ISIS declare war on Japan

A Japanese man believed to be a mercenary operating in Syria has been filmed being tied up and interrogated at knifepoint by ISIS jihadists speaking in British accents.

Japan says it is investigating claims that one of its citizens has been captured by militants near Aleppo, as evidence emerged that the captured man appeared to be a self-styled security contractor.

A video clip posted on YouTube showed a T-shirt clad man lying on the ground being questioned by unidentified persons and responding that he was Japanese and that his name was Haruna Yukawa.

He told his captives that he was a journalist and doctor, but reports have subsequently emerged that his name matches that of the chief executive of a self-described 'private mercenary' and military firm.

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2727683/Japanese-mercenary-captured-interrogated-knifepoint-ISIS-jihadists-British-accents-Syria.html#ixzz3AkHalA2U

The Puzzler wrote:

Fuzzy Zack wrote:

Lol!

Oh, no! How dare they move you're precious thread.

I notice Ben or some other mod has been getting a lot more hands on lately, first changing my thread titles and now this. Sarcy fucker

Original Quill wrote:

Fuzzy Zack wrote:
I think you'll find Jesus believed in Tahweed too. Which I tried to explain in the most simplest terms (the belief in the bearded man).

You said can you be a Muslim without believing in the bearded man and I said, no.

Can't make it simpler than that.

Thank you.  Have you ever shaken hands with this old man?  Had a beer with him?  

Lone Wolf wrote:

Original Quill wrote:

Thank you.  Have you ever shaken hands with this old man?  Had a beer with him?  

::=|Q::

GOD keeps a weekender down on the western shores of Lake Macquarie, aka "Paradise"...

AS I SAID to him at afternoon tea on Saturday: "Doesn't it get tiresome hearing so many bozo's, zealots and sophists who are all so keen to declare that they alone 'know the mind of God' all the time ?"

"OCH AYE, old bean.." the charitable old deity replied, "..they're all as boring as bat shit and twice as crazy. Pass me another beer, there's a good chap; thee's a gentleman and a scholar.."  

Original Quill wrote:

Lone Wolf wrote:
::=|Q::

GOD keeps a weekender down on the western shores of Lake Macquarie, aka "Paradise"...

AS I SAID to him at afternoon tea on Saturday: "Doesn't it get tiresome hearing so many bozo's, zealots and sophists who are all so keen to declare that they alone 'know the mind of God' all the time ?"

"OCH AYE, old bean.." the charitable old deity replied, "..they're all as boring as bat shit and twice as crazy. Pass me another beer, there's a good chap; thee's a gentleman and a scholar.."  

Now that's a diety I can have a drink with.  That's all I've been asking for...that, and he pays.

Didge wrote:

Original Quill wrote:

Now that's a diety I can have a drink with.  That's all I've been asking for...that, and he pays.

The thing is though Quill, while I admire the concept you follow on Jesus's teachings it is flawed for the simple fact being Jesus was a man and yes a great teacher he advocated abandonment of families, where his followers left all to follow him. This is not something I would advocate to any, with a family. As I say, he had many great things to say and was way ahead of his time, but as seen he did have flaws also

Original Quill wrote:

Didge wrote:



The thing is though Quill, while I admire the concept you follow on Jesus's teachings it is flawed for the simple fact being Jesus was a man and yes a great teacher he advocated abandonment of families, where his followers left all to follow him. This is not something I would advocate to any, with a family. As I say, he had many great things to say and was way ahead of his time, but as seen he did have flaws also

I've heard you say this before, Didge.  I have never seen a scripture of his advocating family abandonment.  But that's really not the important thing.

I look at it differently...especially since I think we will argue the above point ad nauseam.  Jean Jacques Rousseau was the originator of social theory.  Herbert Marcuse, Reason and Revolution: Hegel and the Rise of Social Theory (1941).  Some say he also abandoned his children.

Do you think it would be wise to abandon social theory for that reason?  What Christ advocated was an early brand of humanism, which has grown and flowered despite all the Pauline Church has done to squelch it.  Would that other religions harbored that theme and quality.

Luke 10-29 wrote:Jesus looked at him and said, "How hard it is for the rich to enter the kingdom of God!  Indeed, it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of God."  Those who heard this asked, "Who then can be saved?"  Jesus replied, "What is impossible with men is possible with God."  Peter said to him, "We have left all we had to follow you!" (29) "I tell you the truth," Jesus said to them, "no one who has left home or wife or brothers or parents or children for the sake of the kingdom of God 30 will fail to receive many times as much in this age and, in the age to come, eternal life."

Wiki wrote:Luke, was born in Antioch, by profession, was a physician. He had become a disciple of the apostle Paul and later followed Paul until his [Paul's] martyrdom. Having served the Lord continuously, unmarried and without children, filled with the Holy Spirit he died at the age of 84 years.

Original Quill wrote:Bit of a ruse there, Didge.  Give the whole quote from Luke:

Luke 10-29 wrote:Jesus looked at him and said, "How hard it is for the rich to enter the kingdom of God!  Indeed, it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of God."  Those who heard this asked, "Who then can be saved?"  Jesus replied, "What is impossible with men is possible with God."  Peter said to him, "We have left all we had to follow you!" (29) "I tell you the truth," Jesus said to them, "no one who has left home or wife or brothers or parents or children for the sake of the kingdom of God 30 will fail to receive many times as much in this age and, in the age to come, eternal life."

Is he advocating that, or using it as a point of emphasis to argue for the importance of God?  But this whole discussion is for naught.  These are the words of Luke, written after Christ's death.  Luke was a follower of Paul:

Wiki wrote:Luke, was born in Antioch, by profession, was a physician. He had become a disciple of the apostle Paul and later followed Paul until his [Paul's] martyrdom. Having served the Lord continuously, unmarried and without children, filled with the Holy Spirit he died at the age of 84 years.

The whole movement to suppress Christian humanism came from the Pauline Church.

But we arguing examples here.  Does this side-bar on Luke mean we should suppress Christian charity?  I think we can honor Christian charity and argue Luke, or the meaning of the words from the Pauline Bible, another time.

Original Quill wrote:Well, let's put aside the whole family issue.  Because, as with my example with Rousseau, we don't throw out the baby with the bath.

I think the argument from Luke 10:29 is not there.  But that discussion is for another time.