You could get a dog.
At 03:38 PM 9/27/2001 -0700, you wrote:
>I need a lover.
>Right now.
>Is there anybody there who could serve the office of
>pure love and dedication and faithfulness and care,
>men or women that they are?
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>--- sevanthi ragunathan <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>> >From: Douglas Barbour <[log in to unmask]>
>> >Reply-To: Poetryetc provides a venue for a dialogue
>> relating to poetry and
>> > poetics <[log in to unmask]>
>> >To: [log in to unmask]
>> >Subject: Re: Letter to a leftist friend/the real
>> mystics/innocents
>> >Date: Thu, 27 Sep 2001 14:15:04 -0600
>> >
>> > >Doug Barbour wrote:
>> > >
>> > >> Those passages from the Koran, Candice:
>> > >>>
>> > >>> 008.025 And guard yourselves against a
>> chastisement which cannot fall
>> > >>> exclusively on those of you who are
>> wrong-doers, and know that Allah
>> >is
>> > >>> severe in punishment.
>> > >>>
>> > >>> 008.057 If thou comest on them in the war,
>> deal with them so as to
>> >strike
>> > >>> fear in those who are behind them, that haply
>> they may remember.
>> > >>>
>> > >> chill me too.
>> > >>
>> > >> But Jehovah has some to match them in the OT.
>> > >
>> > > Can you post some of them, Doug? I'd be very
>> interested to see those
>> > >matches. Thanks--Candice
>> >
>> >Ah, i just meant the tone, & maybe what Robin &
>> others pointed to, that
>> >anger at anyone not 'onside'.
>> >
>> >I'll shut up now
>>
>>
>> Who now remembers the Midianites? <smile>
>>
>> The correct reference in reply would be a citation
>> of Israel Shahak's work,
>> but a quick google search brought me to this:
>>
>> ---
>>
>> Page after page recounts Jewish destruction and
>> extermination of peoples
>> standing in the way of God's chosen: in chapter 3 of
>> Deuteronomy "And we
>> utterly destroying the men, women, and children of
>> every city." My favorite,
>> however, is in chapter 31 of Numbers, where at the
>> Lords instruction to beat
>> up the Midianites, they did this, "and they slew all
>> the males...burnt all
>> the cities," and brought back the women and
>> children. But the payoff is that
>> Moses was angry with the leader of the military
>> expedition for having spared
>> the women and children and said "Now therefore kill
>> every male among the
>> little ones, and kill every woman that hath known
>> man by lying with him. But
>> all the women children, that have not known a man by
>> lying with him, keep
>> alive for yourselves." This tradition in treating
>> enemies, starting with
>> Moses, is well preserved in the Gush Emunim, Shamir,
>> Netanyahu, and Rabin
>> (who several years ago as Defense Minister
>> authorized the Isaeli forces to
>> enter Palestinian homes and "break bones.")
>>
>>
>> ---
>>
>> http://www.zmag.org/ParEcon/amtisemforum.htm
>>
>> also see http://www.cactus48.com/jewishlaw.html
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