizens of other countries other than the USA died on 9/11 also.I wonder if any international contributions have been discussed

(V): I agree, and the right of Israel to exist has to be acknowledged

Ferris Bueller:

> It has been 10 years and no decision has been made about how the victims should be honored in the space of the Twin Towers.

I think the real problem is that the Towers sat on one of the choicest pieces of real estate in the world. There were those who expected that the site would be rebuilt with even bigger towers for bankers to make more money. Now they see a memorial site and there is no profit in that.

I think that this is an instance where racism has reared its ugly head behind a mask called "the United States is a Christian nation." It is like saying "X is an Islamic nation and now these Christians want to build a church here." It is all about extremism and prejudice.

I think that the greatest memorial the world could build there is a monument against war. If a lesson should have been learned it is that war and violence beget war and violence. In 2014 we will celebrate 100 years since the start of WW I, what was called "the war to end all wars". I think a memorial commemorating WW I and the tragedy of 911 would be the most appropriate thing. 911 is testament to how the lessons of WW I were never learned. A memorial against war could at least show that some of the lessons have been learned.

Ferris Bueller: To me that is the utmost of compliments.

Artful Dodger: That was back before the party's switch around wasn't it? Republican became Democrat n' Democrat became Republican as we know them today.

Artful Dodger:  Your constant farts here really "crack" me up.

Tuesday:  #10 on Roger Ebert's list, his op-ed piece, seems to allude to something important here.  It has been 10 years and no decision has been made about how the victims should be honored in the space of the Twin Towers.  There have been endless political debates, designs, etc about what should be done here.  There is no space to collectively commemorate the victims of this horrible act.  I think if such a place existed, the intensity of the debate over the mosque would have been lessened, and calmer heads might have prevailed.

Tuesday:

Woodrow Wilson was a Democrat AND a Progressive.

nuff said

Tuesday: That may be your experience but it's not mine.

Tuesday: Bull Pucky. You don't even watch Beck. And I DO. This statement is a lie. So there.

Übergeek 바둑이: Bill Clinton was one of the few fiscally smart presidents. But was a wasteful spender. Cutting taxes works. But increasing spending does not. Anytime the government spends money, it's usually NOT GOOD for the economy.

Pedro Martínez: 70 Democrats currently serving in the Congress are members of the Socialist Party. At least they have the guts to put their cards on the table. The other socialist dems are still in the closet.