BS: 'Promiscuous women cause quakes'

Subject: BS: 'Promiscuous women cause quakes'
From: Bill D
Date: 19 Apr 10 - 04:24 PM

"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."

Subject: RE: BS: 'Promiscuous women cause quakes'
From: Charley Noble
Date: 19 Apr 10 - 04:29 PM

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

Subject: RE: BS: 'Promiscuous women cause quakes'
From: SINSULL
Date: 19 Apr 10 - 04:32 PM

...and social diseases."

Subject: RE: BS: 'Promiscuous women cause quakes'
From: Bill D
Date: 19 Apr 10 - 04:34 PM

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.

Subject: RE: BS: 'Promiscuous women cause quakes'
From: bobad
Date: 19 Apr 10 - 04:44 PM

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

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

Subject: RE: BS: 'Promiscuous women cause quakes'
From: Alice
Date: 19 Apr 10 - 04:44 PM

... 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?

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

"Did the Earth move for you?"

Subject: RE: BS: 'Promiscuous women cause quakes'
From: Sorcha
Date: 19 Apr 10 - 04:51 PM

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

Subject: RE: BS: 'Promiscuous women cause quakes'
From: Georgiansilver
Date: 19 Apr 10 - 05:31 PM

ROFLOL @ McG of H

Subject: RE: BS: 'Promiscuous women cause quakes'
From: dick greenhaus
Date: 19 Apr 10 - 05:42 PM

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

Subject: RE: BS: 'Promiscuous women cause quakes'
From: mousethief
Date: 19 Apr 10 - 06:22 PM

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

Subject: RE: BS: 'Promiscuous women cause quakes'
From: katlaughing
Date: 19 Apr 10 - 06:37 PM

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

Subject: RE: BS: 'Promiscuous women cause quakes'
From: Bill D
Date: 19 Apr 10 - 06:45 PM

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

Subject: RE: BS: 'Promiscuous women cause quakes'
From: Rowan
Date: 19 Apr 10 - 06:55 PM

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

Subject: RE: BS: 'Promiscuous women cause quakes'
From: Richard Bridge
Date: 19 Apr 10 - 07:06 PM

Cleft of ages, rock for me.

Subject: RE: BS: 'Promiscuous women cause quakes'
From: JennieG
Date: 19 Apr 10 - 07:18 PM

Goodness gracious, great balls of fire!

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

Cheers
JennieG

Subject: RE: BS: 'Promiscuous women cause quakes'
From: Rapparee
Date: 19 Apr 10 - 07:46 PM

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

Subject: RE: BS: 'Promiscuous women cause quakes'
From: Rowan
Date: 19 Apr 10 - 07:49 PM

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

Cheers, Rowan

Subject: RE: BS: 'Promiscuous women cause quakes'
From: Joe_F
Date: 19 Apr 10 - 08:19 PM

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

Subject: RE: BS: 'Promiscuous women cause quakes'
From: Amos
Date: 19 Apr 10 - 08:34 PM

Bill:

Your comments are not very gneiss.


A

Subject: RE: BS: 'Promiscuous women cause quakes'
From: Rowan
Date: 19 Apr 10 - 08:36 PM

Amos, Bill was just trying to be magmatic.

Cheers, Rowan

Subject: RE: BS: 'Promiscuous women cause quakes'
From: Sorcha
Date: 19 Apr 10 - 08:54 PM

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?)

Subject: RE: BS: 'Promiscuous women cause quakes'
From: mousethief
Date: 19 Apr 10 - 08:54 PM

Amos, don't make an ash of yourself.

Subject: RE: BS: 'Promiscuous women cause quakes'
From: Bill D
Date: 19 Apr 10 - 10:04 PM

"Your comments are not very gneiss."

and yours are full of schist....

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

Subject: RE: BS: 'Promiscuous women cause quakes'
From: mousethief
Date: 19 Apr 10 - 10:22 PM

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

Subject: RE: BS: 'Promiscuous women cause quakes'
From: katlaughing
Date: 19 Apr 10 - 10:22 PM

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

Subject: RE: BS: 'Promiscuous women cause quakes'
From: Rowan
Date: 19 Apr 10 - 10:32 PM

Amos, you and Bill cause me to lava lot

Subject: RE: BS: 'Promiscuous women cause quakes'
From: Ed T
Date: 19 Apr 10 - 10:48 PM

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

Subject: RE: BS: 'Promiscuous women cause quakes'
From: Ed T
Date: 19 Apr 10 - 10:56 PM

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

Subject: RE: BS: 'Promiscuous women cause quakes'
From: Amos
Date: 19 Apr 10 - 11:07 PM

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


A

Subject: RE: BS: 'Promiscuous women cause quakes'
From: Ed T
Date: 19 Apr 10 - 11:11 PM

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

http://quakestar.org/theories.htm

Subject: RE: BS: 'Promiscuous women cause quakes'
From: katlaughing
Date: 19 Apr 10 - 11:23 PM

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.

