Posted: May 10, 2019 4:13 pm
tuco wrote:
I believe both were answered in satisfactory manners, in a manner that would hopefully make sense, to you and quas. Though I have my doubts about quas. I mean, asking .. why is it commonly used? .. followed by .. it makes no sense .. is nonsensical. And if not, well, I am afraid I can't help anymore.
What actually happened was:
tuco wrote:It makes no sense to you. It makes sense to me. Are you asking me to explain it to you? The answer is negative, because I dont care if it makes no sense to you and will not invest time and energy to do so.
It all makes sense to you, and you could explain it, only you won't take the time to explain it or invest the energy to do so.
But you'll take the time to copy and paste a news article which you imply answers the question, and spend the energy writing that this should now make sense.
Only, the problem is that it still doesn't actually make sense because there's actually no serious question about the Sultan of Brunei's 'Islamic credentials', and if there actually was, and if the entire point of instituting a strict interpretation of Sharia was about burnishing his Islamic credentials with Brunei's Islamic establishment, then publicly backtracking and announcing that it won't be enforced seems rather contradictory to that motive, even self-harmful.
So we're still left wondering what exactly it is supposed to mean.
According to you, you understand perfectly. So why aren't you explaining it in your own words? Either you do understand it, and therefore it should be easy for you to give an interpretation that could be discussed (it's not like you're typically coy offering your opinion), or perhaps you don't really understand it very well at all. Perhaps, you were just taking the time to express your sense of superiority through condescension, perhaps being called on that is uncomfortable, perhaps you really do know and it's ridiculously banal to you, perhaps it's none of these things: we'll never really be able to know if you refuse to actually produce any content one way or another.
Perhaps you couldn't 'help' in the first place, not being in any position to.