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BS: 'Promiscuous women cause quakes'

19 Apr 10 - 04:24 PM (#2890064)
Subject: BS: 'Promiscuous women cause quakes'
From: Bill D

"but he's a SENIOR cleric, so it must be true."

*sigh*.... why I say so often,"From false premises, anything follows"
Yes, we have clerics of that type here, also.
If you just want the lead paragraphs...

"BEIRUT – A senior Iranian cleric says women who wear immodest clothing and behave promiscuously are to blame for earthquakes.

Iran is one of the world's most earthquake-prone countries, and the cleric's unusual explanation for why the earth shakes follows a prediction by President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad that a quake is certain to hit Tehran and that many of its 12 million inhabitants should relocate.

"Many women who do not dress modestly ... lead young men astray, corrupt their chastity and spread adultery in society, which (consequently) increases earthquakes," Hojatoleslam Kazem Sedighi was quoted as saying by Iranian media. Sedighi is Tehran's acting Friday prayer leader."


19 Apr 10 - 04:29 PM (#2890068)
Subject: RE: BS: 'Promiscuous women cause quakes'
From: Charley Noble

Bill-

I did post this today on another thread that digressed into this topic:

Said the cleric to the immodestly dressing young woman after the earthquake, "It's all your fault!" (you may have had to attend a geology class to appreciate the pun or not)

Geology rocks!

Charley Igneous Noble


19 Apr 10 - 04:32 PM (#2890070)
Subject: RE: BS: 'Promiscuous women cause quakes'
From: SINSULL

...and social diseases."


19 Apr 10 - 04:34 PM (#2890073)
Subject: RE: BS: 'Promiscuous women cause quakes'
From: Bill D

well... I missed that, Charley... Does it deserve its own thread? *shrug*...but it does illustrate, to me, the difficulty involved in even allowing morality to be judged and the will of 'higher powers' to BE interpreted by any group of (usually) men who seek to perpetuate controls over both women and society in general.

Someone...someday.... is going to have to object...loudly.


19 Apr 10 - 04:44 PM (#2890082)
Subject: RE: BS: 'Promiscuous women cause quakes'
From: bobad

"Someone...someday.... is going to have to object...loudly. "

Unfortunately the Mad Mullahs control the government which controls the men with guns.


19 Apr 10 - 04:44 PM (#2890084)
Subject: RE: BS: 'Promiscuous women cause quakes'
From: Alice

... and promiscuous means not dressing fully covered up in public, including not completely covering the hair on your head. Maybe a few virgins need to be sacrificed to the volcano god?


19 Apr 10 - 04:47 PM (#2890088)
Subject: RE: BS: 'Promiscuous women cause quakes'
From: McGrath of Harlow

"Did the Earth move for you?"


19 Apr 10 - 04:51 PM (#2890092)
Subject: RE: BS: 'Promiscuous women cause quakes'
From: Sorcha

Makes as much 'sense' as 'Rev' Phelps contentions!


19 Apr 10 - 05:31 PM (#2890115)
Subject: RE: BS: 'Promiscuous women cause quakes'
From: Georgiansilver

ROFLOL @ McG of H


19 Apr 10 - 05:42 PM (#2890126)
Subject: RE: BS: 'Promiscuous women cause quakes'
From: dick greenhaus

Hell. They got it wrong. It's the fault of the gays and lesbians.


19 Apr 10 - 06:22 PM (#2890155)
Subject: RE: BS: 'Promiscuous women cause quakes'
From: mousethief

Lesbians with their hair showing cause plate tectonics. Didn't they teach you anything in school?


19 Apr 10 - 06:37 PM (#2890167)
Subject: RE: BS: 'Promiscuous women cause quakes'
From: katlaughing

*sigh*...BillDarlin'...if only you'd check before starting a new thread...I scooped you in the passion thread! Nyah, nyah, nayah!:-)


19 Apr 10 - 06:45 PM (#2890169)
Subject: RE: BS: 'Promiscuous women cause quakes'
From: Bill D

hmmppfff...cain't read ALL of 'em. Anyway, this way I get 'special notice'...


19 Apr 10 - 06:55 PM (#2890172)
Subject: RE: BS: 'Promiscuous women cause quakes'
From: Rowan

Now, where was "there's a whole lot of shakin' goin' on" recorded?

I'll bet it was somewhere near a fault line. And it was certainly associated with a lot of promiscuity.

