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Come Inside... => Saloon Bar => Topic started by: Grumpmeister on April 21, 2008, 04:29:11 PM
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So you want to totally bugger up the clock system across the entire planet just because you have a flea in your ear about Mecca being 'better placed' and that we enforced the use of GMT when we conquered most of the world.
You want to find something useful in the Koran, then go and find something that will stop the extremists slaughtering innocents in the name of religion. cussing:
Muslim scientists and clerics have called for the adoption of Mecca time to replace GMT, arguing that the Saudi city is the true centre of the Earth.
Mecca is the direction all Muslims face when they perform their daily prayers.
The call was issued at a conference held in the Gulf state of Qatar under the title: Mecca, the Centre of the Earth, Theory and Practice.
One geologist argued that unlike other longitudes, Mecca's was in perfect alignment to magnetic north.
He said the English had imposed GMT on the rest of the world by force when Britain was a big colonial power, and it was about time that changed.
Mecca watch
A prominent cleric, Sheikh Youssef al-Qaradawy, said modern science had at last provided evidence that Mecca was the true centre of the Earth; proof, he said, of the greatness of the Muslim "qibla" - the Arabic word for the direction Muslims turn to when they pray.
The meeting also reviewed what has been described as a Mecca watch, the brainchild of a French Muslim.
The watch is said to rotate anti-clockwise and is supposed to help Muslims determine the direction of Mecca from any point on Earth.
The meeting in Qatar is part of a popular trend in some Muslim societies of seeking to find Koranic precedents for modern science.
It is called "Ijaz al-Koran", which roughly translates as the "miraculous nature of the holy text".
The underlying belief is that scientific truths were also revealed in the Muslim holy book, and it is the work of scholars to unearth and publicise the textual evidence.
But the movement is not without its critics, who say that the notion that modern science was revealed in the Koran confuses spiritual truth, which is constant, and empirical truth, which depends on the state of science at any given point in time.
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One geologist argued that unlike other longitudes, Mecca's was in perfect alignment to magnetic north.
Well that's bollocks for a start.
Mecca 39:45 East
Magnetic North 110:80 West
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tunble:
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By Christ you learn some stuff in here. cloud9:
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Why don't we (The West) bomb them back to the Stone Age, take the bloody oil for ourselves and let them keep whatever time they want?
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Steady lad. Turning the middle east into a lake of glass has been suggested and rejected in case Cyprus is downwind. noooo:
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rubschin:
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rubschin:
Feck it. Press the button. happy088
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Bad idea Snoop, given the level of accuracy of the US Air Force they'd hit cyprus by mistake. Can you imagine the devasatation that would happen if they manage to detonate BM's home brew? scared2:
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Bad idea Snoop, given the level of accuracy of the US Air Force they'd hit cyprus by mistake. Can you imagine the devasatation that would happen if they manage to detonate BM's home brew? scared2:
It's called 'collateral damage' GM. We must wring our hands but accept it and move on. There might be a market for 'Cyprus glass, anyway. Glows in the dark without electricity!
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I am listening! cussing:
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Did you also know the magnetic poles wander around a bit. rubschin:
The whole article is typical religious hogwash. For example:
A prominent cleric, Sheikh Youssef al-Qaradawy, said modern science had at last provided evidence that Mecca was the true centre of the Earth; proof, he said, of the greatness of the Muslim "qibla" - the Arabic word for the direction Muslims turn to when they pray.
I despair Banghead
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How long will it take me to wind my clock back 600 years. angry041:
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"At the third stroke, the time, sponsored by hack-your-wrist, will be. . . damn, my watch has fallen off"
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"At the third stroke, the time, sponsored by hack-your-wrist, will be. . . damn, my watch has fallen off"
drumroll:
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"At the third stroke, the time, sponsored by hack-your-wrist, will be. . . damn, my watch has fallen off"
happy001 happy001 happy001
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Why don't we (The West) bomb them back to the Stone Age, take the bloody oil for ourselves and let them keep whatever time they want?
You a Hillary Clinton supporter then ? lol:
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"At the third stroke, the time, sponsored by hack-your-wrist, will be. . . damn, my watch has fallen off"
happy001 happy001 happy001
At the sound of the woman being stoned Mecca Mean Time wil be....
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"At the third stroke, the time, sponsored by hack-your-wrist, will be. . . damn, my watch has fallen off"
happy001 happy001 happy001
At the sound of the woman being stoned Mecca Mean Time wil be....
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