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02 Feb 2013, 2:54 pm

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A girl of six wrote all that?!

No wonder the Islamic holy texts are a mess.

Written by a six year old. Dearie me.

I could actually believe that. It's less insane than some of the other points associated with the religion.

Hang on, though - I thought best buddykins Mo was told it all?


she was 9 and older. also her iq>>>>>>mine and yours put together. deal with it. if she memorized 2000 hadiths by memory that obviously means her intellect far outshines yours by miles. the muslims during that time were non savants with savant skills - they weren't savants, but being able to memorize 10,000 hadiths when you're 10 (imam bukhari), memorize the quran at 4 (many young muslims at that time) and other feats obviously proves her intellect was greater than yours. who cares how old she was. jake barnett, child prodigy, is editing einsteins theory of relativity and he's only 12. pocahantas was an ambassador at age 11. usama ibn zaid lead the greatest muslim army against the byzantine at age 17. age is irrelevant., considering how people not even 1/3 your age can outsmart the both of us any day, week and year and have talents me and you would only dream of. the arabs were brilliant in memory, considering how in arabic certain words have hundreds of variations. e.g. the word lion has 800 variations.

Assuming all of that was actually true, of course. Are we to believe, given the existence of the Flynn Effect (nutrition in particular) and our knowledge about living standards throughout human history, that individuals in 7th century Arabia possessed vastly superior cognitive abilities compared to modern generations?



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02 Feb 2013, 3:00 pm

Tell me, salad: does salted water mix with clean water?



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02 Feb 2013, 3:08 pm

GGPViper wrote:
salad wrote:
Tequila wrote:
A girl of six wrote all that?!

No wonder the Islamic holy texts are a mess.

Written by a six year old. Dearie me.

I could actually believe that. It's less insane than some of the other points associated with the religion.

Hang on, though - I thought best buddykins Mo was told it all?


she was 9 and older. also her iq>>>>>>mine and yours put together. deal with it. if she memorized 2000 hadiths by memory that obviously means her intellect far outshines yours by miles. the muslims during that time were non savants with savant skills - they weren't savants, but being able to memorize 10,000 hadiths when you're 10 (imam bukhari), memorize the quran at 4 (many young muslims at that time) and other feats obviously proves her intellect was greater than yours. who cares how old she was. jake barnett, child prodigy, is editing einsteins theory of relativity and he's only 12. pocahantas was an ambassador at age 11. usama ibn zaid lead the greatest muslim army against the byzantine at age 17. age is irrelevant., considering how people not even 1/3 your age can outsmart the both of us any day, week and year and have talents me and you would only dream of. the arabs were brilliant in memory, considering how in arabic certain words have hundreds of variations. e.g. the word lion has 800 variations.

Assuming all of that was actually true, of course. Are we to believe, given the existence of the Flynn Effect (nutrition in particular) and our knowledge about living standards throughout human history, that individuals in 7th century Arabia possessed vastly superior cognitive abilities compared to modern generations?


yes. it was true. stop denying it. and yes, their intelligence vastly surpasses ours due to their powerful, vivid and sharp long term-short term memories. I've taken an iq test, and if i had the memory of these muslims like aisha and bukhari, my score would have skyrocketed. a lot of questions on the iq test require memory, although some like the cognitive efficiency don't. aisha can hear something one time an memorize it even after many years. bukhari memorized 10,000 hadiths at the age of 10!! !! ! shafi'i was said to be able to memorize a book after opening it and reading it once. abu hanifa when he was only five debated an atheist who challenged the muslims with questions whom not one of them was able to answer, except a 5 year old abu hanifa. i think people underestimate the geniuses like them only because their genius was in the field of religion. abdullah ibn abbas was 8 yet he taught most of the muslims about islam, he even converted his house into a university where he was a teacher. these muslims had intellect that most people lacked, in both memory and even thinking. in taimiya memorized 1,000,000 hadiths by memory and can rename them easily. bukhari was one time invited to a gathering where they took hundred hadiths, scrambled the chain of narrations around, yet he was able to easily and accurately rearrange them back together without a single error. if that's not gifted, then what is??? you think memory like that is common?? lol. i have a hard time memorizing even more than 10 small hadiths at times, while they memorized hadiths in the millions and hundred thousands. they even memorized the exact chain of narration as well.



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02 Feb 2013, 3:08 pm

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Tell me, salad: does salted water mix with clean water?


why do you ask.



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02 Feb 2013, 3:33 pm

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Assuming all of that was actually true, of course. Are we to believe, given the existence of the Flynn Effect (nutrition in particular) and our knowledge about living standards throughout human history, that individuals in 7th century Arabia possessed vastly superior cognitive abilities compared to modern generations?

You know that you're arguing with a soul who has had his brains marinated in doctrinaire religion, don't you?

