Date: Sat, 14 Dec 2002 01:08:38 -0500 (EST) Subject: Re: Vagrant wanderings of.... --0-318957854-1039846118=:68854 deleuze oedipus rimbaud <rimbaudboyo-AT-yahoo.ca> wrote: I've been told here (in Beirut) that the CIA and Mossad, sometimes allies and sometimes rivals, are good at cajoling and even winning over captured fedayeen. This suggests that both the CIA and Mossad have some sensitive agents. The fighters refuse at fir to say anything, and are ready to die under torture. But when things are explained to them artistically, poetically, they eventually speak. They ought to be warned against Israel's poetry and charm. ---- Words are terrible, and Israel is a terrifying manipulator of signs. Sentence doesn't necessarily precede execution; if an execution has already been carried out, a sentence will gradually justify it. When it kills a Shite and a Palestinian, Israel claims to have cleansed the world of two terrorisms at once. --- 'We were the real Jews. The ones who stayed on after AD 70 and were converted to Islam later on. So the persecution we suffer from now is inflicted on us by our stateless cousins.' It was about noon, towards the middle of the month of Ramadan, when Muslims don't eat or drink or smoke or make love until after sunset. According to the Prophet it's with joy, not vexation or reluctance, that people should offer up a month of fasting from dawn to dusk, alleviated by nocturnal feasting. A layer of calm, almost as visible as a snowfall, covered the whole of Irbid and its Palestinian camp. Men, women and things all had a detachment suggesting great peace - or a determination so steely the slightest shock might shatter it. The material vagrancy of Islam and Islamic society, its nomadic wanderings through space and time in obediance to who knows what impulses, have been reflected in their calender, with its changing dates for the fasting, prayer and feasting of Ramadan. Unless of course these change symbolize some cosmic wandering we don't understand. Instead of the rigidity of Catholicism, Islam offers patterns that are always changing, on earth as in heaven. Since everyone on the list is so sad or melancholic, i am sendingthese quotes from my Papa's book. Greetings ! I am a Buddhist ! I came to share a Light!! --------------------------------- Post your free ad now! Yahoo! Canada Personals --0-318957854-1039846118=:68854
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deleuze oedipus rimbaud <rimbaudboyo-AT-yahoo.ca> wrote:
I've been told here (in Beirut) that the CIA and Mossad, sometimes allies and sometimes rivals, are good at cajoling and even winning over captured fedayeen. This suggests that both the CIA and Mossad have some sensitive agents. The fighters refuse at fir to say anything, and are ready to die under torture. But when things are explained to them artistically, poetically, they eventually speak. They ought to be warned against Israel's poetry and charm.
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Words are terrible, and Israel is a terrifying manipulator of signs. Sentence doesn't necessarily precede execution; if an execution has already been carried out, a sentence will gradually justify it. When it kills a Shite and a Palestinian, Israel claims to have cleansed the world of two terrorisms at once.
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'We were the real Jews. The ones who stayed on after AD 70 and were converted to Islam later on. So the persecution we suffer from now is inflicted on us by our stateless cousins.'
It was about noon, towards the middle of the month of Ramadan, when Muslims don't eat or drink or smoke or make love until after sunset. According to the Prophet it's with joy, not vexation or reluctance, that people should offer up a month of fasting from dawn to dusk, alleviated by nocturnal feasting. A layer of calm, almost as visible as a snowfall, covered the whole of Irbid and its Palestinian camp. Men, women and things all had a detachment suggesting great peace - or a determination so steely the slightest shock might shatter it.
The material vagrancy of Islam and Islamic society, its nomadic wanderings through space and time in obediance to who knows what impulses, have been reflected in their calender, with its changing dates for the fasting, prayer and feasting of Ramadan. Unless of course these change symbolize some cosmic wandering we don't understand. Instead of the rigidity of Catholicism, Islam offers patterns that are always changing, on earth as in heaven.
Since everyone on the list is so sad or melancholic, i am sendingthese
quotes from my Papa's book.
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