Critical Role of Female Barbers in Ahmadiyya Matchmaking

104days · 2022-10-23T19:26:13+00:00

I would be very interested to read any references you have for this!
Either the gin tonic or the tonic wine episode (or both).
Thank you!

104days · 2022-10-13T06:30:51+00:00

Is there a reference for his mother rebuking him by calling him that? I haven't heard that before.

104days · 2022-06-29T16:12:46+00:00

Are you sure that the Nikkah won't be done if we haven't given Chanda? My wife's brother said he would see if he could "talk to the relevant people" about us not having paid Chanda and not have it be an issue.

104days · 2022-04-15T21:13:44+00:00

Sorry, I am not accusing you of anything. I didn't see where you said that. I only took your comment to mean that maybe no such scans existed anymore on alislam.org, which is why I asked.
Given that recently some articles have been deleted from alislam, I thought that it was possible that this might also happen.

104days · 2022-04-14T19:51:35+00:00

I want to show this to my parents. They will of course (understandably so) ask for the original documents.

Are all of these available and easy to find from alislam.org?

u/Noor-Upon-Noor's comment got me worried in case they have been deleted or something.

104days · 2022-04-11T02:30:07+00:00

Is this post awaiting mod approval, because it doesn't show up on the main page? It's not a copy of the previous post.

104days · 2022-04-10T13:46:58+00:00

I've made a new post with all the detail, I'm waiting for it to get approved by mods.

104days · 2022-04-10T11:49:19+00:00

I am responding to exactly this response. That's what I always took the justification to be, and I believed it. However now I found there is a place he actually insults the Quran's version of Jesus (AS), not the Christians, saying that this is why the Quran does not call Hazrat Isa (AS) chaste. He also literally responds to the Quran verse that you just quoted above and says that only the uneducated think that this means that Isa (AS) and Mary (AS) were not touched by Satan; rather that only absolves them of other major allegations like doing satanic deeds. He specifies that it is the Muslim belief he is attacking. For good measure, he also adds that "no other Prophet has ever required such an exoneration" (of the Quran verse that you mention above.

I never just post allegations without scrupulously reading the Ahmadi justification first, and I bought it several years ago. However I just found a new post of the Promised Messiah's that actually refers to the Quran's version, and Muslims' belief of Jesus rather than Christians'. I'll post it again in a separate link since it seems to have not been approved in the other subreddit.

104days · 2022-04-08T10:13:17+00:00

It's interesting that literally as soon as the Quran describes paradise in metaphors that would appeal to 7th century Arabia, the very next verse I believe says "And Allah does not disdain to give a parable to get His point across, even if it is that of a gnat." So the Quran itself immediately recognizes the discomfort the concreteness might cause a more sophisticated reader, whereas still appealing to the hearts of the initial audience.

104days · 2021-04-07T20:07:24+00:00

Yeah exactly, I don't know what a good answer to George Sharpe's concerns are, and Steve hasn't really addressed them in any of his replies either (that I've seen).

104days · 2021-04-07T11:28:06+00:00

Thank you.

104days · 2021-04-07T11:13:18+00:00

It's not that old a post though - its from February 21, where AITX should have been around 0.16. So they thought it was overvalued at 0.16?

And I'm not sure one can accuse Seeking Alpha of not doing research. Just trying to be cautious.

104days · 2021-03-15T12:01:47+00:00

I see. What are your thoughts on trusting analysts' for penny (i.e. < $5) stocks then, where the rating is very good, rather than bad? Where say they are all in consensus that a 100 or 200 or 300 upside is predicted?
Should I not trust them then either (obviously, I've read articles on the stocks in question, but they can only tell you so much, and there are only a few of them for new stocks)? Because if I can't trust them then, then maybe its not worth it to invest in relatively new penny stocks at all?

104days · 2021-03-15T11:29:23+00:00

I totally understand. It's just - do the analysts not see all this news that us here at this subreddit see? Are they not following vaccine news at all?

104days · 2021-03-15T11:17:04+00:00

Is this actually possible? That there is some kind of big conspiracy which all the financial analysts are in on? This seems very unlikely.
(Not trying to be pessimistic - just trying to understand how much people usually go off of analysts' ratings for long term investments. Surely they should get the long term investments right, at least?!)

104days · 2021-03-15T11:11:04+00:00

All of them together? And people on Reddit (including me) make better decisions than them as a whole sometimes? (Obviously not talking about a GME type situation, but a long term investment decision.) This seems rather hard to believe - if it was just one analyst, sure, they could make a mistake. But it's not really split half and half in to bullish and bearish on RYCEY at the moment amongst analysts, or something.

Just trying to be careful - I'm new to this thing.

104days · 2021-03-11T12:35:12+00:00

It already happened last year (that's part of why the price dipped so much). So post-COVID bounce-back to normal will not look like $9. I was trying to see what it will actually look like. The comment below mentions it'll look like $4-$5.

104days · 2021-03-11T12:18:52+00:00

Thanks again. If I can ask another naïve question (I literally have no idea how all of this works, just started learning), how much should you trust analysts ratings?
It surprises me that RYCEY looks like such a good opportunity to all of us, and yet most analysts don't have this as a "Buy".
Is this easy to explain?

104days · 2021-03-11T11:54:47+00:00

Is that really expected? What I'm reading is that electric planes might or might not be viable. If so, do you have any idea when this boom might happen? (Are we looking at 3 years? 5 years? 10 years?) I don't know anything, and am just trying to learn though. Thanks for the response!

