We all have a choice. To stand, not kneel. To oppose, not obey. To live, not just exist
Same. EndeavourOs on the desktop but the rest of the Homeland is Debian.
Neither him nor her or their family are in any danger in the USA, besides the usual due to the nature of the country.
You are on a loop my man, go back to read my replies you may learn something although I doubt you are capable.
Life is a natural part of living. I have lost my parents recently and my loyal dog, in the last decade barely a year without someone near and loved passed.
Overcoming grief for me starts understanding no one will be here forever so I spend quality time with them so when they aren't around I don't have regrets. The next part is understanding you are not going to overcome your feelings you are just going to get used to them.
The world is darker without my parents in it but they had me so their light would continue, I have to work for two now.
God bless friend, life is a bitch and then you keep living. You'll get used to it.
It's difficult for some to understand the world is not black and white. I am an anarchist I always have to start saying: "I am an anarchist but I understand the world I am in and the things I have to do to survive they doesn't mean I can't spread the word" and the last word goes hard because I am a anarchocristian.
You can't talk with "black and white world people". All you can do is reply in hopes those who read don't fall into the "black and white world hole".
I would like to not own a car, to not have to spend half my life working for a company that pollutes the world and to no need money. I don't live in that world but I can try to put a small stone in building that world even though I won't see it because we are not ready for it.
That being said I hate this world where the State is God and its getting worse but as the saying goes: "the night is darker before dawn"
- Jump
If God truly is ‘all-powerful’ and ‘omnipotent,’ then Jesus dying wasn’t the only way to ‘save us.’”
Who says it was the only way? Because I think nothing in the Bible says it was the only way, is the way God choose to so for us regular people it is the only way but as we can't comprehend the mind of a God we can't understand the actions either.
God is Father so one way to try to understand the actions is to try to imagine a Father teaching a kid, now imagine said kid has millions of personalities, free will, is violent, envious, luscious and most of the time the kid believes he is more powerful and more intelligent than any parent but also is mortal, weak and afraid of everything, specially himself.
What does her wife being from Lebanon has anything to do with this? She has British and French citizenship so it is easy for him to get the citizenship and I bet she is safe from ICE on virtue of having shit ton of money, other 2 nationalities and being an international lawyer.
He didn't buy it, his wife has french citizenship so he can get it too although I bet the process was faster for him since he is rich and famous while I have been waiting 8 months for my wife to be allowed to enter the country.
In order to have a proper discusion you can't just point somewhere and say "it's that part fault" and when confronted with proof that it's not (and not just once, but once would be enough) you shouldn't point the finger to the person and say "cherry picked".
History is history, it's not "cherry picking", specially recent history. You have been spreading false information from the very beginning and I will never get tired of fighting falsehood either. It is fine to be wrong, it is not a crime, you can admit it and move on, you can also still defend islam because they are fighting the west and you hate the west (which is also fine, plenty of things to hate the west for) but considering how this thread started it would be weird because one side have, although not perfect, plenty of human rights and the other is an oppressive religion sustained sustained by, among other disgusting things, by child marriages.
I showed you actual facts not the fan fiction you have created in your mind to justify your paraphilia with authoritative regimes and faiths.
I suggest you to start accepting facts when you are exposed to them instead of bending reality to your particular interests, whatever they may be. It's an useful skill when having conversations and discussions. You are lucky I am adamant on combating and enlightening the contraproducent and hypocritical defense of Islam along with educating actual Muslims about their oppressive and false faith otherwise I wouldn't have bothered fighting your pathetic attempt at history manipulation.
The 1953 Iranian coup d'état was orchestrated by the CIA and MI6. It was a project of Western colonialism to restore control of Iranian oil fields to Western corporations.
10 years before that the Sha was deposed by the Soviet Union and the United Kingdom or that one doesn't count because doesn't fit your narrative? You defend Rezah Shah only when interests you.
Iranian society has been Muslim for over a thousand years, but the Islamic Republic emerged only in the last half century.
Persia / Iran wasn't secular for a thousand years.
That you have concluded I am defending Islam is proof enough that you have not engaged seriously.
It's the only reason why you engaged in this. First with lies saying no muslim nation conquered or colonized the west, then moving the goal to modern times. You haven even acknowledged the invasion of cyprus by a muslim country and you focus on Iran because you think it fits your narrative, ignoring all my examples in the process.
The only reason Iran was secular under the Sha is because the Sha fought against islam clerics and that's an historical fact and what's more, the only way for a muslim country to be secular is through an authoritarian ruler strong enough to fight the clergy.
