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A Question of Faith... or Tidiness? (Christian Burials to be oriented to Mecca)
Nottingham Post ^
| 21 September 2006
| Chris Birkle
Posted on 09/22/2006 5:05:40 PM PDT by shrinkermd
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To: shrinkermd
Are they aligning these grave sites along the "Great Circle" route or the "Rhumb Line"? Idiots!
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posted on
09/22/2006 6:40:55 PM PDT
by
Don Corleone
(Leave the gun..take the cannoli)
To: shrinkermd
When I'm dead I don't care which direction my dead body faces cause I'm dead. My soul will be in heaven and my body will return to dust.
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posted on
09/22/2006 6:42:28 PM PDT
by
encm(ss)
(USN Ret.)
To: shrinkermd
Feet at 1:30 and eyes at 4:30?
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posted on
09/22/2006 6:52:32 PM PDT
by
Old Professer
(The critic writes with rapier pen, dips it twice, and writes again.)
To: I see my hands
Do you know why a great circle approach was chosen rather than an straight line through the Earth? As the worm tunnels is even more direct than as the crow flies. Dunno. "Great Circle" is what they use though. That might be an "Ask the Imam" kind of question.
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posted on
09/22/2006 6:53:46 PM PDT
by
FreedomCalls
(It's the "Statue of Liberty," not the "Statue of Security.")
To: shrinkermd
"Multifaith cemeteries" don't make sense to me in the first place. I'm not so surprized. Even militiary cemeteries have at least Chritian sections, etc.
To: muawiyah
Go look at some cemetaries sometimes. All I have ever been in you are lying on your back feet to the east. Waiting the coming of Christ. Everyone. I will be planted facing EAST not Mecca.
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posted on
09/22/2006 8:51:12 PM PDT
by
therut
To: therut
I've gone to hundreds of pioneer cemetaries. They have folks buried foot to foot, head to the North, head to the South, buried in circles around a central point (an all time favorite style among Swiss polygamists), and so forth.
I suspect this is strictly an European thing and probably applicable only to those from a Catholic or Orthodox tradition as a general rule.
In any case, many Protestants know that "Christ will come in the clouds", and, consequently know that you can't tell what direction that is.
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09/23/2006 9:50:16 AM PDT
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muawiyah
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