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Lutha Mahtin
Oct 10, 2010

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https://twitter.com/lundriguez/status/981304376726904833?s=19

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Lutha Mahtin
Oct 10, 2010

Your brokebrain sin is absolved...go and shitpost no more!

yeah, the "not even water" bit of Ramadan has always sounded like a near-superhuman challenge to me. then again the most self-denial i've done with food is, like, giving up candy and soda for Lent when i was a kid :v:

Lutha Mahtin
Oct 10, 2010

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i drove by a mosque yesterday and in the parking lot they had a bunch of bounce houses and stuff for the kids :D

Lutha Mahtin
Oct 10, 2010

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thick (pbuda)

Lutha Mahtin
Oct 10, 2010

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Local mosques here came together and organized a "Super Eid" celebration in the big football stadium in Minneapolis. 30,000 people showed up! I didn't go, but they did a lot of outreach saying non-Muslims were welcome to attend :D

https://www.mprnews.org/story/2018/08/21/photos-thousands-fill-us-bank-stadium-for-super-eid-celebration

Lutha Mahtin
Oct 10, 2010

Your brokebrain sin is absolved...go and shitpost no more!

Mukip posted:

Earlier you described there being problems with Islam, push-back from orthodox Muslims and some Muslims being reactionaries. Do you ever worry that their interpretation of what is written in the Koran is more correct than yours?

Something I've read in stories about radicalized Muslims joining ISIS is that they are not impressed with wishy-washy apologia for problematic parts of the Koran and they respect the Islamists for 'telling it like it is'.

For example, Islam appears to demand that apostates be actively killed by Muslims. I get the impression that you'd disagree with this position despite the scriptural support for it, but are you concerned that what you call the orthodox and/or reactionaries are actually right about that?

I'm not Muslim and have read the Quran for a grand total of 15 minutes but I can assure you that your post is bad and you should feel bad. You show here that you have no understanding of how religious texts function in the minds and hearts of believers, outside of some Glenn Beck "just asking questions" nonsense about a strawman extremist Muslim you have constructed in your tiny mind. Shame on you.

Lutha Mahtin
Oct 10, 2010

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Mukip posted:

gently caress off with your "strawman", you dribbling retard.

Mukip posted:

I never said that I was an expert, you passive-aggressive worm.

bigotry is a hell of a drug

Lutha Mahtin
Oct 10, 2010

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nice job with the casual ableism btw. you make adolph proud I'm sure

Lutha Mahtin
Oct 10, 2010

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:munch: it's pretty enjoyable to watch your incompetence at pretending like you're acting in good faith. your kindergarten-level rhetoric trying to trip me up because i called you out as a bigot is adorable

nice job, also, with the "this poster needs to respond to my nazi inquiry, and you should shut up because they didn't specifically ask you to say anything". very convincing that i shouldn't call you out as a richard spencer brownshirt......not

Lutha Mahtin
Oct 10, 2010

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i didn't know tendai was a woman either but somehow i still refrained from expressing nakedly fascist viewpoints. hmm

Lutha Mahtin
Oct 10, 2010

Your brokebrain sin is absolved...go and shitpost no more!

Mukip posted:

I'm sure you have a very sound definition of the word fascism.

i do. it is "your posting". now run along little adolph

Lutha Mahtin
Oct 10, 2010

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i also note our resident thread scumbag has spent zero effort trying to explain or defend their 4chan-level rhetoric after they were called out on it. the personal attacks and casual use of "retard" as a pejorative are pretty telling

Lutha Mahtin
Oct 10, 2010

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Non-Muslims aren't allowed in Mecca so anyone trying to do so would probably have to pretend to be Muslim.

Lutha Mahtin
Oct 10, 2010

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Ferdinand the Bull posted:

I realize as Muslims and Jews we dont really have a lot of say how our communities are perceived. Thats just how it is I guess.

I disagree, sort of. I am not Muslim or Jewish; my dad is a Christian pastor in a "mainline" Protestant denomination in the US, so that's where I come from. But anyway, I think every person who is part of a group has some bit of influence about how that group is perceived. By itself, each average person's power in this area will not change the minds of everyone, but I think it is important to remember that no person is powerless.

Also I think it is also a commonality of the Abrahamic religions that other people's perception of one's life can be an important thing. If I'm remembering my studies correctly, it is taught to all Jews, Christians, and Muslims that your own personal conduct can be a powerful force. This is often taught in terms of sharing or spreading one's own belief, but I think it's equally applicable to changing how people outside of one's own group view that group :)

Lutha Mahtin
Oct 10, 2010

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Are any of you Muslims itt excited about all the Americans who just got elected to political office this week who are Muslim? There were a bunch!

Lutha Mahtin
Oct 10, 2010

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oh hey i remembered something funny i wanted to post in here. the funny part is me being a dingdong

anyway, i was at the library a couple weeks ago, doing some reading in a reading room, and out of the corner of my eye i see some guy unroll a rug in a little tucked away corner of the room and start praying. i figure oh hey cool, it's probably some Muslim guy and he feels comfortable enough to do that without hiding away or anything, right on bro. i go back to reading but then i get kind of perturbed because my nerd brain started doing geometry and was like WAIT HANG ON WHY IS HE FACING NORTHEAST THIS IS MINNESOTA HOLY poo poo THAT CAN'T BE RIGHT! aw man like should i go tell him? like will he get mad? well i mean oh poo poo, i wouldn't want to be presumptuous, but also i don't want this guy to keep doing it wrong and then be embarrassed once he realizes it. i sit and go back and forth about this for a few minutes before i realize oh yeah there is probably like a million smartphone apps to point you toward mecca and yes obviously this guy is pointing the right direction you dumbass how did you forget about great circles lmao owned nooblord lern2pray

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Lutha Mahtin
Oct 10, 2010

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I submit two proposals:

1) Build a set of monkey bars so you can hang upside down by your legs. This has the advantage that you can point your head/arms directly toward the ground at a true 90 degree angle. We all know from geometry that the circumference of a sphere, like a circle, is about 3.14 times the diameter of the sphere. Praying via circumference at the antipode cuts that number in half since you only have to go half way around, but praying via diameter is then still shorter, at 1.00 versus 1.57. That is an improvement of over 36 percent!

2) Build a merry go round. This has the advantage that you're covering all your bases. We all know that our human minds are imperfect, and thus we might have made an error in our calculation of the exact spot of the antipode, or maybe the measuring tools we used were flawed. Praying in all directions then makes sure you are pointing the right way at least part of the time. The disadvantage of this method is if you don't have a friend to help you it would probably be hard to get it spinning fast enough to last the whole prayer before you jump on.

Lutha Mahtin fucked around with this message at 14:15 on Nov 9, 2018

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