A Saudi cleric told students at a university in the United Arab Emirates that the Earth is stationary and does not move around the Sun, insisting any claims to the contrary are pure speculation.
Sheikh Bandar al-Khaibari said that the Earth cannot be revolving around the Sun because otherwise airplanes would not be able to reach their destination. In a recently emerged video, the cleric can be seen using a cup of water to awkwardly explain why the Earth is in fact stationary. Take a look:
Stock and options trading is difficult to master, much like life at times. We all go through times of hardship. I believe our country (and world) is going through one right now. But difficult times have come and gone in the past and I have faith that this is just another one of those times. Here is my prayer for the trader…in and out of the charts.
May the sun always shine bright with energy when rising and glimmer with comfort in descent
May your charts whisper to your burning ears
May your flowers be full of bees and your weeds choke on fallen nectar
May your wins humble and your losses teach
May still waters massage your aches and clean water quench your thirst
May fear give way to peace and greed surrender to charity
May the eyes of a child sooth the wrinkles of age
May a logical life give new meaning to an illogical chart
May you outlive your mother and father and die honored before your children
May the life within bring beauty to the life without
Be not deceived, every animal is attached to nothing so much as to its own interest. Whatever then seems to hinder his way to this, be it a brother or a father or a child, the object of his passion or his own lover, he hates him, guards against him, curses him. For his nature is to love nothing so much as his own interest; this is his father and brother and kinsfolk and country and god. At any rate, when the gods seem to hinder us in regard to this we revile even the gods and overthrow their statues and set fire to their temples, as Alexander ordered the shrines of Asclepius to be burnt when the object of his passion died. Therefore if interest, religion and honour, country, parents and friends are set in the same scale, then all are safe; but if interest is in one scale, and in the other friends and country and kindred and justice itself, all these are weighed down by interest and disappear. For the creature must needs incline to that side where ‘I’ and ‘mine’ are; if they are in the flesh, the ruling power must be there; if in the will, it must be there; if in external things, it must be there.
If then I identify myself with my will, then and only then shall I be a friend and son and father in the true sense. For this will be my interest—to guard my character for good faith, honour, forbearance, self-control, and service of others, to maintain my relations with others. But if I separate myself from what is noble, then Epicurus’ statement is confirmed, which declares that ‘there is no such thing as the noble or at best it is but the creature of opinion’.
