What level do you end up on?
One with really insensitive tormentors and no air conditioning.
Posted on 10/24/2001 3:08:47 PM PDT by Timesink
Wait a minute, doc--it's Ramadan! Hassan no chop on Ramadan.
If a good man were ever housed in Hell
By needful error of the qualities,
Perhaps to prove the rule or shame the devil,
Or speak the truth only a stranger sees,
Would he, surrendering quick to obvious hate,
Fill half eternity with cries and tears,
Or watch beside Hell's little wicket gate
In patience for the first ten thousand years,
Feeling the curse climb slowly to his throat
That, uttered, dooms him to rescindless ill,
Forcing his praying tongue to run by rote,
Eternity entire before him still?
Would he at last, grown faithful in his station,
Kindle a little hope in hopeless Hell,
And sow among the damned doubts of damnation,
Since here someone could live, and live well?
One doubt of evil would bring down such a grace,
Open such a gate, and Eden could enter in,
Hell be a place like any other place,
And love and hate and life and death begin.---Edwin Muir
--Hilaire Belloc's Christmas Carol
When I am dead, I hope it is said, 'His sins were scarlet, but his books were read'.
It's quiet in Hell just now, it's very tame,
The devils and the damned alike lie snoring.
Just a faint smell of sulphur, not much flame;
The human souls come here and find it boring.
Satan, the poor old Puritan, sits there
Emitting mocking laughter once a minute;
Idly he scans a page of Baudelaire
And wonders how he once saw evil in it.
He sips his brimstone at the Demons’ Club
(His one amusement now he’s superseded)
And keeps complaining to Beelzebub
That men make hotter hells than ever he did.
-- R. P. Lister
The Aristocrat
G. K. Chesterton
The Devil is a gentleman, and asks you down to stay
At his little place at What'sitsname (it isn't far away).
They say the sport is splendid; there is always something new,
And fairy scenes, and fearful feats that none but he can do;
He can shoot the feathered cherubs if they fly on the estate,
Or fish for Father Neptune with the mermaids for a bait;
He scaled amid the staggering stars that precipice, the sky,
And blew his trumpet above heaven, and got by mastery
The starry crown of God Himself, and shoved it on the shelf;
But the Devil is a gentleman, and doesn't brag himself.
O blind your eyes and break your heart and hack your hand away,
And lose your love and shave your head; but do not go to stay
At the little place in What'sitsname where folks are rich and clever;
The golden and the goodly house, where things grow worse for ever;
There are things you need not know of, though you live and die in vain,
There are souls more sick of pleasure than you are sick of pain;
There is a game of April Fool that's played behind its door,
Where the fool remains for ever and the April comes no more,
Where the splendour of the daylight grows drearier than the dark,
And life droops like a vulture that once was such a lark:
And that is the Blue Devil that once was the Blue Bird;
For the Devil is a gentleman, and doesn't keep his word.
Richard Gere can be the master emcee. He can get the crowd going by singing KUMBAYAH!
Hillary Clinton can talk about how "we New Yorkers feel" about how important it is to remember Ramadan.
Andrew Dice Clay can discuss how Muslim women can better entertain a Muslim man.
Pee Wee Herman can flash himself to help kick off the evening events.
Jesse Jackson and Louis Farrahkhan can hold hands for a prayer that asks "Allah" to stop the bombing during this holy moment.
Any member of NPR can tell our Adoptees how awful the American government is and will begin telling them where we are bombing.
Maureen Dowd can host the event "Ramadan...An Inner Look At How An Irish Chick Makes Out With A Muslim Dude".
Martha Stewart can show our Adoptees how to better make Lamp Shades after all..That's A Good Thing.
Barbara Streisand can sing "What The World Needs Now Is Barbara, Barbara, Barbara. (I'm sure they'd love that..don't you??)
Paul Begala can tell the Adoptees how George W. Bush stole the Presidential Election with the help of those REDNECKS in the Midwest and How they failed to do something about stopping those Rednecks. (Shame on you for failing)
Howard Stern could tell these adoptees who'd like to become terrorists what to look for when they are awaiting their 70 some virgins. (Must be choosy)
Dennis Miller can come up with yet another word that no one in America knows or understand. Just to get an "educational" point of view.
Last, but never least..Bill Clinton can be Bill Clinton.
So? If you have any ideas how to help our ADOPT A MOSQUE RAMADAN CELEBRATION please tell me. There are so many things and people that would love to help!
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