These guys, along with Farrakhan, are smoking some strong stuff!
Or you can get raw with these strings. Either way, the violin is sweet yet lethal.
Do it!
Posted on 05/09/2011 8:33:30 PM PDT by TheConservativeCitizen
And we thought these guys couldn’t get any crazier?
While we’re all too familiar with the loony antics of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and the zealotry of the ayatollahs, things have taken an extra screwy turn for the nut jobs in Iran. I know, you didn’t think these clowns could get any crazier. Me neither.
All is not well between President Mahmoud and Iran’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Khamenei. As is the case with political power struggles in general, accusations and charges of undue influence abound. However, this battle has “crazy Iranians” written all over it: The supreme leader has accused our pal Mahmoud of using sorcerers and evil spirits to further his agenda.
Several of Mahmoud’s buddies have been arrested in recent days for using supernatural powers and invoking djinns (spirits) against the bearded cleric. The Iranian news website, Ayandeh, described one of the arrested “magicians” as a “a man with special skills in metaphysics and connections with the unknown worlds.” (Click on the link – it’s written in Persian, but check out the image on the right – it says it all.) You can’t make this stuff up.
The whole thing started when Khamenei reinstated an intelligence minister who had been sacked by Ahmadinejad. Mahmoud did what any good president would do; he staged an 11-day walkout to protest the ayatollah’s decree. You don’t suppose he was in touch with the Wisconsin Democratic legislators, do you?
At any rate, Mahmoud’s temper tantrum didn’t sit too well with the ayatollahs, who warned that the disobedient president might be impeached and exiled for his pouty behavior.
The feud went “Twilight Zone” shortly after the release of an Iranian “documentary”-produced by a pal of Mahmoud’s – on the imminent return of the Hidden Imam Mahdi. Ahmadinejad’s obsession with the hidden imam is well known; he claimed in a 2009 rant that the U.S. was trying to prevent Mahdi’s return. At any rate, the flick didn’t sit too well with the clerics, who claim the Mahdi’s return cannot be predicted.
So of course, as any film critic worth his weight in rial would do, the clerics accused the producer of sorcery and metaphysical mayhem. And you thought Roger Ebert was bad.
In an effort to root out the “deviant current” within Ahmadinejad’s inner circle, at least 25 people have been arrested since Mahmoud returned to work. At the minimum, perhaps the president will think twice before planning this summer’s family vacation.
The mere thought that there are people even crazier than Mahmoud Ahmadinejad “in control” of a country that is doing everything in its power to acquire nuclear weapons is a sobering thought indeed. Mahmoud, the ayatollahs, the sorcerers and the magicians are loonier than ever.
Sure, religions certainly evolve over time. In the case of Jedi adherents, I think they take their religion only slightly more seriously than the Pastafarians do the Flying Spaghetti Monster.
oic, may the Flying Spaghetti force be with us all!
Oh bless his noodily appendeges and his life affirming
sauce. Manga.
OMG it’s the alien JOOOOS!
THX THX
HMMMMMM
Avast, me heartie! Take heed...there be more pirate attacks as the global temperature has decreased o’er the past decade. Arrr...’tis proof of pirates divine influence!
These guys, along with Farrakhan, are smoking some strong stuff!
Or you can get raw with these strings. Either way, the violin is sweet yet lethal.
Do it!
The Iranians just love to make up this kind of stuff and cite supposed foreign research as "proof."
You'll love this YouTube clip about The Fly, which carries desease on one wing and the cure on the other:
The Fly is priceless. I have the text from earlier when they had this islamic science site up, but never saw it with an actual “lecturer”. Great stuff :).
Well, sorry about that.
The truth is in the Bible. You might want to read it again and ask God to show you as you read. Put Him to a test, with a honest and sincere heart, and He will reveal it to you.
I don't know. In the transition to a monolithic God, from paganism (rocks, ancestors, animals, whatever multi-gods) it's kind of difficult to pin down the pagan baggage.
On the other hand, after the Torah and on to the convenient new testament, you may argue that the pagan elements are being baked right back in.
***I was just watching the very first episode of I Dream of Jeannie.***
Ah Barbra Eden! I first saw her in VOYAGE TO THE BOTTOM OF THE SEA and immediatly fell in lust with her.
Then came some movie with Tony Randall, Burl Ives (as a genie).I Believe it was called THE BRASS BOTTLE, then came THE CIRCUS OF DR LO.
Plus a few made for tv movies in the 1970s.
Ah, Jeanie, Jeanie!
There's certainly no need to be!
The truth is in the Bible. You might want to read it again and ask God to show you as you read. Put Him to a test, with a honest and sincere heart, and He will reveal it to you.
Actually, I did honestly and sincerely asked Christ to be my savior when I was younger (around 10 or so). Since I was a child, I believed what I'd been told in Sunday School. After praying I felt, well...nothing. As I grew up my interest in science showed me that everything was subject to scrutiny, and that nothing should be taken on faith. By the time I was an adult I was agnostic, and later drifted into atheism.
Bear in mind that I don't *know* that there isn't a God...can't prove a negative and all that...but I see no reason to believe that there is, nor in anything supernatural for that matter.
“How about Perfect Angels and Heavenly Bodies?”
That picture certainly made a believer out of me! Yowza!
Why, yes it is! :)
Early in my life I just knew there had to be a God. I just knew something had to bring this world into existence. I was searching for the true God, not just a man-made religion to tickle my senses. And I found God from the Bible.
Reading in the Bible, I came to know I was a sinner, separated from God, but God loves me, and he showed this by sending His son Jesus to die for my sins on the cross, to save me from hell where I was headed, and to give to me eternal life in heaven. By repentance, I could receive God's forgiveness of my sins. So I repented of my sins, ask Jesus to forgive me and to become my Lord and Savior, and by faith, I truly believe he has saved me. It is nothing that I am or have done, but only by faith he has saved me.
To sum it up, I took God at his word.
And you know, he just didn't forgive me and give me eternal life, but he brought real meaning into my life. There is peace and security in my life. Am I perfect? No way! But my heart's desire is to live for God and to please God with all my life, every day.
If I may, may I suggest you give God another chance to speak to you by reading the Bible. May I suggest a book in the Bible that pretty much explains it all---The Gospel of John.
With that being said, I want you to know that I prayed for you earlier today. I also asked God to give me the words to write to you in this post, so here they are. God bless you! And God really does love you! There is no doubt in my mind about that. Take care.
Maybe they’ll blow themselves up, and then we won’t have to worry about them anymore.
Actually I have read the Bible, as I pointed out in post #18 of this thread.
Early in my life I just knew there had to be a God. I just knew something had to bring this world into existence.
I've never known that there was a God. Oh, I was told so as a child and believed accordingly at the time...but it didn't *know* it in the manner you've described.
And you know, he just didn't forgive me and give me eternal life, but he brought real meaning into my life. There is peace and security in my life. Am I perfect? No way! But my heart's desire is to live for God and to please God with all my life, every day.
I wouldn't deny for a moment the Christianity brings meaning and joy to millions of people. It's a very powerful meme. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meme#Religion
With that being said, I want you to know that I prayed for you earlier today.
Thank you, and I mean that sincerely.
I also asked God to give me the words to write to you in this post, so here they are.
Hm...I can understand your not noticing my earlier post where I pointed out that I've already read the Bible...we're all only human, after all...but you'd think God would have noticed and not made the same error when He told you what words to write, given the whole omniscience thingy :-)
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