Readers’ Responses to Our Question (46)

Oh there "Reality Challenged" and Obfuscating Jihadist,

As promised we will continue to hammer the truth so continue to thump words like
"And Muhammed is its messenger" as you want, the words are simply one more Islamic myth and flaw. And keep in mind, you are only five easy steps from the world of Reality!!!!!

And the most used quote to finish the e-mails of us infidels is??????

You guessed it:

"No one is safe until the koran is deflawed !!!!"

Concerned The Christian Now Liberated:)

Yawwwwwnnnnnnnnnnn.......................
Such outdated references. Sad.

Have a good weekend pussycat.
I always do.

By the way......

There is no God but God
And Muhammad is Its Messenger

Yeah, I am an unrepentent Muslim. So sue me, plague me, vilify me, taunt me, tease me...:)

Oh there "Reality Challenged" and Obfuscating Jihadist,

And your "obfusing" drags on and on in more attempts to distract us from one of the most dangerous and "stenchifying" issues of the modern world, i.e. Dark Age and Severely Flawed Islam!!!!

In your e-mail campaign to "febreze" Islam, I highly recommend adding the Five Step Method for Deprogramming 1400 years of Islamic Brainwashing. Once again for your perusal and use:

Using "The 77 Branches of Islamic "faith", a collection compiled by Imam Bayhaqi as a starting point. In it, he explains the essential virtues that reflect true "faith" (iman) through related Qur’anic verses and Prophetic sayings." i.e. a nice summary of the Koran and Islamic beliefs.

"1. Belief in Allah"

"aka as God, Yahweh, Zeus, Jehovah, Mother Nature, etc." should be added to your cleansing neurons.

"2. To believe that everything other than Allah was non-existent. Thereafter, Allah Most High created these things and subsequently they came into existence."

Evolution and the Big Bang or the "Gib Gnab" (when the universe starts to recycle) are more plausible and the "akas" for Allah should be included if you continue to be a "creationist".

"3. To believe in the existence of angels."
A major item for neuron cleansing. Angels/devils are the mythical creations of ancient civilizations, e.g. Hittites, to explain/define natural events, contacts with their gods, big birds, sudden winds, protectors during the dark nights, etc. No "pretty/ugly wingy thingies" ever visited or talked to Mohammed, Jesus, Mary or Joseph or Joe Smith. Today we would classify angels as fairies and "tinker bells". Modern devils are classified as the demons of the demented.

"4. To believe that all the heavenly books that were sent to the different prophets are true. However, apart from the Quran, all other books are not valid anymore."

Another major item to delete. There are no books written in the spirit state of Heaven (if there is one) just as there are no angels/"pwtfft"s to write/publish/distribute them. The Koran, OT, NT etc. are simply books written by humans for humans.

Prophets were invented by ancient scribes typically to keep the uneducated masses in line. Today we call them fortune tellers.
Prophecies are also invalidated by the natural/God/Allah gifts of Free Will and Future.

"5. To believe that all the prophets are true. However, we are commanded to follow the Prophet Muhammad (peace and blessings be upon him) alone."

Mohammed spent thirty days fasting in a hot cave before his first contact with Allah aka God etc. via a "pretty wingy thingy". Common sense demands a neuron deletion of #5. #5 is also the major source of Islamic violence i.e. turning Mohammed's "fast, hunger-driven" hallucinations into horrible reality for unbelievers.

Concerned the Christian Now Liberated,

I gave you an opportunity for the last word and that is it? Can't get out of the box, the set lines, the comfort zone of pre-prepared aumoton, automated posts and lines of thinking?

You : Let's stay on track here-------

Moi : Won't answer to everything else I've asked and posted but only on what you said and wanted and force-tracking as a discussion you want to see and hear?

You : What I and most of the other hominids to include yourself suffer(ed) from is the Three B Syndrome i.e being Bred, Born and Brainwashed in religions that are based on hallucinations, myths, embellishments and lies.

Moi : Hominids? That is a correct description in science but rather cold to describe humans, no?

Most other hominids? Meaning scientists, especially biologists and evolutionary biologists?

Ever done a scientific research to determine all believers are brainwashed, and not to believe by personal choice and inclination?

Well then, put believers on the couch, and non-believers too. I would love to know the outcome of research on non-believers too in their phobias and disgust on religion and belief in God/gods.