Subject: RE: BS: 'Promiscuous women cause quakes'
From: Rowan
Date: 20 Apr 10 - 12:34 AM

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

Subject: RE: BS: 'Promiscuous women cause quakes'
From: Charley Noble
Date: 20 Apr 10 - 10:28 AM

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

Subject: RE: BS: 'Promiscuous women cause quakes'
From: Ed T
Date: 20 Apr 10 - 11:22 AM

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

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

Only if we jump up and down all together ;)

Subject: RE: BS: 'Promiscuous women cause quakes'
From: mousethief
Date: 20 Apr 10 - 01:00 PM

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

Subject: RE: BS: 'Promiscuous women cause quakes'
From: Royston
Date: 20 Apr 10 - 05:36 PM

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

Subject: RE: BS: 'Promiscuous women cause quakes'
From: Royston
Date: 20 Apr 10 - 05:42 PM

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

Subject: RE: BS: 'Promiscuous women cause quakes'
From: Bill D
Date: 20 Apr 10 - 06:04 PM

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.

Subject: RE: BS: 'Promiscuous women cause quakes'
From: Ed T
Date: 20 Apr 10 - 06:09 PM

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)

Subject: RE: BS: 'Promiscuous women cause quakes'
From: VirginiaTam
Date: 20 Apr 10 - 06:10 PM

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

Subject: RE: BS: 'Promiscuous women cause quakes'
From: Ed T
Date: 20 Apr 10 - 06:17 PM

"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

Subject: RE: BS: 'Promiscuous women cause quakes'
From: Don Firth
Date: 20 Apr 10 - 06:19 PM

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

Subject: RE: BS: 'Promiscuous women cause quakes'
From: Ed T
Date: 20 Apr 10 - 06:35 PM

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

A prenuptial agreement could limit that:)

Subject: RE: BS: 'Promiscuous women cause quakes'
From: Rowan
Date: 20 Apr 10 - 07:15 PM

A prenuptial agreement could limit that

That's a pretty tuff proposition, Ed.

Subject: RE: BS: 'Promiscuous women cause quakes'
From: Charley Noble
Date: 20 Apr 10 - 08:44 PM

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

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

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

Subject: RE: BS: 'Promiscuous women cause quakes'
From: katlaughing
Date: 20 Apr 10 - 09:44 PM

Is that what happened to the Rock of Ages?

Subject: RE: BS: 'Promiscuous women cause quakes'
From: Ed T
Date: 20 Apr 10 - 10:05 PM

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

Subject: RE: BS: 'Promiscuous women cause quakes'
From: Bill D
Date: 20 Apr 10 - 10:08 PM

"
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.

Subject: RE: BS: 'Promiscuous women cause quakes'
From: Richard Bridge
Date: 20 Apr 10 - 10:21 PM

Damn! How much is a ticket to New Zealand?

Subject: RE: BS: 'Promiscuous women cause quakes'
From: Rowan
Date: 20 Apr 10 - 10:39 PM

Kiwi women are world's most promiscuous

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

Cheers, Rowan

Subject: RE: BS: 'Promiscuous women cause quakes'
From: Charley Noble
Date: 21 Apr 10 - 09:41 AM

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

Subject: RE: BS: 'Promiscuous women cause quakes'
From: Mr Red
Date: 21 Apr 10 - 11:49 AM

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

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

To that Mullah, I would say:

"Upper Jurassic!"

Subject: RE: BS: 'Promiscuous women cause quakes'
From: Joe_F
Date: 21 Apr 10 - 06:17 PM

'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"

Subject: RE: BS: 'Promiscuous women cause quakes'
From: Amos
Date: 21 Apr 10 - 06:18 PM

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


A

Subject: RE: BS: 'Promiscuous women cause quakes'
From: gnu
Date: 21 Apr 10 - 07:07 PM

Indeed!

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

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

One way, or return?

:-P

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

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

Subject: RE: BS: 'Promiscuous women cause quakes'
From: Uncle_DaveO
Date: 21 Apr 10 - 08:46 PM

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

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

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!

Subject: RE: BS: 'Promiscuous women cause quakes'
From: Richard Bridge
Date: 22 Apr 10 - 08:37 AM

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

Subject: RE: BS: 'Promiscuous women cause quakes'
From: bobad
Date: 23 Apr 10 - 09:03 AM

'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

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

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.

Subject: RE: BS: 'Promiscuous women cause quakes'
From: Bill D
Date: 23 Apr 10 - 12:20 PM

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

Subject: RE: BS: 'Promiscuous women cause quakes'
From: Ed T
Date: 23 Apr 10 - 06:55 PM

"Promiscuous women cause premature eruptions"