It Is Loathsome to Wear Tight Socks, and Send E-mails
excerpts from Ayatollah Khomeini's A Clarification of Questions, a guidebook to morality for the citizens of Iran:
#107. The whole body of an infidel, even the hair, nails and its wetness, is unclean.#116. The sweat of an unlawful ejaculation is not unclean but it is an obligatory caution not to pray with a body or a cloth polluted with it.
#346. If a moisture emerges from a person and he does not know if it is semen or urine or else, it is considered to be semen if it exits with lust, is projectile and followed by listlessness of the body. If it did not have all or some of these features it is not reckoned as semen.
#1158. It is loathsome to lay a prayer when one is sleepy and when one is holding his urine and stool. Similarly, it is loathsome to wear tight socks which press the foot in prayer. And besides these there are other abominations which are mentioned in detailed books.
#2405. The mother and sister and daughter of a boy who performed sodomy are unlawful to the sodomite even if the doer and the giver of sodomy are both minors. But if he suspects that he entered, or doubts whether or not he entered, they do not become unlawful to him.
#2410. If a person contracts for himself a girl who has not reached puberty and before she finishes her ninth year enters the girl he must never have intercourse with her in case he causes her path of urine or menses or that of menses and stool to become one.
#2481. One cannot marry those women who, as a result of suckling, have become his wife's nieces, without his wife's permission. Similarly, if he practices sodomy with a boy he cannot marry the milk-related daughter and sister and mother and grandmother of that boy, i.e. those that have become his daughter and sister and mother as a result of suckling.
#2504. When he has intercourse with his wife who is clean from menstrual and childbirth blood and wants to divorce her he must wait until she menstruates and becomes clean again. But there is no concern in divorcing a woman after intercourse if she is less than nine years old or she is pregnant. The same holds when she is menopausal, meaning one who is older than 60 years of age, if a (woman) Master (seyyedeh) [certain female descendants of the Prophet], and more than 50 years of age, if she is not.
#2515. A woman who has finished her ninth year of age and [who] is not menopausal and enters into a concubinage for, for example, a month or a year must, in case of intercourse with her husband, refrain from taking a husband for two menstrual periods, if she menstruates, and 45 days if she does not; beginning from the time her term comes to an end or she is spared by the husband.
reading from Emily Gosselink's Insecurity is Power: A Guide to Lame Duck Leadership
Okay, guys...enough is enough. This really is Emily Gosselink, and it's time to end the reply-to-all [sic: 213 recips] e-mail. Anyone who sends another unsolicited e-mail after mine (time stamp: 10:54 p.m.) will be subject to discipline. I appreciate the creativity in many of the messages, but the unsolicited mass e-mails must stop now.Good night!
Emily Gosselink
Associate Dean of Students
Covenant College
706.419.1107
Congrats on the Spring Banquet date!
Quotations | By Josiah Roe | 05:02 PM
Comments
The Covenant administration is actually considering disciplining people for sending emails? Seriously?
Why don't they just invite BJU for consults and have done with it?
Posted by: ryan at February 15, 2008 08:16 AM
Having been the unwitting recipient of a mass corporate email with 50,000+ recipients and 200+ replies this week, Emily's response is a model of restraint and politeness compared to the Inquisition-esque punishments I began to imagine for the sender and repliers. In such a case, the unwitting have no recourse, and can only watch in horror as the replies pile up.
Of course, the sender was canned. But that's how it do in my friendly neighborhood of the military-industrial complex.
Ryan, mass emails without authorization have always been in the books as wrong, since before we were there. I hardly believe that you can be shocked by that.
Posted by: Noel at February 15, 2008 10:26 AM
I've never been in favor of spam, and I've imagined my fair share of unspeakable punishments for spammers. But commercial spam is one thing (I'd be in favor of summary execution for spam kings) and childish "reply to all" nonsense is something else. Disciplinary action against users is not the solution for institutional technical incompetence.
There isn't any good reason that individual users should be able to send an email to the entire institutional network without permission. The client just shouldn't allow it. ND has a "send to all" mailing list, but mailings must be approved before they are sent. If Gosselink doesn't like campus-wide emails, the problem is that their email system sucks. Which, if I remember correctly and if things haven't changed too much in the past few years, is a pretty accurate description of things.
And this really isn't a censorship issue. People generally do have an interest in freedom of expression, but you aren't usually free to use someone else's facilities to express yourself.
"Freedom of the press" means you can buy your own damn press.
Posted by: ryan at February 15, 2008 11:50 AM
++ to your last point.
However, I take the opposite view of your first point. This is probably entirely due to my work being on the technical end of the human-computer interaction. There is no technical solution for human stupidity. The best way to keep people from sending resource-clogging emails is for them to not. Any technical enforcement will either fail or be circumvented. Thus I am completely fine with reply to all punishments.
Posted by: Noel at February 15, 2008 01:19 PM
Nice post. We call Emily Gosselink "Nurse Ratchet".
Posted by: NotGonnaTell at February 15, 2008 11:15 PM
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