You : And what is almost hilarious about this is how we have bought into this fictional "pretty wingie thingie" for so long.

Moi : I don't find the "pretty wingie thingie" hilarious. It opened up my mind to the possibility of other creatures, other beings that are not hominids/humans in the universe that is not necessarily carbon-based bipedal specie.

You : The flaws to include the stupidity of the "angel" connections in all three Abrahamic religions are now known.

Moi : Stupidity on "angels" is a prematurely articulation as is to conclude now that there is no ultimate creator at this stage of human knowledge of the universe.

We are after all, living on a wee third rock from a small sun in an insignificant solar system in an undistiguished galaxy in one of the countless galaxies in the universe. And we are still discovering new plant and animal species here on earth.

Man is not the centre of the universe. Nor do any man, any country or any beliefs is the centre of the world. Pluralism and diversity is here on earth and in the universe.

You : We await your answers as to how you are going to clean up Islam. The clean-up of Judaism and Christianity is well on its way" thanks in part to three of the On Faith panelists i.e . Professors JD Crossan, Marcus Borg and Paula Fredriksen.

Moi : Who is "we"? The Crossanized Concerned the Christian Now Liberated Collective that operates 24/7 in On Faith by time zone assignment? Or just one fellow obsessively working 24/7 to implement one thought, one belief, one system int the world?

And still into promoting Crossanism, Borgianism and Fredriksenianism on Jesus eh? Technically, what they are saying about Jesus is something Jews and Muslims would have not problems with, but is really heretical and blasphemous by Christian beliefs.

Like most Muslims, I have no interest in questioning the beliefs of Christians and other faiths' adherents, but nice try by you to promote heretical and blashphemous notions on Jesus in On Faith and then "softened" it up for acceptance and credibility among Christians in conflating all beliefs for reforms.

Your knowledge on Islam and Muslims seem to be largely limited to Karen Armstrong's books and what you selectively read and from the prisms of Judaism and Christianity in the west. Try reading the Muslim blog sites in English first.

You : You have my permission to forward this message via e-mail to all your Islamic friends who I am sure will help you in the deflawing and "febrezing" of the Muslim religion.

Moi : Thank you for your gracious offer. But I have be encouraging and reforwarding essays by On Faith's Muslim panelists, including Eboo Patel and Pamela Taylor among my fellow Muslim brothers and sisters in the wider world, and will continue to do so.

I have no interest in Crossanized Christanity as it seems like watered down Islam on Jesus and other matters related to belief.

You : And I do believe that the "Nuke Mecca" idea was first proposed by a US Congressperson.

Moi : Ahhhh...not a denial, and can't, but a deflecting, a redirecting of who said it first somewhere else and not you here? Perhaps a Congressperson said it too, but do you really have to go along with that?

Bigotry and biases comes in all forms, all shades, all manifestations, no? Even Crossanized Christians and atheists can be bigots and say unseemly things. Any believer who read On Faith can see that.

Let us then look at religions/beliefs and non-belief as one would at political systems or political ideologies and many atheists are wont to in regarding beleifs and appending "isms" to it as they would to Nazism, Communism and Fascism.

Let us say atheism as an opposition party of belief, comes into power in questioning and eliminating beliefs/organised/institutionalised religions.

Of course they would find out that they can do no better than the party or system they opposed and replaced to address human needs and wants.

Of course they will even those among them resorting to aspects of beliefs' aspirations which is conveniently categorised as spiritualism atheism or spiritual secularism and sought to be validated and justified by some atheists as higher, purer and better than spiritualism related to faiths.

Is Crossanized Christianity and atheism better for the world and make the world better?

From what is said and written by Crossanized Christians and some atheists in On Faith, many believers would say a resounding, "NO!"

Oh there "Reality Challenged" and Obfuscating Jihadist,

Let's stay on track here-------

As noted previously:

"What I and most of the other hominids to include yourself suffer(ed) from is the Three B Syndrome i.e being Bred, Born and Brainwashed in religions that are based on hallucinations, myths, embellishments and lies. And what is almost hilarious about this is how we have bought into this fictional "pretty wingie thingie" for so long.

The flaws to include the stupidity of the "angel" connections in all three Abrahamic religions are now known. We await your answers as to how you are going to clean up Islam. The clean-up of Judaism and Christianity is well on its way" thanks in part to three of the On Faith panelists i.e . Professors JD Crossan, Marcus Borg and Paula Fredriksen.

