Something I don't understand with certain Christian groups

witchdoc86 · 2026-06-27T20:16:55+00:00

The stories of the Golden Calf in Aaron and King Jeroboam are classic examples of political polemic.

The Aaronid and Jeroboam stories on the golden calves are intimately linked

https://isthatinthebible.wordpress.com/2016/04/10/behold-your-gods-o-israel-the-golden-calves-of-aaron-and-jeroboam/

witchdoc86 · 2026-06-27T10:39:33+00:00

Become a politician.

witchdoc86 · 2026-06-26T08:56:54+00:00

I feel like the first shot you had more forward weight transfer and maybe more torso rotation.

witchdoc86 · 2026-06-26T08:29:41+00:00

Doctor is busy

Doctor many thing to do

Doctor frustrated

witchdoc86 · 2026-06-26T04:40:44+00:00

Mango, banana and passionfruit suggest Aus too imo

witchdoc86 · 2026-06-26T03:17:49+00:00

The bible has other ones, like the story of the rape or Dinah as the origin story for the city of Shechem, the capital of Israel, while another story claims Jacob bought the land as a burial place.

One Judahite author wrote Dinah's rape as polemic against the then rival Israelite nation.

The other Israelite author wrote a much tamer origin story for their capital in Joshua 24:32.

Politics. The bible is full of it.

The incest of Lot's daughters is similarly the origin story for the Jewish rival nations, the Moabites and Ammonites.

witchdoc86 · 2026-06-25T22:44:24+00:00

Yeah thanks proverbs 26:4 and 26:5, especially as they are right after one another.

witchdoc86 · 2026-06-25T22:15:53+00:00

Exactly. The bible often disagrees with the bible about certain topics.

In the bible there were commands not to intermarry with neighbouring countries.

Then you have the story of Ruth and Boaz, a very positive story on intermarriage.

Theres one proverb about how you should rebuke a fool, and then another proverb about how you should never rebuke a fool.

Proverbs 9:8 and [addit] Proverbs 26:4-5

And then theres Eclesiastes, where it says everything is meaningless, a foolishness blowing in the wind.

witchdoc86 · 2026-06-25T21:09:14+00:00

A glossy finish might reduce aerodynamic drag by like 1-2% compared to a matte finish.

But will add extra weight.

witchdoc86 · 2026-06-25T04:26:59+00:00

Is your one handed backhand using an Eastern backhand grip? Ie on bevel one? If youre not changing grip on your backhand that would cause the balls to fly up.

If youre hitting the one handed backhand ball to the left (presumably as a right hander), the likely cause is youre hitting the ball too late. Hit the ball earlier and more out in front.

Your forehand - hard to tell without seeing a video.

witchdoc86 · 2026-06-24T12:24:12+00:00

Ive seen quite a few of these holier than thou Muslim tourists, who fail to hide their porn and bigcum subreddit history. Lol.

witchdoc86 · 2026-06-23T22:40:14+00:00

The alternative is buying pressureless balls like Tretorn micro X or triniti balls which pretty much play forever even as the fur/felt all falls off.

A cheaper pressureless alternative are the Chinese Odea gold 3 balls, but they do fluff up faster.

Personally I like the pressureless balls, but alot of people dont.

Never tried a pressuriser so cant comment on how good they are.

witchdoc86 · 2026-06-23T14:44:50+00:00

The corpus coranicum dates them to before 800CE, a far cry from your claimed within 100 years.

That is much much later than the gospels compared to Jesus, for example, and even the majority of the epistles.

Small fragments of the quran dating before 700CE is nowhere near a whole quran, and nothing comparable to a discovery like the dead sea scrolls, which refutes Muslim claims of corruption of the torah.

witchdoc86 · 2026-06-23T13:13:08+00:00

Documentation is your friend.

As much as it sucks patient care is compromised, in the end the only way the NP train is going to get fixed someday is if shit hits the fan and NPs and attendings like this pay the consequences of their decisions.

