The way to check and prevent such acts is kill those who do them. They are men of violence who understand and respect nothing but violence done to them or creditably threatened. As a civilization we can lament it and make learned comments about how this is contrary to some past Muslim tradition; but it is far beyond that now and if that is all we do we may as well all be the cast of Jersey Shore. It is kill or be killed. They have plainly stated that.
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I am sorry to be so harsh about this but when things reach this state the first things that must be done, not the only things but the first things, are violent things, killing people and smashing stuff. We had best get on with it, the sooner the better for they are coming after us just as soon as they can.
“The way to check and prevent such acts is kill those who do them.”
But are you not simply repeating the words of the Qur’an? I mean how else would God stop them, give them a ticket and make them pay a hefty fine?
Grurray:
August 31st, 2015 at 1:07 am
The Aramaic word for God is ‘Elah’, which is what Chaldeans/Assyrians call him, and it’s probably very close to what Jesus called him.
Thanks, Grurray!
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I got as far in Aramaic as the alphabet, specifically to the letter ‘ayin, which my copy of Franz Rosenthal’s Grammar of Biblical Aramaic informed me was a “voiced laryngal (similar to the sound of incipient vomiting)” — never forgot that phrase, hence my ability to find the book on Google half a century later, but never progressed further in my Aramaic studies either.
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Causation, or correlation?
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Grurray:
August 31st, 2015 at 5:04 pm
Charles,
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Some pronunciations in those Semitic languages definitely sound like they resulted from gastrointestinal distress, but on the other hand I’m not sure if the guttural sounds were caused by it or the cause of it.
In my limited awareness of linguistics, I have noticed that, at least with contemporary dialects, the higher the elevation people come from, the higher the tone that their words make. That may be what’s going on with the ‘whistling languages’ such as the bird language of Turkey: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P0aoguO_tvI
carl:
August 30th, 2015 at 1:33 am
The way to check and prevent such acts is kill those who do them. They are men of violence who understand and respect nothing but violence done to them or creditably threatened. As a civilization we can lament it and make learned comments about how this is contrary to some past Muslim tradition; but it is far beyond that now and if that is all we do we may as well all be the cast of Jersey Shore. It is kill or be killed. They have plainly stated that.
.
I am sorry to be so harsh about this but when things reach this state the first things that must be done, not the only things but the first things, are violent things, killing people and smashing stuff. We had best get on with it, the sooner the better for they are coming after us just as soon as they can.
larrydunbar:
August 30th, 2015 at 3:41 am
“The way to check and prevent such acts is kill those who do them.”
But are you not simply repeating the words of the Qur’an? I mean how else would God stop them, give them a ticket and make them pay a hefty fine?
Grurray:
August 31st, 2015 at 1:07 am
The Aramaic word for God is ‘Elah’, which is what Chaldeans/Assyrians call him, and it’s probably very close to what Jesus called him.
Charles Cameron:
August 31st, 2015 at 3:30 am
Thanks, Grurray!
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I got as far in Aramaic as the alphabet, specifically to the letter ‘ayin, which my copy of Franz Rosenthal’s Grammar of Biblical Aramaic informed me was a “voiced laryngal (similar to the sound of incipient vomiting)” — never forgot that phrase, hence my ability to find the book on Google half a century later, but never progressed further in my Aramaic studies either.
.
Causation, or correlation?
.
Grurray:
August 31st, 2015 at 5:04 pm
Charles,
.
Some pronunciations in those Semitic languages definitely sound like they resulted from gastrointestinal distress, but on the other hand I’m not sure if the guttural sounds were caused by it or the cause of it.
In my limited awareness of linguistics, I have noticed that, at least with contemporary dialects, the higher the elevation people come from, the higher the tone that their words make. That may be what’s going on with the ‘whistling languages’ such as the bird language of Turkey:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P0aoguO_tvI