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Old 10-03-2011, 10:12 PM
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Nah, I know there are some other people practicing Christianity around here - just you wait.
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Old 10-03-2011, 10:16 PM
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I've never seen flaming on a discussion based on the parameters of religion We're not quite that savage
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Old 10-03-2011, 10:17 PM
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I'll be sure to keep it that way.
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Old 10-03-2011, 10:17 PM
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It's cool to see what everyone here believes!
So far it seems I'm the only one who actually practices Christian beliefs and practices
What do ya mean practices? Cause I read the bible 3-5 nights a week, but I don't go to church. Is that considered practicing?
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"You think you're so clever and classless and free, but you're still ****ing peasants as far as I can see."

I wish I could take just one hour of what I experience out in nature, wrap it in a box, put a bow on it, and start handing out to people

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Old 10-03-2011, 10:18 PM
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What do ya mean practices? Cause I read the bible 3-5 nights a week, but I don't go to church. Is that considered practicing?
Well so far all I've heard is "I have some christian beliefs but that's it"

I'm making no assumptions!
Even I don't read the Bible that often
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Old 10-03-2011, 10:20 PM
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I'd say it isl, Theorist.

At least it's different from me who doesn't "practice" it at all, merely acknowledging its validity.
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Old 10-03-2011, 10:24 PM
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sorry for being stupid, but what does isl stand for?
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"Pardon me, I wanna live in a fantasy"

"I wish I was a sacrifice but somehow still lived on"

It seems like everybody is moving forward. As if there is some final goal they can achieve and get to. I don't get it though. When I look around, it seems like I'm already there, and there is nothing left to do.

"You think you're so clever and classless and free, but you're still ****ing peasants as far as I can see."

I wish I could take just one hour of what I experience out in nature, wrap it in a box, put a bow on it, and start handing out to people

Nature has its own religion; gospel from the land

I know I was born and I know that I'll die; The in between is mine."
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sorry for being stupid, but what does isl stand for?
i think he meant "is"?
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Old 10-03-2011, 10:25 PM
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I did, indeed. Sorry about that.
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Old 10-03-2011, 10:28 PM
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I did, indeed. Sorry about that.
Silly goose.
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Old 10-03-2011, 10:29 PM
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ahh, thanks, i kinda feel stupid for that now
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"Pardon me, I wanna live in a fantasy"

"I wish I was a sacrifice but somehow still lived on"

It seems like everybody is moving forward. As if there is some final goal they can achieve and get to. I don't get it though. When I look around, it seems like I'm already there, and there is nothing left to do.

"You think you're so clever and classless and free, but you're still ****ing peasants as far as I can see."

I wish I could take just one hour of what I experience out in nature, wrap it in a box, put a bow on it, and start handing out to people

Nature has its own religion; gospel from the land

I know I was born and I know that I'll die; The in between is mine."
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Old 10-04-2011, 12:56 AM
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I've never seen flaming on a discussion based on the parameters of religion We're not quite that savage
Oh there has been disagreements on this thread: http://www.tree-of-souls.com/general..._out_more.html

(Just wanting to share this)
I found a review of a book last sunday: Tea with Arwa written by Arwa El-Masri (Wife of rugby player and all round good guy Hazem el-Masri) and in it she wants to dispel a lot of misconceptions about her faith and she tries to help people see that everyone is human equally but we have our differences that make us unique. Plus it's interesting to see a feminist who dons the veil and it helps to get rid of some of the views that people have towards women and the veil.

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Today, like every day when she's out of the house, Arwa is wearing a chiffon headscarf, one of her collection. She took the veil at 23, after hearing a Muslim leader speaking about having the courage to live one's faith in public. It was, she says, the most strongly feminist action of her life.

"I didn't look for my rights as a woman in the feminist movement," she says. "I looked for my rights in Islam and I found that Islam is actually a feminist religion. Islam, hundreds of years ago, gave women the right to choose their partner, to inherit, to work as they please. No other religion has outlined those rights. And for me, as a religious person, the word of God far outweighs the word of any human being.

'IT'S about saying 'This is me. How you perceive me is beside the point. It's like having a scar on your face and walking out in public, saying 'Do you accept me?' It's inviting people to experience something new and different."
http://www.heraldsun.com.au/ipad/a-v...-1226155283231

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Old 10-04-2011, 01:30 AM
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Oh there has been disagreements on this thread: http://www.tree-of-souls.com/general..._out_more.html
The parameters of religion, not the validity.
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Old 10-04-2011, 02:48 AM
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Hey I just looked up the definition of parameter and this is what I got:
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Mathematics .
a.
a constant or variable term in a function that determines the specific form of the function but not its general nature, as a in f ( x ) = ax, where a determines only the slope of the line described by f ( x ).
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one of the independent variables in a set of parametric equations.
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Statistics . a variable entering into the mathematical form of any distribution such that the possible values of the variable correspond to different distributions.
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Computers . a variable that must be given a specific value during the execution of a program or of a procedure within a program.
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Usually, parameters. limits or boundaries; guidelines: the basic parameters of our foreign policy.

5.
characteristic or factor; aspect; element: a useful parameter for judging long-term success.

So if parameter means guidelines when using the context of religion and flamewars then yes the thread I brought up has had disagreements on the guidelines of Islam..I don't even know if you read that thread I posted.
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"The man who learns only what others know is as ignorant as if he learns nothing.
The treasures of knowledge are the most rare, and guarded most harshly."
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"Try to see the forest through her eyes."

Réalisant mon espoir, Je me lance vers la gloire. Je ne regrette rien. (Making my hope come true, I hurl myself toward glory. I regret nothing.)

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Old 10-04-2011, 03:18 AM
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You've taken one word out of the definition. I've never seen anyone argue about the rules or limits, boundaries, guidelines of a religion. I am not referring to whether those guidelines in themselves are correct, I am referring to whether they exist and what they are.
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