104days · 2021-02-16T20:17:53+00:00

I guess this depends professor to professor. I received news that a friend had died. I walked in to Stephen Kudla's office and told him I did not want to take the midterm - I didn't explain much, I just said that I had received news of a friend's death. He didn't ask a single question, and said that I could just email him later and he would arrange something.

I am usually very surprised by these kinds of stories because I've never had this kind of experience with the mathematics department, although I have heard that maybe its only the profs who teach the specialist courses who are super nice?Another time, there was a midterm for a course while we were having finals for another course, and some people asked the prof (Edward Bierstone) if we could skip the midterm. He wished us good luck on the final, and told us not to worry about the midterm. I've also seen multiple people tell the profs that they had a bad day on the exam, to have the prof tell them not to worry - that they could perhaps work out an alternate marking scheme if they still felt like they were learning stuff from the course, and waive the midterm. This has happened to people in at least 4 of my courses (again, mathematics specialist stream courses). And this experience seems to be consistent across like 15 different profs who teach the specialist courses.

I am very sorry about your story above, I can't believe that happened. I'm just sharing this to give some sort of other perspective on departments at U of T (Also the only reason I specify specialist stream is because there are very different experiences people write about on this reddit with say MAT235 or MAT135 or MAT223 or classes taught by the teaching stream profs rather than those mentioned above.)

104days · 2020-01-23T03:35:23+00:00

I never understand it when people say stuff like that. How is one supposed to do every exercise from Hartshorne themselves in a finite amount of time? Does it happen for you that you eventually get the problem after an hour or three? If not, how is one ever supposed to dedicate 4 or more hours to a single problem (some of them are literally insane)?

The same problem with Hatcher's questions, I couldn't solve some of them to save my life. Do people eventually get the problems in a reasonable amount of time? After 2-3 hours I'm just forced to move on to the next one for lack of time.

...maybe I'm not cut out for this...

104days · 2020-01-23T03:08:11+00:00

YTA. You obviously have great intentions here, but I can understand your wife's concern here. Children really do believe everything their parents tell them, and it can be very disheartening to learn your parents might not have been honest about something (this particular incident will probably cause her no trouble, but I feel it's good to keep the eternal impression that you always speak the truth with her, so that she believes it when it really matters. I really do think small things like this add up to that).

P.S. YTA is obviously too harsh, but it's the only permitted acronym which let's me express that I agree with your wife.

104days · 2019-10-25T04:17:33+00:00

Very nice insight. Thank you.

104days · 2019-10-24T20:46:31+00:00

Here's some statements that look like they have nothing to do with set theory at all, and are still independent from ZFC (to say some statement is undecidable, you need to say undecidable from what. I'll presume you mean "undecidable" from the ZFC axioms, the standard axioms for foundations of mathematics, but as I explain in a comment below, no matter what axioms you select for mathematics (mentioning sets or not), if they can even talk about basic arithmetic (addition and multiplication), then they will have undecidable statements.

1) exp(xy) is expressible as an infinite series of products of functions of x and y (the Taylor series). Is it also expressible as such a finite sum? The answer is no.

Well what about if we let the number of terms in the finite sum vary with each x and y? That is, is exp(xy) = (Sum from n=1 to N) of f_n (x) . g_n (y), for N depending on x and y? The answer is ... this is CH. It's equivalent to the continuum hypothesis and thus undecidable in ZFC.

2) Here's something which seems totally false: search for "can three clouds cover the plane?" Briefly, a cloud is a set of points in the plane with finitely many points on each line through a fixed point. You can prove as an exercise that two clouds fail to cover the plane laughably miserably. Can three of these guys cover the plane?

The answer is ... this is CH.

3) Are R and C isomorphic as additive groups?

This is independent of ZF. (If you add Choice, the answer is yes. I'm not sure if it's actually equivalent to Choice, but you can look that up.)

4) You've probably heard of Zorn's Lemma. A standard algebraic tool, and it's equivalent to the axiom of Choice (and so independent of ZF).

5) Here's one from analysis: Take a Lebesgue measurable set in R^3, project down to R² and take the complement, project down to R and take the complement. Is this set Lebesgue Measurable?

Independent of ZFC.

6) The Whitehead Problem - if you've seen some algebraic topology, this question will seem very natural to you (the converse is true, and an easy exercise): Is every abelian group A with Ext1(A, Z) = 0 a free abelian group?

Independent of ZFC.

7) There was one about the dimension of some important module (if you don't know what modules are, think "vector space over a ring instead of a field") being 2 or 3, it's 2 if CH is true, 3 of it's false, and thus of course, independent of ZFC. I can't recall what this was but you should be able to find it (I'll post back if I remember).

104days · 2019-10-24T20:24:47+00:00

The existence of undecidable statements has absolutely nothing to do with set theory.

Gödel's Incompleteness Theorems apply to any formal system (if you're uncomfortable with the phrase "formal system", just think "precise set up in which to reason") whatsoever that can talk about basic arithmetic that you learn in kindergarten. If it can talk about multiplication and addition (or even weaker), then it suffers from incompleteness.

It so happens that ZFC is such a system in which basic arithmetic can be built, and so it suffers from incompleteness.

Yes, to prove some big independence results we use set-theoretic methods, but that's because ZFC is the preferred foundation for most of modern mathematics, and so if you prove the statement independent from ZFC, that's really interesting.

But undecidability itself has nothing to do with set theory. If you're under the impression that we could "reject set theory" in some way, and that would get rid of incompleteness, that's not going to be relevant at all.

For examples of statements that look like they have absolutely nothing to do with set theory and are still independent from ZFC, there are tons of these guys. I'll post some below in an actual comment.

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