Iranian society and government were broadly secular until after foreign intrusion
The Sha was restored after the UK and Soviet interference (not exactly the west) and his authoritative policies lead to the revolution. He eliminated the islamic clergy influence in the government and public life in the 60's, forced them to get official accreditation to preach and effectively banned them from parliament in the 70's, the less radical islamists tried to create a democratic government, still islamic, but then the US embassy was taken and Khomeini took power.
And again, the occupation of Cyprus by a Muslim nation is more recent than the Iranian revolution.
The current state of Iran is a consequence of Islam, not the western, but go ahead, leftists of the world keep defending a religion that hangs homosexuals, forces genre change on people (this happens in Iran), fights sexual freedom, prosecutes people that think different, forces women to cover, allows child marriage, etc, etc.
Just because something is bad doesn't make other thing good. Just because the west is bad, doesn't make islam good. Just because at some point Iran was secular and prosperous under the Sha doesn't mean the Sha wasn't authoritative, the world rarely is black and white, you know what is black and white? Islam. The book is very clear. Islam is a scourge on the Earth as the Soviet Union was, the British Empire, American exceptionalist or the CCP.
Finally I have to point out how essentially you are in a thread about what being extreme-left means while defending a country in a time that was under an absolute monarchy rule, with and absolute king, the same one that was deposed in early 50's was the one reinstated in the 60's, so what are you exactly? You are obviously no muslim, because they are proud of the things I say (why wouldn't they? they believe they are right) and you are obviously no leftist since you are defending an absoltue monarch.
As long as they are the strongest logistical force in the world they will rule, and they are the strongest by far in that regard.
This coming year I have so many! In the last few years I lost my parents and pets, last one was my loyal dog.
- To be reunited with my wife, this stupid visa system has kept us apart 8 months and counting.
- To start living together and rearrange the house to our liking and needs.
- To give home to another dog, it's what him would like.
- Keep exercising and building the home gym, involve the wife in such tasks.
- Be more involved at work. I like what I do but these years have taken a toll on me. I try but apathy it's there.
- Help the wife adapt to a new country and culture.
- House reparations.
- Small wedding celebration here (we married in her country)
- Planning honeymoon
- I want to be a better Christian sometimes I have strong feeling about topics I care about and I come out as very aggressive so I want to avoid that.
- Keep enlightening people about anarchism and to fight, in whatever way possible, against the bully system of States.
Not on my hands:
- In the last 7 years I have lost someone every year, family, friends, pets, parents. I want 2026 to be the year of gains and not loses.
What kind of test have you got done? Does medicine to stop the nausea help?
All you say is west bad, west responsible for every single evil in the world. People and nations are responsible for themselves in the XXI century, specially when some of those nations are among the richest in the world (Saudi, Qatar and Emirates for example)
Islam, as a religion is a religion of conquest as proven by their own book and, of course, their history. Their core belief is a universal caliphate in which everyone is muslim or subjugated by muslims (depends on the interpretation if you are a christian or jew you are ok, otherwise you are going to convert or die) and the universal caliphate is obtained through war and conquest. From the very beginning Muhammad raised an army and conquered cities,including Mecca, Muhammad lead by example because he was illiterate.
Islam is a religion of intolerance, where the different in prosecuted and punished, the apostate executed.
If that's what you want you have plenty of places to go.
Regarding Iran it's been 50 years, they are more than responsible for themselves, not so long ago they tried to fight it, this whole site was full of people supporting the people rebelling against the Islamic Republic of Iran ruled by a religious supreme leader and they were suppressed and killed by the Guidance a patrol a moral police
I have counterargument every single of your examples, I have fought your lies, I have exposed Islam which is easy because they don't hide, you just keep repeating lies and blaming the west and ignoring all the harm Islam has caused and causes today without me mentioning Sharia Law until now.
I gave you modern examples (which you ignored) and that without mentioning Morocco which claims several western territorios and holds one that they took illegally which at best should be free and at worst an autonomous region.
I have educated you enough.
You literally said no Muslim nation colonized the West which was a blatant lie.
Turkey, a Muslim nation, occupies Greek territory today.
Lebanon was a Christian nation until the 80s although they weren't exactly conquered
They also tend to invade each other but that goes against your narrative too since you only care about west bad like every western nation has the same interests, although they should have a common interest in fighting islam.
I hope none of you defenders of Islam get to live in a Muslim ruled nation although you all deserve it.
We are talking about history facts, you didn't know or worse, you ignored two of the biggest colonizing and conquest forces in the history of mankind and now you blame the west for something Islam is the king at.
Here is another history fact: there is no Spanish Empire without the Umayyad or the Ottoman Empire.
The worst thing about this conversation it that you aren't even Muslim because they are proud of the Umayyad (not so much the Ottomans since they aren't arabs)
In other regimes there are three rules: first be rich, second don't be poor, third don't contradict the leader or the party.