It has to be said that Eid is a funny and possibly suspect celebration though.

As I understand it (from one of my Muslim underlings) 3 Mad Mulahs have to look for a particular phase of the moon. When they see this phase they declare the start of Eid. They apparently get 3 nights in which to look for this moon phase. I guess my question is "what happens if its cloudy on all 3 nights?"

Another thing I thought about is this; If we could get the Faithfull whom are attending the Haaj this week to suddenly apply their brakes do you think they could stop the world from turning? Better yet if they all jumped into the air at once would the resultant landing knock us off off our regular orbit?

Talk about "death to Ifidels"! They could do it in one fell swoop! I wonder if Al Quaeda has spent any research money on this?

Mark, G7LTT/KC2ENI
Randolph, NJ
http://www.g7ltt.com


Rusty Dekema wrote:
On 1/10/06, *Carlos Alperin* <[EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> wrote:

    And, as I said before, I'm not a religious man, but I don't like other
    people trying to be funny with somebody else traditions or believes.


Personally, I like being funny about traditions and beliefs a whole lot better than I like being overly serious (or worse yet petty) about them!

I have never heard of Eid Mubarak, so I thought it was kind of interesting to learn a little bit about it.

But if I were to bring up a religious subject in a technology forum (or list), I would consider myself to have gotten off rather lightly if the "worst" response I got was simply a funny little play on words such as the "got my goat" comment.

Now, if someone came on here and started a "I believe in Religion X and you believe in Religion Y, so YOU ARE DAMNED TO HELL FOR ALL ETERNITY" spiel or on the other hand started a "DON'T YOU (so-and-so) IDIOTS KNOW THERE'S NO GOD" spiel, then sure; that would be annoying and offensive. But nobody did that.

I don't understand why people get so worked up about this kind of thing. To me, the idea of you being offended by the "got my goat" joke makes about the same amount of sense as the idea that someone would have been offended by Rehan's original post that started this thread. Although one person might not like to hear jokes about religion, other people might not like to hear about religion at all. I think that either way it's not worth getting particularly upset over.

-Rusty



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