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_______ I suggest that the deeper underlying answer to this question of... “What causes Muslims to be violent?” ...can be seen in my constant insistence that humans are basically “sleepwalking” through life. In other words, the level of consciousness that humans must function at in order to make thi...

Pretty simple reason for violence if you think about Nietzsche's musings on the subject: weakness, disappointment in life and lack of achievments or personal esteem.... Hello dorothea, I couldn’t help but notice in your well-written post that you left off the Muslim violence that is induced by havi...

The bottom line is that, no, the West isn’t the original cause of Islamic radicalism. Right. And that was the topic of this thread. It wasn't "What causes Muslims to continue to be even more violent today." The title of the thread asks a very straight forward question, and that is: What causes Musl...

And it is music like that, along with our culture representations such as this... I don't debate that the West is corrupt. Sure it is. But the idea that the West is the cause of Islamic radicalism won't stand even the sniff test. I think you need to get your sniffer examined, for it has failed to h...

Personally, I would prefer 72 sluts... You were born just one generation too soon!!! This song is apparently No.1 on the charts: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=10cRNiXlWRQ Good lord. And it is music like that, along with our culture representations such as this... https://imgcy.trivago.com/c_lfill...

you left off the Muslim violence that is induced by having imperialist invaders come into their sovereign territory and slaughter their children with drones and hellfire missiles... ...If you're going to propose a cause-effect relation, the proposed cause has to exist as long as the purported effec...

Pretty simple reason for violence if you think about Nietzsche's musings on the subject: weakness, disappointment in life and lack of achievments or personal esteem.... Hello dorothea, I couldn’t help but notice in your well-written post that you left off the Muslim violence that is induced by havi...

**According to WikiIslam in regards to the 72 virgins: “...they are graphically described by Qur'anic commentator and polymath, Al-Suyuti (died 1505), who, echoing a Sahih hadith from Ibn Majah, wrote that the perpetual virgins will all "have appetizing vaginas", and that the "penis of the Elected ...

Seeds wrote: ...could have popped out of his mother’s womb sporting an “appetizing vagina,” what does that suggest about the deeper truth of the ontology of gender itself? I’ll tell you what it suggests. It suggests that whatever our true and ultimate form actually is,... (sans the penises and vagi...

Promises of rewards after death in Heaven or Paradise affect only simple people who are not enjoying life for reasons of enslavement, bereavement, poverty, disease, or natural disasters. These are common experiences to all who are not idiots and therefore authority figures such as Muhammad, Caesar,...

He didn't say he was surprised. I figured it's implicit that he feels the need to point out irony. It's the norm - it doesn't need saying/pointing. Why would he point it out if he didn't think he's pointing out something others don't see? The irony is not being pointed out to those who can clearly ...

In Paradise if we make it there, God willing, the pleasures are tremendous indeed as described by the messengers of God, the Almighty. What is paradise to you Averroes? The greater one's level of piety in this world, the greater the reward in the Hereafter, there is no doubt about it. The bizarre a...

I would like some clarification, please. Flash & Henry: Can there be personhood without morality? IC, Belinda, Seeds: Can there be personhood without God? Well, I suggest that if we view God and the universe from the perspective of a Berkeleyan form of idealism and Panentheism - as is metaphoricall...

Seeds wrote: Belinda, you are free to confer personhood on any creature you so desire. I mean, many a human thinks of their scruffy old poodles as being their children. Do you honestly hold that a poodle is a person in the same way that a human is a person? Do you consider a house cat, or a chicken...

In Paradise if we make it there, God willing, the pleasures are tremendous indeed as described by the messengers of God, the Almighty. Averroes, you seem to be quite knowledgeable and adept at pointing out the questionable features of Christianity (and that’s fine with me, because I do the same mys...