A spiritual Ishmaelite

Category: Psychology and Philosophy

  • End of history and future of semi realities

    We the faithful of latest covenant perceive end of history as an era when semi-realities fade and Reality or Haqq prevails. And, the protagonists of partial truths will be disappointed. Compared with modern nihilism it is a very optimistic worldview.

  • Veiled zoologists and xenophobic feminists

    My mother is a veiled zoologist and xenophobic feminists will be patronizingly frightened of her.

  • Future of international atheism

    Atheism is sugarcoated greek polytheism. An international atheism will take sometime to emerge but will be tainted by communist tyranny without Christian humanism. 

  • Orthodox Muslims, boredom and meaning

    Submitted by Anonymous on May 5, 2013 – 8:00pm

    I have a great job, a terrific apartment, loving parents. Haven’t touched alcohol in years, and never tried illicit drugs. No gambling, no reckless driving, no extreme sports. No sex in over a year. And turning 36 next week.

    I am profoundly bored.
    I got here by swallowing my feelings and continuing to put one foot in front of the other. Nowadays it takes 300mg of Effexor a day to that. Boredom never ends. And it does not feel like an emptiness, but rather like I’m being buried alive. Life means nothing, there is no point, no purpose that I can find.

    Submitted by Ishmael on March 11, 2019 – 11:08am

    I am an orthodox Muslim. People may expect us to have very boring lives but our meaningful lives help us a lot to deal with existential boredom. Exploring the local Mosque and/or Muslim community might help you.

    https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/heartache-hope/201304/boredom-very-real-road-addiction

  • Message to an Azerbaijani logician

    Peace brother from Pakistan. The biological mechanism of fight or flight has hagiosophical lessons to inform our cultural resistance. Spider cannibalism is part of our Scripture. Many giants of our history may have had a schizoid personality. We really need lessons in logical fallacies and cognitive biases to inform our religio-political discourse like the traditional mantiq lessons.

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  • Islam and specieism

    Islam teaches that on day of judgement a goat will be provided justice for being wronged by another goat by the horn. Leader of saints Ali peace be upon him taught that I would not accept a position of hagiocracy which involves taking away seeds from ants unjustly.

    21st century Muslims are victims of a kind of reverse specieism in which animals in west have more rights than anti-imperial Muslims.

  • Islam, Christianity and narcissistic victim syndrome

    I am an orthodox Muslim with some narcissistic family members. I am raised a Sunni and I like Shia attitude towards narcissistic anti-religious or pseudo-religious dictators. Now I am a semi-Sunni semi-Shia Zaydi. Shias cites Quran 4:148 as the Scriptural basis for being outspoken when you suffer abuse. Religion neither teaches blind anarchism nor blind obedience. Rather a optimal middle path of moderate respectful rebellion on that spectrum. Reza Aslan has shown rebellious elements in early Christianity which are different from modern socialism.

    https://narc-attack.blogspot.com/2008/02/religion-and-victimhood.html

  • Quranic phrase coolness of eyes

    ويقال قرتْ عينُه قرة ً وقرورةً أي بردت سروراً وجف دمعها

    Quranic phrase coolness of eyes means when tears dry up after happiness. May God bless all believers with coolness of eyes through their families in this life and with pleasures of Paradise in the next life. May God bless us all with righteous sons.

    وردت لفظة ( قرة ، قرت ) ثلاث مرات في القرآن الكريم ، اثنتان منها مرسومة بالتاء المربوطة (قرة ) ، في قوله تعالى :
    ( والذين يقولون ربنا هب لنا من أزوجنا وذريتنا قرة أعين واجعلنا للمتقين إماما ) الفرقان : 74 .
    وقوله تعالى :
    ( فلا تعلم نفس ما أخفي لهم من قرة أعين جزاء بما كانوا يعملون ) السجدة : 17 .
    وواحدة مرسومة بالتاء المفتوحة ( قرت ) ، في قوله تعالى :
    ( وقالت امرأت فرعون قرت عين لي ولك لا تقتلوه عسى أن ينفعنا أو نتخذه ولداً وهم لا يشعرون) القصص : 9 .

  • Quran 21:30 and Ordovician period

    ISHMAEL ABRAHAM·FRIDAY, 19 FEBRUARY 2016

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    Another interpretation of Quran 21:30 taught by pre-modern Tafsir scholars is that earth did not have plants initially. Science also confirms that. {The first land plants appeared around 470 million years ago, during the Ordovician period, when life was diversifying rapidly. They were non-vascular plants, like mosses and liverworts, that didn’t have deep roots.}
    https://www.newscientist.com/article/dn21417-first-land-plants-plunged-earth-into-ice-age/

  • Quran 18:11, sleeping ears and BDNF

    Scientist have discovered that your ears, or at least the mechanism that protects your hearing, goes to sleep at night.

    During the day a hormone called brain-derived-neurotrophic factor (BDNF) is distributed into the ears.

    http://phb.secondsensehearing.com/content/do-your-ears-sleep