Comments on: Portraits in courage http://www.neptunuslex.com/2006/03/14/portraits-in-courage-2/ The unbearable lightness of Lex. Enjoy! Fri, 10 Feb 2012 06:48:26 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: BillT http://www.neptunuslex.com/2006/03/14/portraits-in-courage-2/comment-page-1/#comment-4231 BillT Wed, 15 Mar 2006 16:48:25 +0000 http://www.neptunuslex.com/2006/03/14/portraits-in-courage-2/#comment-4231 Said terrorist leaders are keen observers of human nature. The extreme value they place on their own lives is perfectly in keeping with the example set by their mentors, the Salafist mullahs, who are themselves oddly reluctant to put their faith to the test. One can fondly hope the members of both groups are greeted at the entrance to Paradise with a phrase from two millennia past: "Woe unto you, hypocrites..." Said terrorist leaders are keen observers of human nature. The extreme value they place on their own lives is perfectly in keeping with the example set by their mentors, the Salafist mullahs, who are themselves oddly reluctant to put their faith to the test.

One can fondly hope the members of both groups are greeted at the entrance to Paradise with a phrase from two millennia past: “Woe unto you, hypocrites…”

]]> By: Mark http://www.neptunuslex.com/2006/03/14/portraits-in-courage-2/comment-page-1/#comment-4228 Mark Wed, 15 Mar 2006 15:27:46 +0000 http://www.neptunuslex.com/2006/03/14/portraits-in-courage-2/#comment-4228 "Proving once again that while terrorist leaders can be flagrantly extravagant with other people? “Proving once again that while terrorist leaders can be flagrantly extravagant with other people?

]]> By: Mark http://www.neptunuslex.com/2006/03/14/portraits-in-courage-2/comment-page-1/#comment-409093 Mark Wed, 15 Mar 2006 15:27:46 +0000 http://www.neptunuslex.com/2006/03/14/portraits-in-courage-2/#comment-409093 "Proving once again that while terrorist leaders can be flagrantly extravagant with other people’s lives, they tend to be fastidiously parsimonious with their own." Perhaps the cartoon portraing the "prophet" stating they are out of virgins has been taken to heart by the terrorists, after all I'm sure they would have the insiders info on that. “Proving once again that while terrorist leaders can be flagrantly extravagant with other people’s lives, they tend to be fastidiously parsimonious with their own.” Perhaps the cartoon portraing the “prophet” stating they are out of virgins has been taken to heart by the terrorists, after all I’m sure they would have the insiders info on that.

]]> By: John V. http://www.neptunuslex.com/2006/03/14/portraits-in-courage-2/comment-page-1/#comment-4226 John V. Wed, 15 Mar 2006 13:16:51 +0000 http://www.neptunuslex.com/2006/03/14/portraits-in-courage-2/#comment-4226 I just want to say (as a loyal lurker, brought here through Chapomatic) that the turn of a phrase in the last paragraph was magnificent! "... can be flaggrantly extravagant with other people's lives, they tend to be fastidiously parsimonious with their own." As the guys in the Guiness commercial say... "Brilliant!" Thank you for entertaining me and keeping the synaptic pathways open and cleared for landing. John V. I just want to say (as a loyal lurker, brought here through Chapomatic) that the turn of a phrase in the last paragraph was magnificent! “… can be flaggrantly extravagant with other people’s lives, they tend to be fastidiously parsimonious with their own.”

As the guys in the Guiness commercial say… “Brilliant!”

Thank you for entertaining me and keeping the synaptic pathways open and cleared for landing.

John V.

]]> By: Brian http://www.neptunuslex.com/2006/03/14/portraits-in-courage-2/comment-page-1/#comment-4221 Brian Wed, 15 Mar 2006 00:28:09 +0000 http://www.neptunuslex.com/2006/03/14/portraits-in-courage-2/#comment-4221 It was a very real pleasure to read that last paragraph...it feels so good when you hit dead center with that pen (er, keyboard) of yours. Well said is an understatement. It was a very real pleasure to read that last paragraph…it feels so good when you hit dead center with that pen (er, keyboard) of yours.

Well said is an understatement.

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