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2011-08-01 India-Pakistan

Kashmiri shepherd boy snatches Ak-47 from LeT terrorists

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Posted by john frum 2011-08-01 08:27|| || Front Page|| [8 views ] Top

#1 Boy? He's 22. I thought this was gonna be the Kashmiri version of "Home Alone"...

Posted by tu3031 2011-08-01 10:12|| 2011-08-01 10:12|| Front Page Top

#2 I imagine he'll be a boy until he marries, tu3031.

Posted by trailing wife 2011-08-01 10:51|| 2011-08-01 10:51|| Front Page Top

#3 TW, the "shepherd" meme is all throughout the Bible. It began with Abel, a shepherd, whose offering was accepted.

Posted by Spot 2011-08-01 11:02|| 2011-08-01 11:02|| Front Page Top

#4 Even the Kashmiris cant stand the Pakis!

Posted by Paul 2011-08-01 12:18|| 2011-08-01 12:18|| Front Page Top

#5 TW, the "shepherd" meme is all throughout the Bible. It began with Abel, a shepherd, whose offering was accepted.

Good point, Spot. The question is why the shepherd is so important. Why not the careful farmer, the war leader, the king? It must go beyond the fact that Abraham left life as a city dweller in Ur to follow his herds, given that a goodly proportion of the Jewish Bible was written after the Israelites settled in Canaan, becoming farmers and craftsmen as well as herders and hunters...and later city dwellers, warriors, and kings. :-)

"King of kings, and Lord of lords," was the text Handel used for his Messiah. The sweet psalmist wrote, "The Lord is my shepherd."

Posted by trailing wife 2011-08-01 14:58|| 2011-08-01 14:58|| Front Page Top

#6 The first cut of that didn't survive the winnowing of all the scribes in the peer review process.

It is simple, the Lord is my shepherd, albeit damn well armed.

Posted by S 2011-08-01 23:10|| 2011-08-01 23:10|| Front Page Top

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