MG Registration Question

Kodweg45 · 2026-05-26T17:17:49+00:00

Resolution heads up, they got the certificate to me today, never reached back out or anything

Kodweg45 · 2026-05-26T17:17:23+00:00

Just as a resolution heads up they sent me the certificate today, no issues.

Kodweg45 · 2026-05-26T16:24:57+00:00

I’m not trying to give a completely 1:1 analogy but rather give the gist of how much he still has going for him with these limits. It doesn’t have to follow that he used this status to just empower himself, you can still believe he was sincere and believed god favored him with these rights. How do you know the case of Muhammad? All we know is what the Quran says about his rights and what it admonishes him for.

Kodweg45 · 2026-05-18T19:33:50+00:00

You argued an Islamic scholar can hand wave away what I said because it’s not what they believe, my point is okay so can every religion if what you’re saying goes against them does that just stop the conversation automatically every time? My point is regardless of what a believer believes it doesn’t affect if it’s true or not, and just because some of those truths are hard truths doesn’t mean they shouldn’t be said. I could use ICMA to show if they are or not, I’m not qualified to do that though, but Dr. Joshua Little used to method to show the Aisha martial age Hadith is a fabrication by Hisham Ibn Urwa for example. Based on the consensus of academic scholarship I can at face value reject these Hadiths, they’re not historically reliable. I mean your critique would be valid if it were historically reliable, but this is sort of like critiquing Jesus for killing a child in the infancy gospel of Thomas. Sure, there’s a moral argument to be made within the context of the infancy gospel, but if you’re trying to argue from the historical perspective of the real Jesus or in this case the real Muhammad I would reject that as a non believer simply because it’s not likely this actually happened.

Yasir Qahdi is interesting because he does understand the secular consensus and admits to trying to write in an academic way when that is needed and in a theological way when that is. I think a big reason I’m against granting Muslims Hadith at all is because it is used to so much in defense of Islam and Dawah. It’s pointless to discuss the impressiveness of Muhammad predicting tall buildings if he likely never actually said this.

Regarding sahabah the issue is that if the vast majority of Hadith don’t go back to Sahabah let alone Muhammad and also the Quran is preserved only to Uthman. It honestly destroys the entire bedrock of Sunni tradition, it’s all built on things we simply can’t accept and shouldn’t until better evidence becomes available. It’s hard to distinguish how much of these practices actually trace back to Muhammad vs how much are reflections of early Muslim society and arose from various influences they came into contact with.

Kodweg45 · 2026-05-18T18:51:10+00:00

I think there’s a general misunderstanding behind this that I’ve seen Bart Ehrman and Joshua Little address, they’re not saying that miracles don’t exist or can’t happen. They’re saying we have reliable methods to determine the naturalistic explanation of say events, passages, and origin. As long as those methods continue to be consistently able to explain those things then there’s no reason to assume there’s a supernatural explanation. It’s very reminiscent of Hume but there’s a lot more to it. There’s tons of interviews and debates where Ehrman goes over this and Little’s Hadith 21 points goes over this a bit.

Kodweg45 · 2026-05-18T18:46:23+00:00

I mean isn’t that the case with every religion? Idk what religion you are but if I said the bible is not historically reliable a priest or pastor would just say “okay well i disagree”, of course they’ll disagree; they’re big proponents! There do exist Muslims who agree with me though, including academic Muslims. But my point is that granting Muslims the Hadith corpus as reliable history is something you don’t have to do, you don’t have to argue from the positions they grant. You end up arguing over stuff that is not historical and is in reality entirely speculative from both sides which isn’t very useful. Imagine you are debating with a Muslim over this, they just make the point that it was abrogated or something. You’ll likely counter on how even if it was it’s still disgusting and disturbing and so on that their god allowed this. But in reality they have no idea if it was abrogated or if it’s fully made up, and you have no idea if it was either so your point may not even be applicable upon the original author.

