Random Thought: Is it Possible the 'Thanksgiving'-Pilgrims were actually Muslims? / myLot

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By Uncle Jay, Finding More Value in Your Machine

Oklahoma City, Oklahoma

January 11, 2019 10:05am CST

Being an American, the first "pilgrims" that come to my mind are the ones who came over on the Mayflower & had the first Thanksgiving dinner. But then 'pilgrim' makes me think of (beside 'what John Wayne frequently called people'

) Muslims' "pilgrimage" to Mecca. Then I think, 'maybe that's what those pilgrims thought they were doing---as Christopher Columbus thought he was finding "a new way to get to the Orient," maybe the pilgrims thought they were finding "a new way to get to Mecca." a new way ... that brings up the religion discussed in a TED-talk I saw today: https://youtu.be/pgmiPXAwiLg?list=TLGGnwXo2ixQvlwxMTAxMjAxOQ Jainism - a religion that imagines 'God' as more of "a force within all things" than "a perfect being."

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KrauseHome

@KrauseHome (36448)

• United States

15 Jan 19

Now personally this is not a way I would ever think of this as most people would not, or it might stir up a lot of unneeded controversy.

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Uncle Jay, Finding More Value in Your Machine

@mythociate (21437)

• Oklahoma City, Oklahoma

15 Jan 19

So maybe we should call the regular journey of Islam 'a Muslimage'? instead of a pilgrimage?

PLETHOS

@Plethos (13560)

• United States

11 Jan 19

pilgrims were mostly deported to america against their will. not all of them volunteered to ship on over. or maybe they were part of a colonial witness protection plan. hmm . . . . . . . . . . . .

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