Article

2008-11-20 Olde Tyme Religion

Egyptian geologist calls for analysis of holy stone

Archived material is restricted to Rantburg regulars and members. If you need access email fred.pruitt=at=gmail.com with your nick to be added to the members list. There is no charge to join Rantburg as a member.

Posted by Fred 2008-11-20 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11134 views ] Top

#1 Yeh! Don't mess with the Prophet's rock.

Posted by Richard of Oregon 2008-11-20 04:25|| 2008-11-20 04:25|| Front Page Top

#2 It's a large ferrous meteorite fragment.

Posted by Bright Pebbles 2008-11-20 08:12|| 2008-11-20 08:12|| Front Page Top

#3 Here mate, 'kiss' this one instead!

Posted by Besoeker 2008-11-20 09:18|| 2008-11-20 09:18|| Front Page Top

#4 Of course it's made of heavenly material. It's a *FUCKING METEORITE*! Unless you think it's made of Platonic Godlike wonder-absorbant or something like that, you wouldn't accomplish much of anything, rant-boy.

I've never understood the whole Kaaba thing. Sure looks like shirk to me, you more-monotheistic-than-thou hypocritical jackasses, you.

Posted by Mitch H.">Mitch H. 2008-11-20 10:06|| http://blogfonte.blogspot.com/]">[http://blogfonte.blogspot.com/] 2008-11-20 10:06|| Front Page Top

#5 typical rag-head science. The entire f****ing earth is "heavenly" you dweebs!

Posted by AlanC 2008-11-20 10:08|| 2008-11-20 10:08|| Front Page Top

#6 Coprolite from one L. Ron's buddies.

Posted by swksvolFF 2008-11-20 11:33|| 2008-11-20 11:33|| Front Page Top

#7 Touch not the Holy Meteorite!

Posted by mojo">mojo 2008-11-20 11:46|| 2008-11-20 11:46|| Front Page Top

#8 Is it a meteorite? I recall reading that it is granite, and that the British Museum had a sample from it.
But the man has a valid point. Investigation of any rock starts with its hardness, so I propose every Haji bangs his head against the Black Stone three times, as hard as he can. This should generate some useful data in time.

Posted by Grunter 2008-11-20 12:13|| 2008-11-20 12:13|| Front Page Top

#9 The point is not if where it is from. It is that you set up both idols of stone and wood and encircle them.

Posted by newc">newc 2008-11-20 15:04|| 2008-11-20 15:04|| Front Page Top

#10 Some naughty Hindus claim that this is a meteorite fragment that was crafted into a Shiva Lingam and worshipped at the Kaaba before the arrival of Islam.

Posted by john frum 2008-11-20 17:10|| 2008-11-20 17:10|| Front Page Top

#11 What cracks up is that muzzie pilgrims jostle each other in order to reach their hand into the silver vulva and rub the ~~button~~ meteor. The volumes ~~any comedian~~ Sigmund Freud could write about that.

Posted by ed 2008-11-20 17:39|| 2008-11-20 17:39|| Front Page Top

#12 What cracks ME up

Posted by ed 2008-11-20 17:39|| 2008-11-20 17:39|| Front Page Top

#13 Black Stone of Mecca

Posted by ed 2008-11-20 17:42|| 2008-11-20 17:42|| Front Page Top

#14 Silly me. I thought a holystone was something you used to scrub down the decks of sailing ships.

From Wiki:

Holystone is a soft and brittle sandstone that was formerly used for scouring and whitening the wooden decks of ships. It was used in the British and American Navy for scrubbing the decks of sailing ships.

The term may have come from the fact that 'holystoning the deck' was originally done on one's knees, as in prayer.[1] In realistic reference to their size, smaller holystones were called "prayer books" and larger ones "Bibles"; also, a widely quoted legend attributes the name "holystone" to the story that such pieces of stone were taken for use from St. Nicholas Church in Great Yarmouth.[2] More plausible is the use of stones taken from the ruined church of St Helens, Isle of Wight; tall ships would often anchor in St Helens Roads (the strip of water immediately adjacent to St Helens) and take provisions and fresh water from St Helens before setting off on their journeys.

Posted by Alaska Paul 2008-11-20 18:06|| 2008-11-20 18:06|| Front Page Top

#15 Actually its a giant licorice drop

Posted by Chief 2008-11-20 19:57|| 2008-11-20 19:57|| Front Page Top

23:26 trailing wife
23:17 tipover
23:13 trailing wife
22:31 Frank G
22:28 Spinelet Lumumba7308
22:25 ex-lib
22:24 ex-lib
22:23 trailing wife
22:23 Barbara Skolaut
22:20 Scott R
22:15 trailing wife
22:09 ex-lib
22:06 trailing wife
21:45 Oldtimer
21:38 Ulereth the Prolific7507
21:28 3dc
21:05 Redneck Jim
21:03 Frank G
20:56 Zenobia Ebbomose aka Broadhead6
20:50 Atomic Conspiracy
20:36 Bright Pebbles
20:17 Rambler in Virginia
20:17 Procopius2k
20:15 Adriane