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2004-06-01 Terror Networks

Thoughts About Probability, Western Mistakes, and Moslem Perfection

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Posted by Mike Sylwester 2004-06-01 3:50:59 AM|| || Front Page|| [1 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 I do not have a problem if you wish to live ~~survive~~ in ~~cave~~ tent, go to it. Three thousand souls at the WTC were never given that choice. The rest of us prefer the smell of gasoline to camel dung.

Posted by john 2004-06-01 8:29:19 AM|| 2004-06-01 8:29:19 AM|| Front Page Top

#2 I do not have a problem if you wish to live ~~survive~~ in ~~cave~~ tent, go to it. Three thousand souls at the WTC were never given that choice. The rest of us prefer the smell of gasoline to camel dung.

Posted by john 2004-06-01 8:29:20 AM|| 2004-06-01 8:29:20 AM|| Front Page Top

#3 Apologies for the double post. Bud really does taste better than goats milk.

Posted by john 2004-06-01 8:30:45 AM|| 2004-06-01 8:30:45 AM|| Front Page Top

#4 In 2001 Americans wagered $57 billion dollars on lotteries, $18 billion on horses and dogs, $592 billion in casinos, and $150 billion on other forms gambling. ....

Yeah, ask somebody in Vegas who some of their biggest high rollers are. Would Allah opt for craps, baccarat, or poker or would he be satisfied with just the hookers?

Posted by tu3031 2004-06-01 9:41:20 AM|| 2004-06-01 9:41:20 AM|| Front Page Top

#5 Total up all that cash spent on gambling by the US and you get $817 billion, about 8% of our GDP. Total up the GDP of the ME Mulsim world and you get $617 billion with a population comparable to ours (265,000,000 people). What we "waste" on gambling dwarfs their entire production, including the friggin' oil!

Abdullah- free your mind and the rest will follow!

Posted by Craig 2004-06-01 10:49:30 AM|| 2004-06-01 10:49:30 AM|| Front Page Top

#6 Why does Allah hate me
I don't want to be a fudge packer anymore
I just want to be love,
why won't you love me ?????

Posted by Anonymous5075 2004-06-01 11:03:42 AM|| 2004-06-01 11:03:42 AM|| Front Page Top

#7 I'd still like to check the signature on that "divine law", pal. I'm bettin' ya got took.

Posted by mojo 2004-06-01 1:11:08 PM|| 2004-06-01 1:11:08 PM|| Front Page Top

#8 We do not allow probability theory to affect the laws that we live our lives by.

Horsesh!t. People in Islamist countries have a much higher probability of dying for any number of reasons:

1.) Women dying from being beaten to death by their flaccid husbands.

2.) Children dying being used as human mine sweepers in battle.

3.) Men dying from chemical or gas attacks during conflicts.

4.) Infants dying from lack of modern post-natal care.

5.) People dying at the hands of stone age Sharia law-givers who use spotty evidence at best.

6.) Tens of thousands of people dying in their mud huts because their corrupt government couldn't be bothered to enforce earthquake safety standards whilst they nonetheless spend billions pursuing nuclear weapons.

7.) Hundreds of people dying at a time in airliner crashes due to skimping on maintenance schedules and poorly trained airframe mechanics.

8.) Untold millions of people dying over the centuries because religious autocracy forbids any scientific enlightenment that would advance learning and knowledge beyond their mullahs' self-satisfied Neanderthal lifestyles.

Posted by Zenster 2004-06-01 2:23:36 PM|| 2004-06-01 2:23:36 PM|| Front Page Top

#9 The West is proud of the enlightened philosophers, their renaissance artisans and their rational scientists...
We're not jealous...oh no! It means nothing that calculus, relativity (special & general), quantum theory, structure of DNA etc etc were worked out by the kuffar, we could have done if we really wanted to..honest!
The issue of knowing what action to do in a particular situation depends not on pondering on our fate, but on seeking out a law extracted from the sacred texts of Islam.
But that all gets a bit complex when you start considering little problems like abrogation (nanskh), for instance is there compulsion in matters of religion (9:5) or isn't there (2:256)? Can you be totally sure about Hadeeth from even the cannonical collecions (Muslim/Bukhari) & do you or don't you have to consider the 'occasion of revelation' (asbab an-nuzul) when deciding how to interpret said verse? Decisions...decisions.

Posted by Dave (UK) 2004-06-01 5:13:30 PM|| 2004-06-01 5:13:30 PM|| Front Page Top

#10 I have known Mormans who feel as stongly about their place in Gods Kingdom as this author opines, and frankly, their bikes are welcome in my neighborhood..(Just not during the NBA Finals)
So what is the working difference between Mormons and Muslims?
Have yet to see a Mormon behead an infidel.

Posted by Capsu78 2004-06-01 6:16:00 PM|| 2004-06-01 6:16:00 PM|| Front Page Top

#11 Or as Curly, the trail boss from City Slickers said, "I crap bigger than you."

Posted by Craig 2004-06-01 8:08:55 PM|| 2004-06-01 8:08:55 PM|| Front Page Top

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