(April 21, 2011 at 10:53 pm)ruhollah Wrote: This holy book is considered to be a poetic miracle. The average person can interpret these verses in their favor.
I understand it to mean that it is a miracle that a desert dwelling goat herder had the nous to steal material from other goat herding desert dwellers and plagiarise material that can be found long before said goat herding desert dwellers even thought of writing, not to mention poetry???
(April 21, 2011 at 10:53 pm)ruhollah Wrote: To have a true sense of what these verses mean, they should consult s experts who study Arabian history and ancient semantic linguistics. These experts have a better sense of what these verses are referring to.
Well yes they do hence my comments above.
"The Universe is run by the complex interweaving of three elements: energy, matter, and enlightened self-interest." G'Kar-B5