You have my permission to forward this message via e-mail to all your Islamic friends who I am sure will help you in the deflawing and "febrezing" of the Muslim religion.

And I do believe that the "Nuke Mecca" idea was first proposed by a US Congressperson.

Yo! Pussycat!

Ummmmm.....How goes the Crossanization of America? In your own home ground, in On Faith?

How goes the letter I proposed you organised to be signed by Jesus Seminarians to the Pope when he visited the US on 15 April 2008 for a dialogue on their conclusions by voting for the Pope's/Vatican's consideration?

Surely if Muslim scholars/ulema can do it for an inter-faith dialogue, why not the Jesus Seminarians for an intra-faith dialogue?

The Pope reminded us to have reason in faith. I agree with him on this.

And so, as per your response to my post.....

Concerned the Christian Now Liberated : "Nice try!!! Been to bigoted, biased blogs many times and the Three B Syndrome is just too strong there."

Moi : Ahhh....bigoted and biased blogs? Which ones? Aren't they all? If not by writers, columnists, panelists in blog sites, then by posters/bloggers themselves if you don't agree with them, or they don't agree with you?

Even if you go to a Jane Austen blogsite, the readers/posters/bloggers would show bias on even which Jane Austen book and character is the best, and bigoted against others. Even in On Faith threads, posters can't agree who is the best Star Trek captain.

Going to a "bigoted" or "biased" blog is only an e-mail away.

Surely you are not saying you are not, as a born, bred American is not brainwashed on the Bill of Rights and the US Constitution since high school? And reflected it in On Faith threads?

Concerned the Christian Now Liberated: "The few who are there will come around when the mosques, churches, temples and synagogues are closed for renovating to something useful."

Moi : I see that you are hoping for or proposing houses of worship to be closed? Or are you assuming they will be closed due to leesening of belief and lapse in religious faith? I can't say for synagogues in countries outside North America and Europe, but from Latin America to Africa to Asia, there are many spanking new places of worship being build.

Only in Europe do one see churches that are hundreds of years old being temporarily closed for renovations. And they do allow tours by tourists, have touristy shops around it, even restaurants, to help with the churches' maintenance coffers. Due to this, I have the pleasure of visiting many beautiful and historical churches in Europe.

In every significant synagogue, every temple, every church, every mosque one visit where the public and non-adherent of that particular faith of that particular synagogue, temple, church, mosque are allowed to, one is awed and moved by the spiritual peace and physical beauty of the place.

Houses of God, houses of worships, houses of meditations, are the most sublime expression of man's personal and commmunal quest in faith and spirituality.

Which brings me back to blogs. My interest, unlike yours, is to learn on how other people see their faith and beliefs and what it means for them in their life. On Faith is the perfect one stop place with adherents of various faiths, except Buddhism it would seem, as panelists.

For your mission to "deflaw" people of their beliefs and for maximum reach and impact, On Faith is not challenging enough for you with many atheists, apatheists, agnostics, freethinkers, secular humanists, spiritual humanists around. You can always bunker in their protective bosoms after an unseemly remarks on believers.

So, do dare go to what you characterised as bigoted and biased blogs and unbigoted and unbiased them all in showing up all the flaws in their thinking. It is only an e-mail away to go to any blog sites from Argentina to Zimbabwe.

And you don't even need to dish out money for stamps and to use the US Postal service. Only to remember to pay the bills for your Internet service.

Reach out and touch some born, bred, brainwashed bigoted and biased ones here, there and everywhere to "deflaw" people of their beliefs and in the blog sites where they most go to and congregated. So many interesting choices I assure you, from inerrantists to literalists to fundamentalists to extremist Jewish, Christian, Muslim, Hindu, and hard to believe but, yes, even Buddhist ones. Seeking them is only a Google or Yahoo search button away. Not knowing foreign languages to get into some of these blog sites is a matter for you to overcome.

But of course you won't and never would.

I don't want anymore "nuke Mecca" in your posts. That is for JJ and a poster named Frank Collins whom I don't see anymore but could be using a new handle. It reeks of desperation for attention or being unhinged or being provocative or being inciteful or engaging in "fighting words" in discussions. You have my attention in this.

If you are a Muslim, you may be immediately traced, apprehended and detained by security personnel as a possible terrorist or terrorism supporter or terrorism inciter.