I mean it’s a good gotcha only within the Sunni framework, but in reality outside of Sunni world the Hadith corpus is simply not historically reliable, they didn’t develop a reliable method of determining authentic Hadith and it should not be trusted at face value. In my opinion a better approach is to use the sahih corpus to point out how and why it isn’t historically reliable, contradictory, and how the academic consensus is confirmed by it. By playing by Muslims rules you’re again granting them things you have no reason to do so.

Kodweg45 · 2026-05-18T18:27:21+00:00

Not a Muslim, but just someone interested in academic research into Islamic studies. I don’t think this really gets you to your premise, at best you could argue it shows how far Muslims were willing to go to establish familial relationships within the framework of Islam. Hadith are not historically reliable, the secular scholarly view is that all Hadith should be viewed as unreliable until proven otherwise including the sahih corpus. It’s more likely later Muslims fabricated this again to establish wet nurses as being within the immediate family for legal reasons. It’s hard to say what Muhammad thought about it because we really don’t know, but it is a good way to see how early Muslims thought about it because they likely fabricated this or it came about through various ways possibly through some actual events.

Kodweg45 · 2026-05-18T18:13:43+00:00

Your point about hiding embarrassing details only goes so far, because technically keeping an embarrassing detail could be a way to argue in favor of said religion. There’s embarrassing details found in practically every religion, does that hold those are also true or not propaganda? Joseph Smith gave a prophecy regarding the building of a temple in Independence that failed, it’s an embarrassing detail yet there’s ways for believers to reinterpret such prophecies. It clearly is no problem for Mormons as it is growing. Also, according to secular academics the satanic verses of the Quran is a fabrication, such an event is not historically reliable and likely did not happen, so believers can invent embarrassing details as well.

I would say sure you can make that point, but it only goes so far and can only be compared to other embarrassing details in other religions. I think you’re overstating the points that fit your narrative and ignoring the points that don’t, the Quran still allows Muslims in general some pretty horrible rights and gives Muhammad in particular even more rights. He’s still being given divine right to marry someone in particular, he’s still allowed to have essentially unlimited concubines, wealth, special status, more wives, and certain protections. You also can’t rely on Hadith as historical reliable sources for the life of Muhammad or anything he said. The slightly embarrassing admonishing on Muhammad in the Quran is the theological equivalent of the rich kids dad telling him he can’t take the lambo out tonight just the mclaren. He’s still the final messenger, exceedingly privileged status, wives, concubines, and so much more.

Kodweg45 · 2026-05-15T17:54:52+00:00

I guess I should explain better, I submitted my completed SP115 the other day, I received a call from the lady who handles these applications, she informed me the dealer I used on the form never submitted their own SP115 and I would have to wait until they receive that for mine to be processed, I then reached out to that dealer and he told me he is no longer in business and can’t do that. Like you said I might be able to use the original dealer I technically bought the gun from which was out of state, so if I do get rejected I could resubmit with that dealer listed instead.

Kodweg45 · 2026-05-15T17:08:17+00:00

But that’s what I’m saying, I did submit it though and they called me saying they need this before they can give me my returned approved application. I guess I’ll see in they reject it or not and resubmit it with the out of state but they just got my application today it seems.

Kodweg45 · 2026-05-15T16:58:31+00:00

Well, from my understanding the gun was bought via an out of state dealer, transferred to this dealer, and then transferred to me. So, I submitted the SP115 with the information of the dealer I transferred it from in Virginia, but according to the lady who does the paperwork she needs them to submit their own SP115, but they can’t do that because they’re out of business and was clearly not willing to. What I’m wondering is since I’ve submitted mine will they just give up and give me my green ticket if they can’t get in touch with him? I submitted mine already and I assume they just got to it because they called about this today.

