| Tool – Right in Two Lyrics | 16 years ago |
| that (what you said) is my understanding of why women are treated as they are in some Muslim culture. The view that we see of women in Muslim cultures is only going to be the that of the extreme. Anything else is just not newsworthy. Many Muslim nations do treat women with much more respect than we see. My understanding, is that much of the publicized repression is from Iran, which has been a more fundamentalist and traditional government. Consider the UAE, a Muslim nation, one of the most wealthy, where women are treated very fairly. Also, the former president of Pakistan was a woman: Benazir Bhutto. | |
| Tool – Right in Two Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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in regards to what Vulken has said, his/her posts clearly show ignorance of the Muslim world and the Islamic faith. for one, Allah is the word in Arabic for God; Allah is the same as the God in the Christian bible. It is just a language difference; similarly Dios is the Spanish word for God. as for Vulcen's "research", he seemed to miss the little bit about how Muslims acknowledge the profits of the Christian and Judaic faiths. Islam takes that procession one step further by saying that Muhammad was the final prophet. He was not the Islamic "Jesus" in the since that he was the son of God, for he was not the son of god. He was just the vessel through which god's word could be spread. Your opinions about Islam and the Muslim world are based only on the fraction of Islamic fundamentalism which you see in the news media. "However, the Muslim faith states that the only guarantee to get into Heaven, or whatever you want to call the �good� afterlife, is to perform in the jihad (�the struggle�). You have to kill infidels or be slain in the battle against infidels to go to Heaven, upon which time you also receive 72 virgins (or some odd number like that). Now, considering the Muslim outlook upon women, where does that leave them? They aren�t allowed to fight in the jihad, so there is no guarantee for them to go to Heaven. Says something about our good friend Muhammad, doesn�t it?" I found this to be the most stereotypical belief on the jihad that i have seen; you clearly have no idea about what you are talking about. The Jihad is a "struggle" to improve ones self and society; there are four main types of Jihad, * Jihad of the heart (jihad bil qalb/nafs) is concerned with combatting the devil and in the attempt to escape his persuasion to evil. This type of Jihad was regarded as the greater jihad (al-jihad al-akbar). * Jihad by the tongue (jihad bil lisan) is concerned with speaking the truth and spreading the word of Islam with one's tongue. * Jihad by the hand (jihad bil yad) refers to choosing to do what is right and to combat injustice and what is wrong with action. * Jihad by the sword (jihad bis saif) refers to qital fi sabilillah (armed fighting in the way of God, or holy war), the most common usage by Salafi Muslims and offshoots of the Muslim Brotherhood. Only one includes violence, and that inclusion does not mean "killing Infidels", it means killing in the way of god. The problem with our societies is that there are people like you who use your faith as a shield and your ignorance as a spear; you pass judgment on a faith that you have no true knowledge of, and you make the same fallacious argument that you think your "enemies" make. Do you want to know why the monkeys kill monkeys? look in the mirror |
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| Tool – Right in Two Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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in regards to what Vulken has said, his/her posts clearly show ignorance of the Muslim world and the Islamic faith. for one, Allah is the word in Arabic for God; Allah is the same as the God in the Christian bible. It is just a language difference; similarly Dios is the Spanish word for God. as for Vulcen's "research", he seemed to miss the little bit about how Muslims acknowledge the profits of the Christian and Judaic faiths. Islam takes that procession one step further by saying that Muhammad was the final prophet. He was not the Islamic "Jesus" in the since that he was the son of God, for he was not the son of god. He was just the vessel through which god's word could be spread. Your opinions about Islam and the Muslim world are based only on the fraction of Islamic fundamentalism which you see in the news media. "However, the Muslim faith states that the only guarantee to get into Heaven, or whatever you want to call the �good� afterlife, is to perform in the jihad (�the struggle�). You have to kill infidels or be slain in the battle against infidels to go to Heaven, upon which time you also receive 72 virgins (or some odd number like that). Now, considering the Muslim outlook upon women, where does that leave them? They aren�t allowed to fight in the jihad, so there is no guarantee for them to go to Heaven. Says something about our good friend Muhammad, doesn�t it?" I found this to be the most stereotypical belief on the jihad that i have seen; you clearly have no idea about what you are talking about. The Jihad is a "struggle" to improve ones self and society; there are four main types of Jihad, * Jihad of the heart (jihad bil qalb/nafs) is concerned with combatting the devil and in the attempt to escape his persuasion to evil. This type of Jihad was regarded as the greater jihad (al-jihad al-akbar). * Jihad by the tongue (jihad bil lisan) is concerned with speaking the truth and spreading the word of Islam with one's tongue. * Jihad by the hand (jihad bil yad) refers to choosing to do what is right and to combat injustice and what is wrong with action. * Jihad by the sword (jihad bis saif) refers to qital fi sabilillah (armed fighting in the way of God, or holy war), the most common usage by Salafi Muslims and offshoots of the Muslim Brotherhood. Only one includes violence, and that inclusion does not mean "killing Infidels", it means killing in the way of god. The problem with our societies is that there are people like you who use your faith as a shield and your ignorance as a spear; you pass judgment on a faith that you have no true knowledge of, and you make the same fallacious argument that you think your "enemies" make. Do you want to know why the monkeys kill monkeys? look in the mirror |
