One fatwa that I think Jesus & Mo should bear in mind says that being completely naked during the act of coitus annuls the marriage…
Obviously, it should be the other way around: if you’re at the point in a relationship where you don’t even bother with lingerie and such anymore, then you might as well be married.
I figure that the Imam had a particular woman in mind, no? Usually such laws are based on wishful thinking. Such as Socrates, I believe it was, who said that older men should have sex with young, goodlooking men? Which he said when he was an older man… (He didn’t say this when he was a younger man, did he!) (albeit, he was supposedly not very goodlooking).
Carolita, you’re confused… Socrates is actually known for his spurning of Alcibiades, a young, good looking greek man who WANTED to have sex with him. Socrates was never the Erastes for any youths of Athens.
However, he was reiterating the accepted cultural view, which was that young men were encouraged to engage in a sexual relationship with an older male who was their mentor, in order that they learn to be good husbands for their future wives.
So Socrates was not making a statement like that out of wishful thinking… If anything, it was wishful thinking on the young Alcibiades’ part, wanting to get with the Gadfly of Athens.
Please learn your ancient philosophy properly before spreading false memes.
Spinoza, the way I remember it, you got it backwards.
It was Alkybiades who preferred the company of women. (Even though he did share a tent with Socrates at one time.)
It is true, however, that Socrates prefered stable relationships (related as “platonic relationhips”, after his young hot scholar Plato) over random sex.
The “adopt as a breastfed son to publicly prove there’s no thing sexual about the relationship” is something Mohamed’s young widow Aisha did when negotiating with other arab leaders to keep them in the Umma after Mohamed’s death. “Okay my son, we’ll work out the details of your tribe submitting to Caliph Abu Bakrin in privacy. But to prove that this privacy is nothing sexual and you’re no going to be my lover, you have to publicly suck my tits like a baby without getting a boner!”
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What the…….?????
I feel like crying too.
Presumably the breast feeding would have to take place in front of five witnesses?
Religion – going places even internet pornography hasn’t discovered. I’m guessing.
Holy. Hell.
lol, I’m assuming this is reality going further than fiction again…
omg, in the bbc news wepage there is a link to the pokemon fatwa and the ‘who wants to be milioner’ fatwa,
rofl!
That adoption one was revealing. They seriously need a way to cut themselves off from literal interpretations of ancient words that are harmful.
Ridicule can only help.
One fatwa that I think Jesus & Mo should bear in mind says that being completely naked during the act of coitus annuls the marriage…
Obviously, it should be the other way around: if you’re at the point in a relationship where you don’t even bother with lingerie and such anymore, then you might as well be married.
i’m sorry, the story is FUNNIER than the comic this time!
rotflmao!
Does Mo drink his own pee to bless himself?
hmmm…
I figure that the Imam had a particular woman in mind, no? Usually such laws are based on wishful thinking. Such as Socrates, I believe it was, who said that older men should have sex with young, goodlooking men? Which he said when he was an older man… (He didn’t say this when he was a younger man, did he!) (albeit, he was supposedly not very goodlooking).
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Carolita, you’re confused… Socrates is actually known for his spurning of Alcibiades, a young, good looking greek man who WANTED to have sex with him. Socrates was never the Erastes for any youths of Athens.
However, he was reiterating the accepted cultural view, which was that young men were encouraged to engage in a sexual relationship with an older male who was their mentor, in order that they learn to be good husbands for their future wives.
So Socrates was not making a statement like that out of wishful thinking… If anything, it was wishful thinking on the young Alcibiades’ part, wanting to get with the Gadfly of Athens.
Please learn your ancient philosophy properly before spreading false memes.
“i’m sorry, the story is FUNNIER than the comic this time!”
Got to agree with Louis on this one. You couldn’t make this stuff up! … no, wait that’s exactly what they do.
Spinoza, the way I remember it, you got it backwards.
It was Alkybiades who preferred the company of women. (Even though he did share a tent with Socrates at one time.)
It is true, however, that Socrates prefered stable relationships (related as “platonic relationhips”, after his young hot scholar Plato) over random sex.
Mo, you cheeky bastard
JayBee on July 18, 2007 at 9:37 am wisely asked:
“Does Mo drink his own pee to bless himself?”
It’s a British pub. I’m fairly sure it will sell Fosters or Watney’s Red Barrel.
The “adopt as a breastfed son to publicly prove there’s no thing sexual about the relationship” is something Mohamed’s young widow Aisha did when negotiating with other arab leaders to keep them in the Umma after Mohamed’s death. “Okay my son, we’ll work out the details of your tribe submitting to Caliph Abu Bakrin in privacy. But to prove that this privacy is nothing sexual and you’re no going to be my lover, you have to publicly suck my tits like a baby without getting a boner!”