Cheers, Rowan


19 Apr 10 - 07:06 PM (#2890184)
Subject: RE: BS: 'Promiscuous women cause quakes'
From: Richard Bridge

Cleft of ages, rock for me.


19 Apr 10 - 07:18 PM (#2890194)
Subject: RE: BS: 'Promiscuous women cause quakes'
From: JennieG

Goodness gracious, great balls of fire!

Oh no, sorry, that's volcanoes not earthquakes isn't it......mind you, they're connected.

Cheers
JennieG


19 Apr 10 - 07:46 PM (#2890224)
Subject: RE: BS: 'Promiscuous women cause quakes'
From: Rapparee

The quaking you do is directly proportional to the proximity of your wife or other significant other.


19 Apr 10 - 07:49 PM (#2890227)
Subject: RE: BS: 'Promiscuous women cause quakes'
From: Rowan

You know, I'd never thought of Quakers as Promiscuous.

Cheers, Rowan


19 Apr 10 - 08:19 PM (#2890259)
Subject: RE: BS: 'Promiscuous women cause quakes'
From: Joe_F

According to some orthodox Jews, it is *sodomy* that causes earthquakes.


19 Apr 10 - 08:34 PM (#2890268)
Subject: RE: BS: 'Promiscuous women cause quakes'
From: Amos

Bill:

Your comments are not very gneiss.


A


19 Apr 10 - 08:36 PM (#2890270)
Subject: RE: BS: 'Promiscuous women cause quakes'
From: Rowan

Amos, Bill was just trying to be magmatic.

Cheers, Rowan


19 Apr 10 - 08:54 PM (#2890279)
Subject: RE: BS: 'Promiscuous women cause quakes'
From: Sorcha

OH gods...I can't decide who to aim the LOL/ROF at!

I do rather think that Iceland is 'trying to set the night on fire' tho!

Sorry, no pun, laffing too hard!


(oh dear...just had a thought...what if the Daughter wears an itsy bitsy bikini at the lake this summer? Will we all sink out of sight?)


19 Apr 10 - 08:54 PM (#2890280)
Subject: RE: BS: 'Promiscuous women cause quakes'
From: mousethief

Amos, don't make an ash of yourself.


19 Apr 10 - 10:04 PM (#2890315)
Subject: RE: BS: 'Promiscuous women cause quakes'
From: Bill D

"Your comments are not very gneiss."

and yours are full of schist....

(I just took it for granite that everyone would understand)


19 Apr 10 - 10:22 PM (#2890321)
Subject: RE: BS: 'Promiscuous women cause quakes'
From: mousethief

I think you've lost your marbles. And I shale go on thinking that.


19 Apr 10 - 10:22 PM (#2890323)
Subject: RE: BS: 'Promiscuous women cause quakes'
From: katlaughing

I'm guessing this would not be one of their fav. songs: I Feel the Earth Move.


19 Apr 10 - 10:32 PM (#2890334)
Subject: RE: BS: 'Promiscuous women cause quakes'
From: Rowan

Amos, you and Bill cause me to lava lot


19 Apr 10 - 10:48 PM (#2890341)
Subject: RE: BS: 'Promiscuous women cause quakes'
From: Ed T

What does Christianity suggest?
http://jmm.aaa.net.au/articles/14227.htm


19 Apr 10 - 10:56 PM (#2890344)
Subject: RE: BS: 'Promiscuous women cause quakes'
From: Ed T

"Earthquakes are Gods way of saying, Don't sleep in the nude"
(anon)


19 Apr 10 - 11:07 PM (#2890350)
Subject: RE: BS: 'Promiscuous women cause quakes'
From: Amos

Nudes are God's way of saying, "Don't sleep".


A


19 Apr 10 - 11:11 PM (#2890356)
Subject: RE: BS: 'Promiscuous women cause quakes'
From: Ed T

What about these ways to predict earthquakes...not to detract from the Promiscuous women theory?

http://quakestar.org/theories.htm


19 Apr 10 - 11:23 PM (#2890360)
Subject: RE: BS: 'Promiscuous women cause quakes'
From: katlaughing

Interesting stuff, Ed T. Not sure if you were around when I posted about my brother's theories on music and earthquake prevention in THIS old THREAD.


20 Apr 10 - 12:34 AM (#2890389)
Subject: RE: BS: 'Promiscuous women cause quakes'
From: Rowan

I see the punsters are on strike and there's been a dip in the level of frivolity.

