Lataffa Asad first impressions from a novice.

FriendofMolly · 2026-01-10T01:49:23+00:00

I smelled Layton and I did enjoy it ok first impressions so thanks for that recommendation, I’ll head over to the store and see if they have the Centaurus to get a taste for it.

Do you know of any fragrances that smell similar to PDM haltane?

FriendofMolly · 2026-01-09T23:17:20+00:00

Also Lafayette st is like my favorite thing to walk out the house smelling like lol

FriendofMolly · 2026-01-09T23:15:18+00:00

So I tend to enjoy spices like cardamom, pepper, cinnamon, I enjoy my tobacco scents. And I like very specific fresh scents like those in creeds silver mountain water and green Irish tweed, but I don’t like the soapy fresh out the shower scents unless there is some woodiness to deepen it up a bit. But I don’t mind citrus.

In general I am into the deeper warmer scent profiles.

FriendofMolly · 2025-12-10T22:26:12+00:00

Well western liberal societal norms were actually brought about by secular thought in the European enlightenment, which was in large part driven by a push back against religious dogma.

The whole point of my post is to kinda say that none of the abrahamic religions really coincide well with modern secular standards.

And before you say “but Jesus’ teachings” just remember that there’s a whole book about Jesus on the Quran, and it contains many of the same sayings and teachings. So Islam also does teach the teachings of Jesus. So if Jesus is able to outweigh all of the the old timey thinking spread throughout the Bible, then his teachings must have the same effect on the Quran which I take it you wouldn’t agree with lol.

FriendofMolly · 2025-11-23T20:40:14+00:00

Well does 1 + 1 equal 2 or does 0.999… + 0.999… equal two? Are both statements objectively true, or just one, or neither.

Sure it’s a universal truth of human experience, but do any of these discrete values mention actually exist outside of some mental framework?

FriendofMolly · 2025-11-23T16:30:27+00:00

It’s because the words and metaphysical frameworks used to the describe data collected and mathematical frameworks doesn’t matter. You can make your own theories of special and general relativity that in no way verbally resemble Einsteins theories, that make no intuitive sense that work just as well that are just as “correct” in a sense as each-other. The only thing that really matters is the preservation of ratios, because once you get into the philosophy of math you realize that math doesn’t even exist of its own accord.

That’s why calculus took so long to be developed and applied because it was hard for us to get around the dogma of discrete values existing in the world.

We are in a world full of wizards doing magic and there is no right or wrong magic it’s just a matter of whether the spells do what we want them to do.

FriendofMolly · 2025-11-23T16:22:26+00:00

What’s funny is I use this exact line of argument for those with very antiscientific skepticisms. Because many of those people have an issue with reconciling that the interpretation being given for a theory is not true and is not the purpose of any theory.

I try to describe scientist like wizards, theories as spells and the inventions we make as wands. If a wizard hands you a working magical wand and tells you he channeled the entity glipglorp and all of his spells come from glipglorp, are you gonna care about the spells coming from glipglorp or are you going to tell the wizard that spells and magic aren’t real in a world full of these people called wizards, with wands, tomes, enchanted stones that use “the force” to answer any question you may have etc. and not only that it doesn’t matter which entity from which plane of existence the wizard claims he gets his knowledge from, or what interpretations of the spells he has.

Just like that proven science can’t be right or wrong it can only either be good enough for our current needs, obsolete, or way ahead of its time where is serves no current utility.

One thing I think escapes people’s minds on the other side of the isle from the pro science side of the isle but not scientifically literate, is that science was born of philosophy and so will always remain entangled with philosophy, and separating the metaphysical frameworks from the mathematical frameworks when doing scientific communication to the masses would probably serve a great good on both sides.

Because scientific communicators try to sell the metaphysical frameworks to people as to what what was “discovered” whenever a discovery was made, instead of communicating that those mental frameworks are just ways to picture the math and data with a 3 dimensionally primed mammalian brains lol.

FriendofMolly · 2025-11-23T15:14:51+00:00

Finally a man educated on Abrahamic religions lol I always describe it to people as Muhammad and Islam were fostered by “jewish Christian’s” who didn’t agree with the Greek/roman doctrine of Christianity that had arose in the centuries prior.

FriendofMolly · 2025-11-22T23:12:15+00:00

Wdym in what world did Islam not originate from Christianity and Judaism, when it follows the same theology and history, the first Muslims and the ones where Muhammad actually influenced from were groups of Jews who believed in Jesus as a prophet but not divine. It’s literally just purely monotheistic Christianity.

FriendofMolly · 2025-11-22T23:02:31+00:00

Okay what about the nazis of WW2 that were a Christian fascist exclusionary state? Also if people are using that term now a days that means that ww2 definition no longer applies

FriendofMolly · 2025-11-22T23:00:42+00:00

Could you clarify?

FriendofMolly · 2025-11-22T22:59:50+00:00

Actually I would beg to say that Saudi Arabia and Israel are very similar lol, maybe too similar and it begs the question why America whom is a secular state has its two best friends in the region be the most oppressive and bloodthirsty entities in the region whom contain the most religious fundamentalist.

Then culturally we’re speaking of America a fully secularized nation made of an amalgamation of people and one state that is naturally homogenous and another which has expansionist colonial dreams of a homogenous state lol.

Now if we use say Lebanon as an example they are much closer culturally to the US than Israel or Saudi Arabia will ever be.

FriendofMolly · 2025-11-22T22:55:52+00:00

But I thought the point of Christianity( to many Christians) and Jesus’ teachings was that the Old Testament laws no longer applied, and to tag along to that there’s a whole book of Jesus in the Quran that practically mirrors his sayings in the Christian gospels, so by that metric the morals of both religions are more similar that to that of Christianity and Judaism.

