DrW wrote:When was the last time you visited Iran?
subgenius wrote:how is that an answer to the question posted to you?
and how is it that you can not answer a simple question about your own opinion? Since you consider there to be a "problem" then why not state the problem...instead of the rather inept posturing that your posts tend to take, why not get outside the box and actually bring some substance into support for your opinion? you might find it refreshing.
The following facts concerning the problems with religion in Iran were the basis for my question. Anyone who pays attention to the news or reads about politics or world history now and then should know at least some of this. Apparently you do do not.
• Iran is a theocracy that mixes religion and state more thoroughly than any other country in the world.
• Shiite Islam (the dominant form of Islam in Iran) gives a special place to its clerics and demands blind obedience to their rulings on religious law.
• Since 1979, the Islamic Republic has imposed a strongly patriarchal order.
• The contemporary Shiite revival has given Iran influence in the Muslim world and especially among other Shiite communities in the Arab world and South Asia, challenging the Sunni secular nationalists and traditional monarchies.
Iran is clearly not a country that one should be proud of overtaking in terms of religiosity. Apparently the fact that Americans are slightly more religious than Iranians is a point of pride for you. Think about it.
Last time I was in Tehran, the taxi in which I was riding was stopped at a checkpoint near the airport at night. Two bright lights came on from the floor behind the front seat. They were mounted so as to point up into the rear passenger's face so that the passenger was essentially blind to anything outside the cab. The muzzle of an automatic weapon was thrust through the rear window and I was ordered to show my passport and visa to someone I could not even see. One small example of Iranian theocracy at work.
subgenius wrote: It sure would beat pandering to that dilettante of an old Belgian, who lacking the ability to post profane images now relies on regurgitation....personally Ambrose Bierce's Devil's Dictionary is more insightful, witty, and concise than the majority of the veiled and offhanded vitriolic posts i read from either of you gents.
If you are referring to Ludwig, he is Hungarian, not Belgian (although I am not surprised that you appear not to know the difference).
Turns out that Ludwig and I share a number of common experiences. Both of us served in the military during the Cold War era. Both of us have worked professionally in physics and engineering (and specifically with microwaves and electromagnetic field phenomenon). Both of us apparently think a lot of Hungarians (an attitude based on long experience).
If you think Ludwig is a dilettante, I would suggest that you have this miss-perception because you do not have a clue as to what he actually knows and understands.
Try to imagine what the average Hungarian would think about you and your demonstrably bizarre Mormon-based worldview if you tried to describe or explain it on a Hungarian language message board. Your apparent dislike of English language sentence structure, failure to capitalize, etc., don't reflect well on your efforts in your own native language. You can bet that Ludwig writes better in Hungarian (and perhaps even in German or Russian), than you do on this board in English.
