Lycanthropic Occupation

clipped from www.google.co.uk "Punching werewolves in the throat!"

I haven’t found that phrase through Googlesearch anywhere, and I wanted it to appear online. So I had to resort to desperate measures.

Power Crouch Stab

And to think how long it took me when I first encountered this Boss…

clipped from video.google.com The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time - Power Crouch Stab demonstration - TSA This is a demonstration of the "Power Crouch Stab" technique in Zelda 64. Mike "TSA" Damiani demonstrates this by defeating the game's first boss, Parasitic Armored Arachnid Gohma, with a jumping Deku Stick attack and two Power Crouch Stabs, taking about five seconds in total to defeat her.

Jihad and Religious Tolerance

I have discovered a wonderful site, a website called Religious Tolerance, and I happed upon it by accident while looking for interpretations of and commentary on the book of Vayyiqra (Leviticus). It had an extremely thorough exposition of the section regarding homosexuality.

Then I saw its studies on Islam, and this remarkably open–minded explanation of Jihad. I have bookmarked the site now.

clipped from www.religioustolerance.org THE CONCEPT OF JIHAD ("STRUGGLE') IN ISLAM The conventional interpretation of "Jihad": Personal Jihad: Verbal Jihad: Physical Jihad: Other interpretations of "Jihad": It would be quite possible to assemble passages from the Bible which are profoundly immoral by today's religious and secular standards. If all one read of the Bible was a collection of such passages, one might conclude that the Bible is an evil document that promotes violence, unethical behavior. Similarly, it is possible to scan the Bible for passages which promote a loving, moral and ethical life. Which group of passages represent the real Bible? They both do! The Qur'an is similar. Some emphasize the earlier passages in the Qur'an which emphasize cooperation with the Jews and Christians -- the "People of the Book." They tend to interpret "Jihad" in terms of personal struggle towards purity. Others emphasize later passages of the Qur'an which were received during a time of conflict. They tend to interpret "Jihad" as holy war.

What the f…ook?

“I’ll squish your face like a zit
And leave you oozing down the mirror!”

clipped from www.youtube.com Unicorn Rap

Ignorance & Tolerance — Islam

Further to my previous post on the EvC Forum thread, some more quotes on Islam:

clipped from www.evcforum.net title="Click for list of messages by jar (aka Orang, TrueChristian)">href="http://www.evcforum.net/cgi-bin/Threads.cgi?action=tml&mid=2094" name=234>jar Member Religion, IMHO, whether Christianity or Islam or Judaism or Hinduism or whatever flavor, is most often simply a tool. Almost always the question boils down to "Who controls certain resources and power." IMHO the greatest danger is Ignorance, just plain Ignorance. Historically, Islam has been as accepting of other cultures, perhaps even more than Christianity, than any other Theocratic Political movement. When Christian Spain expelled the Jews, it was a Muslim Caliph that welcomed them and even sent ships to transport them away from Spain. It was the Islamic world that maintained knowledge and education during the period of the Christian Dark Ages. Even under the Islamic Caliphate in Spain, Christian Monasteries continued to thrive, and it was in a large part, those monks and nuns that returned to more northern Europe from those monasteries bring back tales of indoor plumbing and clean streets and hospitals and schools that lead to the great awakening that followed the Dark Ages.