A little info about one of the three main sects I started to talk about on the vherf.
The basic doctrine of the Khārijites was that a person or a group who committed a grave error or sin and did not sincerely repent ceased to be Muslim. Mere profession of the faith—“there is no god but God; Muhammad is the prophet of God”—did not make a person a Muslim unless this faith was accompanied by righteous deeds. In other words, good works were an integral part of faith and not extraneous to it. The second principle that flowed from their aggressive idealism was militancy, or jihad, which the Khārijites considered to be among the cardinal principles, or pillars, of Islam. Contrary to the orthodox view, they interpreted the Qurʾānic command about “enjoining good and forbidding evil” to mean the vindication of truth through the sword. The placing of these two principles together made the Khārijites highly inflammable fanatics, intolerant of almost any established political authority.
Actually yes. They follow different Imams just like Christians follow pastors or priests or Jews follow different rabbis. No matter the religion there are zealots that try to control the minds and will of their followers.
If I remember correctly the Quran itself states that the reading of it will undoubtedly be ambiguous, that many will use it to their own ends and corrupt its true meaning, and that they will spend eternity enduring the tortures of hell for misusing it.
It's been some years since I read it, though, perhaps that was something from a commentary or introduction.
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From what I've seen, it contradicts itself a lot. Be peaceful, but set non-believers on fire "garment of flame" or some such nonsense. And from what I've seen, muslims are supposed to adhere to the things this Mohammad guy said but not over the things he said earlier. In other words, early in the Koran he says something about X then layer in the book he says something that overrides the earlier thing he said. "Believe what I say, unless I say otherwise later"
I'm not a religious person. I view all religions with skepticism and distrust. The Muslims have always seemed the most violent and oppressive with Christians being second, jews probably third, and Hindus and Buddhists last. Christians have mostly mellowed out in their quest to kill or convert non-christians. Muslims seem to still be in that stage, since Islam was invented much later than Christianity.
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2025 - 1776 = 249 years
249 years x 365 days = 90,885 days (Not including leap year days, and not subtracting days between now and August 2)
90,885 days x $10,000 = $908,850,000.
Still need almost $91 million to reach 1 billion. @Rhamlin
A good cigar and whiskey solve most problems.
Does this account for leap days?
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According to the date calculator, yes. However, no compound interest was accounted.
A good cigar and whiskey solve most problems.
Or you spending half of it on El Septimo
A little info about one of the three main sects I started to talk about on the vherf.
The basic doctrine of the Khārijites was that a person or a group who committed a grave error or sin and did not sincerely repent ceased to be Muslim. Mere profession of the faith—“there is no god but God; Muhammad is the prophet of God”—did not make a person a Muslim unless this faith was accompanied by righteous deeds. In other words, good works were an integral part of faith and not extraneous to it. The second principle that flowed from their aggressive idealism was militancy, or jihad, which the Khārijites considered to be among the cardinal principles, or pillars, of Islam. Contrary to the orthodox view, they interpreted the Qurʾānic command about “enjoining good and forbidding evil” to mean the vindication of truth through the sword. The placing of these two principles together made the Khārijites highly inflammable fanatics, intolerant of almost any established political authority.
As far as I know, all the flavors of Muslims are like that.
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In all honesty, that’s like saying all flavors of Christianity are like this
Have you seen any branches of Islam working to end jihad in the Muslim "religeon" and remove it from the Koran? I sure as he'll havent?
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Actually yes. They follow different Imams just like Christians follow pastors or priests or Jews follow different rabbis. No matter the religion there are zealots that try to control the minds and will of their followers.
Until they replace the Koran with a rewritten version, not gonna buy it.
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If I remember correctly the Quran itself states that the reading of it will undoubtedly be ambiguous, that many will use it to their own ends and corrupt its true meaning, and that they will spend eternity enduring the tortures of hell for misusing it.
It's been some years since I read it, though, perhaps that was something from a commentary or introduction.
"If you do not read the newspapers you're uninformed. If you do read the newspapers, you're misinformed." -- Mark Twain
From what I've seen, it contradicts itself a lot. Be peaceful, but set non-believers on fire "garment of flame" or some such nonsense. And from what I've seen, muslims are supposed to adhere to the things this Mohammad guy said but not over the things he said earlier. In other words, early in the Koran he says something about X then layer in the book he says something that overrides the earlier thing he said. "Believe what I say, unless I say otherwise later"
I'm not a religious person. I view all religions with skepticism and distrust. The Muslims have always seemed the most violent and oppressive with Christians being second, jews probably third, and Hindus and Buddhists last. Christians have mostly mellowed out in their quest to kill or convert non-christians. Muslims seem to still be in that stage, since Islam was invented much later than Christianity.
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