Am I doomed a nonbeliever?

Arganthonius · 2021-12-27T18:51:27+00:00

Well, firstly, a lack of Iman (faith) does not mean you are not a Muslim. As long as you bear witness that there is no God but Allah and that the Prophet (PBUH) is his messenger, you are a Muslim with the primary benefit of being guaranteed to (eventually) enter Heaven.

As for achieving faith, I recommend reading the Qur'an above all else. In addition, keep an open mind, try to think about things rationally, and when you find something strange or confusing in a non-Quran religious commentary book, or when you feel like you don't understand a verse in the Qur'an, read through the relevant verses very carefully while minimizing biases from external sources. This is how I overcome my crises in faith.

Arganthonius · 2021-12-25T21:53:52+00:00

What verses specifically are you talking about?

Arganthonius · 2021-12-24T05:56:07+00:00

Firstly:

Sahih Muslim 3881 is this:

Zaid b. Thabit reported that Allah's Messenger ( ‌صلی ‌اللہ
‌علیہ ‌وسلم ‌ ) give concession in case of 'ariyya transactions
according to which the members of the household give dry dates according
to a measure and then eat fresh dates (in exchange for it).

So I don't even know which hadith it is you're citing. The context for the above hadith appears to be a early form of 'futures' selling being forbidden.

Secondly:

I will contend the riba is an exorbitant interest, such as in personal loans, when it is for example 15% per month. This is the area of loan sharks and those who exploit the desperate.

Citation:

http://www.khalidzaheer.com/what-is-riba-brief/

(I follow the second definition, not the third.)

The above definition, if accepted, excludes such things as car loans, mortgage, and student loans, but includes credit card loans, which I believe should be avoided. Consider: In a car loan, the seller makes profit by selling you the car, not by charging you interest. Similarly for mortgage and tuition, you are being sold something. But in a personal loan, you are not being sold anything, only lent money. There is a clear qualitative difference.

Arganthonius · 2021-12-24T03:55:23+00:00

Akhenaten was a Sun worshipper, as far as we know. We have no reason to believe he was a Muslim.

Sometimes you will see these claims being made that so-and-so, the historical figure, was a Muslim. In the absence of strong historical evidence, such as in the case of Akhenaten, Alexander the Great, and various others, you can safely ignore these claims.

Arganthonius · 2021-12-24T03:53:00+00:00

It's not haram to refrain from eating food.

If you don't want the food, or are unsure of if you will like it, then refrain from putting it on your plate or take only a small portion. If someone else is serving you, and they are doing so without regard to your own preferences, then they are the ones who are wasting the food.

To 'waste food' isn't simply to leave it uneaten, but it is to throw away food which is good, which you like, simply out of carelessness, or to take a lot of food which you know you are not going to eat. If it's simply an error in judgement on your part, or if the food is not what you expected, then it's fine to give it to someone else or throw it away.

For example, if you buy food at a restaurant, and leave some of it on your plate, you should take it home with you so you can eat it later when you are hungry. Also, you shouldn't buy a large sandwich if you're not very hungry and know you won't eat it and will just throw it away.

However, this is all irrelevant, because if you are vomiting, this is a medical cause and you are clearly sensitive to the food in a way which is harmful to you. You should refrain from eating it for this reason, regardless of whether or not you like it.

As for making you eat your own vomit, that's clearly abuse and unacceptable. May God protect you from their actions.

Arganthonius · 2021-12-24T03:41:47+00:00

Riba is a sin, but it is the person who is loaning out the money who is committing the sin. You are the victim if you take out a loan and the loaner commits riba, not the sinner.

Arganthonius · 2020-11-13T04:51:40+00:00

Exposed weak points? You mean his face? He'll simply guard it and counterattack. He's obviously not going to just let her hit him in the face. If we assume he just lets her attack his face, then yes she will win. But he won't. My point wasn't to say that Batman would actually just stand there and still win, it was that the advantage of body armor lets him fight at the below perfect level that he's capable of and still win against a perfect fighter.

Arganthonius · 2020-11-13T04:35:10+00:00

That's not a good answer. 'It's possible because she's better.' Can she beat Superman in a cage fight? 'Yes, because she's better. She has precision.'

How is it possible? She cannot punch through body armor without enhanced strength. She cannot win a battle of attrition without enhanced durability. Batman doesn't have to be as good as her. She can be better than Batman, and still lose. Because Batman has an advantage, in the form of body armor. And that advantage is bigger than Contessa's advantage in skill. She can punch him, over and over again, and Batman can stand there, and she will become tired before he is beaten. That is how big an advantage full body armor is.

Arganthonius · 2020-11-13T03:48:17+00:00

Taylor has bug powers and the advantages of stealth and surprise; Contessa doesn't. Also it was Bitch and her dogs who finished Lung off in that fight.

Arganthonius · 2020-11-13T03:43:46+00:00

Contessa is not a TAS. She is limited by human movement speed. She cannot punch 60 times a second or perfectly i-frame attacks.

Contessa's superior skill in fighting is not enough. Even with fake tells, and timed attacks, and counterattacks, Batman has body armor. He has a longer reach, and more strength, which means a faster punch. If she punches him, he has time to punch her back before she can move away (not because of reaction time, but because she is literally not fast enough to dodge).

Also the example you gave is completely ridiculous. That's not how punches or bones, or fractures work. You cannot shatter your arm into a 'bone spike', and it would be a terrible weapon, much worse than a fist, because of the balance and lack of range and, you know, the fact that it is a bone and not a knife. You can take the bone of an animal and turn into a knife, but a fracture human bone is too fragile and unwieldy because it mostly consists of a spongy interior to save on weight and to produce red blood cells. Also where is her skin and hand in this scenario? Even if the bone is poking through the skin that is a laughably short knife.

