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@Epikur There is no racism in the Muslim world, and I challenge you and anyone who claims otherwise to prove it. The burden of proof is on those who claim the case. The Wikipedia article you linked doesn't talk about actual racism. It talks about wars that happened to have poc as the main victims of. The antisemitism is true, but that's not racism, just religious dogmatism and political agenda clash. Kurds are a political group that are fighting against already established political groups, nothing racist about that. They're just a minority that is trying to gain an independent land from stronger groups with opposing agendas. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saladin: Kurdish Sultan during Abbasid Caliphate. Look, I'm not saying Islam is perfect, it has countless flaws and is clearly far from mediocre to say the least. But let's just call things as they are and leave the nonsense and false claims. And that is that racism does not exist in the Muslim world, despite of the countless other problems such as women rights, etc.

That's not racism, it's politics/war and what it necessitates. Go to any peaceful Muslim country and you will see that racism does not exist. Nonsense. Where's the proof? My experience says otherwise. She's probably just trying to earn viewer/follower points by appealing to current trends.

Just to balance the harsh criticism here, Islam has achieved one thing that even modern democracies couldn't. Islam ended racism once and for all, and it never came back. Racism does not exist today within the Muslim world. It existed in Arabia before Islam, but it ceased to be after. Such issues just don't make sense to a Muslim.

Mathematics How could I have been so blind?!

If you make me president, maybe.

Why practice spirituality to begin with?

I don't understand.

I don't understand.

Love the new changes. The background, the hair and beard. The energy, body language, facial expressions. Everything. And I'm excited for more videos.

Great practice, but poor ideology.

Plan/Outline for 2022: First half: Getting hired before June (prioritized as): Abroad in: Any western country. Any Arabian Gulf country. Monkeys-stan, I don't care. Remotely in any country that pays in a different currency. Worst case scenario, working locally, but remotely to another city is more preferred. Completing the required medical school attendance. Finishing all the materials I have left, 4 to be accurate. So to get hired abroad, I would have to get really good at Front End Development, because of high competency. I don't think that'd be very hard, but it's not gonna be easy, either. I am working on getting a number of official certificates from University of Michigan on Coursera, which should help my resume and standing. But from what I have gathered so far, excellence and experience are far more important than any piece of paper. These certificates can help me get hired anywhere, so I will make sure to get at least one of them. I want to move abroad more than anything, because it's become unbearable in here. The restrictions and the corruption and the endless limitations and problems are too much. I could live with them forever, but they would not let me thrive. I want to thrive. I want to reach my highest potential and see what that's like. A stable environment is the only thing I'm asking for, and I will make sure to do my best to get there. Second half: It will depend on how the first half turns out, but in general: Joining a gym. Creating a super healthy routine. Upgrading the food quality. Socializing with as many people as possible. Starting up projects other than Web Development. Making and keeping the money flowing from multiple sources, so that I would never have to worry about poverty ever again. Fixing my health issues, eyesight, bad posture, teeth problems, etc. Buying a phone, of course. (Impossible as long as I'm working locally). Buying new clothes. It's been like 4 or more years since I bought anything, I really don't remember the last time I bought anything for myself. In case I succeed in landing a job abroad, whether remotely or not, I will forfeit medical school and make web development my main source of income. In case not, I will have to study hard for about 3 months for the National Board Exam, from June through August, and probably some more beyond that. To be honest, in the bigger picture, I don't really care how it all turns out. I am comfortable with any outcome, even if it's worse than the worst case scenario than I'm expecting. Life has become way too unstable to predict, so I know how to manage my expectations. I will work as hard as I can and leave the rest to the motherfucker(s) up above.

What is your relationship with your mind?

An anti-father and an anti-mother. That's them, the monsters who raised me. But it doesn't matter, because the past is gone. I am the son of today.

I am making great progress learning data structures and algorithms, but I feel cheated. I didn't know what this journey entails. Or to be more accurate, I thought it would be an easy picnic for a couple months and that would be it. I thought all I needed to learn was a few courses, and then apply the courses and that would be it. But that's not how it turns out to be. Technology is advancing very fast. But guides do not seem to be advancing as fast. They do not seem to be taking into account the modern additions and nuances, and they also ignore the fundamentals as if I already know them because they assume that I'm coming to them as a graduate from some IT college. So 5 years earlier, it might have been the case that learning web development was achievable in less than 6 months for an IT graduate. But in 2022, I don't think that's realistic. I mean I'm not a total foreigner to programming, but it took me nearly a year just to get comfortable. There is just so much to learn, and in many ways that's not a good thing. It means that I will have to work more and earn less than the seniors. And it means that the increasing complexity will make it harder to keep up with the latest updates, let alone learning from scratch. Today in 2022, it's easier than it will be in 2030. I imagine at that time, companies will require at least 3 years of prior experience in said speciality. In 2040, they will probably require 4 years, etc. Or maybe new jobs will get created, like sub-specialized positions. Just some thoughts before bed. Good night.

Karma is a bitch only if you are Different topic, today I saw Kim Kardashian in a video for the first time. She's clearly an attention whore, and a persevering one at that

It's mostly just FOMO.

