My way out of Islam

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Fish pie hears voices and the technical term for that is schizophrenia. While that is an awful affliction it also means that his recommendations are probable best avoided.
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vegetariantaxidermy wrote:Fish pie hears voices and the technical term for that is schizophrenia.
Oh dear, I feel awful know, I thought he was just a nutter.
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Harbal wrote:
vegetariantaxidermy wrote:Fish pie hears voices and the technical term for that is schizophrenia.
Oh dear, I feel awful know, I thought he was just a nutter.
That too. :)
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vegetariantaxidermy wrote:
Harbal wrote:
Oh dear, I feel awful know, I thought he was just a nutter.
That too. :)
Thanks for not drawing attention to my spelling mistake. :wink:
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Harbal wrote:
vegetariantaxidermy wrote:
Harbal wrote:
Oh dear, I feel awful know, I thought he was just a nutter.
That too. :)
Thanks for not drawing attention to my spelling mistake. :wink:
Thanks for drawing attention to my not drawing attention to your spelling mistake. Oh the shame. I can't go on living. :oops:
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vegetariantaxidermy wrote:
Harbal wrote:
Oh the shame. I can't go on living. :oops:
If you and Harbal would just stop posting, that would be enough.
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Khalid wrote:Why is religion full of mystification and complications?
I wondered about this too. I have a few off-hand thoughts. Presumably at one time the Middle-East was a lusher environment that could afford magic and superstition. Habits that don't go extinct continue. By contrast I notice that the Norse religious texts are very practical. I wonder if this could be because in the cold north one couldn't afford to humor superstition as it would result in death by cold or starvation?

I also suspect that the huge edifice of laws has a role in creating in-groups and out-groups. Muslims have a narrow diet due to their taboos, have a distinctive style of fashion, a time of waking and sleeping about two hours different from others, very loud prayer, and a whole month long holiday of fasting and not sleeping properly, and so on, all of which has the result of making it very difficult for others to care to socialize with Muslims and vice versa.

Take a specific example. Pork. Much debated and this is only my own guess... Originally Semitic people ate pork after the pig had been domesticated. But as the Near East dried out, from a mix of man-made and climactic causes, pork could no longer be raised and goats who eat twigs and brush became favored. Since pigs grow and breed much faster than goats, they are the preferred choice if possible. When the Philistines, who we now know to be Greeks arrived, they brought pigs. The local Semites came to identify the new arrivals as pork eaters and themselves as not eating pork. Various superstitious explanations were invoked such as Judaic law about eating the cud and revelation to Muhammad eventually. At base, the point is formation of identity between in group and out group peoples.

On the social level the purpose is group identity formation, on the personal level the rules operate the same as OCD. Rising anxiety leads to performance of ritual to temporarily alleviate the stress. Reality testing rarely happens that would expose the falseness of the compulsive performance. Wudu, salah, halal, and so on all conform to this model or social identity and personal OCD.
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thedoc wrote:
If you and Harbal would just stop posting, that would be enough.
If you put more effort into ignoring us it wouldn't matter, would it? You're just trying to blame others for your own laziness.
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vegetariantaxidermy wrote:Fish pie hears voices and the technical term for that is schizophrenia. While that is an awful affliction it also means that his recommendations are probable best avoided.
The question is, why twist logic when you know better?
- It's a way to be light, strangely enough.
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Harbal wrote:
vegetariantaxidermy wrote:
Harbal wrote:
Oh dear, I feel awful know, I thought he was just a nutter.
That too. :)
Thanks for not drawing attention to my spelling mistake. :wink:
Harbal, that’s your inner poet struggling to spread its wings.

“… I feel awful know…”

With less poetic brevity, it reads, “ … I feel an awful know …”

I think you would likely spin some gold and heads with a page or two of S.O.C.
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vegetariantaxidermy wrote:Fish pie hears voices and the technical term for that is schizophrenia. While that is an awful affliction it also means that his recommendations are probable best avoided.
Only the deaf don't hear voices dipshit.
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Harbal wrote: Tue May 16, 2017 6:00 am If you put more effort into ignoring us it wouldn't matter, would it? You're just trying to blame others for your own laziness.
Harbal, who is currently on your ignore list, made this post.
Display this post.

This is what I see when I remember to log onto the site, so unless someone else quotes you or I click on the link, I don't see your posts.
Like I said, occasionally you are amusing.
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attofishpi wrote: Tue May 16, 2017 7:25 am Only the deaf don't hear voices dipshit.
But not only the deaf don't hear voices that don't belong to anybody, doghead.
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thedoc wrote: Tue May 16, 2017 6:37 pm
Harbal, who is currently on your ignore list, made this post.
Display this post.

This is what I see
It seems a bit like trying to stop smoking by having a cigarette to take your mind off the cravings.
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attofishpi wrote: Tue May 16, 2017 7:25 am Only the deaf don't hear voices dipshit.
You've met VT? You seem to know her well.
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