Hm, a regular sim could hold 72 virgins, unless they wear too many attachments.
Don't be silly. There aren't 72 in the whole of SL.
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PeterPan Price
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01-06-2009 01:29
Don't be silly. There aren't 72 in the whole of SL. |
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eku Zhong
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01-06-2009 03:41
Hm, a regular sim could hold 72 virgins, unless they wear too many attachments. when will everyone get it right? its actually raisins, not virgins.  http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2002/jan/12/books.guardianreview5 _____________________
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Ingrid Ingersoll
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01-06-2009 05:55
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Eli Schlegal
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01-06-2009 06:05
If, in Second Life, someone wants to put up a Museum of the Kent State Holocaust, for example, to commemorate the 1970 fatal shootings of four students by National Guardsmen, then.....they are free to do so. But many thoughtful people would probably question the use of the term "Holocaust" in connection with those deaths, however outrageous and unjust they may have been. The difference is... the people of Ohio have not been lobbing cowardly rockets at the very people that the word "holocaust" is most often associated with. |
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Ponsonby Low
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01-06-2009 09:00
The difference is... the people of Ohio have not been lobbing cowardly rockets at the very people that the word "holocaust" is most often associated with. Well, without getting into specifics of the Middle East situation: If we wanted to come up with a working definition of what's a 'holocaust' and what isn't, surely the aspect of 'one side decides to eliminate a group of non-combatants and makes plans for a place to take them and a means to kill them' would be a part of it. In the case of the Kent State killings, it was definitely one-sided: the Guard had firearms and the students didn't. But I think most people would still hesitate to call the shootings a 'holocaust'. I think two more necessary elements would be (as crass as it may seem) that large numbers of people were killed, and that the killings have taken place as a matter of government policy. So the Nanking Massacre could qualify under this definition, as hundreds of thousands of civilians were killed by military, and they were killed as a matter of policy. But Kent State wouldn't, as there were no advance plans by the government at the time to do the killings (it wasn't a matter of policy) and the number (four) was small. As for Second Life installations using the word 'holocaust'----again, people will do what they want. At least it promotes reflection about the matter, which is probably good. |
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Ricardo Harris
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01-06-2009 09:42
A what?
A Palestinian holocaust museum? You've got to be joking! I've seen many stupid posts but this one tops them all. Actually, either this person is just trolling to get people to flame in here or he's just as dumb as they come. Then he acts as if he's serious about this. Dumb, dumb and dumber. |
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01-06-2009 17:54
A what? A Palestinian holocaust museum? You've got to be joking! I've seen many stupid posts but this one tops them all. Actually, either this person is just trolling to get people to flame in here or he's just as dumb as they come. Then he acts as if he's serious about this. Dumb, dumb and dumber. ibtl I second that. :| _____________________
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Colette Meiji
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01-06-2009 17:58
I take it we never got the outsourced moderators, huh?
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Brenda Connolly
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01-06-2009 20:40
I take it we never got the outsourced moderators, huh? It's taking them a bit longer than expected to get here. They are flying The Little Spaceship. |
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Sindy Tsure
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01-06-2009 21:03
I take it we never got the outsourced moderators, huh? Are you complaining? I thought that idea sorta made most people a bit grumpy.. |
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Susie Boffin
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01-06-2009 21:44
There was only one holocaust as far as I am concerned. The Germans set the bar and hopefully it will nver be surpassed. Excuse me if I am politically incorrect but facts are facts and for someone to use the word holocaust in relation to what is going on in the Middle East is an insult to all Jews.
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Damien1 Thorne
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01-06-2009 22:10
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Butch Adzebills
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01-07-2009 00:49
No person, country, race, religion, (put whatever groups you want here) have any right, whatsoever, to kill any person.
Rather than bickering over semantics, wouldn't it be more useful to put your energies into preventing the needless deaths that occur throughout the world? |
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Cael Merryman
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01-07-2009 04:05
There was only one holocaust as far as I am concerned. The Germans set the bar and hopefully it will nver be surpassed. Excuse me if I am politically incorrect but facts are facts and for someone to use the word holocaust in relation to what is going on in the Middle East is an insult to all Jews. Perhaps I'm getting it wrong, but I'm guessing that won't be a major issue for anyone that opens up a Palestinian Holocaust Museum. As to the 'facts are facts', I've found that is not necessarily true. Mahmoud Ahmadinejad seems to have a different set of facts, as one example. |
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eku Zhong
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01-07-2009 04:41
Perhaps I'm getting it wrong, but I'm guessing that won't be a major issue for anyone that opens up a Palestinian Holocaust Museum. As to the 'facts are facts', I've found that is not necessarily true. Mahmoud Ahmadinejad seems to have a different set of facts, as one example. Facts.. is that really a solid word? Japanese history textbooks teach that the Nanking Massacre didnt occur.. Facts is more of an objective word. _____________________
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Zim Gunsberg
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01-07-2009 07:31
I like pie.
