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Browsing deviantART.

The above link is a search on the deviantART website for the term “Gaza.” So many results and mos are astonishingly awesome.

via Attacks condemned as supplies dwindle and deaths rise – The Irish Times – Fri, Jan 02, 2009.

Dr Mads Gilbert, a Norwegian physician who reached Gaza on Wednesday, said Gaza is a “complete man-made disaster. It’s cold, there’s no food, no fuel. At the main hospital [Shifa] all the windows have been blown out.”

At the Rafah crossing between Egypt and Gaza, he saw two field hospitals and 30 tonnes of medical supplies waiting to enter Gaza. He said the Israelis are using outlawed fuel air bombs and depleted uranium warheads. Many bodies are shredded and burnt.

Palestine Monitor looks like a nice documentation website for the decades-old Palestinian crisis. Has a nice Links section too.

Ommat_Al-Melyaar – أمة المليار.

A very nice couple of songs. Has some relevancy to the current Gaza situation. The lyrics are taken from here.

Here is a good intro on Blackwater:

Listen to what Bush said about it a year and a half ago:

All religions claim that their scripture is the divine word of God. Hence, there is no point of investigating that, right? WRONG!

Here is a quite interesting but less-known piece of information. Do you know that the Quran is the only book that speaks in the first person of God? All other scripture only talk about God. If a book is the word of God, why wouldn’t it say “God created us,” and so on, instead of “We created you”?

Actually, there is one exception here, the Torah. A part of the Torah is written in the first person of God. But here is another interesting piece of info. The Quran says:

“Say (Muhammad): “Produce, then, [another] revelation from God which would offer better guidance than either of these two [The Torah and the Quran, and] I shall follow it, if you speak the truth!. And since they cannot respond to this thy challenge, know that they are following only their own likes and dislikes: and who could be more astray than he who follows [but] his own likes and dislikes without any guidance from God? Verily, God does not grace with His guidance peo­ple who are given to evildoing!” (28:49-50).

When the Quran challenged humanity to show another book from God, it didn’t say one other than the Quran; it said other than the Quran and the Torah, since they both are from the Creator, at least originally in the case of the Torah.

This is surely is not a sufficient evidence for a book to be the word of God, but it is a starter and an indication. It narrows down the options a great deal :)

Chaser’s War on Everything is a really funny Australian show, one of the few that I follow. They became famous lately after they slipped a Bin Laden-like guy into APEC:

Now, they decided to confront the Australian Sheikh Hilali. Hilarious:

“There are no absolutes or certainty” is an absolute and certain!

Maybe you heard this one before. But here is a fresh articulation I just heard today: we cannot know anything because everything is filtered. And when you say: at least we know that there are filters and we can work on them, they go: oh, no. We have no idea what those filters are!

I am sick of this! This is failure, plain and simple, a paradigm that has one axiom: this paradigm does not work.

The field of religious studies started with naive atheist evolutionists who study “primitive” “irrational” cultures and go: people have religion and morals because they wanna kill their fathers and have sex with their moms, and it’s all gonna end soon because we now have science. And it ended with an outright admission of failure (commonly known as “postmodernism”).

Christianity didn’t work, “rationality” didn’t work, and this will apparently work! They are so subtle in criticizing the naively progressive paradigm of the Enlightenment and they think they progressed because they abandoned that. Beautiful, isn’t it?

I know that “postmodernism” is limited to a couple of fields in academia and that it is waning. I just had to release some pressure!