Anyway, pussycat, I'll let you have the last word in our exchanges here as it is more important to you than me. I'm still young. Age before reason, no?

Take it easy pussycat.

Daniel when one produces a piece of puerile idiocy such as Johnny did one should expect to be thought an idiot.

Yes, email and internet communicaiton, for example this blog, is neutral. And anonymously calling a stranger an "idiot" is a perfect example of abuse. I think this tendency is what the question may have been referring to.

Yes, email and internet communicaiton, for example this blog, is neutral. And anonymously calling a stranger an "idiot" is a perfect example of abuse. I think this tendency is what the question may have been referring to.

Oh johnny another idiot who apparently thinks we should all be part of a target rich environment.

Until somebody picks it up and starts randomly shooting at people a gun is morally neutral. And if there are three or four other people present with weapons of their own then the killer likely gets off only a handful of shots before he meets the fate he richly.

Tools are tools they are always morally neutral until a human being chooses to use or abuse them.

Garyd :
"or for that matter a gun"
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I'd like to see the whole McDonald's or the whole schoolyard wiped out by e-mail. What fun.

Neither. It is a tool, plain and simple. It is no different than a hammer or a saw or a screw driver or for that matter a gun. Properly used all of them can be a blessing, improperly used they can be a curse. To blame the tool for the use some choose to put it to is patently absurd.

Oh, E-Mail is a "blessing." Most emphatically. It allows magical thinkers to get on their COMPUTERS and rail against science.

It's the 21st Century, and irony has lost its meaning.

Oh there "Reality Challenged" and Obfuscating Jihadist,

Nice try!!! Been to bigoted, biased blogs many times and the Three B Syndrome is just too strong there. The few who are there will come around when the mosques, churches, temples and synagogues are closed for renovating to something useful.

Concerned the Christian Now Liberated : "And why would I want to comment on a flawed blog run by members of a flawed religion???"

Why not? After all, you have been telling us you are on a "deflawing" crusade of all religions in almost all of your posts?

It is not to comment "on", but to comment "in" IslamOnline.

Is that a cop-out of full scale, full blown, full tilt, full time "deflawing" in a "flawed" blog run by "members of a flawed religion" where English speaking Muslims from around the world do go to?

Or you need the comfort and confidence of being in familiar terrain, on home ground with home town, home county, home state, home country crowd to be able to say, "nuke Mecca" among others and not raise any eyebrows at all among them?

So, how goes the Crossanization of America?
Or even in On Faith threads?
Or is it preferably to be called Crossanism?

'Living your beleives'. Yes. But Christian believes include something new. It is not about fear and imposition. No man can bless or makes any curse. No man has the knowledge enough to bless or make curses. If you think so then be the first to launch the stone.

Blessing? Curse? What would have thought Jesus? Nothing at all. Any blessing or any curse belongs to the man and it is for the man. Intelligent men would look for blessings instaed of any curse.

In what way does this have the slightest to do with religion of any type? With all the possible subjects and topics that do fall under religion you couldn't pick one of them as the next question? Any number of things would have been better than this petty load of fertilizer.

Could you please disclose to International media the corruption of politicians and high officials? Since 1947 masses are crying to stop corruption business in Pakistan but media is not expressing the desire of masses.
According to masses they do not need Mega projects on foreign loans, thief officials are stealing funds of poor masses and they get rich, and on top of that these all funds are going back to western banks in the account of corrupt officials or in the account of their families.

Now media has to take an aggressive step/action against corruption, this is the sake of kids of masses. Owners of media business do not like to speak against corruption of politicians of high officials.

But the future of next generations depend on existing struggle, if today we are reluctant to express our thoughts against bribe believe me future of OUR KIDS IS DARK, President of Pakistan can not fight alone against all terror groups, there are thief of different types, are trying to destroy the future of our next generation. If Media will keep silent today, in future all thieves will be stronger. IT IS A MATTER OF NEXT GENERATION’S FUTURE; TODAY THEY ARE DANGER TO THIS PART TOMARROW THEY MAY CAUSE DANGER TO OTHER PARTS AS WELL. MASSES ARE INNOCENT. Politicians of poor countries playing dirty games and defaming the masses and saving the money for their families. In this era we need aggressive media to fight for poor masses, othewise poor masses may become a real real real danger to the whole world, Are you agree?

