The Empire Strikes Again in Pakistan Re: # 128

Goldfinger,

I have no issues with you. If it helps i too don't give a f about god (of any religion).
you advice is well taken, but sometimes you have to talk at the level of the person you are interacting with, in this case bosdhika_exp.

Religiosity, National Ethos and Governance beta zeemax

long time, no yahoodi conspiracy stories???

anyway,
regarding Union of Islamic Califart, shouldn't it be UICSA, coming very close to USCIS, u.s. immigration services

The Empire Strikes Again in Pakistan Re: # 82

mr. goldfinger,

keep your finger out of this!

Ramadan Special: Tales of Sufi Wisdom one at last post for today........

urstruly,

abu hanifas action showed that there was no compelling evidence to disprove the exist of god. But not compelling enough to prove its existence.

so may be in the end he too was proving the agnostic point of view.

Ramadan Special: Tales of Sufi Wisdom i got to go now, urstruly if you have any further comments about the topic we will discuss later or maybe you can have it on your ilog.

Ramadan Special: Tales of Sufi Wisdom other day jay leno said isn't it quite a concidence that we hardly hear about UFO sightings nowadays as almost everyone has a camera cellphone.
I think the same applies to the disappearance of people who can perform miracles.

Ramadan Special: Tales of Sufi Wisdom ursruly,

abu hanifas action were not a compelling evidence as a proof in the existence of god.

in abu hanifas time, even the thought of walking on moon would also have been considered as an act of god.

simply because we can't explain some events with current knowledge doesn't mean/prove that god exists.

during medieval times even eclipse was considered as an act of god and earth as the center of the universe.

Ramadan Special: Tales of Sufi Wisdom it seems that poor chacha tahmed has run off to break his fast. isn't it early to do so?
or may be he thinks it to below his dignity to reply to me :)

Ramadan Special: Tales of Sufi Wisdom urstruly:

I hate to go back to your comments on #98 but still feel the urge to respond to it. Hence here my reply. but would still like to stick to the topic at hand.

regarding: "For example, for us germs did not exist until we extended our sense of sight through microscope. Are you waiting for such a moment that a microsope would enable you to see God? "

why not?
if someone can scientficlaly prove the existence of god, just as it was done in case of microbes, I would immediately accept it.
till then i am neither accepting nor denying gods existence.i.e. being agnostic.
hence I am trying to understand your point of view since you are fully convinced of his/her existence.

you don't go around believing in flying pigs because one day we will find a "microscope" good enough to discover them.

Ramadan Special: Tales of Sufi Wisdom #98
urstruly:

lets talk about my conundrum at a later date. lets try to stick the topic of the Absolute truth that there is One creator who created this universe.
as per your sentence,
"Every Muslim who has a strong belief, believes in islam because it puts forth the Absolute Truth that there is One Creator who created the whole universe. That is all there is to Islam."

My questin again to you is what convinces you that there is only one creator who created this universe.

Ramadan Special: Tales of Sufi Wisdom Re: # 94

urstruly:
"Being agnostic is not a position. Have you ever doubted that the computer screen sitting right in front is not a computer screen at all. "

do you believe that an atheist thinks that there is no computer screen in front of him as he is surfing the web!
or a polytheist believes that there are 2.5 millions of them in front of him?

Let me rephrase my earlier post to you.

I cannot say convincingly that there is a god or not. It seems that you are very convinces about the existence of only one god who runs the entire universe. hence would you please tell me how it works and why he/she/it is the only one.

Ramadan Special: Tales of Sufi Wisdom Re: # 83

tahmed:

"it is not for humans to know the Absolute Truth."

why not??

are humans supposed to know no truth at all or just partial truth?

Ramadan Special: Tales of Sufi Wisdom Re: # 85

" There are only three possibilities"

what if I say I am an agnostic?

Ramadan Special: Tales of Sufi Wisdom Re: # 77

urstruly:

I have one serious question.

why to you say the following?

"..Absolute Truth that there is One Creator who created the whole universe"

why is that a "truth". can you convince me that there is only one god that has created this universe. I would like to listen to your reasoning.

"Those who deny this Truth, do it only because of their arrogance and arrogance alone."

it can be said the other way also, those who believe it because of their gullibility and gullibility alone. no?

thats incorrect. i would neither

What about Bombay 1992? Re: # 68

Cobra,

i agree with you.

i had problem with the way the author suggested rioting started.

also as arjun said, it was bal thackeray who got sanjay out of jail. sharad pawar was hell bent on punishing the dutts.

What about Bombay 1992? contd...

its not the way suggested in this article that the muslims were "peacefully" protesting while the sainiks went on a killing spree just because babri was brought down.