Being an unconformist I avoid the religious sites.

Cheers, Rowan


20 Apr 10 - 10:28 AM (#2890617)
Subject: RE: BS: 'Promiscuous women cause quakes'
From: Charley Noble

Bill-

In geology lab we also learned a lot about "cleavage and bedding relationships," but not quite as much as we would have liked.

Charley Igneous Noble


20 Apr 10 - 11:22 AM (#2890648)
Subject: RE: BS: 'Promiscuous women cause quakes'
From: Ed T

Speaking about good or bad vibrations, this public service minded woman one got hit with legal action:http://goliath.ecnext.com/coms2/gi_0199-1875412/Good-vibration-in-Burleson-one.html


20 Apr 10 - 12:48 PM (#2890683)
Subject: RE: BS: 'Promiscuous women cause quakes'
From: Mrs.Duck

Only if we jump up and down all together ;)


20 Apr 10 - 01:00 PM (#2890695)
Subject: RE: BS: 'Promiscuous women cause quakes'
From: mousethief

What about if we jump up and down in our altogether?


20 Apr 10 - 05:36 PM (#2890886)
Subject: RE: BS: 'Promiscuous women cause quakes'
From: Royston

Careful MT, you'll make the bed-rock. And remember: that sort of subduction always leads to orogeny!


20 Apr 10 - 05:42 PM (#2890895)
Subject: RE: BS: 'Promiscuous women cause quakes'
From: Royston

I think the crazy cleric is saying that it would be safer for folks to stay at home and lead a more sedimentary lifestyle.


20 Apr 10 - 06:04 PM (#2890910)
Subject: RE: BS: 'Promiscuous women cause quakes'
From: Bill D

In my 111 Geology class, we had 2 exams where we had to identify first minerals, then rocks from samples the grad' asst. laid out on tables.

During the rock test, as I was walking from table to table, I glanced over at the grad. asst. where he sat reading.

He was reading "The Myth of Sisyphus". I almost couldn't concentrate on the exam.


20 Apr 10 - 06:09 PM (#2890914)
Subject: RE: BS: 'Promiscuous women cause quakes'
From: Ed T

Are there alot of EQuakes in NZ?

Why Kiwi women are world's most promiscuous
Wellington, Sun, 14 Mar 2010 ANI

Wellington, March 14 (ANI): Kiwi women are the most sexually experienced in the world, thanks to the nation's blokes.

A global survey on market research website onepoll.com has revealed that New Zealand women are the most promiscuous in the world, with an average of 20.4 sexual partners in a lifetime, more than any other nationality.
   
And sexologist Dr Michelle Mars puts the result down to the failings of Kiwi blokes."New Zealand men aren't very good at picking up women unless they're really drunk. So what tends to happen is in New Zealand, women are just as likely to ask men to have sex as men are to ask women," New Zealand Herald quoted her as saying.

"While a lot of people would read that statistic quite negatively, I think it's quite a positive. It's more of a gender balance in people getting the kind of sex they want," she added.

Former gossip columnist Bridget Saunders thinks New Zealand women are 'incredibly sexually active' and is worried by the trend.

"A lot of it is to do with the new 'ladette' culture. It's almost like wanting to be one of the boys, or to be more like one of the boys than the boys are themselves," Saunders said. (ANI)


20 Apr 10 - 06:10 PM (#2890915)
Subject: RE: BS: 'Promiscuous women cause quakes'
From: VirginiaTam

I'm a big fat Mamma got some meat shakin on my bones
And everytime I set to shakin some prophetic dimwit loses his home


20 Apr 10 - 06:17 PM (#2890919)
Subject: RE: BS: 'Promiscuous women cause quakes'
From: Ed T

"Some women, presumably because prayer didn't quite do it for them, told Meston they had sex to get closer to God".

http://www.canada.com/life/story.html?id=2158608


20 Apr 10 - 06:19 PM (#2890921)
Subject: RE: BS: 'Promiscuous women cause quakes'
From: Don Firth

Methinks that Iranian senior cleric must be somehow related to Pat Robertson, but their theories on the origins of earthquakes tend to diverge a bit. Robertson pronounced that the Haitian earthquake was God's punishment for the Haitians rebelling against their French slave-masters many years ago, and for practicing voodoo.

And all this time I thought it had something to do with plate techtonics!

