This makes perfect sense... because it makes no sense.
A Salafist group called the Popular Egyptian Islamic Association has come under fire after sending out a warning on Facebook urging its followers not to eat tomatoes because the vegetable (or fruit) is a Christian food.
The group posted a photo on its page of a tomato - which appears to reveal the shape of a cross after being cut in half – along with the message: “Eating tomatoes is forbidden because they are Christian. [The tomato] praises the cross instead of Allah and says that Allah is three (a reference to the Trinity).
About me: Being your slave, what should I do but tend Upon the hours and times of your desire? I have no precious time at all to spend, Nor services to do, till you require.
What I've found with a few discussions I've had lately is this self-satisfaction that people express with their proffessed open mindedness. In realty it ammounts to wilful ignorance and intellectual cowardice as they are choosing to not form any sort of opinion on a particular topic. Basically "I don't know and I'm not going to look at any evidence because I'm quite happy on this fence."
-Mr P
The Net is best considered analogous to communication with disincarnate intelligences. As any neophyte would tell you. Do not invoke that which you have no facility to banish.
Audley Strange
Svartalf wrote:Oh, heck, anything to reduce the omnipresent horror that is the tomato.
Now, if I could gengineer their mint crops so the plant made THC and LSD...
What's wrong with a tomato? Nom nom nom!
"I grow old … I grow old …
I shall wear the bottoms of my trousers rolled"
I could eat christian girls, especially Catholic schoolgirls all day long... but tomatoes? I can't spend a week without finding them on my menu...
Tomato in my chili is normal... now, I much prefer pizza without it, or moussaka... or whatever
I know... actually, my movie geek friend tells me it's more of a Hidden Fortress ripoff
But he says that the scene where you see the Emperor in his dark hood, and surrounded by storm troopers in Emprier Strikes Back is ripped off straight from Eisenstein.
