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Sounds like a pretty monument.
But I would vote for effeil tower or something like that
Or maybe dubai palms...

china one billion and half but I do seriously doubt that they heard of what's goign on, that country is too freakin' big for news to circulate. I guess the contest will be over and the 7 monuments will be rzed to the ground by the time they hear about it...

Anyway, have you seen a country with a population less than 6 millions and 4 cell phone companies? Yes! Jordan... Besides, those billions you enumerated are people who have real jobs, voting is not really their cup of tea. In other words, lo3betna hay... you tell me how we beat Egypt in Superstar...

Go vote, just for the heck of it...

Well, I think you have too little faith in the Americans who have been to Petra.  Oh, and the ones who will remember it from Indiana Jones fame...  So, in the spirit of American grass roots movements, every vote counts!  Rock the Vote, man, rock the vote!

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oh no, not this $#!T again.  

I am afraid you are mistaken Qwaider. The new 7 wonders competition publishes in the first week of each month a listing of the 21 places as they are categorised in the top, middle and bottom ranks. In Janyuary 2007 ranking Petra was in the top 7 category moving from December ranking of middle category. It is not an issue of population qwaider but the ability to generate support. I am not a person who is easily affected by such carnavals but I am very hopeful that petra can make it. I think we should all give it a try. You of course have all the right to vote it out but I will not respond to your call.

Qwaider, again you're wrong about this, and let me explain to you why. Now each voter world wide gets to vote for 7 wonders, so the voters in China will be voting for 6 other wonders other than their wonder in China, and etc... The competetion is smarter than what you've said in your obviously unresearched post again AGAINST voting for petra, which is starting to look weird and misleading from your side.

For those who might be discouraged to vote based on Qweider's words. Please read:

First, lets clarify something that I've seen many people be unaware of. You don't only vote for one place; you vote for 7. So if there are places that you think are better than Petra, you still get to vote for up to six of them.

Now that we've gotten that out of the way, lets talk about Qweider's argument, which can be summarized here:

"In other words, we have embraced a competition with Petra's odds of winning are really slim and what's cool is that we're going to "democratically" vote it out!"

So, Qweider is arguing that Petra's chances of securing a top 7 position are slim (to none) in this poll. So lets proceed with his argument based on the assumption that Petra is indeed not going to make a top 7 spot.

Qweider then says that therefore, by participating in this competition, "we as Jordanians are voting Petra out". Obviously, in his thinking, Jordanians will not be "voting Petra out" by casting votes against it, so what exactly is Qweider thinking about?

The only possible answer has to be participation. Through their participation, Qweider implies, Jordanians will be acknowledging the competition and its results. So if Petra ends up not winning, which Qweider foresees as being almost certain, then they will be forced to accept that Petra is not a world wonder.

Yet the way Qweider puts it in words goes beyond making Jordanians accept the voice of the global majority as truth, which is not necessarily what participating in this competition really means; his wording, "Jordanians are voting Petra out", actually puts part of the blame on those who will participate even if they explicitly cast votes for Petra, not against it. Indeed, these people are blamed, in Qweider's mind, even if they actually worked on increasing Petra's chances of winning.

The following is only for those who still fail to see the flaws in that logic:

First, it fails to acknowledge one important fact: Jordanians will not be the only ones voting for Petra, and that everyone in the world will have the chance to vote for Petra in addition to up to six other sites that they favor more.

Second, Qweider's argument is based on his belief that Petra is guaranteed to lose, which is based on the assumption that the level of participation from the entire world will be so massive, that even if double the population of Jordan voted for Petra, its chances of making it to the top 7 spots would still be none. The important thing to note here is this: if the participation is going to be so massive, which indeed it is, then will lack of participation from those who like Petra change anything? In particular, will it change the fact that by the end of this poll, the world will still acknowledge the results? The answer can only be resounding in the negative. Which leads to the main counter argument:

Don't think for a second that by not voting you are somehow protecting Petra from being "voted out". Don't think that if 10 million people like you who want to vote for Petra now, decided not to, that the results of the poll will be undermined; they won't. Also and most importantly, don't let others tell you that if Petra doesn't make it to the top 7, that you will share part of the blame even if you believed it deserved to and even if you actually casted a vote to achieve it. If you vote for Petra, know that at least you casted a vote that was equal to any other person's vote, and that your vote is the witness that you are in full support of Petra, and that you were one of the reasons Petra had a chance to win, and that in reality, those who refused to vote were ones who damaged its chances and that if there is someone to blame, it can only be them.

There is absolutely no reason to not vote. Voting doesn't mean giving up your opinion or your beliefs about Petra as a world wonder. On the contrary, voting means recording what you believe in and putting it out there to the entire world, even if there weren't enough people who shared it with you. The important thing is that you are given the chance to speak your opinion that you're so proud of, so speak it and vote. Whether there are enough people who agree with you or not is not something that refusing to vote will change, but it is something that voting might actually change in the end. At least with the latter, you have a chance.

Remember, voting is free, and you can vote for six places other than Petra, and it will only take 5 minutes. Go do it: LINK

This issue seems to be generating lots of posts, but unfortunately it seems like we're beating a dead horse. Is it really that big of a deal to vote or not to vote? To guess if Petra wins or doesn't? Surely there are more things we can do to promote Petra as a world wonder, and I totally agree with Lina's post about getting Jordanians to visit the place before we ask the rest of the world to do that. Vote if you want to, don't vote if you don't want to, then wait to see who wins...is that so hard?  