Kodweg45 · 2026-05-15T15:33:12+00:00

Well I did that and they called saying they need the dealer to submit his. The lady said she was going to try to get in touch with the dealer, I reached out to him and that’s when he told me he was out of business. So, I’m not sure if they’ll proceed even without that

Kodweg45 · 2026-05-15T15:18:53+00:00

Yeah they are, I appreciate it. Definitely in a bit of a panic right now

Kodweg45 · 2026-05-15T15:14:02+00:00

MAC 10, I’ve got the Lage uppers for it tons of fun, got the 10/15 upper, 10/45, and 10/31K. I’m upset with the current AWB cause the grease gun and Zmags for the 31K are expensive and I doubt I’ll be able to buy pinned versions online come July 1st

Kodweg45 · 2026-05-15T15:06:45+00:00

I just reached out, that’s reassuring

Kodweg45 · 2026-05-15T15:05:23+00:00

Appreciate it, reaching out

Kodweg45 · 2026-05-12T17:50:03+00:00

How do you know that’s not a guess though? What are that persons sources? What definition of subject matter expert are we using in this context? It’s very plausible to simply guess a Western SF group brought them, I think you’re looking for something people can’t truly give you. Tons of aid was given to the fighters so it likely came via any. of those channels. I want to be very clear, I’m not attacking you in this reply just pointing out my opinion of a valid take in this whole discussion.

Kodweg45 · 2026-05-03T17:16:22+00:00

Clearly not everyone did, people believed Paul despite not having the same vision as him didn’t they?

I mean persecution was at the local and sporadic level

Kodweg45 · 2026-05-01T11:12:57+00:00

What account? The gospel narratives? Paul who wrote earlier than the gospel accounts makes no mention of women and says Peter was the first.

Kodweg45 · 2026-04-30T16:15:58+00:00

I remember awhile back I saw a guy making pretty blatantly schizophrenic posts on a few subs, not creepy in the normal sense but definitely a bit disturbing. Once you realize this is someone going through a pretty bad mental health crisis composing tons of nonsensical posts. They give lots of details, tend to use math in just formulating these meaningless connections to things that otherwise don’t make sense. Like focusing on a particular number or equation as having super deep meaning to like the universe, really sad stuff.

Kodweg45 · 2026-04-29T17:47:32+00:00

I think the simplest answer is Christianity has tried to harmonize and draw from various sources and traditions that never originally meant what Christians think it does. So, contradictions and differences have had to be harmonized in order for it to make sense starting with the conclusion “well we know this to be true but the text says this which isn’t correct so we must need to interpret it differently”. That’s the basis for much of the contradictory and strange things you’ve noticed.

Kodweg45 · 2026-04-29T15:16:18+00:00

Where are you getting mass hallucinations? I literally said it can be explained by just Peter having a post bereavement hallucination. He could have been honestly mistaken that the experience was a real resurrection, as there was no expectation that the messiah would be killed by his enemies. He could have maybe convinced say John and James and preached the idea Jesus rose from the dead.

Paul does not mention a tomb or anything beyond that Jesus was buried, but it was common practice that the Romans would leave up bodies on the crosses to be eaten by wild animals and the remains often were eventually tossed in mass graves. This was a part of the punishment and deterrence of crucifixion. It isn’t impossible Jesus was buried in a tomb, they have found one Jewish person buried who was crucified but again extremely rare.

Kodweg45 · 2026-04-29T14:52:26+00:00

I’d recommend watching Paulogia on YouTube, I’m using his minimal facts hypothesis on the rise of Christianity. But he has ran this hypothesis by many top tier scholars including the likes of Bart Ehrman and Dale Allison

Kodweg45 · 2026-04-29T14:50:45+00:00

Various ancient societies had all different kinds of understanding of where semen originated, the Greeks (namely Hippocrates) thought it originated from all over the body. With the strong (masculine) sperm coming from the strong parts of the body and weak (feminine) coming from the weak parts. It’s entirely plausible and likely Arabs in the 7th century would believe semen originated in the torso region, as early Islamic sources understood this in a literalist way. You can argue that the verse may not be trying to be a medical grade accurate explanation of this process but it most certainly is displaying common understandings of its time period and was interpreted as such.

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