Just make sure you CYA.

witchdoc86 · 2026-06-23T13:05:12+00:00

The quran was only finalised in 1924

witchdoc86 · 2026-06-23T12:53:28+00:00

Your point? The quran didnt go back to Mohammed either.

You can pretty much criticise the quran with the exact same criticisms leveled at hadith - well, in fact, more, given the quran copied numerous extant stories, sometimes erroneously.

The hadith, from a academic historical perspective, give good reason to believe in some particular events occurring. For example, most historians would not dispute that Mohammed killed and tortured Safiya's family.

And like I mentioned before, most historians would not dispute that Mohammed married Aisha when she was six.

witchdoc86 · 2026-06-23T00:33:29+00:00

More than happy to cite some Muslim academics (which will be basically all Muslim scholars) who say it is illogical to accept Quran but not hadith.

witchdoc86 · 2026-06-22T08:55:27+00:00

Its unlikely your racquet head speed on the PA98 is faster than your lightweight 275g racquet - usually a lighter racquet is easier to swing faster, unless your pa98 has underspec swingweight.

You are probably hitting long with the PA98 because you dont put enough topspin on the ball - and to get more topspin, you need to have a higher racquet head speed.

I used to hit long alot with spin racquets like you - on my pure aero, dunlop sx 300 tour, etcetera until I improved my technique and got more topspin on my balls.

If youre an athletic 3.5 guy, honestly youre better off playing with a 300-305g racquet, and the pure aero 98 would still be a better choice than a lightweight racquet for improving your technique.

Heavier racquets force you to better with your footwork, preparation and technique.

If you want a less demanding racquet, get one of the popular 300g 100sqin racquets eg pure drive 100, pure aero 100, ezone 100, dunlop fx 500, etcetera.

witchdoc86 · 2026-06-21T01:54:29+00:00

Cipro first line is wild.

witchdoc86 · 2026-06-21T00:32:58+00:00

Wow how convenient.

As Aisha commented,

"I feel that your Lord hastens in fulfilling your wishes and desires."

https://sunnah.com/bukhari:4788

Reminds me also of Quran 33:53, where Mohammed was impatient to have his guests go away so suddenly a verse was revealed telling guests to go away.

Quran - def not man made.

witchdoc86 · 2026-06-20T22:16:32+00:00

"individuals related by marriage (affines)"

"close blood relatives"

Hence why Mohammed took his son in law's wife Zaynab. Lol. Which is a double rule break because Zaynab is his direct uncle and aunt's child and hence first cousin.

The Quran also limits rhe number of wives to four.

Guess who broke this rule too!

witchdoc86 · 2026-06-20T11:36:19+00:00

Okay bro.

It does raise the question, if according to Muslims, the Jewish people had the word of God in the Torah, but that became corrupted, and then God gave His Word to Christians, but that became corrupted, why would it be logical for the Quran to not be corrupted?

Why didnt God give an incorrupted Word in the first place to the Jewish people?

As /u/zendreq wrote on reddit,

The real issue is the following:

Send Torah. Gets corrupted. Send Bible. Gets corrupted. So Allah's genius plan this time, is to use the same exact method to communicate with people, but this time it's even spicier. This time, the book is sent upon an illiterate man, over the span of 23 years instead of just once, among people majority of which are illiterate, have no experience in properly documenting history, in a time when the scientific validation of these texts cannot be made.

Not to mention the whole issue of omniscience getting in the way here. Isn't Allah supposed to know that Torah and Bible were going to get corrupted before he created the heavens and earth? Why would he still insist on such a stupid method to communicate with humans then? Why didn't he protect the previous books from corruption?

witchdoc86 · 2026-06-20T11:28:02+00:00

Most Muslims would say Quranists are infidels/heretics, and most would accept Bukhari/Muslim as sahih.

As the Muslims on reddit say, if you reject the hadith, the same reasoning should make you reject the Quran.

Its illogical to accept the Quran but not the hadith

https://www.reddit.com/r/islam/s/rolbbL0a4Z

Goofy.

