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The Aftergod

Nadeem F Paracha June 10, 2005

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#41 Posted by ntsyed on June 14, 2005 1:05:10 pm
Re: # 40

Dear RD,

He is the Only Entity worthy of Praises. He doesn`t need to score points with anyone, nor does He give up on anyone unless he/she insists on it. Even then, He leaves the door open if and when he/she wishes to revert.

He doesn`t wish for His Creation to become fuel for the `fire`; He has plenty of other resources for that. He has left it up to us .... the ultimate freedom of choice. We decide our fate with our intentions and subsequent efforts for action.

May He fill your life with ghee-shakkar and all that you desire if He counts me among Momineen. Don`t give up on yourself so quick though. Only He decides who belongs where.

You appear way too smart to be fooled by incomplete thoughts and impressions of life. Please don`t be so bitter about His Authority and Rules. You and I obey these day-in and day-out in one way or another anyway. It`s only a matter of looking at life with sincerity in order to recognize our compliance to Him even in our defiance :-)~~

ciao,
ntsyed :-)~~
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#40 Posted by Raw_Dust on June 14, 2005 12:09:51 pm
ntsyed sahib:

that was a great post! isnt that soo right? we murtids, kafirs actually murtids specially. we are like flooring the pedal when surely the ride aint safe and there is only pure fire, misery and torment waiting for us on the other side. we are a lost cause indeed. we are doomed, prejudged by the Dog almighty to be damned eternally so He could score some points with Momineen like your praiseworthy self.

This whole idea for the Truth is prolly wonderful to believe maybe a touch melodramatic. So i say, more power to your pen. On the other hand lost souls, the baghlols of every Time and age are fated to play their part over and over. They are the fuel to stoke the furnace that Dog almighty cant do without.

peace.
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#39 Posted by ntsyed on June 14, 2005 12:01:55 pm
Re: # 38

Dear baaghiraja,

`[S]ecular rant` or reality, it`s all relative and subject to paradigms and perspectives. The most amicable compromise is an agreement on disagreement. I hope you concur :-)~~

Nevertheless, your appreciation is appreciated, Jazak-Allah! Indeed He does move in mysterious ways.

``The irony of God planing to rid the world of his own influence.``

Dil k behlanay ko Ghalib ye khayal achcha hai :-)~~

Meray bhai, you`re assuming too much about an Entity Whom no normal mortal has seen. Only a few prophets [PBUH] have had a glimpse of Him; I`m only certain about two of them.

Think about it, why did He create all that we see and hear about, and the things He has promised us for our obedience and deviance?

More specifically, why did He create us, angels, jinn, Iblees, earth, heaven, and hell?

And why would He relinquish His dominion? Could I tell my children to pretend and live like fatherless children while I exist and provide for them? Would that really allow them to live in utopian peace and harmony?

I think these are way too many questions for now. May be you want to find the answers to these or may be not, but alhumdolillah you and I have established that we believe in His Existence as the Supreme Being.

Now, while we obey our employer, judicial authority, and even a gun toting homicidal nut-case as long as he/she holds that power (the gun) over us; knowing Allah holds All Powers within and beyond our imagination, what keeps us from obeying Him?

We`ll discuss accountibility and consequences later, that is if you wish for it, insha-Allah.

Ciao

ntsyed :-)~~

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#38 Posted by baaghiraja on June 14, 2005 9:18:01 am
Congratulations, ntsyed. In your wonderfully crafted anti-secular rant, you are the one guy who ACTUALLY found the whole point of the play. Irony. The irony of God planing to rid the world of his own influence. Wow. God does move in mysterious ways.


Rgds,
NfP
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#37 Posted by shobig_sifar on June 14, 2005 4:26:33 am
Re: # 36 haha @ `baghlol`...liked it! :-)
regards
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#36 Posted by ntsyed on June 14, 2005 4:02:31 am

Satire? Atheism?

Nahhhhhh!

#33 by baaghiraja on June 13, 2005 0:50am PT:

``Just wanted to make a play out of a simple thought that has been running in my mind. It`s not even an opinion.``

I think he`s gone nuts trying to figure out who he is, why he is, where he`s from, and where he`s heading after rejecting God`s Existance. Unfortunately, in the process lost the entire concept of respect for others. Yet if some wrote a piece with his family members in roles and places as he could never imagine, he`d probably go in a never-ending back-flipping mode. It`s a typical atheist/secular syndrome in advanced stages. A product of being way too much into Hollywood sci-fi and such Disney and other modern/contemporary animations of aliens, monsters, super-heroes/heroines junk. Mix it with the attention deprivation and the desire for a godless life without responsibilities, and the confusion becomes a wet-dream, spurting uncontrollably in pieces like The Aftergod.

I don`t know how many people missed the following from his confusion:

``God: Look down below. Down from that ugly crack from where Mhedi fell. Look hard. Earth like when I first made it. I have taken time back right to the start. There is Adam and here comes Eve. But they shall never know of me. Or of you. And neither will those who shall follow them. And I shall not ask you to kneel in front of Adam. And you shall not rebel. There will be no game.``

...the bugger wants God - as in, ``The Supreme Being`` - to make this earth a godless earth

LOL....what gives?

Kinda ironic don`t you think.... an atheist looking to God for making it a godless earth :-)~~

What a Pitiful baghlol !

Ciao :-)~~
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#35 Posted by vertex on June 13, 2005 5:30:14 pm
As a satire it makes little sense, as there is a disconnect between any identifiable trait or belief of religious people...more like the typical adolecent rant against religion head bangers develop after they discover Ozzy.

The impact of the satire is lessoned by the fact that the greatest evils done in the past century and a bit were not in the name of God, but in the name of nationalism and Leftist ideologies (oops...can we fault lefties?).

