Althouse: "You say rivers of wine flow in heaven, is heaven a tavern to you?"

१६ एप्रिल, २०१३

"You say rivers of wine flow in heaven, is heaven a tavern to you?"

"You say two houris await each believer there, is heaven a brothel to you?"

२६ टिप्पण्या:

Original Mike म्हणाले...: If it doesn't have a tavern, it ain't heaven.; १६/४/१३, १०:४१ AM
Sorun म्हणाले...: yes and yes.; १६/४/१३, १०:४२ AM
traditionalguy म्हणाले...: Everbody knows Heaven is a Golf Course. It belongs to the Master.

And golf courses have beer, wine and hard liquor with sandwiches brought to you by the Refreshment Cart girl who is usually the best looking and friendliest angel around.; १६/४/१३, १०:४६ AM
Original Mike म्हणाले...: "Everbody knows Heaven is a Golf Course."

Well, lots of people have observed that Heaven is pretty boring.; १६/४/१३, १०:४७ AM
Bob Boyd म्हणाले...: I found an angel carcass once, in a hayfield in Montana. Mostly all that was left was rib cage with two huge white wings remarkably intact. It stank of booze.
The halo was gone.; १६/४/१३, १०:४८ AM
Eric the Fruit Bat म्हणाले...: Call it what you will, the actual crime is making powerful, insecure people look stupid.; १६/४/१३, १०:४८ AM
Colonel Angus म्हणाले...: Turkey used to be considered a moderate Islamic country but it looks like its heading down the hellhole path like the rest of their brethren in the Middle East.; १६/४/१३, १०:४९ AM
virgil xenophon म्हणाले...: Wasn't it Mark Twain that commented something to the effect that he wouldn't possibly want to go to Heaven because all the worldly vices he enjoyed--wine, women and tobacco--were absent there? LOL.

PS: My Mother--who was an El PRIMO chocoholic--used to say that her idea of Heaven was to be alone on a tropical isle with an unlimited supply of nothing but chocolates so that when she gained 300lbs no one would be around to call her fat. LOL!; १६/४/१३, १०:४९ AM
traditionalguy म्हणाले...: @Original Mike...You are bordering on Heresy and Blasphemy charges in a single comment. Maybe you need a few lessons to straighten out your swing. Never give up.; १६/४/१३, १०:५२ AM
edutcher म्हणाले...: The difference between Islam and Christianity.

We think Bocaccio is a genius for doing this.

(Hell, we think Omar is, too, but we don't throw anybody in jail for quoting him)

(yet)

Original Mike said...

If it doesn't have a tavern, it ain't heaven.

In Heaven there is no beer,
that's why we drink it here; १६/४/१३, १०:५४ AM
अनामित म्हणाले...: what Colonel Angus said. The military used to guard the secular Turkish Constitution. Now Obama has a friendly democracy instead, headed by an Islamic that plans to take Turkey into Sharia.

Those EU guys made the right call on Turkey...; १६/४/१३, १०:५७ AM
अनामित म्हणाले...: I thought Heaven was guarded by US Marines?; १६/४/१३, १०:५७ AM
Colonel Angus म्हणाले...: If it doesn't have a tavern, it ain't heaven.

Beer is proof God loves us and wants us to be happy.

Ben Franklin; १६/४/१३, १०:५९ AM
john म्हणाले...: Everyone is trying

to get to the bar

The name of the bar,

the bar is called heaven; १६/४/१३, ११:०५ AM
john म्हणाले...: Not sure why tho,

nothing ever happens there.; १६/४/१३, ११:०६ AM
Original Mike म्हणाले...: @tradguy - I don't swing.

Not that there's anything wrong with that.; १६/४/१३, ११:०९ AM
Æthelflæd म्हणाले...: And in this mountain The Lord of hosts will make for all people A feast of choice pieces, A feast of wines on the lees, Of fat things full of marrow, Of well-refined wines on the lees. - Isaiah 25:6; १६/४/१३, ११:११ AM
Astro म्हणाले...: Original Mike: +1.
God, what a boring game.; १६/४/१३, ११:१४ AM
Astro म्हणाले...: I guess they've never seen Rocky and Bullwinkle over there in Turkey:
The Ruby Yacht; १६/४/१३, ११:१७ AM
edutcher म्हणाले...: The Drill SGT said...

I thought Heaven was guarded by US Marines?

I heard the Rangers got there first.

Something about the 72 Virgins Dating Service.; १६/४/१३, ११:२४ AM
Nomennovum म्हणाले...: Turkey used to be considered a moderate Islamic country but it looks like its heading down the hellhole path like the rest of their brethren in the Middle East.

It's reverting to norm. Remember that movie from the '70s, Midnight Express? Turkey hasn't hasn't be free for most of its post-15th century history.; १६/४/१३, ११:५१ AM
Hagar म्हणाले...: Except for the style of the language, how is this different from the various "hurtful speech," etc. codes in Western lands?; १६/४/१३, ११:५८ AM
Trashhauler म्हणाले...: Seriously, the man sounds like an honest-to-God prophet.; १६/४/१३, १२:४४ PM
J म्हणाले...: joy without shame.Fiddler's Green,Elysium, Heaven .Does it really matter what we call it?; १६/४/१३, १२:४७ PM
bagoh20 म्हणाले...: He quoted a thousand year old poem.

A lawyer said no he didn't; he was using his own words. Lock him up.

It's a tax. It's a penalty.

Fine profession you got there. Seriously, are there any rules whatsoever to your game?; १६/४/१३, १:२२ PM
Tibore म्हणाले...: I'm a little aggravated that the article characterized the religious influence in Turkey nowadays as "conservative". The truth is that they're religious regressives. Conservatism doesn't throw out what's established so quickly or easily; that's why it's conservative.

Really, it's more of a radical trait to get more repressive. But unfortunately, the term popularly applied is "conservative", regardless of its lack of accuracy.; १६/४/१३, २:१० PM