(Well, that is a kind of "cleavage," isn't it?)

Don Firth


20 Apr 10 - 06:35 PM (#2890931)
Subject: RE: BS: 'Promiscuous women cause quakes'
From: Ed T

"And everytime I set to shakin some prophetic dimwit loses his home"

A prenuptial agreement could limit that:)


20 Apr 10 - 07:15 PM (#2890963)
Subject: RE: BS: 'Promiscuous women cause quakes'
From: Rowan

A prenuptial agreement could limit that

That's a pretty tuff proposition, Ed.


20 Apr 10 - 08:44 PM (#2891015)
Subject: RE: BS: 'Promiscuous women cause quakes'
From: Charley Noble

BillD-

"The Myth of Sisyphus"?

Well, some would say there was not a bolder quest.

Others would take it as a challenge in terms of getting their rocks off.

But ultimately it's so much micca schist!

Charley Igneous Noble


20 Apr 10 - 08:59 PM (#2891021)
Subject: RE: BS: 'Promiscuous women cause quakes'
From: The Fooles Troupe

Qakin' a-all o-o-o-over-r-r-r-r....


20 Apr 10 - 09:44 PM (#2891040)
Subject: RE: BS: 'Promiscuous women cause quakes'
From: katlaughing

Is that what happened to the Rock of Ages?


20 Apr 10 - 10:05 PM (#2891048)
Subject: RE: BS: 'Promiscuous women cause quakes'
From: Ed T

How would you rate a promiscuous women on the E-Richter scale, Charles? Nudge, Nudge, know what I mean.


20 Apr 10 - 10:08 PM (#2891052)
Subject: RE: BS: 'Promiscuous women cause quakes'
From: Bill D

"
Others would take it as a challenge in terms of getting their rocks off.


When I worked for the Wichita U. physical plant as an asst. carpenter, we had a project to build new storage shelves for the Geology dept....for cores and other mineral samples.
One day, an old carpenter with a weird sense of humor was standing in the hall on a break..(probably timed it to watch the girls). Wen someone would ask what was going on in that room, he'd look thoughtful and reply..."Oh, we're just helping these folks get their rocks off.............the floor." I think he pulled that 4-5 times that week.


20 Apr 10 - 10:21 PM (#2891057)
Subject: RE: BS: 'Promiscuous women cause quakes'
From: Richard Bridge

Damn! How much is a ticket to New Zealand?


20 Apr 10 - 10:39 PM (#2891065)
Subject: RE: BS: 'Promiscuous women cause quakes'
From: Rowan

Kiwi women are world's most promiscuous

It's why NZ is colloquially known as "The Shaky Isles".

Cheers, Rowan


21 Apr 10 - 09:41 AM (#2891319)
Subject: RE: BS: 'Promiscuous women cause quakes'
From: Charley Noble

Ed T-

"How would you rate a promiscuous women on the E-Richter scale"?

Well, the scale runs between zero and nine or so . . . That's a tough one! It's a whole new kettle of kames.

Charley Noble


21 Apr 10 - 11:49 AM (#2891391)
Subject: RE: BS: 'Promiscuous women cause quakes'
From: Mr Red

& I thought Global Warming was the most recent addition to the cause.


21 Apr 10 - 12:14 PM (#2891406)
Subject: RE: BS: 'Promiscuous women cause quakes'
From: GUEST,TIA

To that Mullah, I would say:

"Upper Jurassic!"


21 Apr 10 - 06:17 PM (#2891650)
Subject: RE: BS: 'Promiscuous women cause quakes'
From: Joe_F

'When Benjamin Franklin invented the lightning rod, the clergy, both in England and America, with the enthusiastic support of George III, condemned it as an impious attempt to defeat the will of God. For, as all right-thinking people were aware, lightning is sent by God to punish impiety or some other grave sin-the virtuous are never struck by lightning. Therefore if God wants to strike any one, Benjamin Franklin ought not to defeat His design; indeed, to do so is helping criminals to escape. But God was equal to the occasion, if we are to believe the eminent Dr. Price, one of the leading divines of Boston. Lightning having been rendered ineffectual by the "iron points invented by the sagacious Dr. Franklin," Massachusetts was shaken by earthquakes, which Dr. Price perceived to be due to God's wrath at the "iron points." In a sermon on the subject he said, "In Boston are more erected than elsewhere in New England, and Boston seems to be more dreadfully shaken. Oh! there is no getting out of the mighty hand of God." Apparently, however, Providence gave up all hope of curing Boston of its wickedness, for, though lightning rods became more and more common, earthquakes in Massachusetts have remained rare. Nevertheless, Dr. Price's point of view, or something very like it, is still held by one of the most influential of living men. When, at one time, there were several bad earthquakes in India, Mahatma Gandhi solemnly warned his compatriots that these disasters had been sent as a punishment for their sins.' -- Bertrand Russell, "An Outline of Intellectual Rubbish"