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#34 Posted by SenseOffender on June 13, 2005 12:13:39 pm
So what is this about?Finding your own truth in the atrophied words of the faith as the Prophets taught it?...Or breaking down the walls of the Organisation of Fear that Islam has become?...
Somehow, the battlefield should have been Earth and not Heaven...Somehow it should have been the Devil taking over Earth, only to realise man had gone back up...
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#33 Posted by baaghiraja on June 13, 2005 12:50:32 am
Okay, seriously,
Naqshbandi Sahib:
Your point taken and respected. And I hope you did mine.

ana,
God turned Jesus into mud because he loved him. Otherwise, he could have turned him into hamzaad, y’know.

Sifar,
For GOD`S sake, man. Just wanted to make a play out of a simple thought that has been running in my mind. It`s not even an opinion. Just a lil` query, that`s all: What would the world be like without religion? And maybe in the play God is being sarcastic when he says, ``A godless earth. A peaceful earth.?`` Sarcastic with ``godless men`` like me?

Raw_Dust
Do not read it at all. I fear you`ll stop posting.;)

Shockthemonk,
Yes, it’s personal. But not a war. A battle, perhaps. I, the man, against religious beliefs created by man. Blasphemy?

Lol@Urstruly. I’ll definitely keep that in mind. But isn’t that always the case?

Gracias Amena.

SairaK,
You’re too deep for me, love.

Rgds,
NfP
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#32 Posted by baaghiraja on June 12, 2005 11:52:38 pm
I saw God!

God is very big--some sources claim he is even as tall as 6`2``.

God could quite easily create a rock so heavy that not even He could lift it. He just doesn`t want to.

God is frequently confused with Justain Timberlake.

God doesn`t mind his job, because all he always really wanted to do is write sitcoms.

God invented the sport of lacrosse.

God smells like rain.

God burps like men.

God eats babies.

God may acually be synonomous with Clint Eastwood.

And Satan

1. And Lucifer was cast out of heaven. 2. And Lucifer, henceforth referred to as Satan, did rebel against God, and He proclaimed, `I shall take this creation, the Earth, and I shall make it my own`. 3. And God smiled, for He knew that Satan would not be able to do such a thing. 4. And Satan was not hasty in his actions. 5. He did regard mankind, and He saw a flaw. 6. `Humans are easily tempted,` He proclaimed, `so I shall created something they cannot resist, and it shall turn them to me, and I shall gain their souls`. 6. So Satan made His toilet, but collected the effluent. 7. He placed it into bottles, and created on Earth a place called a bar. 8. He placed these bottles in the bar, and watched, as humans came. 9. He laughed as he saw them drink, and become intoxicated, and smiled as he saw the effect - addiction, fighting, and raping. 11. He rejoiced as He saw these humans becoming lost, who at their deaths would swell His infernal ranks.

And thus was Budweiser created. And God wept.





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#31 Posted by Saira_K. on June 12, 2005 10:16:19 pm
Man is biggest culprit why blame God or his faith? Weakness in you that you look towards
west theory of seperate faith and society so must look in your self first.
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#30 Posted by patwari on June 12, 2005 9:20:54 pm
Whats the big deal here, is he the only one writing or preaching a godless earth? And this a piece of satrire not shakespeare and it is a dam good satire very close to what goes on in name of religion in pakistan.
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#29 Posted by atif2 on June 12, 2005 7:59:30 pm
#28 - I alluded to the same possibility last year. Although I was new to Chowk and not familiar with many interactors, still it was hard to miss the loud ear drum bursting adulations that were being shouted by a certain group for each and every mediocre article NFP was putting out. What I particularly found strange was the shared trait of NFP and these interactors of playing up NFP`s past as ``Zia -ul Haq`s prisoner`` and ``legendary drug habits`` and his ``marxist/anarchist`` associations, as if it was some sort of badge of honor.

This is what I wrote last year, after I had had enough of this:

#48 Gulp Fiction on September 30, 2004
Ok fine. Kill me for saying this but Nass, Warlus, and Feedback are in fact Paracha himself. I skimmed through their previous interacts and lo! 90% of all of their interacts are in regards to Paracha. All these interactors mysteriously appear each time Paracha writes an article, and they all talk about paracha`s alleged bouts of ``breakdowns`` and ``drugs`` and ``zia -ulhaq`s jails`` etc etc.

So here is my certified theory. Paracha is himself writing all these interacts on Paracha`s board to create some sort of `cult figure` around Paracha.
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#28 Posted by hamzaad on June 12, 2005 5:49:20 pm
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#27 Posted by ana on June 12, 2005 5:07:00 pm
kachchi miTTi, you`re a troublemaker!!! :)) (this to be taken with a grain of salt) read the damn thing, why don`tcha?!?

sifar. . .

first of all, peace!

that`s all for now. :)

ana

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#26 Posted by Raw_Dust on June 12, 2005 2:29:30 pm
#25:
yea.. chusni saahib and other worship tv network types should write long treatises on eg. the importance of saving humanity from Hellfire.. more power to them. and yea thrash NFP`s godless agenda to your heart`s content.

more power to you too... ! (no puns here)

NFP: i still havent read your play so errm... i dont think i should be writing a comment . :-)
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    #46 Raw_Dust
    #45 ntsyed
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    #43 ntsyed
    #42 patwari
    #41 ntsyed
    #40 Raw_Dust
    #39 ntsyed
    #38 baaghiraja
    #37 shobig_sifar
    #36 ntsyed
    #35 vertex
    #34 SenseOffender
    #33 baaghiraja
    #32 baaghiraja
    #31 Saira_K.
    #30 patwari
    #29 atif2
    #28 hamzaad
    #27 ana
    #26 Raw_Dust
    #25 shobig_sifar
    #24 ana
    #23 shobig_sifar
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