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Thursday, September 27, 2007
12:20:00 PM EDT
Hearing Eye in the Sky -- Viva Voce
This is really interesting to me: A Muslim astronaut is going to the International Space Station and want to observe his daily prayers - but when one is in space, and flying around the planet at high speed, where is Mecca? It's not just a theoretical question -- a group of Muslim scholars considered the question and came up with some really interesting answers, rooted both in tradition and practicality. This is one of those unexpected side issues that comes out of space travel. I think it's neat.
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12:20:00 PM EDT
Hearing Eye in the Sky -- Viva Voce
Which Way to Mecca?
This is really interesting to me: A Muslim astronaut is going to the International Space Station and want to observe his daily prayers - but when one is in space, and flying around the planet at high speed, where is Mecca? It's not just a theoretical question -- a group of Muslim scholars considered the question and came up with some really interesting answers, rooted both in tradition and practicality. This is one of those unexpected side issues that comes out of space travel. I think it's neat.
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My message to Mecca lovers
in space: first try solving the needless
riot killings at Mecca, then, and only THEN
find Mecca from a space capsule.
Barry
Shoot, if Mecca isn't in the Muslim heart,
how could it EVER be found?!? - bb3 -
Interesting. But Allah/God is Omnipresent. Period.
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I was actually surprised to learn about that whole sun/moon worship thing.
I guess it's definitely a hassle using the earth as the sole point of reference in your religious worship, and this seems more an issue of appeasing the purists as opposed to yourself and your own piece of mind.
Still... You'd think an omniscient god would have foreseen this dilemma, and maybe might have said something in one of those tomes as to how to go about dealing with it.
-Dan
http://thewisdomofadistractedmind.blogspot.com/
9/27/07 9:18 PM
-Paul
http://journals.aol.ca/plittl