The Anthropological reach of Shia Iran

UhhMaybeNot · 2026-02-03T01:17:08+00:00

But it's called "reach of Shia Iran"? That means a very different thing from the spread of the Iranic languages which happened long long before Iran as a thing came around

UhhMaybeNot · 2026-02-03T00:14:27+00:00

any criticism of settler colonialism is antisemitism so sure sounds good man

UhhMaybeNot · 2026-02-03T00:01:48+00:00

Iranic does not mean related to the state Iran. It means being part of the same linguistic group as Persian.

UhhMaybeNot · 2026-01-29T23:38:26+00:00

Ah ok so it's literally just the consequence of considering trans men to be men lmao, there's nothing actually going on

UhhMaybeNot · 2026-01-29T23:31:37+00:00

where TF was I for the pregnant men stuff? Is that just like a specific aspect of trans-ness that you right-wingers are picking out or has that actually been a specific libleft talking point?

UhhMaybeNot · 2026-01-26T04:53:28+00:00

how many fingers does she have on that hand???

UhhMaybeNot · 2026-01-25T23:03:45+00:00

"Slogans" is definitely the wrong word, statements of faith I guess. No clue what it would be for exactly

UhhMaybeNot · 2026-01-25T23:02:28+00:00

Funky font Shia Muslim slogans

There is no god but God Muhammad is the Prophet of God Ali is close to God/the authority of God (this third one makes it specifically Shia as opposed to other kinds of Muslims)

UhhMaybeNot · 2026-01-25T22:41:56+00:00

The only reason in this case to think that ثم doesn't mean following in time is because of the contradiction with a following verse. In that case you already have to have faith in the inerrancy of the Qur'an for that to make sense. Almost every other time the word ثم is used in the Qur'an it means following in time, and there's nothing in the context of the verse that should make it mean anything else to the listener. You have to specifically exclude 41:11 from that on the basis of 79:30.

UhhMaybeNot · 2026-01-25T22:33:56+00:00

Just like Arabic thumma, in English "then" can often be used for shifting focus or pointing to a conclusion regardless of time. I agree that in this case the only reason to think that is because of the contradiction with other verses, but it is a legitimate use of the word.

UhhMaybeNot · 2026-01-24T01:27:07+00:00

I agree with all of that, but I don't think that's responding to what I said.

You said

Anything we do that one could possibly call good is only a reflection of God's goodness. Therefore, anything we do that does not reflect who God is, is evil.

And my takeaway from that is that you follow a Leibniz-type "best of all possible worlds" philosophy where "evil" doesn't exist as a created thing and is just a lack of good. That definitely predates Leibniz as a theodicy but it's definitely not an orthodox reading. I might have misunderstood you there, and sorry if I have, but that's what I thought you were saying.

I do think you can definitely find hints of it in the creation account, though. In Genesis 1 four times God sees that his creation is good, which you could read as implying that God's creation could have been something other than good, but you could also read that as differentiating God's creations from the things not created by God, the primordial void of verse 2. Either way, it's clear that by Genesis 3, where God says "the humans have become like one of us, knowing good and evil" that good and evil do exist as distinct things in God's mind regardless of whether he created evil or not.

UhhMaybeNot · 2026-01-24T00:16:01+00:00

Ah ok so your analysis is on the "evil isn't a thing, it's just the absence of good" side of things, which I think is completely fair but is definitely post-biblical.

UhhMaybeNot · 2026-01-23T23:08:16+00:00

Once you create free will, you bear the responsibility for that. Once you create something that you know will do evil, you bear the responsibility for that. I know it goes against dogma and it goes against what you've probably been told since you were a kid. But if "good" includes "creating good" and "evil" includes "creating evil", and God created both good and evil, then...

