A Guide for the Abstracted

[Allen Herbert]

Nice to see you back, Sam.

 

Phil, do not box me. Whether in a religious way, or a political way. Rude.

 

I like to understand all things and I do my research.

[Allen Herbert]

" had you been reading me with an open mind to what I’m actually saying, you’d know nothing I said disagrees with that. I am DIFFERENTIATING between fact and Truth. I am not saying facts don’t matter. Metaphors can be eminently visual and photographs can be eminently metaphorical"

 

Indeed, metaphors can be eminently visual.

 

I was thinking of Shakespeare while reading your thoughts.

 

Antony speaks over Caesar's body

 

O, pardon me, thou bleeding piece of earth,

That I am meek and gentle with these butchers!

Thou art the ruins of the noblest man

That ever lived in the tide of times.

Woe to the hand that shed this costly blood!

Over thy wounds now do I prophesy,—

Which, like dumb mouths, do ope their ruby lips,

To beg the voice and utterance of my tongue—

A curse shall light upon the limbs of men;

Domestic fury and fierce civil strife

Shall cumber all the parts of Italy;

Blood and destruction shall be so in use

And dreadful objects so familiar

That mothers shall but smile when they behold

Their infants quarter'd with the hands of war;

All pity choked with custom of fell deeds:

And Caesar's spirit, ranging for revenge,

With Ate by his side come hot from hell,

Shall in these confines with a monarch's voice

Cry 'Havoc,' and let slip the dogs of war;

That this foul deed shall smell above the earth

[Allen Herbert]

"LOL. Your ignorance here is laughable. The reason for Western culture being more materialistic is precisely because of the decline of religious and spiritual morals in the West," Phil.

 

Thought I implied that. Is that a good thing?

 

This is not true and misses an important nuance. When they say that “Islam is a religion of peace” what they mean is that as long as you surrender and comply with their doctrine" Phil.

 

Pray do tell, where does it say that in the Quran? That is the problem, with folk interpretations of something the really do not have a clue about. Probably never opened the Quran. But they have a lot to say about it.

 

The reality is the Quran respects all religion and believes in religious freedom for all faiths.

 

Really, you should do your own research, Phil. Not keep listening to the bloke next door.

 

PS never said any culture was superior to another. Just offered some facts.

Edited August 23, 2019 by Allen Herbert

[Allen Herbert]

Your ignorance of Islamic culture beggars believe. Sort of feel I'm reading some uniformed nonsense from some right wing rag or crap from the cult of isis.. This is the problem when facts become stained with fairy tales. I suppose for many ignorance is bliss.

 

Ask a Muslim women, in the street tomorrow, if she feels supressed. Ask the question in the real world learn the facts. Not from some right wing rag which has permeated your brain turning your mind into a zombie. Learn facts for yourself-ask the question of a Muslim women.Then ask the question of a Christian women if she feels supressed.

 

The answers might surprise you.

Edited August 23, 2019 by Allen Herbert

[Sandy Vongries]

Moderator: What has this to do with photography? Take it outside.

[Allen Herbert]

I agree.

 

What has it to do with photography.