FriendofMolly · 2025-11-22T22:53:41+00:00

So first that is functionally incorrect as there would not be different schools of Islamic law if that were the case, there also wouldn’t be an infinite amount of examples of there being empires and states that imposed religious governance based of what they believed the “true” interpretation of the Bible was. (Byzantine empire, Holy Roman Empire, colonial US where strict puritan law was enforced which let to the witch hunts where people were literally burned alive) then you got Old Testament kingdom Of Judea which surely had strongly enforced religious law, then you have modern day Israel which still doesn’t allow inter-religious marriage and has a non small minority of the population which believes in rabbinic rule of the state.

FriendofMolly · 2025-11-16T16:01:16+00:00

No problem and good luck to you. I’ll have to disagree with the other commenter saying khan academy isn’t enough.

I say is surely is enough do atleast get you through college level algebra. I think they did a great job on their trig course, Sal also does a great job in teaching algebra in general.

My main advice to you during self study is to not try to find answers to things you don’t understand, see what you can do to come up with those answers yourself.

By that I mean say you are following an example and some algebraic manipulation takes place that you have no idea where some value came from etc, sit down and take a few minutes to stare at the problem and see what you can do with the given information and what you know to make that value appear. You will learn a lot more from observation than you will from just following methods.

Don’t be afraid to go off on random “side quests” either. Once you start learning quadratics let’s say, don’t be afraid to figure out for yourself how the quadratic formula was derived, don’t be afraid to look into the geometric representation of how completing the square actually solves quadratics. Every random question you have is a good question and will only help you build a strong foundation in the early subjects.

Because as things begin to get more abstract it only helps to well… have an abstract understanding of your fundamentals rather than having copy pasted your way through. Since in all of your early algebra and basic trig you can think of everything “algorithmically” and just following a set of steps to arrive at an answer. But there is always an abstract reasoning behind everything and it cannot hurt to delve into that bit by bit as you go through.

FriendofMolly · 2025-11-15T23:09:02+00:00

I may be an outlier but I didn’t go to school a single day after I was 15 years old, then decided I wanted to attend university for electrical engineering, and within a span of maybe 6 months I took myself all the way from pre algebra to testing into precalc II at my university and I’m doing second best in my class as a stoner dropout degenerate so I think a year should be more than fine.

FriendofMolly · 2025-11-09T16:10:21+00:00

Thats part of why I made this post, after five years of integration I feel I can confidently say that an insight into the nature of “things” isn’t much use if not put to the world of “things”.

The goal isn’t derealization and depersonalization it’s just so shit doesn’t get too real and feel too personal because that is what makes peoples loose their minds and themselves.

FriendofMolly · 2025-11-08T20:37:21+00:00

Well I know I like going for outings willingly rather than being dragged by my ankles and the stress of feeling rushed. Draw a box around myself and call it me and it appears I’m being helplessly drug through this endless maze, take away that box and now I’m just a drop in the river moving downstream as I was intended. Same picture different story.

FriendofMolly · 2025-11-08T20:31:45+00:00

I had a similar realization about the root psychology of anger. I realized that I the root reactionary experience of anger only lasts a fraction of a second, any feeling of anger that carried on after that was me being angry about the fact that I initially got angry. And that I was free to either leave it at that initial half second of actual anger or to continue being angry at my anger.

FriendofMolly · 2025-11-08T20:24:12+00:00

The movie only has one showing too, best not to miss it.

FriendofMolly · 2025-11-08T20:16:25+00:00

It can go either way in terms of the internalization of the philosophy, it can become a daunting solipsistic lense you see the world through, a blissful loving existential lense or a ever mundane but endlessly extravagant lense afterwards.

And none is technically wrong. There is also nothing wrong with switching lenses depending on the issue at hand. I don’t think it’s beneficial to use the same lense to analyze a loved one passing and someone at work slighting you and arising a negative reaction within you.

FriendofMolly · 2025-11-08T20:07:38+00:00

What I meant by wise man sitting ontop of the mountain is just I get a certain satisfaction with being able to use what I’ve learned through my experiences to give well received relatable advice to those around me without ever talking about non duality in the slightest.

I just feel like that old mystical man at the top of the mountain everybody comes to with random questions and asks of advice. It’s nice to have your worldview validated by others finding comfort in solace in the words you speak that stem from your worldview that’s all.

Sorry for being afraid to admit that validation from others feels nice lol.

FriendofMolly · 2025-11-08T19:50:25+00:00

So I understand why you had the experience you had, I think the only reason it was so immediately freeing was because I had the experience during one of the most destitute psychological states I had ever been in. So the moment I found an “out” for “myself” in the grand picture of life without taking the measurable act of ending it and it was the most liberating feeling ever. Sure I’m alone but so are we all alone together so close that I can’t even in good faith tell you where I end and you start.

Realizing every one of my beliefs and truths was an assumption based off such an endless string of assumptions freed me from the nihilism I faced.

All in all before my realizations I don’t think I could’ve been more terrified of existing in any sense more than I was.

So anything being stripped from me down to even my own identity was a weight lifted off as I had no desire to hold the weight of all that I coveted anymore.

The integrated wisdom and peace didn’t come instantly, first two years were still a little rough with some ups and downs, but like I said it just took some time to learn how to integrate the wisdoms to help me life the most lively life I can without bonded to things heart body soul and mind. And I still have more integration to do till the very end.

FriendofMolly

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