Earle Martin wrote:
On 21/10/06, Ray Saintonge saintonge@telus.net wrote:
I suppose that a crusade is just as socially acceptable among Muslims as a jihad is among Christians.
I can only conclude that you are trolling me, and consequently I shall skip your next few paragraphs.
My apologies I thought I was only feeding a troll. I couldn't resist the temptation to respond to the introduction of the concept of jihad. The reference to the lesser and greater jihad was a fantastic opportunity for me to inform myself about an element of Islamic theology. Connecting this with sloth inspired me to look into the origin of the theology of the seven deadly sins; I learned something else. It was disappointing to realize that I was only dealing with poetaster theology.
Some of us who feed trolls should also know when to stop.
Excellent! It establishes that you were preaching the lesser jihad whereby thes comic book articles would be conquered by the sword, instead of having people examine their own motivations for expanding these articles.
No, I was espousing the greater application of discipline by editors as part of Wikipedia's collective mind. "Whereby these comic book articles would be conquered by the sword" is an absurd straw man.
A further apology for crediting you with the ability to understand the metaphorical. I have the bad habit of forgetting that fundamentalists have this problem.
What, and then they would be converted to, say, articles about Hemingway? No, don't even bother answering that question.
Thank you, I won't discuss Hemingway.
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