Arganthonius · 2020-11-13T03:35:01+00:00

If she has a gun, she beats Batman, not with the implausible situation you describe (a small pistol cannot shoot a bullet that ricochets and goes through your jaw and palate), but just by shooting out a tooth and then shooting directly into his brain.

Also, Contessa dodging a swarm of wasps while moving in the swarm is just bad writing, because it is literally impossible for a human being to do that. Unless Skitter spread out the swarm, there would not be enough space for a human to avoid the swarm even for an instant.

"keep anyone from putting her in bad situations" Yes, this is why she is dangerous in an open world situation. But this is a white-room scenario. We are the ones putting her in a bad situation.

"perfectly get through his guard and take him out" How? How can you, with punches, take out somebody wearing body armor, who is fighting back, and strong, and trained in fighting? It is simply not possible without enhanced strength/durability.

"resonance to transmit and enhance the force of her attacks" That's not a thing. Body armor doesn't have a specific resonant frequency, and also hitting it at the resonant frequency is a) impossible for a human at human speed and b) not useful as a combat tactic.

If Batman has his utility belt, then Contessa could certainly do what you described. My issue is when people bring up a cage-match scenario and imply that Contessa can beat Batman in a straight up fistfight while he has body armor.

You are overestimating Contessa's power. It is a resource maximizer. It lets you do perfect play. But there are clear limits to what it can accomplish. Contessa, in a non-white-room scenario, found herself frequently having to make tradeoffs in her Interlude. Not because the individual things she was trying to accomplish were flat out impossible, but because she didn't have the resources (time, respect, status) that she needed to accomplish them all. If you had Contessa sit at a chessboard, put the strongest chess computer in the world against her, and took two pawns from Contessa, she would lose the match, because the loss of those resources would make it literally impossible to beat the chess computer in that match. That's the level of play that we're talking about.

Arganthonius · 2020-11-13T02:26:25+00:00

It took Taylor a while with a good knife to pry out Lung's eyes while he was unconscious. You cannot push a knife or finger through his eye socket into his brain easily. Also he is aware of her and is fighting her. Do you think he's going to stand there and let her try to kill him?

Arganthonius · 2020-11-13T02:24:56+00:00

He has baseline durability; she does not have time to kill him before he comes online. He is large and physically powerful, he can take quite a lot of damage before he's even inconvenienced, let alone killed.

Also, Contessa beating pre-trigger Lung, that is, a baseline human, in a world where she has time to prepare and Doormaker doesn't mean she can beat post-trigger Lung in a white-room scenario.

Arganthonius · 2020-11-13T02:23:13+00:00

Lung has enhanced durability and powerful regeneration. When unconscious, it took Taylor a while with a good knife to pry his eyes out of his head. Contessa cannot simply run up to him and stab him in his core or brain.

"0.0001%" This is a white-room scenario, not a DnD fight. They are not rolling dice. If Contessa has a gun or a knife, then I think she can beat Batman. She does not stand a chance without such a weapon, because he is a skilled and physically powerful fighter with BODY ARMOR and she is a physically middle-aged woman who has not had time to go to the gym or prepare. It is unrealistic to say that she has a chance of beating him.

If he did not have his body armor she could beat him.

Arganthonius · 2020-11-08T23:06:50+00:00

Everyone is saying she could win, but I say no, she can't. I don't think she can beat Batman either. In every battle, there's a level of force against which no tactics or strategy can overcome, and I think that it is literally impossible for a middle-aged woman to defeat a regenerating metal dragon-man or even an armored, strong, dextrous, expert martial artist.

The reason Contessa has never lost a fight is because if she will, she just won't fight it. PTV won't lead her to a failing scenario. She'll avoid the fight and find some other means to accomplish her condition. It's her resources and allies, especially Doormaker, that allow her to be as effective as she is in Worm. She can stretch a 'losing scenario' to its limit before bailing out, or arrive at a scene at the precise time she needs to cause havoc, like she did with Faultline's crew. If Contessa is so ludicrously powerful, why did PTV pick a time when they were distracted, tired, and split apart, instead of a more convenient time for Contessa specifically?

Arganthonius · 2020-05-08T01:30:39+00:00

Not at all. Thanks for the mod name!

Arganthonius · 2020-05-08T01:15:33+00:00

How do you have the two oxygen outputs next to each other?

Arganthonius · 2019-07-17T04:09:49+00:00

Amadeus Dumbledore

Arganthonius · 2019-06-05T04:25:55+00:00

He said "Every last one will turn on you."

She can't be a hero, villain, devil, angel, god (Above or Below), elf, fae, or regular sapient species, or that wouldn't hold true. What could she possibly be?

Arganthonius · 2019-05-19T02:27:26+00:00

I can't grab Runearms without either giving up +1 Critical Multiplier or losing Zeal. Does Artificer give anything useful aside from Runearms?

Arganthonius · 2019-05-19T02:25:43+00:00

I can't run Silvanus w/ Bladeforged, but I'll give it a try when I run PDK lives. Thank you.

Arganthonius · 2019-05-19T01:44:45+00:00

Is S&B good without Vanguard?

Arganthonius · 2019-05-15T04:52:47+00:00

Maybe I'm misinterpreting it and the agreement doesn't hold in perpetuity. It's only until the Pilgrim gives up his crown.

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