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by inthane-chan
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1/15/02 12:37:59 AM
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New Hate to poop on your parade...
THE EYE OF THE NEEDLE. This phrase is commonly misinterpreted as impossibility. The "eye of the needle" referred to the low, narrow, easily defended portal left open at night in city fortifications. A camel could indeed pass through the "eye of the needle", but with great difficulty, shuffling on it's knees. Horses don't do that, so hostile cavelry was pretty much excluded. This was by design.


Turns out that's not quite true, at least according to [link|http://www.wnetc.com/scripture-l/Footnotes/Footnotes2.html|this]...

In fact, if the author is to be believed, it was an attempt by the clergy to hold onto that upper crust that you talk about them losing...

I was about to post the same thing in this thread, and did a google search on it. That's what came up.
"He who fights with monsters might take care lest he thereby become a monster. And if you gaze for long into an abyss, the abyss gazes also into you." - Friedrich Nietzsche
Post #24,401
by Ashton
1/15/02 4:56:57 AM
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New It may be that it doesn't matter, too.
Just this one phrase can launch a PhD thesis or two; add in all the other ones and.. why you could create an entire priesthood! to endlessly reascribe, retranslate and reinterpret every word. And we can all see how silly That would be, now can't we?

Funny how most Sufi sayings are so clear that - you have to work really hard to miss the point being made. Even translated to Engrish.

Wonder why that is?


A.
     Missing - have you seen our executatives? - (Simon_Jester) - (22) - Jan. 10, 2002, 01:23:31 PM EST
         It was after all, a Texas-sized scam - (Ashton) - (7) - Jan. 10, 2002, 04:19:05 PM EST
             Well, DoJ will investigate Enron case. - (a6l6e6x) - (6) - Jan. 10, 2002, 04:41:34 PM EST
                 Don't agree with regulation proposal - (bbronson) - (2) - Jan. 10, 2002, 05:46:48 PM EST
                     No blackouts on 401K - (Arkadiy) - Jan. 10, 2002, 06:11:56 PM EST
                     Re: Don't agree with regulation proposal - (a6l6e6x) - Jan. 11, 2002, 11:10:03 AM EST
                 To harsh - (JayMehaffey) - Jan. 10, 2002, 08:02:43 PM EST
                 More important is the company match - (bconnors) - (1) - Jan. 10, 2002, 10:37:51 PM EST
                     Good point! -NT - (a6l6e6x) - Jan. 11, 2002, 11:11:46 AM EST
         Smash and grab! - (nking) - (13) - Jan. 11, 2002, 02:08:50 PM EST
             All that's true, but I'm terribly... - (Ric Locke) - (12) - Jan. 13, 2002, 11:23:11 AM EST
                 Share your pain, but pretty much inured by now.. - (Ashton) - (2) - Jan. 13, 2002, 03:42:47 PM EST
                     ::sigh:: No, I don't expect - (Ric Locke) - (1) - Jan. 14, 2002, 12:05:23 AM EST
                         Not a bad angle, that - (Ashton) - Jan. 14, 2002, 06:32:21 AM EST
                 Marx was innocent - (mhuber) - (8) - Jan. 13, 2002, 07:14:42 PM EST
                     Forget Marx, Jesus had it right. - (nking) - (7) - Jan. 13, 2002, 10:29:20 PM EST
                         Equally unrealistic, in a changed world. - (Andrew Grygus) - (6) - Jan. 13, 2002, 11:16:03 PM EST
                             Not sure much has changed - (mhuber) - (3) - Jan. 13, 2002, 11:51:05 PM EST
                                 Small disagreement - (Ashton) - Jan. 14, 2002, 06:50:47 AM EST
                                 I'm not sure the Roman occupation was anything new to them. - (tseliot) - (1) - Jan. 14, 2002, 04:11:14 PM EST
                                     At times, things went bad - (nking) - Jan. 14, 2002, 04:34:00 PM EST
                             Hate to poop on your parade... - (inthane-chan) - (1) - Jan. 15, 2002, 12:37:59 AM EST
                                 It may be that it doesn't matter, too. - (Ashton) - Jan. 15, 2002, 04:56:57 AM EST

In th' stables, m'lord.
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