Khalid

Oh there "Reality Challenged" and Obfuscating Jihadist,

Wrong, wrong, wrong and wrong again and again,

The flaws of Islam will continue to plague Islam until Islam is no more!!!

And why would I want to comment on a flawed blog run by members of a flawed religion???

Yo ! Concerned The Christian Now Liberated!

Getting out of breath yet saying "wrong, wrong, wrong" so many times? Huff and puff away.

So, Crossanization of Americans is not going too well, eh? Freedom of thought and freedom of beliefs still reigns in the US of A.

Start a Crossanized Celebrity Centre in Hollywood with absolutely fabulous buffet brunches and get George Clooney, Brat Pitt, Josh Hartnett, Cate Blanchett, Katherine Weigl etc as members of Crossanatology and maybe, I will be interested to attend and have a good time with good food and beautiful company.

And pussycat, my fellow Muslim brothers and sisters are way beyond your reach here, and in the wider world. Everyone from Victoria to Moody to Ahmed from Bahrain to Malleck from Canada is completely won over by you?

Want to try to "sell" Crossanization in IslamOnline as a start?

Or, afraid to step into any Muslim blog where you would be a minority?

Or, under-estimating the power of blogs and e-mails and SMS in the Muslim world and how Muslims of all stripes use them to communicate, to disseminate, to agitate, to placate, to discourse, to agree, to disagree, to compromise, to accomodate, to tolerate and what have you?

Goodnight (your time) and good luck.

I think the question better been presented internet a curse or a blessing? It is difficult to say yes or no as there is no a black and white answer for so many things.It is true that because of internet most informations are easily acceceble.You can do things in a far better way and in a short period of time.But also it has it's own impact.It literally kills the physical connection among people.It is especially frightining when we think kids;when we think that how they can easily getting addicted to it.So many kids do prefer to seat on their computer than staying with their parents.This is just a curse.Some times I feel that it is dehumanizing every one that uses it too much.As to me,I fear it and I couldn't stop using it.But I don't use it too much thanks to my ignorance for many things that are found on the internet.

Oh there "Reality Challenged" and Obfuscating Jihadist,

Wrong, wrong and wrong again,

The flaws of Islam will continue to plague Islam until Islam is no more!!!

Apparently you forgot them again. For you and all your Islamic brothers and sisters' perusal, the first four flaws of Islam which are themselves sufficient to erradicate said "religion":

1. Believe in "pretty/ugly wingie" thingies and teach your children that such things really exist (strange though that you laugh at those who believe in Santa Clause and tinkerbells).

2. Believe that the long-dead Arab did actually talk to the "pretty Gabriel" in the "Gabe" cave and therein received the good words now listed in the koran.

3. That Sunnis are superior to Shiites in all aspects of life. (and vice-versa)

4. That Islam is perfect and the koran inherently condones no sin even though the 24/7 800 year-old feud between Sunnis and Shiites give significant credence that suicides, assassinations, maiming, hatred, and murder are condoned by the koran. Having multiple wives also gives significant credence to the sins of rape, lust and polygamy. The condoned treatment of these wives gives credence that the koran allows the sins of anger and greed.

Yo! Pussycat!

Concerned the Christian Now Liberatd: "Wrong, wrong, wrong, the 11th plague is and was Islam!!!!!!!!"

Nahhh...

Obama is plaguing some Americans.

Clinton is plaguing some Americans.

McCain is plaguing some Americans.

The messages and antics of all three and their supporters are spamming the media and blogs.

For or against all three candidates are becoming electronic worms and viruses of emotional opinions.

The state of the US economy is plaguing all Americans. It is virus of affecting current well-being of Americans, and a worm of the future well-being of Americans.

Global economic uncertainty is plaguing all the world - a worm and virus of possible global political and social instability.

And I had thought that self-identified, self-designated, self-characterised Crossanized Christians or Catholics of Reality or Christians of Reality are plaguing believers with interesting, charmingly persuasive methods towards Crossanization of belief in On Faith threads.

How goes the Crossanization of Americans?

Take it easy pussycat.:)

Oh there "Reality Challenged" and Obfuscating Jihadist,

Wrong, wrong, wrong, the 11th plague is and was Islam!!!!!!!!

Mr. Mark,

The site you gave was also where I read regarding that silly slander that Gore "claimed" he invented the Internet, and not the US Defence Department which started it up originally.