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01-07-2009 07:43
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Zim Gunsberg
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01-07-2009 08:22
well lets hope someone finds a nice custard one and lets you have it right in the kisser you should love that !! /fail |
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Ponsonby Low
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01-07-2009 11:32
Rather than bickering over semantics, wouldn't it be more useful to put your energies into preventing the needless deaths that occur throughout the world? "Semantics" can actually have real-world consequences. The purpose of calling current events in the Middle East a "Palestinian Holocaust"* would seem to be to claim that 'what the Nazis did to Jews [and Gypsies and homosexuals and others] in the 1930s and 1940s is exactly equivalent to what the Israelis have done to Palestinians.'** In order to believe that, you would have to do some pretty fancy mental gymnastics. I'm not saying that I admire every policy and action of the Israeli government. I don't. But at the same time, to say that retaliating against people who send suicide bombers and rockets against you is exactly equivalent to rounding up millions of non-violent non-combatants and slaughtering them, just seems nutty. Or if not nutty, then an deliberate and cynical attempt to gain (power or territory) through convincing powerful nations to support those claiming 'our holocaust is exactly equivalent to their holocaust'. The Second Life installation is surely intended to sell that message. *as well as the purpose of opening a 'Palestinian Holocaust Museum' in Second Life **and the purpose of making that claim, of course, would be to attempt to sway public opinion in such a way that nations choose to support you in your quest for power or territory. |
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Wulfric Chevalier
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01-07-2009 11:48
I believe it was Joseph Stalin who said "A single death is a tragedy, are million deaths is a statistic." Shoes have been used to attempt to bring down a plane,the simple box cuter has succeeded. the only bias i see is the world today is pro Palestine. starting back in 1948 when the U.N. divided the area into two. one for Israel the other land for the Palestine's which Jordon immediately seized,true Israel grab some of that land back later on. So who did the Pakistanis blame for being landless was it Jordon? no it was Israel that got the blame, then the Palestine allowed the PLO to work from there areas now it's hammas. the Pakistanis have always harbored those who wanted Israel gone. if you chose to do that you accept what happens next. If for example drug dealers move into the house next to mine and i am aware of it and turn my back as the problem grows when a bullet from a drive by or a shoot out with the cops ensues and a bullet hits somebody in my home i have to share part of the blame for it happening because i allowed it to get as far as it did. the Arab world needs to get on the same page as the rest of the world don't tell us the Islam is all about peace and then turn around and have a protest when militant fringe groups get addressed. it's an easy concept you don't want somebody bombing your town ,your city block what ever then fight to keep those that would use your home as a base to attack from. as i opened with it all statistics now. the difference brought up by Meade there is a big difference between collateral damage and targeting civilians on purpose If you're too stupid to know the difference between Palestine and Pakistan why would anyone have any interest in your opinion? |
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Wulfric Chevalier
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01-07-2009 11:52
There was only one holocaust as far as I am concerned. The Germans set the bar and hopefully it will nver be surpassed. Excuse me if I am politically incorrect but facts are facts and for someone to use the word holocaust in relation to what is going on in the Middle East is an insult to all Jews. QFT Both Hamas and the Israeli government may be fairly indiscriminate in their use of violence, but to use the word Holocaust is ridiculous. |
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sable Valentine
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01-07-2009 12:06
ooooo so ibtl
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01-07-2009 12:08
Sadly humanity seems t be a bit of a herd animal. We as a collective buy into propaganda all the time. I only know about the US of course, but obviously it happens everywhere- if we deny it enough, if we twist the information, if we say a thing over and over it becomes accepted generally enough. You have only to look at US politics to confirm that- the media adopts a certain darling and the country cannot see any wrong. Add to it revisionist history and people willing to be fooled and who knows what is truth and what is manufactured.
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