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Post by Crunchums » Tue Dec 08, 2020 2:39 am

i know :skink:
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Post by haplo » Tue Dec 08, 2020 2:39 am

why would you want to get rid of vagina?

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Post by Skeletor » Tue Dec 08, 2020 2:52 am

haplo wrote: Tue Dec 08, 2020 2:39 am why would you want to get rid of vagina?
That's transphobic
wow, [you]. that all sounds terrible. i hope it gets better for you

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Post by Crunchums » Tue Dec 08, 2020 3:04 am

:lol:
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Post by Juri » Tue Dec 08, 2020 4:57 am

Crunchums wrote: Mon Dec 07, 2020 8:52 pm :skink:
skinks are good and theyre my friends
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Post by Juri » Tue Dec 08, 2020 4:58 am

haplo wrote: Tue Dec 08, 2020 2:39 am why would you want to get rid of vagina?
No, more vagina!
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Post by Crunchums » Tue Dec 08, 2020 5:03 am

Juri wrote:
haplo wrote: Tue Dec 08, 2020 2:39 am why would you want to get rid of vagina?
No, more vagina!
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Post by the_zoomies » Tue Dec 08, 2020 10:52 pm

Oh wow, good job.

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Post by seathesee » Mon Dec 14, 2020 4:50 pm

last night, after we had put down the children for the night, my wife goes up stairs and whisper yells at me "[leprosy] come see how [daughter] is sleeping. come quick." i walk in, and she is dead asleep, hanging off the bed at her waste, completely upside down, with her arms hanging. ive drawn a diagram.

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Post by Jeb Bush 2012 » Mon Dec 14, 2020 5:10 pm

good news: your child has (presumably) the powers of a human along with at least one of the powers of a bat

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Post by pterrus » Mon Dec 14, 2020 6:53 pm

I found my kid asleep once in what was basically the muslim prayer position. He wasn't facing Mecca though.

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Post by Khaos » Mon Dec 14, 2020 6:56 pm

did you check? :lol:

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Post by pterrus » Mon Dec 14, 2020 7:11 pm

He was facing west but I guess depending on angle maybe. Assuming arcs of over 180 degrees are legal. Does anyone ever face backwards just to needle their flat earther muslim friends?

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Post by Khaos » Mon Dec 14, 2020 7:17 pm

west is no good. i need to point 30 degrees east of north where i live

if arcs over 180 are legal then i think you'd need to be facing southwest

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Post by Monty » Mon Dec 14, 2020 7:18 pm

The island Tematagi in French Polynesia is almost exactly on the other side of the world from Mecca, so if you map Muslim praying direction on the islands in the area, they're not parallel at all. I think that's fun, and if they really wanted to get into the spirit of things I think they'd pray straight down. Which...I guess actually is the praying position.
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Post by Monty » Mon Dec 14, 2020 7:19 pm

I don't know if there are any actual Muslims there, but I am the sort of person that, if I were a Muslim, I would want to go there just to pray in an odd direction. I guess "going as far away as possible from Mecca" is kind of the opposite of usual Muslim behavior.
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Post by Khaos » Mon Dec 14, 2020 7:21 pm

apparently the "antipole" is in the ocean, so you couldn't just go there to pray in any direction

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Post by Jeb Bush 2012 » Mon Dec 14, 2020 7:22 pm

Khaos wrote: Mon Dec 14, 2020 7:17 pm west is no good. i need to point 30 degrees east of north where i live
man globes are weird

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Post by Monty » Mon Dec 14, 2020 7:24 pm

Khaos wrote:apparently the "antipole" is in the ocean, so you couldn't just go there to pray in any direction
We have boats now
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Post by Khaos » Mon Dec 14, 2020 7:28 pm

