Raze

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  1. You can try vipassana retreat, ayahuasca retreat, unleash the power within
  2. 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.
  3. 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.
  4. 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
  5. 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.
  6. https://www.girlschase.com/article/how-test-girls-interest-you-approach-pinging
  7. now you think bad boys will follow your rules? Lol
  8. Let’s see if you maintain that attitude when your daughter comes home with a black eye
  9. 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?
  10. 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
  11. So what makes you still attracted to a guy if the distance and mystery is gone?
  12. Stop with the AI slop. It is literally just scraping the first results on google.
  13. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0749597823000560
  14. But currently men are a minority of high school and college grads, but women still receive more in scholarship funds, and a recent meta analysis found overall men face more sex based discrimination in hiring then women currently. This is a contributing factor in men being the majority of deaths of despair.
  15. That’s because those Palestinians weren’t ethnically cleansed from their homes and were given rights. They wouldn’t be any different if they were treated the same way Palestinians pushed into Gaza and the West Bank were, who resist because they are occupied. Also, they are still mistreated. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jBHAitSKtVs Yet they don’t resist because at least their lives are tolerable.
  16. I would explain it like this. For a woman to want to sleep with a guy he’d need to meet her required standards of attraction and comfort. And as a woman she has evolved a mechanism that determines what makes her attracted or comfortable based on various things from genetic hardwiring to societal upbringing. And some of what makes her attracted can be counter to what makes her comfortable, and vice versa, and this can also change depending on the pattern which said things are experienced by her.
  17. What about this? https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/former-israeli-defense-minister-yaalon-warns-ethnic-cleansing-gaza-2024-12-01/
  18. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WEe2aq3qKmc https://www.girlschase.com/article/why-do-girls-always-seem-go-wrong-guys https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y4yA9SwsQa8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZkwxdEVBe0U
  19. He bypassed congress to continue to supply arms to Indonesia while they killed hundreds of thousands in East Timor