Shouldn't it be dehead?

[ms_ann_thrope]

and when you get tired of vilifying/inciting hatred against the Muslims, I suppose the Amish are soft targets. At least they won't be reading your words.

I can't tell if you're being serious or not.

 

[subdued_passion]

Holy shit.

I know, right? I posted one of the most famous scenes by AB and just because it's in Hindi, she decides to pick on me. Or maybe, she was really picking on you but lacked the courage to do so.

Except I didn't equate the word "terrorist" with "the religious." The word terrorist didn't even appear in this thread, let alone my post, until you dragged it in.

Since you brought it up, though, I'm not blaming English itself for terrorism becoming a nearly meaningless term. There's no "blame" involved, even. It's just a consequence of the evolution of language. The word Nazi, for example, used to refer to a quite specific group of people. Now it doesn't, as any fashion/grammar Nazi knows. In recent years the terrorist label has been colloquially leveled at just about any entity that commits an act of violence.

As far as I'm concerned, the violently religious are simply the violently religious, regardless of who/how/where they victimize.

And yes, I understood you perfectly, but your failing wasn't a lack of specificity. It was a lack of courage in your convictions.

I don't know about you, lady, but, when someone talks about heads being sawed off it strikes terror in my cold heart for sure.

SPECIFIC VS PARTICULAR

Speaking of humans (or cows or tomatoes) is specific. Speaking of SUBDUED PASSION or ELSIE or Beef Steaks is particular.

Who_is_ELSIE?

As best as I can tell, she has strong convictions.

Thanks for this. I was beginning to wonder about the meaning of the word. All dem smart folks usin all dem big words n all.

and when you get tired of vilifying/inciting hatred against the Muslims, I suppose the Amish are soft targets. At least they won't be reading your words.

I didn't get that from any of Ann's posts in this thread. What are you basing this statement on?

 

[phrodeau]

Especially when it lends itself so well to making light of the deaths of people whose heads are sawn off by the religious.

Oh, well. Everyone copes in their own way, I suppose.

What makes you say that the beheaders are "the religious"? It's a play for power, not a sacramental rite.

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

"Terrorize and behead those who believe in scriptures other than the Qur'an." Koran 8:12

 

[subdued_passion]

Old testament has a lot of calling to kill non-believers. Isn't the old testament common to Abrahamic religions?

If only I knew scripture as well as 'the religious' or 4rest even...

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

Old testament has a lot of calling to kill non-believers. Isn't the old testament common to Abrahamic religions?

If only I knew scripture as well as 'the religious' or 4rest even...

Not one mention of the beheading.

Pussy Jews. They fought armies, not civilians.

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

Oh, wait, the Romans beheaded John...

 

[subdued_passion]

Not one mention of the beheading.

Pussy Jews. They fought armies, not civilians.

I don't know. I already said I didn't know scripture that well. But I remember the angry tone of the old testament. God was angry and spiteful, lacking in mercy and full of vengeance back then. Fun stories to read but not a great message. NT has a dull story but a great message.

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

I think you're expanding the minority to the majority.

I had to spend a lot of time with it.

 

[ms_ann_thrope]

Oh, wait, the Romans beheaded John...

Deheaded...

 

[phrodeau]

1 Samuel 41 Meanwhile, the Philistine, with his shield bearer in front of him, kept coming closer to David. 42 He looked David over and saw that he was little more than a boy, glowing with health and handsome, and he despised him. 43 He said to David, “Am I a dog, that you come at me with sticks?” And the Philistine cursed David by his gods. 44 “Come here,” he said, “and I’ll give your flesh to the birds and the wild animals!”

45 David said to the Philistine, “You come against me with sword and spear and javelin, but I come against you in the name of the Lord Almighty, the God of the armies of Israel, whom you have defied. 46 This day the Lord will deliver you into my hands, and I’ll strike you down and cut off your head. This very day I will give the carcasses of the Philistine army to the birds and the wild animals, and the whole world will know that there is a God in Israel. 47 All those gathered here will know that it is not by sword or spear that the Lord saves; for the battle is the Lord’s, and he will give all of you into our hands.”

48 As the Philistine moved closer to attack him, David ran quickly toward the battle line to meet him. 49 Reaching into his bag and taking out a stone, he slung it and struck the Philistine on the forehead. The stone sank into his forehead, and he fell facedown on the ground.

50 So David triumphed over the Philistine with a sling and a stone; without a sword in his hand he struck down the Philistine and killed him.

51 David ran and stood over him. He took hold of the Philistine’s sword and drew it from the sheath. After he killed him, he cut off his head with the sword.

When the Philistines saw that their hero was dead, they turned and ran. 52 Then the men of Israel and Judah surged forward with a shout and pursued the Philistines to the entrance of Gath[f] and to the gates of Ekron. Their dead were strewn along the Shaaraim road to Gath and Ekron. 53 When the Israelites returned from chasing the Philistines, they plundered their camp.

54 David took the Philistine’s head and brought it to Jerusalem; he put the Philistine’s weapons in his own tent.

55 As Saul watched David going out to meet the Philistine, he said to Abner, commander of the army, “Abner, whose son is that young man?”

Abner replied, “As surely as you live, Your Majesty, I don’t know.”

56 The king said, “Find out whose son this young man is.”

57 As soon as David returned from killing the Philistine, Abner took him and brought him before Saul, with David still holding the Philistine’s head.

58 “Whose son are you, young man?” Saul asked him.

David said, “I am the son of your servant Jesse of Bethlehem.”

 

[pointless]

Not one mention of the beheading.

Pussy Jews. They fought armies, not civilians.

you're kidding, right? the taking of the promised land involved several acts of genocide. in fact, that's pretty much what it was all about. the only people who were allowed to live were girls younger than 12. only fought armies my ass.

 

[ms_ann_thrope]

Without video evidence you needed a method to prove death.