21 Apr 10 - 06:18 PM (#2891653)
Subject: RE: BS: 'Promiscuous women cause quakes'
From: Amos

Russell was a man who knew how to turn a phrase with not too fine a point. Gotta love the guy.


A


21 Apr 10 - 07:07 PM (#2891688)
Subject: RE: BS: 'Promiscuous women cause quakes'
From: gnu

Indeed!


21 Apr 10 - 07:33 PM (#2891704)
Subject: RE: BS: 'Promiscuous women cause quakes'
From: The Fooles Troupe

"Damn! How much is a ticket to New Zealand? "

One way, or return?

:-P


21 Apr 10 - 07:36 PM (#2891706)
Subject: RE: BS: 'Promiscuous women cause quakes'
From: GUEST,Jonny Sunshine

This cleric is completely wrong. The primary cause of earthquakes is filthy-minded sexually repressed men.


21 Apr 10 - 08:46 PM (#2891744)
Subject: RE: BS: 'Promiscuous women cause quakes'
From: Uncle_DaveO

Johnny Sunshine said:

This cleric is completely wrong. The primary cause of earthquakes is filthy-minded sexually repressed men.

Now you're attacking ME!!! I confidently expect divine retribution from Max, Joe Offer, or some clone or other!

Dave Oesterreich


22 Apr 10 - 08:05 AM (#2891983)
Subject: RE: BS: 'Promiscuous women cause quakes'
From: GUEST,Mary Brennan

I want to know who decides these things. Does anyone remember that programme on the telly (I think it was Louis Theroux) about that group of Americans who had decided that God was killing Americans in Iraq as punishment for homosexuality? They used to go to funerals and gloat. It was horrible!


22 Apr 10 - 08:37 AM (#2892000)
Subject: RE: BS: 'Promiscuous women cause quakes'
From: Richard Bridge

Oh no, Foole, you never do it just one way (if you have the chance).


23 Apr 10 - 09:03 AM (#2892715)
Subject: RE: BS: 'Promiscuous women cause quakes'
From: bobad

'Boobquake' an answer for Iranian cleric's earthquake claims


American university student Jen McCreight created Boobquake to protest a statement made by an Islamic cleric claiming female immodesty caused earthquakes. Jennifer McCreight/Handout American university student Jen McCreight created Boobquake to protest a statement made by an Islamic cleric claiming female immodesty caused earthquakes.

An Islamic cleric's suggestion that immodestly dressed women cause earthquakes has drawn thousands to join an American student's busty bid to shake up the world -- by revealing cleavage.

Jen McCreight is the creator of Boobquake, an event scheduled for Monday, which has already garnered the support of more than 40,000 people on Facebook.

Ms. McCreight, a 22-year-old attending Purdue University in Indiana, is pushing women to bare their breast cleavage for a day to satirize Islamic cleric Hojatoleslam Kazem Sedighi, who recently blamed earthquakes on immodest female clothing.


http://www.nationalpost.com/news/story.html?id=2939431


23 Apr 10 - 10:49 AM (#2892770)
Subject: RE: BS: 'Promiscuous women cause quakes'
From: Don(Wyziwyg)T

I've just patented a bed with swinging arm dynamic link suspension, heavy duty hydraulic shock absorbers, and limited slip duvet.

No more earthquakes, but the fun goes on!    Luvly Jubbly!

I tell yer Rodney, this time next year we'll be millionaires.

Del Boy.


23 Apr 10 - 12:20 PM (#2892837)
Subject: RE: BS: 'Promiscuous women cause quakes'
From: Bill D

I have seen ads (years ago)for motels with vibrating beds and mirrored ceilings....I wonder if they still exist?


23 Apr 10 - 06:55 PM (#2893055)
Subject: RE: BS: 'Promiscuous women cause quakes'
From: Ed T

"Promiscuous women cause premature eruptions"