Monty wrote: Mon Dec 14, 2020 7:24 pm
Khaos wrote:apparently the "antipole" is in the ocean, so you couldn't just go there to pray in any direction
We have boats now
what if you have to be on land (i have no idea if you need to be on land)

extrapolating from this, if you're in space or on mars, do you need to draw a line from you to earth, then pray perpendicular to that line in the direction of mecca? that sounds awesome

edit: i think you'd also have to project that line onto the surface of the planet you're on too? this sounds confusing now

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Post by Doug » Mon Dec 14, 2020 7:31 pm

Jeb Bush 2012 wrote: Mon Dec 14, 2020 7:22 pm
Khaos wrote: Mon Dec 14, 2020 7:17 pm west is no good. i need to point 30 degrees east of north where i live
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Post by Monty » Mon Dec 14, 2020 7:31 pm

I think if you get farther away, you're probably allowed to pray in the direction of Earth. People inside Mecca have a specific thing they pray toward.
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Post by Jeb Bush 2012 » Mon Dec 14, 2020 7:32 pm

Khaos wrote: Mon Dec 14, 2020 7:28 pm what if you have to be on land (i have no idea if you need to be on land)
muslims have been going on long sea voyages for almost as long as islam has been a thing so this can't possibly be the rule, right?
Khaos wrote: Mon Dec 14, 2020 7:28 pm extrapolating from this, if you're in space or on mars, do you need to draw a line from you to earth, then pray perpendicular to that line in the direction of mecca? that sounds awesome
to be fully consistent with the normal rule I guess you also have to orient your spaceship so that the "ground" for you is facing the earth (assuming that lying on your side while facing mecca would ordinarily be frowned upon)

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Post by Khaos » Mon Dec 14, 2020 7:34 pm

Jeb Bush 2012 wrote: Mon Dec 14, 2020 7:32 pm
Khaos wrote: Mon Dec 14, 2020 7:28 pm what if you have to be on land (i have no idea if you need to be on land)
muslims have been going on long sea voyages for almost as long as islam has been a thing so this can't possibly be the rule, right?
yeah its probably just the standard reduced prayers while travelling rule

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Post by Khaos » Mon Dec 14, 2020 7:34 pm

Monty wrote: Mon Dec 14, 2020 7:31 pm I think if you get farther away, you're probably allowed to pray in the direction of Earth. People inside Mecca have a specific thing they pray toward.
the kabba, that's the same thing we're all praying towards :lol:

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Post by Monty » Mon Dec 14, 2020 7:37 pm

Khaos wrote:
Monty wrote: Mon Dec 14, 2020 7:31 pm I think if you get farther away, you're probably allowed to pray in the direction of Earth. People inside Mecca have a specific thing they pray toward.
the kabba, that's the same thing we're all praying towards :lol:
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Post by Jeb Bush 2012 » Mon Dec 14, 2020 7:38 pm

so there actually is guidance on this out there https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qibla#Outer_space
The International Space Station (ISS) orbits the earth at high speed—the direction from it to Mecca changes significantly within a few seconds.[23] Before his flight to the ISS, Sheikh Muszaphar Shukor requested, and the Malaysian National Fatwa Council provided, guidelines which have been translated into multiple languages.[95] The council wrote that the qibla determination should be "based on what is possible" and recommended four options, saying that one should pray toward the first option if possible and, if not, fall back successively on the later ones:[23]

the Kaaba itself
the position directly above the Kaaba at the altitude of the astronaut's orbit
the Earth in general
"wherever"
so it looks like they went with the "straight line" option rather than trying to keep strict consistency with the great circles rule used on the earth's surface

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Post by Khaos » Mon Dec 14, 2020 7:41 pm

well these are just what a bunch of guys decided. i think "whatever" is official though, because if you don't know which way to pray "whatever" is acceptable

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Post by Monty » Mon Dec 14, 2020 7:43 pm

A lot of religion is "what a bunch of guys decided," though. And that's the part I think is fun! People sitting around debating whether alien food is kosher or whatever.
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Post by Khaos » Mon Dec 14, 2020 7:46 pm

i reject a bunch of guys :colbert:

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