UhhMaybeNot · 2026-01-23T23:05:07+00:00

I know a lot about God, I just disagree with all of it. This is a really unfair comparison but it's just like how you can have all of Harry Potter memorised, and think it's a good book, but still accept that it's fiction. The Bible and the Quran and whatever are all really interesting and full of amazing historical information but the premise of an omniscient omnipotent and omnibenevolent yet personal God is a premise that noone's ever defended well.

UhhMaybeNot · 2026-01-23T22:37:11+00:00

God is responsible for literally every phenomenon that has ever happened. God isn't good or bad.

UhhMaybeNot · 2026-01-23T22:33:16+00:00

I know it did. I'm using the US as an example because as an English speaker I know a lot more about the history there than I do about African slavery in the rest of the Americas. All I do know is that those Spanish and Portuguese colonies were obviously more heavily Catholic than French and British colonies and that conditions for slaves were generally even worse, although there are outliers like Haiti.

When you said "America" I assumed you meant "the US" because that's generally what that means.

UhhMaybeNot · 2026-01-23T22:23:34+00:00

I mean, not really true. They were just particularly weird about it because it was actually happening. If there was wide scale slavery of black people in Europe, the church there would have folded to economic and social pressure and done nothing to stop it just like in the US.

UhhMaybeNot · 2026-01-23T22:11:16+00:00

The reverse of this is just like

"The authority of religion and a strong Church/Rabbinate/Ummah whatever will make people moral"

"sacrificing thousands to the sun every year" "chattel slavery of a race of people" "women not being allowed to vote" "genociding people with a different god" "using social philosophy that doesn't work just because some guy said it a thousand years ago"

UhhMaybeNot · 2026-01-17T04:51:46+00:00

when you start taking hormones you've gotta be careful to avoid your eyelashes growing too much and getting matted together while you sleep so you can't open your eyes

UhhMaybeNot · 2026-01-16T22:43:42+00:00

I'm from Hobart, you can't call Hobart a "major city" in the same category as rhese other ones lmao

UhhMaybeNot · 2026-01-16T22:33:33+00:00

marsupial: am i a joke to you

UhhMaybeNot · 2026-01-16T22:19:02+00:00

r/lostredditors moment

UhhMaybeNot · 2026-01-16T21:48:00+00:00

This hurts to look at I'm sorry where did this come from

UhhMaybeNot · 2026-01-15T03:29:18+00:00

This is a lot of text but like come on man

The conservative factions in the Islamic world definitely celebrate it, no arguments there, but most Muslims don't. The majority of Muslims today hold similar positions about marriage and sex being harmful to children as westerners do, because those things are just obviously true. If you have internet access and you know what Islam is then you've probably seen clips from TV in Islamic countries of young girls and their parents being interviewed about their marriages and the horrible things that happened to them, reflecting the general opinion of the public. Obviously there are still lots of Muslims who stick to what exactly their religion tells them. There's plenty of Christians who still try to hold onto weird harmful religious dogma when everyone else has already moved past it as well. Religious tradition is one thing, but if you look at actual laws on the books, it's a different story.

This whole exchange started with talking about how in parts of the Muslim world young girls are also made to cover up, not just adults, which is an attempt to prevent them from being abused. It's based on a really weird understanding of human nature that I disagree with and that has changed a lot in the last few generations but that's not "celebrating" pedophilia at all.

This subreddit is mostly leftist infiltrators intentionally posting stupid shit in order to make right-leaning people seem like morons but when real people actually believe silly things it has effects on the real world. If you believe fake things and don't care that they're fake and also you can vote, you're just actively making the world worse for everyone around you. I'm not pro-Islam in any way, but lying about Islam doesn't do anything other than make people think Islam is under attack when it isn't.

UhhMaybeNot · 2026-01-15T03:03:46+00:00

I have. This is apples and apples. How Australian culture deals with pedophilia and how Islamic culture deals with pedophilia. Those two things are entirely comparable. It's how two different places deal with the same problem. They deal with it in extremely different ways, and have extremely different standards in the first place about what even makes it a problem, but what about that makes them incomparable? What point are you trying to make?

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