Originally posted by Faaraxov: Hey gimme a break ok,its boring in here,ight.He is rather a good opponent and despite his constant flapdoodle & folly self,i actually Like him Xoogsade was right. Xaax. LOL.

Originally posted by ThePoint: ^Do you guys notice - the 2 women in the right hand corner, 2nd row discussing animatedly are the only ones who don't look comatose in the whole pic - dismiss the men and hand it over to them I say Do we know how many women are in the parliament? Or did these two sneak in? I don't see much security in this place. LePoint, by good I meant well intentioned. Except for one, I've no idea what their backgrounds are but I doubt many have graduated from the Kennedy School of Policy at Harvard.

I see at least one dude (in white) sitting in the front row openly praying and wishing he was sitting somewhere else. These people are good. Their leadership (the three stooges) is bad. The combination is ineffective.

^ Can you two kiss and make up already and get on with the discussion. I too would like to see where this is going. Right now, it has barely left the gate.

^ Did I not warn you on the methodology in use here? Now you know I wasn't kidding. Originally posted by Pi: Castro: Put your pom-poms away for a minute. Why? So you could use them? Originally posted by Pi: ThePoint: Dude, hats off, well said! Get your own bloody pompoms.

^ LOL. That's on topic. But seriously, sudden is, by definition, without warning. Check it out. So having warnings and being sudden are a contradiction in terms. But this may not necessarily be applicable to the day of judgement. Just knowing that it is coming is an implicit warning. People are often said to have died "suddenly" (in Arabic, "mowt-al-qhafla") when it has been known from the begining of time that life can only lead to death. So it's the sudden in that context, perhaps, that the Quran tells us about the day of judgement. You know it's coming but when it does, it is sudden.

Cara, so you didn't have the point SB wasn't talking about. That's great coz frankly, if you did, I have completely missed it and was too embarassed to admit . Originally posted by naden: Part of my wish in the afterlife after all the hoopla settles is to have a hut in a beach somewhere, sipping tequila, and having people line-up outside to apologize to me. Classic.

Originally posted by Socod_badne: Poor avuncular (wannabe actually ) Castro completely missed impish Cara's veiled insinuation. It's not so much missing it as not wanting to go there. And who said the Assyrians didn't receive a prophet of their own? P.S. Shouldn't this discussion be in the Islam section?

^ Nah dude, that shit was soft. Lost ideals kulaha. LOL. Dear diary, I wonder how old Alexus is? If she sang "I'm in love with a man nearly twice my age" to me, would she be right?

Those Assyrians, I tell ya. They sure were wise. Cara, it's not that we never were wise but just that religions try to guide us to our creator. So wisdom we've had all along but just not enough to find our way to the creator on our own. naden sure does look at things from a different angle than I do. I find her queries to be most fascinating. I can't say I can come up with the same stuff.

Originally posted by Tahliil: i don't get it...the inventors of this medium, the holywood spinners, the law-makers on the hill and the doctors all together are ganging up on TeleVision...recomanding restrictions and parental guidance. It's true that all of this is happening and TV is really not good for you in North America. Television here is an absolute disaster of commercials selling cars, beer, junk food and sex. And so are the shows and the "news" programs. Everything and everyone is selling something and almost always they're using a naked person to do it. Even kids shows have 30-40% commercials and much of it has nudity and/or other questionable material. To let your kids watch that unsupervised for extended periods of time is basically throwing them to the wolves. Ngonge may be speaking of British TV. Since I cut cable in January, we've had nothing but PBS and a few other "free" channels (mostly church related). My kids went into severe withdrawal symptoms but they've recovered from that now. I'll tell you what though, TV is the lazy parents way out. I miss it sometimes since I have to make sure the kids don't fall over from boredom. So reading, talking, playing and all that stuff along with many DVD's of Sponge Bob, Dora and Blue's Clues for when you feel like letting someone else do the parenting. Burn out is always in the shadows. So no to American TV for all it raises are stubidh and fat children.

Originally posted by Animal Farm: You call my entry soft! The point of the diary entery in its tradition is to express ones concerns. I'm afraid Tuujiye is right on this one. That was soft. LOL.

^ I hear ya. Questioning is great but only if one is willing to dedicate to it as much time as it deserves. So what did you find out about the Daus tribe? P.S. Most people, when it comes to religion, practice the "don't tell me, I'd rather not know" methodology.

Yep, right next to a mosque.

Believe it, it's true. That is an image of Muqdishu in the 1930's but it was built by the Italians, however, and there's not much credit we can take for that. What we can take credit for is this: Do no harm?

The sadness in that child's face is almost as great as the beauty in the background. People in the west pay thousands to spend hours or days in a place looking like that. We spend similar amounts trying to get away from it.

^ You mean the TFG? Yeah, the loud sucking noise in Baidhoa? LOL. I dunno about TV but asking kids questions works great. Things like "did you eat your lunch today and with whom?" or "when's your science test and why did you only score 88% on the math test?". That and loads of cartoons.

حتى تضطرب أليات ? I can't say I've ever come across that term in Arabic. naden, just why do you wonder about these things? Is this not an authentic hadeeth? Do you consider any of them to be authentic? If not, what does it matter if they shake a butt or shake a leg? I'm curious, walaal, that you're curious so don't get me wrong. As much as I find this hadeeth strange and out of place, I'm sure there's a legitimate historical (and meaningful) context in which it was narrated.

^ Because it will be time for a wrap. naden, have you seen the Arabic text of that Buhkari hadeeth (88/232)? I'm curious what "buttocks" was translated from. A most peculiar hadeeth indeed but I suspect your "metaphor for a return to idol worship" guess is what it is.

^ It's politicians (sometimes military men or kings) that run every government in the world. What is your point? Or your point of reference? Originally posted by xiinfaniin: In the absence of a plausible explanation for west’s behavior towards us, conspiracy theories fill the void for me. Location is probably motive. Oil could be another. Islam is certainly one. The collapse of the clan-based society in large heterogenous metro areas (like Muqdisho) does not help either. If I live a period equal to what I already have, the dust should have settled towards my final years for some rebuilding of sorts to begin. I hope.

^ Absolutely riveting. Nothing in there is new but put altogether in one film and it hits you like a brick. Thanks guys.

Originally posted by Rayaana: It is scary business...too many downs, little ups even with the ideal partner AND TOO many Responsibilities! I dont want to go there just yet Have no fear atheer, evolution has something called the xaax-factor to trick you into marriage and all the "TOO many Responsibilities!" that come with it. You may not want to go "there" now but you will. It's just the way the cookie crumbles.

^ Where did you watch it? I've been wanting to but couldn't find it anywhere.

Originally posted by Faaraxov: So,how exactly did the gay man in Sanfransisco gay district contract this thing then?...Some gay cadaan man got humped by a chimp? :confused: Either the dude in SF humped the guy who ate a chimp or he ate the guy who humped a chimp.

I changed my mind about Qanyare. It's Suudi that is the axmaq of the year for the "I want a car with a chauffeur" comment. Hunting season, eh? LOL. Atheer, the competition is stiff and the Faaraxs are young and savvy. Did you read the rubbish the Council on Foreign Relations is spewing about Somalia. It's organizations like these that help keep Somalia (in not so small ways) in a perpetual state of anarchy. Influence the policy of US government, flood the country with weapons and the dumb Faarax warlord are of the have gun will kill and rob variety.