Twitter, Time, and 100 Lashes.

1. On Friday night, I was up on my roof with my best friend, smoking cigs inside (like where the elevators bring you up, there's a little entranceway to our roof, with windows, and even a bathroom). It had been drizzling last time I was outside, and I didn't feel like getting wet. I was sitting on a radiator when all of a sudden there was a huge gust of wind and the door swung open and simultaneously I saw stars and my head was throbbing. The window which i was sitting in front of was blown, by a gust of wind, out of it's frame, and it fell on my head. I immediately started crying hysterically when I could finally move again I went straight to the bathroom because I thought I was going to throw up. Anyway, I spent yesterday sleeping, pretty much all day. My boyfriend had come over at some point, soaking wet, but I just thought he got splashed by a car or something. When I went on Twitter in the evening, so many people were complaining about this huge rain storm that inconvenienced their lives so much. Most people on Twitter live in Teleological time, things happen, like the rain, and they effect people's lives, and they Twitter about it. Most people Twittered about menial tasks, like eating, homework, work, weather, sports, and things like that. These are all things that take place in an order, or have a beginning, a middle, and an end. You turn on a basketball game, you watch the game, you know the winner. Beginning, middle, end. I felt like I was living in Entropic time this weekend, because I really had no idea the rain was so bad, it effected everyone's lives so much it seems, but I was not affected by it at all. I feel kind of like I was knocked so hard on the head that the outside world had stopped for the past two days, I barely had contact with anyone, I didn't go outside, and I had NO idea how bad the rain actually was.

2. Within the tale of the Trader and the Jinni, There are three stories within that story, each about an old Shaykh and how the animal(s) they were with were different members of their family, each turned into an animal for a different reason, and each man had a different reason for walking by the trader, however when they learned the story of the Trader and the Jinni, each decided to stay and help and attempt to save the Trader. I believe that this is an example of stellar time, because these are all different occurrences and they were all on different paths, but each stumbled upon the Trader, and these animals are the reason that these Shaykhs are saving this Trader's life. If the Shaykhs didn't have these animals and these wonderful stories about them, the Jinni would have killed the Trader, and not spread his debt among the three Shaykhs. Their lives were all effected by each other's, even though they did not know each other before this point in time, the rest of their lives were effected by this meeting.

3. In The Tale of the Husband and the Parrot, A man buys a parrot to stay home while he travels and tell him what goes on in his home while he's gone. When he returns, the parrot tells the man that his wife has been cheating on him every day and night since he left. The woman has her maids deceive the parrot, causing the man to think the parrot is lying, and he kills her. Later, one of the wife's maids tells the husband that the parrot was telling the truth, the husband kills his wife and her lover, and mourns the loss of the parrot, for the parrot was the one telling the truth. In Islamic culture, adultery is called Zina. Zina, according to the Qur'an is "sexual intercourse outside marriage between two consenting adults." The penalty for committing Zina, according to the Old Testament, is 100 whippings or lifelong house arrest. If the offender repeats his or her actions or is a nuisance to the community, the penalty is being stoned to death.

http://www.irfi.org/articles/articles_51_100/zina_and_rajm.htm

I believe the Trader's reaction to his wife's Zina would be appropriate today, because she had another man in her home and in her bed every day that her husband was away. They were not stoned to death, but killed with his sword, which I believe is a light sentence, a quick death, as opposed to being stoned. I don't think death is the proper punishment for cheating, however the wife lied to her husband, deceived this parrot, and continued to cheat on her husband. She went through all this trouble to deceive him twice over, and she got caught, and I believe that the wife would have been punished today, perhaps by 100 lashings or by house arrest.