For those who might be discouraged to vote based on Qweider's words. Please read:

First, lets clarify something that I've seen many people be unaware of. You don't only vote for one place; you vote for 7. So if there are places that you think are better than Petra, you still get to vote for up to six of them.

Now that we've gotten that out of the way, lets talk about Qweider's argument, which can be summarized here:

"In other words, we have embraced a competition with Petra's odds of winning are really slim and what's cool is that we're going to "democratically" vote it out!"

So, Qweider is arguing that Petra's chances of securing a top 7 position are slim (to none) in this poll. So lets proceed with his argument based on the assumption that Petra is indeed not going to make a top 7 spot.

Qweider then says that therefore, by participating in this competition, "we as Jordanians are voting Petra out". Obviously, in his thinking, Jordanians will not be "voting Petra out" by casting votes against it, so what exactly is Qweider thinking about?

The only possible answer has to be participation. Through their participation, Qweider implies, Jordanians will be acknowledging the competition and its results. So if Petra ends up not winning, which Qweider foresees as being almost certain, then they will be forced to accept that Petra is not a world wonder.

Yet the way Qweider puts it in words goes beyond making Jordanians accept the voice of the global majority as truth, which is not necessarily what participating in this competition really means; his wording, "Jordanians are voting Petra out", actually puts part of the blame on those who will participate even if they explicitly cast votes for Petra, not against it. Indeed, these people are blamed, in Qweider's mind, even if they actually worked on increasing Petra's chances of winning.

The following is only for those who still fail to see the flaws in that logic:

First, it fails to acknowledge one important fact: Jordanians will not be the only ones voting for Petra, and that everyone in the world will have the chance to vote for Petra in addition to the other sites they might vote for.

Second, Qweider's argument is based on his belief that Petra is guaranteed to lose, which is based on the assumption that the level of participation from the entire world will be so massive, that even if double the population of Jordan voted for Petra, its chances of making it to the top 7 spots would still be none. The important thing to note here is this: if the participation is going to be so massive, which indeed it is, then will lack of participation from those who like Petra change anything? In particular, will it change the fact that by the end of this poll, the world will still acknowledge the results? The answer can only be resounding in the negative. Which leads to the main counter argument:

Don't think for a second that by not voting you are somehow protecting Petra from being "voted out". Don't think that if 10 million people like you who want to vote for Petra now, decided not to, that the results of the poll will be undermined; they won't. Also and most importantly, don't let others tell you that if Petra doesn't make it to the top 7, that you will share part of the blame even if you believed it deserved to and even if you actually casted a vote to achieve it. If you vote for Petra, know that at least you casted a vote that was equal to any other person's vote, and that your vote is the witness that you are in full support of Petra, and that you were one of the reasons Petra had a chance to win, and that in reality, those who refused to vote were ones who damaged its chances and that if there is someone to blame, it can only be them.

There is absolutely no reason to not vote. Voting doesn't mean giving up your opinion or your beliefs about Petra as a world wonder. On the contrary, voting means recording what you believe in and putting it out there to the entire world, even if there weren't enough people who shared it with you. The important thing is that you are given the chance to speak your opinion that you're so proud of, so speak it and vote. Whether there are enough people who agree with you or not is not something that refusing to vote will change, but it is something that voting might actually change in the end. At least with the latter, you have a chance.

Remember, voting is free, and you can vote for six places other than Petra, and it will only take 5 minutes. Go do it: http://www.new7wonders.com/index.php?id=409

Second comment is only to correct the styling. You have a "preview" feature on the blog that only works with html tags. After writing my first comment with html tags I saw the result lacking any, so I had to post again with correct styling this time.

By the way, the first sentence in my comment says who it was directed to, and it was clearly not you. So no, I didn't spend time writing it to convince you to vote because I know you already voted. I wrote it for those who might have not voted yet and who might have been discouraged by your argument, which I tried my best to point the serious flaws in.

I know that this is your blog Qwaider, and you have every right to speak out your mind here, but what you are doing with this post is destructive. Why do you discourage people from voting??!! Yes Petra would be our wonder no matter what the results of this voting would be, but why don't we help make it win this contest? A contest that millions of people around the world are follow and looking for its results.

Did you know that part of the moeny gathered from the voting would go to the successful monuments? That money generated would help in developing the scenes, protecting the monuments, and advertising the place.

If Petra won, we will benefit greatly.

Now as Ola said, we beat egypt and syria in the superstar contest. This can happen again, why not?

You forget to mention that other countries around the world who don't have a wonder can vote to those who has. Know what I mean?

Thanks Batir for the info about Petra being at number 7 now. I guess the government campaign last months was successful. Hope we maintain our position.

I don't know if I have the right to ask you this, but can you delete this post of yours? Please...

I know, its sad really, and as you have pointed out, unless Petra gets some major votes from other countries, it sadly will not get into the top 7 :(

http://www.new7wonders.com/index.php?id=520

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I vote for petra to be one of the miracles ...
(((jordan first)))

petra is the best

petra
petra
petra

arab first
jordan first
petra first

I vote for petra to be one of the new 7 wonders