It's on my list for this weekend.

Breakthrough means literally what it says. You break through things/boundaries you thought were unbreakable before.

This happens with adults all the time. It depends on what illiterate means. Do I think learning is essential? Absolutely. And do I think brute forcing information is sometimes good? Absolutely. But do I think schools teach correctly? Absolutely not. It's our society's fault that made 13 year-olds underdeveloped. Even many adults are underdeveloped due to our schooling systems. But feel free to disagree. Well, then I guess we should lock our kids in a box forever to prevent them from getting exposed to the world, because it's a dangerous place.

I can understand that, but do you think this is symmetrical? I mean, would most male children not want physical sex at 12 years old? I don't think so. If it was allowed, I would bet my testicles that most male children would do it. They don't have to mate with girls of their age, older girls would do.

It's not. Forcing yourself to sit still for sessions of at least 30-45 minutes each, 6 sessions everyday, that's almost like serving jail time. You can't talk or express yourself during that time, you're literally silenced, forced to read and write, to lock your mind in the box provided, etc. And then you go home with homework, which can potentially hurt your eyes and create posture-related problems on the long run if you're not careful. Most of this might seem very passive in comparison to other forms of abuse, but I still consider it toxic and hindering of growth. Otherwise, how do you explain the high depression and suicide rates in the modern world even though it's technically a lot better than ever materialistically? It's because we're actually abused. Not without asking the child. If the child doesn't like school, then it's abuse. Some children actually love studying, and that's great. Make schools for those. Let them do what they love. It is because we've made it so. Maybe if schools didn't exist, children would grow up faster. Think about it. The time we spent studying could have been well spent on building our personality and awareness of the world instead. Just imagine this possibility. After all, the legal age is a modern concept, and our ancestors lived just fine without it. Good, but not good enough. The circumstances weren't tough back then, but school definitely was for me. I don't remember enjoying even in the slightest studying any one particular thing in my entire journey. All of my motivation to study and succeed was based in fear, not 1% of it in love.

@Etherial Cat Funny thing about schools is that I always hated them. When America invaded Iraq, I was in the 4th grade, so I hoped that they would invade us too just to shut down the schools and give me some freedom. They didn't invade, but we got war eventually after a number of years, and the schools remained.

Can we say the same thing about education and the schools system, though? Learning is forced onto our minds even when it's against our will from a very young age, and we're told that it's for our good. We keep challenging our minds for over 12 years without a say in the matter. Why is this not considered abuse, both physical and mental? Isn't that a double standard? This can be said about many adults, too. So is the age a real factor? Especially the legal age, since it's completely made-up. As well, life experience comes from non other than life experience. A child becomes an adult after gaining life experience, right? Well, let children become adults quicker if they want to. Why would the established rules know what is good for me more than my body? When my body desires food, I don't force myself to starve because there might be poison in the food. Same thing here. But if that is actually the issue, then why not teach sexual awareness in schools next to all the useless stuff we learn? I think there are other reasons, and they're not clear or convincing to me. This is a bit better than the rest of the world.

I'm not a pedophile, but what if the "child" is down for sex? After all what's the difference between a child and an adult? What if we're hurting the children by not giving them what they want? Seriously, I started wanting to have sex since I was like 10, even before reaching puberty. Maybe not sex exactly, but at least some action with the opposite sex. I just don't think the legal age is fair. Maybe puberty, I could agree to that. But why should someone wait for 5 years or more to start exploring their sexuality?

There have been protests in the beginning of the Arab Spring in the Arabian Gulf, they involved several countries, but they were very small and localized, and they got cancelled very quickly. Now, you might ask why weren't the protests big and massive as one might imagine they should be? And the answer is because most Arabs don't really value independence/individuality. We value tradition a lot more, we are very social, and we are very co-dependent. That's our center of gravity. It's due to religious domination for the most part, but there are other factors too. The ones who are more individualistic-minded tend to reach higher education and then move to western democracies for work, so they get filtered out automatically. As well, Arabs do not own the technology, nor most of the minds that get to create, envision, and direct it. It's all imported from the west. There's no such thing as creativity or innovation here. You think and work your mind, and Arabs simply buy and apply the result of that, lol. However, change is happening in the minds of the younger generations as they are more prone to being brainwashed by the western dogmas, propaganda and way of living, because they are becoming less trusting of the middle-eastern dogmas, since they're not as useful or practical as the western ones. Older people tend to hold on to their beliefs and traditions, while many youngsters are almost like hippies. This change is slower and weaker in richer countries, like in the Arabian Gulf, because there's no reason to doubt the current way, so it remains in control and on top of everything else. If you ask me personally, I don't really see an advantage in being a first-world country citizen, except maybe for the technology and public services, but these things exist in the Arabian Gulf and in better quality, so why would an Arabian trade their stable, easy, luxurious life for a useless, egoic, and kind of illusory voting choice that they can get to practice once every half decade? It doesn't make any sense. This is why the Arab Spring didn't and won't work in a nutshell.