Free Republic is the home of many folks who run phrases into the ground so deep the words tranlate into Chinese.
OR maybe this is too P.I. (politically incorrect)?
Only if the virgins post an Opus.
What you don't know is that an American GI has so much respect for human life that he sometimes get shot in the back by the very people he just saved. You don't know how much we prepare for combat. Every pre-combat "briefing" will tell you the logistics of the operation. In Nam we were fighting so close to the enemy, and the civilians were a fishing line apart (2 pound test) we were hard to have separated them. The NVA and Cong knew this. So, they surrounded them selves with civilians. Cowards do this! Cowards deserve what they get.
These guys in Afganastan deserve our respect, and our support. This is not a great job, nor does it pay well. These guys are defending OUR country, they are seeking retrobution for lives, innocent lives, wasted!
I tried twice to re-enlist and go to Afganastan as a Ranger (101st Airborne).....I was too old (I'm 54). When they get down to the bottom of the barrel, I'll still be there, and ready to fight for my country.
When Mudd was finally defeated by Kirk, his punishment was an unlimited number of copies of his nagging wife.
I can just see Allah pulling the same trick on those murderous vermin.
Just ask- What good are a bunch of virgins when you no longer have a body? Is Allah playing virtual reality games?
Those Muslims who believe this stuff are an ignorant bunch.
From now on, Virgins = Moose
And the Quran tells us so whenever such descriptions occur as independent statements, not within a general subject. See 2:24-26, 13:35, and 47:15. The word "Mathal" (allegory) is used in these verses. Linguistically, the word "Mathal" in these verses can be removed, and we still have perfect sentences. But it is there because the descriptions of Heaven and Hell are allegorical.
What Heaven and Hell are really like is far beyond our comprehension. Hence the need for allegory.
How can one describe, for example, the taste of chocolate to a person who never tasted chocolate? Allegory will have to be used. The person has to wait to actually taste chocolate in order to know what chocolate tastes like. Whatever allegory we use to describe the taste of chocolate can never approximate the real thing.
Heaven already exists, since Adam and Eve were placed in it during their days of innocence (2:35). We learn from Sura 55 that there are two "High Heavens" - one for the humans and one for the jinns - and two "Lower Heavens" - one for the humans and one for the jinns (see
Hell is not created yet. It will be created on the Day of Judgment (69:17 & 89:23).
The High Heaven vs. The Lower Heaven
There are profound differences between the High Heaven and the Lower Heaven. Allegorically, water in the High Heaven flows freely (55:50), while the water of the Lower Heaven needs to be pumped out (55:66).
Allegorically, the High Heaven has all kinds of fruit (55:52), while the Lower Heaven has a limited variety of fruits (55:68).
Allegorically, the pure spouses readily join their spouses in the High Heaven (55:56), while the dwellers of the Lower Heaven must go fetch their spouses (55:72).
Yet, even the Lower Heaven is an incredibly fantastic prize for those who are fortunate enough to escape Hell and end up in the Lower Heaven (3:185) - going to the Lower Heaven is a great triumph.
People who depart this life before reaching their 40th birthday, and did not sufficiently develop their souls, will go to the Lower Heaven (46:15, Appendices 11 & 32).
The High Heaven is reserved for those who believed, led a righteous life, and developed their souls sufficiently.
"Whoever succeeds in barely missing Hell, and is admitted into Heaven, has attained a great triumph." [3:185]
(Arguing about 72 virgins is silly, but that won't stop anyone.)
He expressed glee in that Osama and company had supposedly given him the first pick of their wives...in the event they are killed... The ones he didn't want, he could give to his friends.
Slightly different mentality, eh?
i can change my ways. "boy i hope allay does not run out of sluts."
you did mean to open this can of worms, right?
I thought they were sturgeons!!! (Thanks for clearing that up.)