Now I will have to remember RWNM stands for "Right-wing Noise Machine."

Are you sure it is not "Right Wing Nuts Machine"?

Got to go.

Thanks and best regards

"J"

Jihadist writes:

"It is not true that Al Gore invented the Internet much less the e-mail."

Al Gore never made such a claim. That canard was floated by th RWNM (Right-wing Noise Machine).

Gore's actual statement may be viewed here:

http://www.snopes.com/quotes/internet.asp

Yo! Concerned the Christian Now Liberated!

The Internet/e-mail is a disaster for the US Postal Service? Is that because or why the postal service workers go, er, postal?

You : But since e-mail is a subtechnology of the Internet, the question should have been "Internet, blessing or curse?"

Moi : And a very dangerous one too. With e-mails, we can copy our e-mails to hundreds or thousands of people if we one to. A blessing to us, a curse to those the subject of our e-mails and for the recipients too.

You : And with that, the discussion of the value of rapid dissemination of information would ensue.

Moi : Is is obvious - garbage in, garbage out. There is a lot more infotrash and electronic Internet/email thrashings going around and to more people since the Internet/e-mail. Junk mail masquerading as "facts" and "truths", and usually selective and self-serving ones.

You : A good example of this is the 24/7 review of the flaws of religions and how that is impacting peoples views on said religions.

Moi : Well, not quite. I for one, also look at Bloomberg, BBC, CNN, Al Jazeera, Russia Now, Monde TV and sites etc a lot. Political and economic matters and issues do affect man socially and on their faith.

You : The recent Pew poll shows that people are finally questioning religious doctrines.

Moi : Well, if the Pew polls do ask their questions as an open-ended one:

- what is most important in your life?

People would usually answer economic uncertainty and inflation, or disaffections or disatisfaction with their goverments to provide political and economic security. And people have been questioning religious doctrines since religious doctrines were institutionalised. Or we won't have schisms, heresies, sects, demominations as we have now and continue to have.

Don't forget that people also question the religious doctrines of others than their own too.

Science and technology is no panacea for love, peace, understanding, tolerance, accomodation, acceptance, the opening of the human minds etc. In fact, science and technology, as an instrument such as Internet/e-mail can even broaden and deepen hatred and bigotry. Al Qaeda use the Internet well. So does the Ku Klax Klan.

Everything has a dark side, a dangerous underbelley.

God is in the details.
The Devil is in the details.

Be good pussycat.

...and e-mails are a blessing for those:

* who are shy and not quite articulate in person

* who are afraid to tell bad news in person,

* who are happy to tell good tidings in person but can't reach the other by cellphone/handphone/mobile phone/landline phone,

* who find it much cheaper than any sort of phones.

And e-mails are a curse for those:

* who like interface/intervoice inter-active form of communication,

* who knows how to have seperate e-mail address for family and friends and for work,

* who knows how to go around repressive or autoritarian or media controlling and censoring governments to pass around what is really going on and give them hell during elections.

.....and cellphones/handphones/mobile phones and wireless PCs/laptops, Internet make it possible for anyone, anywhere to reach out for any info, for anyone anywhere.

As for content, well, as we know, that is another matter.

Obviously, while the forms of ICT has advanced tremendously, we have not in mind and in content and style of our writing.

And we use shortforms such as IMHO, lol and such. E-mails worsen grammar and spellings. At least for me for I never go over what I have written very quickly in e-mails and treating it not an essay writing, but a conversation mostly.

But, I need all ICT devises for e-mails and more.

Thanks and regards

"J"

Mr. Mark : "WOW. 12 responses already and not a word from Spiderman2 on how the Bible prophesied that e-mail would someday exist, and that its arrival would signal the dawn of the end times."

Moi : It is not true that Al Gore invented the Internet much less the e-mail. God did as a plague of and for our times.

- Internet is the 11th plague

- Microsoft is the 12th plague

- Google is the 13th plague

- E-mail is the 14th plague

- Youtube is the 15th plague

- Facebook is the 16th plague

- Napster is the 17th plague

- The spam is the 18th plague

- The virus is the 19th plague

- The worm is the 20th plague

The end is near for all in being demented, obsessed by the computer. Its forms. Its contents. Its replacement for friends and families in real life.

