I thought he had spied on me in the past perchance. I used to "see" this girl from Turkey named Ozge, and we totally ate watermelon together once about 4 years ago. Phew... I'm saved.
Well most of us Americans are not use to the conditions of the food is prepared in Turkey. We tend to get dysentery there. Some friends and my family went there, rented a sailboat to cruise the Islands for a couple weeks. I had been there before on business and this time I was going to beat the curse, eat nothing but watermelon and fresh, well washed fruit unless we cooked it on the boat. About two days into the trip, we met a couple also cruising the Islands, old hands at cruising the Med. Anyway the subject came up and the guy said, For God Sake Don't Eat the Watermelon! Well hell, too late for me! Sure enough, next day had to start living on Imodium. Needed medical assistance after I got back to the states. A trip to Ephesus reveled the reason, the fields are watered from ditches of really disgusting water. Of course watermelon is just a veggie tank of water.
Got ya. I read your original vague thread and thought I was either ignorant of some fact or I missed some subtext. That sounds terrible. Food poisoning is the worst man.
When I was studying religions, this is one of the quotes that got my attention. My first thought was, yes if the religion of Islam were the only one then it best be deep sixed! But then I contrast this leaders take, with that of Jefferson, pretty much the architect of the American democracy. He was not fond of religion, but on the other hand he sure did not reject God, nor did he reject Jesus, but he did not accept Jesus as God. I forget the exact quote attributed to Jefferson about religion, but it pretty much denounce most as self serving often doing evil in the name of religion. But yet he would not denounce religion, instead seeing value in the teachings of Jesus, even though many men practice their Christian religion badly. "Though he often expressed his opposition to many practices of the clergy, and to many specific popular Christian doctrines of his day, Jefferson repeatedly expressed his admiration for Jesus as a moral teacher..." "it is Jefferson who coined the phrase "wall of separation between church and state" in his 1802 letter to the Danbury Baptists of Connecticut. During his 1800 campaign for the presidency, Jefferson even had to contend with critics who argued that he was unfit to hold office because of their discomfort with his "unorthodox" religious beliefs." Jefferson believed this country was founded on the principles of the Christian religion, the teachings of Jesus, but that the government had no role what so ever in establishing a religion, although he himself rewrote the bible, called the Jefferson Bible. He reordered and deleted that which he though improved on the delivery of the teachings Jesus. He was not a supporter of Islam in any way, although he said and I can not quote exactly, the government should be walled from religion so that even a Mohammadan can live here. The term Pantheist had not yet been coined in Jefferson's time, but I would say that is what he was. But yet he could use the concepts of creator and what is the creators work and what is mens work to set this nation on very well planned course. You need not even believe in a creator but you can grasp the idea of what any man or men should not be permitted to take from you, your rights. You may note the similarities between what I say Jefferson believes and what I have posted in here about my own believes. Yes true very much the same. Not all that odd either, Jefferson was and INTP personality as am I, my IQ is about the same as has been reported for Jefferson. I suppose like minded views on religions would be in order.
Yes, yes, you are a modern-day Thomas Jefferson. Or at least a last-century Thomas Jefferson, anyway. pantheism (n.) "belief that God and the universe are identical," from pantheist (n.), which was coined (1705) by Irish deist John Toland (1670-1722), from Greek pan- "all" (see pan-) + theos "god" (see theo-). Thomas Jefferson: Born April 13, 1743 barfo
Ok, I didn't say it correctly, The word was not widely used in the US until Emerson made it a philosophy near religion. Jefferson was President when Emerson was born. Ha! but I see you really don't give damn. Deep six them all, hey? Pirates are like that.
Did Erdogan STAGE the coup? http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...ated-plot-justify-clampdown-civil-rights.html
