Blah Blah Corner 2(Chat till your fingers die): - Page 52

Arwen, I still remember those days where our posts in the Den use to be reported the same way. 😆😆

Originally posted by: angie.4u

The application of current laws and standards across a thousand and more years did not sound very logical to me.

To clarify that point Angie, I agree. It would even be hypocritical of me to expect that because in the Ayodhya debate I said we could not apply today's laws to historic events of the past. My problem is with the refusal to accept that something is wrong, and worse say it is acceptable even today. Can we hold kings and conquerors of the past accountable by today's standards of laws – No. But can we say that some brutal war and conquest was wrong. Yes. It was kind of that principle.

Originally posted by: return_to_hades

I've read three versions of the Bible. Hopefully no Christians get offended, but it is quite a snooze fest. I like Kings though, especially the chapters on David and Solomon. The Jerusalem one is the most tedious one, with very non flowing language. The YHWH also always throws me off on how to read or say YHWH, do I read/say it as Yahweh, do I keep it silent, do I think of the lost name. I do agree that the King James version is the easiest translation. But it is fascinating how the same book is translated so differently.

I hope the Quran is livelier. And this must be a rookie question, does the Quran contain the Pentateuch or not?

Originally posted by: Arwen.

@RTH - it might seem disjointed but overall don't know if u ll find it to be "snoozefest" or not 😆 Though u ll definitely find differences in the explanations of certain verses across the different schools of thought

and BTV- i m a LOTR fan 😆 .. the reason i chose Arwen as a username was because i like Liv's portrayal in the movies ...

Originally posted by: Arwen.

and BTV- i m a LOTR fan 😆 .. the reason i chose Arwen as a username was because i like Liv's portrayal in the movies ...

Which hardcore Tolkien fans complain about as Arwen is mostly in the appendices. 😆

Have you come across one of the internet theories that LOTR is anti-Islam? I had read a conspiracy theory that Middle Earth is Europe and the west and that Mordor represents Arab nations. It was weird. It was a long while back during LOTR heyday.

Originally posted by: return_to_hades

Which hardcore Tolkien fans complain about as Arwen is mostly in the appendices. 😆

Have you come across one of the internet theories that LOTR is anti-Islam? I had read a conspiracy theory that Middle Earth is Europe and the west and that Mordor represents Arab nations. It was weird. It was a long while back during LOTR heyday.

Originally posted by: Beyond_the_Veil

I was neither misconstruing your personal philosophy nor commenting on it.

See, this is what I am talking about. This is a lie, right here. But then, if we focus on this point alone, it would run into pages, and I don't know about you, but I have a job to do, which means I will not be able to attend to the rest of your comments in a timely manner, so you would then start assuming that I am leaving the discussion/debate half-way through, where as it is simply not the case.

If you are serious about dissecting, how about we start with this?

It all started off when you wondered, on page 65 of this thread, "why debate" implying that somehow the others on that Islam thread either do not know the philosophy behind a debate and only you do OR implying that somehow they were terrified in challenging you and your "scientific" ways. To which wonderment, I reflected that when you offend others, they just wouldn't have the stomach to deal with the offender. And I also opined on what I thought went on in that thread, not necessarily perpetrated just by you but a few others as well, which you too acknowledged in your direct address to me.

And when you address me directly, you can't then deny that you weren't commenting on what I said was my personal philosophy.

Yup Arwen. I miss all the fun we had naming Doggy and Dexter. Are you still posting in Den ? Where are the old members now ?

Originally posted by: return_to_hades

To clarify that point Angie, I agree. It would even be hypocritical of me to expect that because in the Ayodhya debate I said we could not apply today's laws to historic events of the past. My problem is with the refusal to accept that something is wrong, and worse say it is acceptable even today. Can we hold kings and conquerors of the past accountable by today's standards of laws ' No. But can we say that some brutal war and conquest was wrong. Yes. It was kind of that principle.

I had that very post in mind 😆.