I hate religion. All religion. I don't care what it is. I hate the parasitical, evil bastards that make their living off it, pretending, as they do, to be so pious about everything but inside, in their eyes, you can see a darkened soul. I don't care whether it's a beardy, or a man wearing a dog collar, or anything like that. Especially in the two major Abrahamic religions at least, you can see wickedness and evil.



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02 Feb 2013, 3:47 pm

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Assuming all of that was actually true, of course. Are we to believe, given the existence of the Flynn Effect (nutrition in particular) and our knowledge about living standards throughout human history, that individuals in 7th century Arabia possessed vastly superior cognitive abilities compared to modern generations?

You know that you're arguing with a soul who has had his brains marinated in doctrinaire religion, don't you?


so I'm considered dumb because i think that the world didn't accidentally create itself but was rather created? what's your input on how the universe formed? i know that the universe forming by "accident" is equivalent to a chimpanzee pressing random buttons on a keyboard and typing a dictionary. i once questioned how a lot of the teachings in my religion, and for every question i received a sensible answer that answered even more of my questions. sadly, it's just that I'm still very young (I recently turned 15) so a lot of the questions you may have i don't know the answer to. i probably am not the best person to debate with, i admit. i lack the experience, knowledge and answers to a lot of your questions, and am currently looking up the answers to your questions. there are answers to a lot of your questions and arguments to refute yours, only they are not available in my arsenal and i have to acquire them by looking them up on the spot. i suggest you watch Zakir Zaik's videos considering how he delves into these topics and answers all of your questions and even more that i once questioned. he's a scholar who knows what he's saying, i will admit that zakir naik can easily answer all of your questions, if only you just watched his videos you'll understand what i mean



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02 Feb 2013, 4:00 pm

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Tell me, salad: does salted water mix with clean water?


why do you ask.


As you know the "infalible" qu'ran says that those don't mix. Do you think that the qu'ran is true even though you can confirm at your house that they indeed mix?



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02 Feb 2013, 4:00 pm

salad wrote:
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Assuming all of that was actually true, of course. Are we to believe, given the existence of the Flynn Effect (nutrition in particular) and our knowledge about living standards throughout human history, that individuals in 7th century Arabia possessed vastly superior cognitive abilities compared to modern generations?

You know that you're arguing with a soul who has had his brains marinated in doctrinaire religion, don't you?


so I'm considered dumb because i think that the world didn't accidentally create itself but was rather created? what's your input on how the universe formed? i know that the universe forming by "accident" is equivalent to a chimpanzee pressing random buttons on a keyboard and typing a dictionary. i once questioned how a lot of the teachings in my religion, and for every question i received a sensible answer that answered even more of my questions. sadly, it's just that I'm still very young (I recently turned 15) so a lot of the questions you may have i don't know the answer to. i probably am not the best person to debate with, i admit. i lack the experience, knowledge and answers to a lot of your questions, and am currently looking up the answers to your questions. there are answers to a lot of your questions and arguments to refute yours, only they are not available in my arsenal and i have to acquire them by looking them up on the spot. i suggest you watch Zakir Zaik's videos considering how he delves into these topics and answers all of your questions and even more that i once questioned. he's a scholar who knows what he's saying, i will admit that zakir naik can easily answer all of your questions, if only you just watched his videos you'll understand what i mean


Ever thought you might come across a question Islam can't answer?

Or what if the some of the answers you find are wrong? Will you just accept them, anyway - because of the source?



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02 Feb 2013, 4:07 pm

ModusPonens wrote:
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Tell me, salad: does salted water mix with clean water?


why do you ask.


As you know the "infalible" qu'ran says that those don't mix. Do you think that the qu'ran is true even though you can confirm at your house that they indeed mix?


can you show me the verse. i want to ask some muslims about that verse myself so i can get the explanation and interpretation of what that verse means and why it even said that. i haven't heard this verse which is why i want to do research into this verse.



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02 Feb 2013, 4:10 pm

puddingmouse wrote:
salad wrote:
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Assuming all of that was actually true, of course. Are we to believe, given the existence of the Flynn Effect (nutrition in particular) and our knowledge about living standards throughout human history, that individuals in 7th century Arabia possessed vastly superior cognitive abilities compared to modern generations?

You know that you're arguing with a soul who has had his brains marinated in doctrinaire religion, don't you?


so I'm considered dumb because i think that the world didn't accidentally create itself but was rather created? what's your input on how the universe formed? i know that the universe forming by "accident" is equivalent to a chimpanzee pressing random buttons on a keyboard and typing a dictionary. i once questioned how a lot of the teachings in my religion, and for every question i received a sensible answer that answered even more of my questions. sadly, it's just that I'm still very young (I recently turned 15) so a lot of the questions you may have i don't know the answer to. i probably am not the best person to debate with, i admit. i lack the experience, knowledge and answers to a lot of your questions, and am currently looking up the answers to your questions. there are answers to a lot of your questions and arguments to refute yours, only they are not available in my arsenal and i have to acquire them by looking them up on the spot. i suggest you watch Zakir Zaik's videos considering how he delves into these topics and answers all of your questions and even more that i once questioned. he's a scholar who knows what he's saying, i will admit that zakir naik can easily answer all of your questions, if only you just watched his videos you'll understand what i mean


Ever thought you might come across a question Islam can't answer?