God has sent us the electronic plagues.
God has send us its technological wrath.
God has sent us to e-mail black holes.
God has sent us to the fire and brimstones of blogs.
God has sent us to cyberspace limbo.
God has sent us to Internet purgatory.
God has sent us to electronic hell.

God is Great!

E-Jihadist
(the Scourge of God, the Curse of e-mails, alias Cyberjihadist, a.k.a. Jihadist, J)

Ok...I sent all kinds of questions that could have been asked. None earth shaking but really???Email???
One of my questions (religious freedom in American prisons) was given to Starhawk to write about, and she did beautifully..they left it up less then one day...But Email, blessing or Curse..that is really important?And it will be up two weeks?
Gods...

terra

Would/could Jesus have used Email? Would his Emails get through SPAM filters? Would Jesus have a MySpace or FaceBook page?

Finally, a question of substance on this blog!

E-mail impacts all of our lives every day of the week. E-mail is a reality that we all deal with. E-mail is the result of the wonders of science.

This question is actually quite important...and it's refreshing to see it asked at a blog that wastes 99% of its time discussing non-existent supernatural beings and the childish superstitions that we call religion.

Now, how about hosting that science debate between the presidential candidates? You could do it by...e-mail!

If you are an Horse and Buggy, or Automobile Old Order Mennonite then e-mail is most likely a curse.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_Order_Mennonites

Although, there may be a "Plain Text" Old Order Mennonite group that grudingly accepts e-mail.

This topic question is just about as bad as "Can you can steal someone's soul by taking their photograph?"

WOW. 12 responses already and not a word from Spiderman2 on how the Bible prophesied that e-mail would someday exist, and that its arrival would signal the dawn of the end times.

:)

I admit I'm more comfortable with written communication than with oral communication. In person or on the phone, I tend to talk at people rather than to them, like I'm giving a report. I'm even more uncomfortable with phone communication because I cannot see how the person is reacting to my words. With e-mail I can compose my words in advance, instead of having to rehearse in my head what I'm going to say.

*great minds talk about ideas*

Which *great ideas* thought,spoken and formed by the bedouin cult since 1400 years ??

Let me tell you a great idea.
Man can take four women and whenever he likes he can kick them out saying *I divorce you*

Let me love my mind.

Freedom is the blowing about your hairs.
Freedom is the laughing at the street.
Freedom means to be *equal*.
Freedom means to be Human.
Freedom is e-mail.

My friend David hates e-mail. He says that it replaces the bond that occurs with a personal telephone call or face to face visit.

At first I disagreed with him. But I always feel better seeing him in person and having the ability to give him a hug and hearing the sound of his voice.

Which cannot be done via e-mail.I would rather see him than send him an e-mail so now I agree with him.

What is the purpose of the topic? Is OnFaith proposing that e-mail has affected religion or spirituality? Or is the site proposing that either God or the Devil or some other entity was behind the creation of e-mail?

Great for the consumer!! A disaster for the US Postal Service.

But since e-mail is a subtechnology of the Internet, the question should have been "Internet, blessing or curse?"

And with that, the discussion of the value of rapid dissemination of information would ensue.

A good example of this is the 24/7 review of the flaws of religions and how that is impacting peoples views on said religions. The recent Pew poll shows that people are finally questioning religious doctrines.

How is this a religious or a spiritual question?
Email is a way of conveying information - nothing more. It is neither a blessing nor a curse.

a saying i like immediately popped to mind-

tiny minds talk about people
smallish minds talk about things
great minds talk about ideas-

sally and jon seem determined to prove their mediocrity with their focus on the mundane

Apparently, the moderators are scraping the bottom of the barrel again for questions...

Personally, I'm quite fond of e-mail, though if I really want to remember something, I have to write it down. I have a traditional paper planner and not a Blackberry for just this reason.

Good point Aquarius.

I tried to hand write a letter in cursive the other day just because it had been so long since I had written anything in that style. I found myself rather rusty, pausing several times because I couldn't remember how to draw certain capital letters.

I think email is a blessing but I do kinda miss the days of getting personal, handwritten letters in the mailbox.

On the other hand, being constructive is not necessarily a bad thing and going with the flow not necessarily a good thing.

The real question should be: using buttons to write - blessing or curse? Handwriting flows and weaves, "digital" writing pushes and builds.
So what's written ends up being either a river, or masonry.