Caucasian Posted September 8, 2003 Report Share Posted September 8, 2003 (edited) That's my pic... A place near the path. There writes "LA ILAHA ILLALLAH" in Arabic. It's said that some Germans who learned what there wrote, they had been Muslim... Edited September 8, 2003 by Caucasian Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sip Posted September 8, 2003 Report Share Posted September 8, 2003 Here's mine ... one day I was minding my own business crawling some rocks in the jeep when a buddy of mine snapped this picture! Keep in mind this is COMPLETELY unedited except for size. http://zr2.cs.ucla.edu/Sip/rubi/WTF_tn.jpg(click for bigger pic) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Caucasian Posted September 8, 2003 Author Report Share Posted September 8, 2003 (edited) I wrote miracle. Not photoshop. And I have a photo of Argeas-Kaesaria as a miracle Edited September 8, 2003 by Caucasian Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Arpa Posted September 8, 2003 Report Share Posted September 8, 2003 Are you saying this you? http://hyderabad.bravepages.com/ Browse and see more "miracles".Still the "weeping Madonna" miracles will wash away the miracles of Ali Ibn Muhammad. The greatest of miracles will happen some day when people stop believing in miracles except for miracles like the rising sun, falling snow and the self duplicating DNA. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DominO123 Posted September 8, 2003 Report Share Posted September 8, 2003 (edited) Sip, I have filtrated your picture, with a very advanced program used for space observations... and was able to identity this photographic anomaly. Here is the image sensitive to other spectral waves, such as infrared etc... Edited September 8, 2003 by Fadix Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sip Posted September 8, 2003 Report Share Posted September 8, 2003 I wrote miracle. Not photoshop.emmmmmm ... is that referring to my pic? did you READ what I said about the pic being completely unedited (yes and that means no photoshopping involved)? Domino, VERY FUNNY! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bellthecat Posted September 9, 2003 Report Share Posted September 9, 2003 That's my pic... A place near the path. There writes "LA ILAHA ILLALLAH" in Arabic. It's said that some Germans who learned what there wrote, they had been Muslim... C, Since you are from Kayseri - have you happened to have seen there the shop in the old medresse near the clock tower that has a lot of bookshops in it, the shop that has loads of these sort of pics in its window? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bellthecat Posted September 9, 2003 Report Share Posted September 9, 2003 This is sort of miraculous, IMHO. A cross-stone in a formerly Armenian / now Kurdish village that has been turned into a fountain. (Village is called Por, and is near Bitlis). I don't think anyone could have thought of a more appropriate alternative use for a khatchkar - water of life and so on. And that water tasted sooooh good. Though it's a pity the khatchkar is not upright and the pipe is not put through the exact base of the cross. But it beats being reused as a doorstep or worse, anyway. I took in a deep breath of emotion when I first saw it last year. But, I knew Winston/Thoth wouldn't - which is why I didn't show it to him when we were there this year. http://mysite.freeserve.com/virtualani/por_khatchkar_fountain.jpg Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Harut Posted September 9, 2003 Report Share Posted September 9, 2003 chmeranq, hreshtak el daranq. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Arpa Posted September 9, 2003 Report Share Posted September 9, 2003 {Here it is corrected.Moderators may choose to remove the previous one.) It may be a miracle, the miracle of water, yet to me it is more a prophecy come true. With prophecies of the kind, who needs curses??I had aired part of this song sometime ago. Here it is again with additions.This must be an old folk song. I cannot find it anywhereHere is what I remember.Note that this song may have been sung long before thatkhachkar was abandonned to the "krdin tghin".You're right though, it could have been used not to spout water but to flush it. ä³ñ½Çñ ³ÕµÇõñ å³ñ½Çñ ³é³ï çáõñ ï³Ý»Ù,ä³ñ½Çñ, å³ñ½Çñ øñ¹ÇÝ ïÕÇÝ çáõñ ï³Ý»Ù£ γñ Å³Ù³Ý³Ï áñ Ù»Ýù ³½³ï Ï°³åñ¿ÇÝù,È»éÝ»ñ Óáñ»ñ ³½³ï ³ÝÏ³Ë ù³É¿ÇÝù£ ²ÕµÇõñ ·Çï¿ë øáõñ¹Á Ù»½Ç ÇÝã Ï°³Ý¿±ÎÁ ÏáÕáåï¿, ÏÁ ѳɳͿ, Ï°ëå³ÝÝ¿£ ä³ñ½Çñ, å³ñ½Çñ øñ¹ÇÝ ïÕÇÝ çáõñ ï³Ý»Ù. "Parzir Aghbyur, parzir arat jur tanem.Parzir, parzir Krdin tghin jur tanem. Kar zhamanak vor menq azat kapbeyinq.Lerner, dzorer azat ankakh qaleyinq. Aghbyur gites Kurd@ mezi inch kane?K@ koghopte, k@ haladze, kspanne. Parzir, parzir. Krdin tghin jur tanem." Open O~ fount, open wide, pour water.Open wide, open the Kurd's boy is waiting. There was a time when we lived free,Hills and valleys we walked free. Fountain, you know what the Kurd does?He robs, he tortures, he kills. Open wide, open the Kurd's son is waiting. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bellthecat Posted September 10, 2003 Report Share Posted September 10, 2003 And another miracle, of a sort. Reminds me of a bit in one of the "Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy" books, when Arthur Dent asks what stops a statue of a huge cup that seems to be floating in mid air from falling to the ground. "Art stops it from falling", he is told. Par of the ruins of the Georgian monastery of Porta, now in Turkey, near Artvin: http://mysite.freeserve.com/virtualani/porta/porta1s.jpg And inside it, look at the tiny bit of masonry that is supporting the whole dome. http://mysite.freeserve.com/virtualani/porta/porta2s.jpg It is about a wide as a dinner plate, maybe "art" is also stopping this church from collapsing! http://mysite.freeserve.com/virtualani/porta/porta3s.jpg And there is nothing at all supporting the dome on the other side. The pillar has been demolished by locals who thought there might be treasure under it. http://mysite.freeserve.com/virtualani/porta/porta4s.jpg Just downstream from this place over a billion dollars is being spent on a hydroelectric dam, it would take just a couple of hundred to rebuild the missing pillar with concrete, perhaps a couple of thousand to restore it properly. Will anything be spent - I doubt it. When the recent dam that flooded the Roman city site of Zeugma was being built, the firms involved paid for excavations at Zeugma. That was because foreign archaeologists lobbied for it. They are completely silent about this region of course - Georgian things are too close to being Armenian things, and no archaeologist dares mention the "A" word in Turkey. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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