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BretHarte · Joined: 17 Aug 2011 Posts: 94

Religion makes people do strange things you say? Funny, I hadn't noticed.

Geronimo · Joined: 11 Apr 2007 Posts: 498

If witches advertised their services,
do you think that there
would be a "Which?" guide produced for them?
http://www.which.co.uk/

Just imagine...

"Special features in this month's issue:-
- Would your cat testify against you in court...the Top 10 Tell-tale Signs...
- Beheadings -No Growing Back!
- Locating the Devil's mark -is it always invisible?
- Is White Magic this year's Black?
- Ducking-stools in Desertlands"

In the current absence of a "Which? Witch" guide,
may I suggest "Witch-hunt" instead:-
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Witchcraft_trials

Geronimo

cmp45 · Joined: 17 Aug 2004 Posts: 1475 Location: KSA

Depends which witch ur thinking about; not all witches are cut from the same cloth...just ask Dorthy! Cool

"Beheadings...no growing back" Laughing

With Malice Toward None · Joined: 20 Oct 2009 Posts: 250

O, Gawd.. cmp, you are supposed to be the moderator, not the arbitrator..
Regards,
WMTN.

2buckets · Joined: 14 Dec 2010 Posts: 515 Location: Middle East

I witnessed beheadings in Jeddah, and it's not aways a quick one chop deal. Fortunately for the recipient, they are obviously heavily sedated and seemed pretty unaware of what was about to happen to them.

Beheading with a well maintained guillotine would be my choice of execution.

In Um al Quwain in the UAE where a firing squad is the method, I was at the public shooting range there and the police showed up with someone to be shot. The police invited everyone to join in with the shooting. They said traditionally executions are a community affair, (stoning), so come on down. I deferred as I only shoot people who have the ability to shoot back. It's just not sporting you know.

Re Maddoff. As a former CFA, I can say this: His victims thought they were getting something for nothing and should have been skeptical.

"If you think it's too good to be true, then it probably is."

Re witchcraft: There's more to the "world" than most people can actually "see". I make this statement based on time spent with indigenous peoples in Meso and South America.

Did you know there are white witches as well as black witches, (types of witchcraft, not race).

With Malice Toward None · Joined: 20 Oct 2009 Posts: 250

Dear 2buckets(where one should have been enough),
There have been two beheadings in the town where I live, I have been to neither, and will never be. I myself am at crossroads when asked if capital punishment is moral/judicial, but in the case of public decapitation, NO.
Regards.
WMTN.

Geronimo · Joined: 11 Apr 2007 Posts: 498

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Buy one Evil Eye and get the second one completely free!!!

With Malice Toward None · Joined: 20 Oct 2009 Posts: 250

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OzMak · Joined: 14 Dec 2011 Posts: 34 Location: Australia

without the jinn you wouldn't have your fantastic aladdin and the magic lamp story now would you Razz

johnslat · Posted: Sat Dec 17, 2011 12:39 am Post subject:

Dear OzMak,

Even worse, the TV series "I Dream of Jeannie" would have never been made.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_Dream_of_Jeannie

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51J8CRPN8QL._SL500_AA300_.jpg

Wink

Regards,
John

cmp45 · Joined: 17 Aug 2004 Posts: 1475 Location: KSA

Witches to Jinns are as man to nature

One always trying to control the other?

Christian St.Bacon · Joined: 26 Oct 2011 Posts: 54

not much of a box of chocolates either............Milk Tray man myself.....

sharter · Joined: 25 Jun 2008 Posts: 878 Location: All over the place

Sorcery is nonsense; only backward buffoons believe in it. This woman conned people out of $800, hardly a life changing amount in Saudi.

I'm British and we haven't had the death sentence for years and even then in peace time it was only used for murderers.

Civil society evolves; Sharia law remains the same.

OzMak · Joined: 14 Dec 2011 Posts: 34 Location: Australia

sorcery is nonsense you say? care to take a trip down East Java or perhaps take a stroll through Tanzania? while you're at it why not see what those voodoo practitioners get up to in Haiti. Sure it may not be prevalent in developed countries although the stories I've encountered from people around me lead me to suggest otherwise.

Would really suck if the death sentence weren't used in Britain for rapists and the like!

sharter · Joined: 25 Jun 2008 Posts: 878 Location: All over the place

Of course it's nonsense; I didn't say it doesn't exist.....all that bad juju stuff, chickens blood and child sacrifice, while horrific, is still based on a load of tosh.

I'm glad we don't have the death sentence in Europe, although I do think it should be allowable in exceptional cases for terrorism and murder with intent, especially of children. As for rape? Well, that's a tricky one as hundreds of people a year have false rape allegations made against them. My personal feeling is that a lot of innocent people, mainly men would get done in as the cases often boil down to his word against hers. Look at Tyson; what was she doing in his hotel room at that time of night on his bed? Same year a Kennedy got off for raping a girl next to his pool. Drink's often involved, things are hazy, people can send the wrong signals....nah prison's ok for that one.

In Saudi of course, that never arises because the woman needs four witnesses to prove it.