What kind of idiot tries to burn down a cemetery?
Posted by Vogon Poet (Member # 393) on :
Well, if it keeps him from burning down schools. . .
Posted by Mucus (Member # 24) on :
It did say the pavilion at a cemetary, not the gravestones proper...
I'm more curious about:
quote: German police said they were investigating an assault on two young Orthodox Jews from New York in downtown Berlin on Sunday night. The two 21-year-olds said they were asked whether they were Jewish by a group of seven or eight youths, and one of the Americans was attacked when he answered yes, police said. The victim, who was not identified by police, was beaten and kicked to the floor. He was treated in hospital for facial injuries.
I mean, why bother saying yes when against a big group of thugs...being a Jew isn't like being a visible minority, how would they tell?
Now being Chinese in North America, if the US decides to start a war over Taiwan or something....thats more troublesome...
Second thoughts: Actually, do Orthodox Jews HAVE to wear that skull-cap thing? If so, maybe thats how they knew.....but then why would they need to ask if they were Jewish? "No, I'm modelling it for Calvin Klein" Bah, religion baffles me.
[ April 04, 2002, 09:11: Message edited by: Mucus ]
Posted by TSN (Member # 31) on :
"...skull-cap thing..."
Yarmulke. And I never understood why the pope wears one...
Posted by Grokca (Member # 722) on :
I found this on beliefnet First, forget the bald spot jokes. And they aren't beanies. Jews call this headcovering a yarmulke or kipah. From ancient times, Jewish men wore them to show respect for the Holy One. During the Middle Ages, they came to symbolize that God was above them. Some Jewish men, most of them Orthodox, wear them every day; others only when they gather with others in the synagogue for prayer. Wearing the yarmulke has become a tradition but it isn't a strict requirement. The Pope's reason for donning a white head piece is basically the same: respect and, more particularly, as sign of submission to Christ as His vicar on earth. Most likely the practice was borrowed from Jews, though we can't say for sure. At some unknown point in the mists of the Christian past , popes started doing something Jews had done for eons. Links between the two faiths are only recently being unraveled and acknowledged.
Posted by In the stars it is (Member # 417) on :
mmmmm, aren't the people on Taiwan Chinese also..... The last bastion of the Nationalist Chinese??
I don't see the problem if the media and government do an educational section stating the fact....
The poor kid probably didn't think that a Jew would get that kind of treatment, this long after Hitler's rule....
[ April 04, 2002, 11:55: Message edited by: In the stars it is ]
Posted by BlueElectron (Member # 281) on :
Taiwanese ARE Chinese!!!!
Although some dumbass "tobacco" chewing separatists (such as our incompetent president Chen, who isn't that much "brighter" then Bush Junior) would like the world to think the opposite.
P.S. They don't really chew tobacco, but something similar.
Posted by TSN (Member # 31) on :
"The Pope's reason for donning a white head piece is basically the same: respect and, more particularly, as sign of submission to Christ as His vicar on earth."
So, erm... Jesus likes it when people wear silly hats? This is quite a revelation. In thirteen years of attending Catholic schools, they never taught us that...
"Links between the two faiths are only recently being unraveled and acknowledged."
Like the fact that Christianity was started by a Jew?
Posted by Grokca (Member # 722) on :
quote:"Links between the two faiths are only recently being unraveled and acknowledged."
Ya I thought that was a bit strange too.
quote:So, erm... Jesus likes it when people wear silly hats? This is quite a revelation. In thirteen years of attending Catholic schools, they never taught us that...
I too spent 9 years of my life in Catholic schools and I wasn't taught why he wore the hat. They were too busy indoctinating us with crap.
As I said I found this in beliefnet because I didn't know either.
Posted by PsyLiam (Member # 73) on :
I think Bishop's wear red-ones. Red with blood, maybe. Blood for Monster...
Posted by targetemployee (Member # 217) on :
I learned from reading the notes to Dante's Divine Comedy that certain colors in Christianity connote meanings. I will need to do some research on this. Speak later.