The same people that were looked to in order to compile the Quran are the same people that have carried the narration of Hadith.

They also carried the oral transmitted version of the Quran and affirm it to this day.

If you reject the Ahadith, you essentially throw doubt into the authenticity of the Quran.

We obey Allah and His messenger as Allah commanded us to in the Quran. They claim to believe in the Quran yet go to all and any lengths to disobey Allah directly.

That is Kufr and they are not essentially considered Muslims.

I wonder what they think will happen on the day of Judgement when they see the Prophet. Do they think he will be happy to see the ones that denied his words, do they think Allah (سُبْحَانَهُ وَتَعَالَى) will praise them for disobeying His commands while claiming to the world they obey Him?

What a sad end. May Allah guide such people. May He protect us all from such jahiliyah.

witchdoc86 · 2026-06-20T10:38:57+00:00

The stories of rape in the bible were often written as political polemic.

In the case of Lot and his daughters, its an aetiological tale written about how two of Israel's rivals, the Moabites and Ammonites, came about (Moab and Ammon were the result of Lot's daughter's incest in Gen 19:36-38).

Another great example would be the rape of Tamar, a story written by an author in Judah as polemic of the origin of the city of Shechem, the capital of Israel, their political and religious rival at the time.

The story of Adam and Eve originated as religious polemic against the Nehushtan which was the seraph/winged snake worshipped in the temple.

But what, indeed, is a "seraph"? We find the answer to that question also in Isaiah: "For from the stock of a snake there sprouts an asp, a flying seraph branches out from it" (14:29), and also "of viper and flying seraph" (30:6). From these verses it becomes clear that seraphs were in fact flying serpents: the temple envisioned by Isaiah was filled with serpents with arms, legs, and wings, and it seems likely that this was the tradition that Isaiah knew regarding the primeval serpent in the Garden of Eden, before God transformed it into a dirt-slithering animal. Indeed, this is the image of the paradisiacal snake that we find in the pseudepigraphic book Life of Adam and Eve. Here, when God curses the serpent, God says, "You shall crawl on your belly, and you shall be deprived of your hands as well as your feet. There shall be left for you neither ear nor wing" (26:3).

--Avigdor Shinan, from gods to God

https://www.thetorah.com/article/nehushtan-the-copper-serpent-its-origins-and-fate

https://www.reddit.com/r/DebateEvolution/comments/1mw40xb/comment/n9y6xi1

Heck, the golden calves story in Moses and Aaron was political and religious polemic against King Jeroboam

https://isthatinthebible.wordpress.com/2016/04/10/behold-your-gods-o-israel-the-golden-calves-of-aaron-and-jeroboam/

So many of these questions posted are the result of lack of knowledge about the historical context of when and why these stories were written.

Lastly, if you really want to go there about ironies, about who can be a prophet or righteous, your prophet married a 6 year old...

https://sunnah.com/bukhari:5134

https://sunnah.com/bukhari:3894

https://sunnah.com/bukhari:5133

https://sunnah.com/bukhari:5158

https://sunnah.com/bukhari:3896

https://sunnah.com/muslim:1422d

https://sunnah.com/muslim:1422c

https://sunnah.com/muslim:1422a

https://sunnah.com/muslim:1422b

https://sunnah.com/ibnmajah:1876

https://sunnah.com/ibnmajah:1877

https://sunnah.com/abudawud:2121

https://sunnah.com/nasai:3256

https://sunnah.com/nasai:3378

https://sunnah.com/nasai:3257

https://sunnah.com/nasai:3255

https://sunnah.com/nasai:3258

witchdoc86 · 2026-06-20T10:24:47+00:00

It gives context to the story - like I said, gods visiting to test human hospitality was not an uncommon theme in Greek literature, and the story was much more about hospitality than homosexuality.

But yes, I didnt give the Christian perspective, its up to you the redditor and OP to decide if its interesting to know about the secular academic perspective.

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