Or what if the some of the answers you find are wrong? Will you just accept them, anyway - because of the source?


after watching zakir naik and other scholars i learned islam has an answer only I'm not a scholar and don't have the answer to a lot of these questions. i suggest you watch him rather than waste your time with me, because I'm an idiot compared to zakir naik who lacks the knowledge and experience to provide suitable answers to your questions. go on youtube and watch what zakir naik has to say about these issues.

and what do you mean by wrong. just because it's right you assume it's wrong. why do you accept some hadiths but not the others??? you go on about Hadiths talking about his marriage to Aisha and ignore every other hadith, such as how he treated her, how she loved him, why he even married her etc. you don't pick and choose which hadiths to accept and which to reject



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02 Feb 2013, 4:14 pm

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As you know the "infalible" qu'ran says that those don't mix. Do you think that the qu'ran is true even though you can confirm at your house that they indeed mix?


I still think you're an eejit (and I'll respond to you about the AENM thing tomorrow), but you're spot on here. :)

salad: No, don't ask Muslims about the verse. Any Muslim you ask to interpret that verse is potentially committing blasphemy (as the 'scholars' are) and should therefore have their heads cut off. You wouldn't wish that on personal friends would you? No. Read the Islamic verse yourself and make your own mind up.

Do you want your fellow Muslims to die because you were that selfish enough to ask them to interpret the will of Allah? You interpret (or probably misinterpret - don't worry, it happens to the best of us) your best books all the time. If you make a mistake one Saturday morning when you're tired and haven't had your sleep, do you deserve to go to Chop-Chop Square for it?

In other words: your book is lying to you, mate. It's a cruel, cruel fraud that is being perpetuated on you. You're not a bad person - most of us aren't. This is all we have. Life usually isn't very exciting for most people, but unless you can give me proof of another life (and no-one can) then you're taking it all on pure belief, and I think that's very sad.

Another way of looking at it is this: I want you to lend a random person $1,000. I want you to believe that this random person will bring it back the next day, with interest. Do you seriously think a random (possibly dishonest) person would?

That's really my point - what is written in religious texts of long ago doesn't tally with the real world.



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02 Feb 2013, 4:15 pm

Tequila wrote:
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As you know the "infalible" qu'ran says that those don't mix. Do you think that the qu'ran is true even though you can confirm at your house that they indeed mix?


I still think you're an eejit (and I'll respond to you about the AEMN thing tomorrow), but you're spot on here. :)

salad: No, don't ask Muslims about the verse. Any Muslim you ask to interpret that verse is potentially committing blasphemy (as the 'scholars' are) and should therefore have their heads cut off. You wouldn't wish that on personal friends would you? No. Read the Islamic verse yourself and make your own mind up.

Do you want your fellow Muslims to die because you were that selfish enough to ask them to interpret the will of Allah? You interpret (or probably misinterpret - don't worry, it happens to the best of us) your best books all the time. If you make a mistake one Saturday morning when you're tired and haven't had your sleep, do you deserve to go to Chop-Chop Square for it?


without tafsir on the verses they become ambiguous and lack clarity and context, which is what i need to better understand the verse. intact, i don't even know which verse you are talking about. can you show me the verse so i can take a look at it



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02 Feb 2013, 4:18 pm

http://quran.com/25/53

You can check the boxes on the left to see different translations simultaneously.

So, do they mix, or not?



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02 Feb 2013, 4:20 pm

The two Quranic verses:

He has set free the two seas meeting together. There is a barrier between them. They do not transgress. (Quran, 55:19-20)

He is the one who has set free the two kinds of water, one sweet and palatable, and the other salty and bitter. And He has made between them a barrier and a forbidding partition. (Quran, 25:53)



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02 Feb 2013, 5:06 pm

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and what do you mean by wrong. just because it's right you assume it's wrong. why do you accept some hadiths but not the others??? you go on about Hadiths talking about his marriage to Aisha and ignore every other hadith, such as how he treated her, how she loved him, why he even married her etc. you don't pick and choose which hadiths to accept and which to reject


By wrong, I mean incorrect. Like in the Bible where it says pi = 3. There may be similarly blatantly wrong assertions like that in the Quran. Ones that you can even prove wrong with science.



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02 Feb 2013, 5:10 pm

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and what do you mean by wrong. just because it's right you assume it's wrong. why do you accept some hadiths but not the others??? you go on about Hadiths talking about his marriage to Aisha and ignore every other hadith, such as how he treated her, how she loved him, why he even married her etc. you don't pick and choose which hadiths to accept and which to reject


By wrong, I mean incorrect. Like in the Bible where it says pi = 3. There may be similarly blatantly wrong assertions like that in the Quran. Ones that you can even prove wrong with science.


What's the correct value for Pi then?