pappadeux wrote:
It's island not Ireland Of which I and many others love.
You completely missed the key (clue). RT friend is talking about the Irish, that most combative of species, and, indirectly, about Europeans.
You need to keep up with RT by reading our comments to each other. You might start by reading the new comments I've posted on "The Big Bank Theory":
http://www.onepoliticalplaza.com/t-30030-5.html#2238948""I bet God knows!" The same can be said of Schrodinger's Baghdadi.
http://southfront.org/schrodingers-al-baghdadi/#comment-3647071922I commented:
Kira Binkley > Turbofan • 3 days ago
It really means Baghdadi is neither an electron nor a wave. We can know only when we open the box, and our consciousnesses collapse the wave function.
Right, Baghdadi?
KiraSeer
I CAN'T WAIT!!"
And this one:
A reply I made to RT friend, just now, on Southfront:
"Allah can certainly look after himself. As I told you last night, someone once spit in God's face. And I told him, "God can take care of himself; but it made ME angry!"
Ibn Rushdie said something to the effect that when God imagines something, it comes into creation. I qualify that: humans should never try to use a "time" sensible word, like when, when referring to God/Allah. Or alternatively, the "when" of God's imagining may take eons to develop, evolve, in time-space-material reality.
But He did say that evolution was the means by which He produced a robust people for a robust planet. You can never explain that to the evangelicals, since their minds have been shut."
But, Rodney, you must remember Steve700 can be a real son-of-a-bitch about Scripture. ("bitch" being the Arabic for "female dog".)
Edit:
Go here, pappadeux, about 3 minutes in: "This is a private fight (war). The belligerents will kindly remain in neutral; then shake hands and come out fightin'. I thank you." (Syria became a free-for-all, when the U.S. refused to leave, as I told them.)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Bm0RIs-VJU Fight scene from "The Quiet Man". I believe it is true, for the most part, for the combative Irish, but also for Europeans in general. They do not like to give in, they are constantly butting heads. It is because they are eminently confident in their ability to control externalities. And that has downsides as well as upsides. Perhaps the truly enduring contribution of Europeans to civilization will be their advances in government and jurisprudence, which has taken them roughly two millennia to work out.