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Slater
SFN Regular
USA
1668 Posts |
 Posted - 08/01/2002 : 11:20:34 [Permalink]
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People line up to kiss it. A slab of rock!!!! Utterly stupid.
Back in County Cork in the town where I was born we have a very kissable piece of masonry. But you have to stand a an hour long line, climb to the top of a ruined castle, slip your way along the rain slick stone roof, lie down on your back and stick your head out over the edge while a little old man holds your ankles to keep you from plummeting to your doom. I always tipped him at least two punts to hang on tight.
It is said that the stone will give you the gift of eloquence. And it's true that many have become quite eloquent indeed as they watched their passports fall from their pockets to the waiting trees below.
Strangely, I've found that that stone actually leaches eloquence out of me.
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My business is to teach my aspirations to conform themselves to fact, not to try and make facts harmonize with my aspirations. ---Thomas Henry Huxley, 1860 |
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Boron10
Religion Moderator
USA
1266 Posts |
Posted - 08/01/2002 : 12:51:04 [Permalink]
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Strangely, I've found that that stone actually leaches eloquence out of me.
So, you're saying you were more verbose before you smooched the stone?
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Slater
SFN Regular
USA
1668 Posts |
Posted - 08/01/2002 : 13:11:04 [Permalink]
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So, you're saying you were more verbose before you smooched the stone?
I suppose that hunk of granite has to get it's supply of eloquence (verbose indeed, humph. Garrulous perhaps, maybe even loquacious. One must practice if one is to be good at something) to dispense to the tourists.
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Starman
SFN Regular
Sweden
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Posted - 08/02/2002 : 00:17:47 [Permalink]
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I've been to the Dome of the Rock. It's a rock. Whoopee freakin' do!
It is the third holiest site in islam. It is supposedly the exact, actual rock where Mohammud received his inspiration and divine mandate from Allah.
It would really be cool to let Ed Conrad examine this rock.
"God-as revealed in his book of edicts and narratives is practically an idiot. He has nothing to say that any sensible person should want to listen to."
-- Johann Most
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