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| The Mountain Goats – Against Pollution Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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This song is about forgiveness and judgment- for yourself and for others. Throughout the song, John never portrays the man who tried to kill the speaker as evil- he is impartial, and just says- a guy. Through the song, the actual event takes very little time, instead John uses most of his time talking about the aftermath- going to the Catholic church, and meeting the man in the afterlife. We will recognize each other And see ourselves for the first time The way we really are In this, i believe the meaning is expressed quite clearly- here is the person who tried to kill the speaker, and they discover the true nature of each person, not the lies that the speaker came up with as he lived his life, about what happened to him in the liquor store; but really happened. |
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| Gin Blossoms – Slave Dealer's Daughter Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| This Song came from their first album, Dusted. | |
| Dispatch – Elias Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| I think that this song is about a man in Africa living with HIV. He loves his sons, and despite his sickness, he continues to work hard. From the point of view of the song, the speaker is saying good by, and is not sure if he will see Elias again. He wonders if Elias will be forgotten, or if someone will tell him that he is gone. | |
| Billy Joel – Piano Man Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| I was at a small playhouse in Cripple Creek Colorado, and after the show, the pianist for the show started to play this song. It was just him, singing, playing the piano, and the harmonica. Every time i hear this song, part of my mind goes back to that playhouse | |
| Counting Crows – Mr. Jones Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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sorry to burst your bubble R.O.U.S., but you are way off. Adam himself said that people look into this song for alot deeper meaning than he intended. Mr. Jones is a story about going to see his friends dads flamenco group. It's about how people have these ghost relationships with people they hardly know. They think that they have a chance with said guy/girl and try to impress that person by building themselfs up- I will paint my picture Paint myself in blue and red and black and gray All of the beautiful colors are very very meaningful |
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| The Tossers – Siobham Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| To me, this is a sad song, I think that it is about how the singer worries about what his girlfriend is up too when she is not at home "Oh please don’t stay out all night long, for every pub to roam" | |
| Counting Crows – Chelsea Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| I really discovered this song on a dark van ride, to go climb a mountain; we got up at like 3 am, and piled into this dodge van. there were three of us awake, and everyone else was alseep, i just stared out the side window into the black-ness of the passing countryside. At the time i had just met this girl, and i really liked her, and thought that this relationship would work out. and it did, for 11 months. exactly one month (to the day) before one year she broke it off with me. And hearing this song again it reminds me of how futile my hopes were, and how "the light in her eyes went out" | |
| Counting Crows – Daylight Fading Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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I think that this song is about the feeling that you get when you suspect a girlfriend/boyfriend is cheating on you. no answers to an email, never answers the telephone ext. " am waiting for the telephone to tell me I'm alive" Daylight fading could mean love fading, which would explain "daylight fading come and waste another year". And my favorite part of the song, "All the the anger and the eloquence are bleeding into fear Moonlight creeping around the corners of our lawn" means to me that all the constraint having to say the right thing at the right time (eloquence) changes to fear at the possible coming of another person into the relationship. |
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| Dropkick Murphys – The Green Fields of France (Eric Bogle cover) Lyrics | 19 years ago |
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| Dropkick Murphys – The Green Fields of France (Eric Bogle cover) Lyrics | 19 years ago |
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This is reall one of DKMs best slow songs; and what with the war in Iraq and its controversy, lines like "The killing and dying it was all done in vain Oh Willy McBride it all happened again" it shows just how much of a fucked up place wee have made this arth |
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| State Radio – Mr. Larkin Lyrics | 19 years ago |
| This song really has alot of meaning; State Radio Is really a great Band | |
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