Raze

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  1. - those aren’t allusions, those are specific statements of treatment - orthodox Buddhists consider the Buddha the final teacher, and Christian’s consider Jesus god - slavery was common during the time of the Quran as well - again, you’re ignoring that islam can be interpreted just like any religion, here is a counter example slavery is not legal in all Muslim countries currently, though it’s practiced outside the law in some Not really. Buddhism, Christianity, and Islam are all part spiritual messages part social messages. Buddhism has detailed instructions on how one should live and different social classes. The Bible as well especially in the Old Testament. This is a feature of enduring religions.
  2. It can’t because in such a scenario they’d use the Samson option
  3. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aIK2DY5gtiU https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t_UFDAJYzBc
  4. In Israel there is a internal battle between messianic Jews and secular Jews. I think the messianic Jews will win over time, but as a result they’ll lose western support, and as other middle eastern countries collapse some will be replaced with radicals who are coming of age right now and will be aggressive towards Israel, so since they can no longer rely on US support as a threat they’ll rely on nukes as a threat which will make the other countries get nukes, then the conflict will escalate and they’ll use the Samson option,
  5. They aren’t fighting any enemy that has the capability of destroying them.
  6. You can try vipassana retreat, ayahuasca retreat, unleash the power within
  7. Let me put it this way. Afghanistan was a extremely poor and socially stratified country with a very specific culture and ethnic conflicts that predated Islam, they had a civil war that killed thousands, they then had a war and occupation with the Soviet Union that killed millions, they then had another civil war that killed millions, then the taliban took over and had a war with the US that killed hundreds of thousands, now the country is being crushed under sanctions, and this all happened in one to two generations. Why do you presume this leads to a culture that follows Islam most accurately as opposed to the majority of Muslim countries? and even if they do, doesn’t that go against your point that it’s harder for Islam to liberalize if it took such an extreme environment to produce a government which finally followed islam accurately? The taliban obviously do justify their rulings based on religion, that doesn’t mean their interpretation is more accurate than other countries. It was extremely corrupt and infiltrated. Just because people don’t like the taliban doesn’t mean they’re going to sacrifice themselves to prop up government they also don’t like. It’s possible for a dictator to be unpopular with the people but still stay in power. How do you know it’s because of the religion specifically and not economic or geopolitical reasons? If we traveled back to the 19th century you could make a similar argument about Christianity, yet we now know that it liberalized rapidly after a certain point. Even in more fundamentalist countries like Egypt, Iran, and Afghanistan they had liberalization movements that got stopped in their tracks. Under Nassar Egypt was pushing for secular nationalism but it was seen as a failed ideology after they lost wars to Israel. In Iran they had a more secular leader who was toppled and replaced with a secular dictator which spurred a Islamist revolution. Afghanistan also had a secular Marxist government until Islamist rebels took over from the civil war. Why would we conclude this is caused primarily by Islam rather than any other relevant reason.
  8. Not really. Islam doesn’t ban girls education, require wearing the burqa, etc. They are in power because they have the arms and the afghan people have no way of fighting them polls show the majority do not support their current rule https://news.gallup.com/poll/405572/afghans-lose-hope-taliban.aspx Not really. The majority of most Muslim countries still identify as practicing Muslims yet those countries have varying levels of liberalization. Countries can liberalize without rejecting religion. The average Christian in America has not rejected religion but is much more liberal than the average Christian in America 170 years ago who could own slaves and justify it by using scripture.
  9. No they didn’t, the Vatican has said many times hell is real. https://www.ncronline.org/vatican/vatican-claim-pope-denied-hells-existence-unreliable
  10. The taliban isn’t representative of Muslims, that’s just the rulers of one war torn country, and they aren’t popular among their own people. Islamic countries did reform, such as stopping the practice of slavery.
  11. https://www.girlschase.com/article/how-test-girls-interest-you-approach-pinging
  12. now you think bad boys will follow your rules? Lol
  13. Let’s see if you maintain that attitude when your daughter comes home with a black eye
  14. Then why do you assume any nice guy who gets rejected must secretly be a asshole person and the woman sensed the red flags? Maybe he actually is nice but isn’t confident and doesn’t push the envelope. And why don’t they sense the red flags when it’s with the charming narcissist?
  15. Then what about this? https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S019188691500210X?via%3Dihub https://www.researchgate.net/publication/248967485_Do_bad_boys_really_get_the_girls_Delinquency_as_a_cause_and_consequence_of_dating_behavior_among_adolescents https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s40806-019-00213-0 https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/25062930/ https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2017/12/171214140807.htm
  16. So what makes you still attracted to a guy if the distance and mystery is gone?
  17. Stop with the AI slop. It is literally just scraping the first results on google.
  18. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0749597823000560