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not really. they bear relationship by sharing a root. in arabic, all words are built from a 3 letter root and that root contains the foundational meaning. the vowel sounds and placements, as well as prefixes and suffixes elaborate the root giving gender, use, place, action, etc. the 3 letter...

Actually, Islam means "Submission" the three letter root is sin lam mim سلم and is seen in the word for peace - salaam (the way of submission). adding "mu" before the three letter word gives the meaning of "person who is or does" so a muslim is a person who does submission...

Nice. I'm actually a descendant of Quakers on another branch too, then --- Daniel Boone's personal secretary married some great great aunt or something like that.

I have been reading a lot about Quakers recently. It began when I found that I have Quaker ancestors, and then later I found myself on the FCNL distribution list, and agree with their stances on things pretty much down the line. That sparked an inquiry - and I actually found this thread by...

I was surprised to find quaker lumped in with anabaptist since they do not value the (physical) rite of baptism (or any of the sacraments)

re: How Muslims treat Christians... I prefer to figure this out based on interactions I can verify for myself, since as near as I can tell the news is reported in a very one-sided manner anytime I know details, and I can reasonably ascertain that they do so when I do not know details. In...

humble, too! :bow:

anyone who has ever experienced a high voltage shock and lived to tell about it can let you know that this is very painful in spite of the immobilization that has occurred. A better indicator than visible signs of trauma might be the presence of adrenal hormones.

actually, if I want *inexpensive* lamb, the *very* best place to get it in town is the halal market!! (if I happen to want goat, it is the *only* place I know to get it...) as a bonus, they also have great prices and quality on spices and olive oil.

Christian missionaries would see this as obeying God before men. Christians have a mandate from God to spread the gospel to all nations. The New Testament has an example that we can look to that fits this situation precisely. This is something that I personally find reprehensible. Each...

walid shoebat has been fairly well discredited as a money grubbing fraud. guess he can still rake it in tho - plenty of suckers out there who will believe whatever they hear if it stokes their bias

poor in spirit = knowing that you cannot be deemed spiritually fit on your own and require god's mercy to be able to enter the kingdom of heaven. in one word, humble. meek or humble will inherit the earth as well as heaven. poor in spirit and meek are synonyms. peacemakers are those who make...

WisdomTree is a lumberjack and he's ok. he works all night and he sleeps all day ;)

TG123 eats what he euphemistically calls "Lemon Seed Drops" on a daily basis. Now we know the source of his fantasies ^_^

TG123 was hallucinating *hard* that day and thought he saw streakers everywhere. Sometimes LSD permanently damages your mind ;)

Serendipity likes to brag about streaking a Jackson Browne concert back in 1975, but it wasnt actualy Serendipity who did the honours it was his cousin!

awitch blogs about alien encounters in his free time. He has been snatched and probed more than a dozen times so he has plenty of material for the blog ^_^

Serendipity's favorite snack is slug pate served on rice crackers. He eats them every evening while watching nick at night

Supreme has been supremely busy lately testing the butterfly effect hoping for proof of the chaos theory

GigageiTsula has a pet spider named steve and a pet lizard named mike. It is a full time job trying to keep mike from eating steve ^_^