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January 28, 2005

CTFS

Stands for Check The Source, the way RTFM is the acronym for Read The Manual. I just got an email with this citation:

"Koran (9:11) - 'For it is written that a son of Arabia would awaken a fearsome Eagle. The wrath of the Eagle would be felt throughout the lands of Allah and lo, while some of the people trembled in despair still more rejoiced; for the wrath of the Eagle cleansed the lands of Allah; and there was peace.'"

If any Qu'ranic verse had been even remotely close to that we wouldn't be hearing the end of it. There's no such verse at 9:11, 11:9, or anywhere else, and it's doubtful that the Meccan air was thick with eagles. At least there aren't any in the text, according to a keyword search at one of the online versions.
The lesson is clear. Khalil Gibran never died. He went into international politics, serving the Secret Masters.

Posted by james_h at 02:14 PM

January 26, 2005

BACK, FINALLY

Because of a server crash I've been offline for the last couple of months, and all the content got wiped as well. So I'll be rebuilding the site from saved HTML (yes, I know there's a better way to do it), meaning that entries from '03 and '04 will be miraculously popping back up. Comments are disabled until I have the spam protection loaded. The ones from before are gone forever into the cyberdark.

Posted by james_h at 07:04 PM