Posted on 09/11/2013 2:46:47 PM PDT by nickcarraway
I think I get ya...thanks for the responses..
He played a Klingon on the original Star Trek series, too. The one with the energy force that fed on fear.
Sounds like something my kids would have made up as an excuse. “It wasn’t me, it was the jinn!”
Wrong! There are numerous examples of humans mightily fearing angels and angels doing great harm.
Numbers 22:31 Then the Lord opened the eyes of Balaam, and he saw the angel of the Lord standing in the way with his drawn sword in his hand; and he bowed all the way to the ground. 32 The angel of the Lord said to him, “Why have you struck your donkey these three times? Behold, I have come out as an adversary, because your way was contrary to me. 33 But the donkey saw me and turned aside from me these three times. If she had not turned aside from me, I would surely have killed you just now, and let her live.”
he was married to Barbara Eden... lucky guy
Once again the koran proves to be nothing but a comic book for retards.
‘THE BRASS BOTTLE with Burl Ives and Tony Randall.’
Lots of fun, and a genuine Big Fave.
Could be an empty threat.
Milk and gin also go together well.
There’s a lot more to the story of the Djinns than that. There is an Islamic and Biblical tale about the three Hebrew kings: Saul, David and Solomon.
When Saul was king, he took against the witches who lived as a community in his realm, and ordered them destroyed or banished. However, he soon found himself in need of their services after the death of the prophet Samuel. So he went in secret to one of the few remaining, the Witch of Endor, for her to conjure up the spirit of Samuel. Bad mistake.
In any event, the witches shepherded or otherwise had a relationship with the Djinn, and with them out of the picture, the Djinn were free agents. And thus they stayed through the reign of king David until the time of king Solomon.
By being granted supreme wisdom, Solomon was also given the ability to control and manipulate the Djinn, and finally decided that they were such a nuisance that they needed to be eliminated.
So he ordered all the Djinni into a group of seven(?) lead flasks, which he then closed, and sealed with his signet ring, before casting them into the sea.
Importantly, not all of the Djinn got caught, but those remaining tended to hang out at graveyards, and Allah would at times smite them with meteorites.
Otherwise, there was another group of things called the Abdala, of whom there is a fixed number, who are about on the same par with humans. But they have a different ‘covenant’ with God than do people, and people are supposed to leave them alone.
People hate the idea of leaving anything alone that they are told to leave alone, however, so from there is a whole bunch of speculation as to what the Abdala might be.
True, but that was not my point.
The koran is like Dianetics - a bunch of made up crap. If you want to discuss jinn then you have to discuss giant aliens who bred humans to mine gold.
The only part of the tale that has anything to do with the Bible is that yes, King Saul went to see the witch of Endor. No Jinns in that story or in any other part of the Bible.
The rest is pure Mohammedan gibberish.
Jinns are not even original to the Mohammed’s scribbling.
They were part of the pre-islamic arab superstitions like Mecca’s meteroite, etc.
He just blended that crap in like Joe Smith.
During the 2004 election, wasn't there something about Teresa Heinz-Kerry, and 72 Gin soaked raisins?
The Koran could be false and Jinn still exist. However, for the Koran to be true, Jinn must exist.
I was listening to book on quantum mechanics in the car the other day, specifically about the various theories created to reconcile QM with relativity. Many of them postulate multiple additional dimensions in our universe which we cannot detect but which contain much of the “dark matter” supposedly necessary to make the equations come out right.
Could spirit creatures (Jinn, angels, demons, call them what you will) exist in these other dimensions and have just about as much trouble interacting with out world as we do with theirs?
Only a small fraction of Hebraic wisdom is in The Bible.
“According to Talmudic tradition, after Adam and Eve were driven from the Garden of Eden, Adam was separated from Eve for 130 years. During this time female spirits had intercourse with Adam, and male spirits with Eve, and from these unions the mazikeen were born.
“Some Talmudic scholars have called them ghouls and demons. Others have characterised them as ‘fairies’, somewhat reminiscent of the European Celtic variety: winged creatures that could fly and practise magic. Victorian explorer-translator Sir Richard F. Burton believed the mazikeen were equivalent to djinn. They were able to foretell the future and could shapeshift. Like humans, they enjoyed feasting and drinking, and they married and had children.”
Post of the day!
I want one. I want her to look like Barbara Eden 40 years ago. And really nice.
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