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2016-01-03 -Signs, Portents, and the Weather-

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Posted by Fred 2016-01-03 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11127 views ] Top

#1 "...The German Philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche who had strong negative views of Judaism and Christianity and contradictory views of Islam, nonetheless made a striking comment about the 'wonderful world of the Moorish culture of Spain', and he found it admirable that Islam 'said Yes to life even with the rare and refined luxuries of Moorish life.' From this perspective, there is no greatness is asceticism, or in fake religious puritanism or in fear of the material world. Yes to life."

Nietzche was impressed with how he thought the high culture of 11th and 12th century Cordova enjoyed the luxuries without worrying about compliance with religious dos and don'ts. I think Al Arabiya doesn't understand that.

Posted by lord garth 2016-01-03 00:48|| 2016-01-03 00:48|| Front Page Top

#2 The mistake starts by calling it Arab World when there are dozen of different Peoples there.

Posted by Lionel Thoth9784 2016-01-03 01:20|| 2016-01-03 01:20|| Front Page Top

#3 Latrine or open dumpster would have been the first metaphors to my mind. I guess they had to class it up to get it taken seriously by thinking people.

Posted by Super Hose 2016-01-03 01:32|| 2016-01-03 01:32|| Front Page Top

#4 The mistake starts by calling it Arab World

Overflowing toxic waste dump? Snake-pit? A habit of the only eusocial primates? A place I would most like to nuke?

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2016-01-03 03:45|| 2016-01-03 03:45|| Front Page Top

#5 habit --> habitat

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2016-01-03 03:47|| 2016-01-03 03:47|| Front Page Top

#6 democratization and cultural authenticity

Mutually exclusive and contradictory, so of course they are unfulfilled.

The problems are well defined by the 'burg often. Moslems can't have individualism and Islam any more than they can have freedom and slavery together.

Posted by AlanC 2016-01-03 09:06|| 2016-01-03 09:06|| Front Page Top

#7 The mistake starts by calling it Arab World when there are dozen of different Peoples there.

Yes, you're right.

It's should be called "One Huge Multicultural, Up With People Clusterf**k."

Posted by Pappy 2016-01-03 09:39|| 2016-01-03 09:39|| Front Page Top

#8 I'd like to teach the world to scream
and whack it in the knees.
Blow up apple trees, poison honey bees
and other holy stuff.

Posted by Shipman 2016-01-03 14:08|| 2016-01-03 14:08|| Front Page Top

#9 Arab Unity!

Posted by Frank G 2016-01-03 14:11|| 2016-01-03 14:11|| Front Page Top

#10 Sandy and shitty...cat box.

Posted by Abu Uluque 2016-01-03 15:27|| 2016-01-03 15:27|| Front Page Top

#11 The mistake starts by calling it Arab World

They conquered it, Lionel Thoth9784, and imposed their language, culture, and religion on the native peoples, so it's named after them. We conquered the majority of North America, though considerably less viciously, so we call it The United States of America. Everybody who lives here is part of that, regardless what they might have been before they came here.

Posted by trailing wife 2016-01-03 17:20|| 2016-01-03 17:20|| Front Page Top

#12 Nietzsche is dead.

GOD warned the House of Saud long ago.

FU House of Saud. You wasted your 6 days.

Posted by newc 2016-01-03 22:29|| 2016-01-03 22:29|| Front Page Top

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