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[Mohamed @MohamedGlow]

Au départ, j’étais musulman sans avoir réellement lu les textes. Après tout, pourquoi examiner en détail quelque chose dont on est convaincu depuis l’enfance qu’il est vrai ?

Puis des apostats que j’écoutais sur YouTube m’ont poussé à vérifier par moi-même. J’ai commencé à lire les sources.

J’étais musulman sunnite. Puis j’ai lu les hadiths concernant le mariage d’Aïcha avec celui que l’on présente comme le meilleur des hommes. Cela m’a profondément troublé. Pour résoudre cette contradiction, je me suis dit que les hadiths étaient des écrits humains, donc faillibles, tandis que le Coran était la parole d’Allah. Je suis devenu coraniste.

Pendant un temps, j’ai pensé avoir trouvé la réponse. Je rejetais les hadiths problématiques et je ne gardais que le Coran. Puis j’ai commencé à lire le Coran lui-même de façon plus attentive, sans me reposer sur ce qu’on m’avait toujours dit qu’il contenait.

J’ai alors découvert des passages que je n’avais jamais étudiés sérieusement auparavant. J’ai essayé de les comprendre, de les contextualiser, de lire les explications des croyants et des savants. Je voulais sincèrement préserver ma foi.

Mais plus je lisais, plus certaines questions devenaient difficiles à ignorer. Puis je suis tombé sur les versets concernant l’esclavage et les relations avec les captives. Je me suis alors demandé comment une divinité parfaitement juste et morale pouvait autoriser de telles pratiques.

À partir de là, je n’ai plus réussi à considérer le Coran comme d’origine divine. C’est à ce moment-là que je suis sorti de l’islam.

Aujourd’hui, je suis athée agnostique. Je ne prétends pas savoir s’il existe ou non un dieu, mais je ne crois plus que l’islam soit d’origine divine. Mon cheminement n’a pas commencé par le rejet de la religion, mais par la lecture de ses textes.

#libertéDeCroireOuPas

[старина саблезубый @Deksster_]

@Baddogdad @ScottPrate91971 @JamesHu27192912 ) Me too. I'm 71.

[старина саблезубый @Deksster_]

@prof_preobr И опять слышу нарратив про "договариваться". Теперь уже от уехавших русских. Неа, это не русский говорит. Нет и нет. Это эволюционировавшая до слизняка европка говорит устами Филиппова. Любой современный адекватный русский нативно понимает суть своего народа-злобоносца.

[старина саблезубый @Deksster_]

@The_Observer01X На пике славы, после душераздирающего кина, песня канешно была популярна. Слушал и даже нравилось, но очень быстро остохунадоела. У Queen с Меркурием первые четыре альбома супер. Марш чорной королевы вряд ли когда надоест. Или, например, грустная песнь про жулика-импрессарио.

[старина саблезубый @Deksster_]

@Bren97433660 @Hugo_StiglitzUA Это тебе путин сказал, когда ты ему отсасывал?

[Feldwebel Knopf @tkachev37]

@Hugo_StiglitzUA @PanovaOlga1 Ватный дядя из РБ мечтал увидеть фото моей дочки в военной форме на шествии бессмертного полка. Был очень удивлен, когда я высказал все, что думаю.
Это ментально больные люди. Они никогда не поймут

[Dulcinea @Dulcine16974200]

Этот парень - одногодка моего сына. Когда этот парень фотографировался в военной форме, я своего уже увезла из РФ. Так что мой не успел в военной форме фоткаться. Даже пилотку не мерил. В тот год они собирались на экскурсию на Пискаревское кладбище. Учительница сказала, что можем надеть георгиевски�� ленточки, и подчеркнула,что это по желанию. Я не желала. Но мой сын вернулся с экскурсии с ленточкой. Оказывается,сопровождающие мамашки таки напялили всем детям колорадки. Самое интересное, что мой сын был доволен, и сказал мне :"Так всё же надели ленточки". Чувство толпы и причастности. Хрен знает к чему бы это могло привести к сегодняшнему дню.

[Siaxares 🇮🇷 سیاکسارِس @siaxares]

This is what it means to be an Iranian in 2026 under the Islamic Republic:

In the most religious country on Earth, we became the biggest unbelievers.

In one of the richest lands in history, our tables are empty and our children go to bed hungry.

We sit on a sea of oil, yet all we inhale is smoke, blackouts, and skyrocketing prices that crush what’s left of life.

A country that exports the world’s finest caviar — yet its own people have never tasted it.

A land with the oldest continuous history and civilization in the world… but its youth have no future, no hope, and no dreams left.

47 years of “resistance economy,” “Islamic justice,” and “divine governance” have delivered nothing but poverty, humiliation, and despair to 90 million people. They stole our wealth, our dignity, our tomorrow — and exported it all while telling us it was God’s will.

We are the heirs of Cyrus and Darius, reduced to begging for basic dignity in the land our ancestors built.

But hear this clearly: this nightmare is not eternal. The Lion and Sun is awakening again. The streets are remembering their voice. The regime’s paper empire is cracking from within.

The Iranian people will take their country back. We will fill our tables, light our homes, and reclaim our future. This is not just a cry of pain — it’s a promise of reckoning.

Iran will be free. 🦁☀️

#KingRezaPahlavi‌ForIran
#IranRevolution2026‌

[Imtiaz Mahmood @ImtiazMadmood]

It's hard to beat Israeli technology!

TEL AVIV, Israel - The Israelis are developing an airport security device that eliminates the privacy concerns that come with full-body scanners.

It's an armoured booth you step into that will not X-ray you, but will detonate any explosive device you may have on your person.

Israel sees this as a win-win situation for everyone, with none of this crap about racial profiling.

It will also eliminate the costs of long and expensive trials.

You're in the airport terminal and you hear a muffled explosion. Shortly thereafter, an announcement:

"Attention to all standby passengers,

El Al is pleased to announce a seat available on flight 670 to London.

Shalom!

[Humanity First @Atomsmade]

The Christian heaven actually destroys the idea of meaningful free will.

Because, as for the question below:

If your answer is YES, then sin is still possible, meaning heaven isn’t perfect and the whole cycle can repeat.

And if your answer is NO, then you don’t actually have free will. You’re just a programmable robot who lost the ability to choose.

At this point, being a religious person is just ridiculous!

[старина саблезубый @Deksster_]

@LogvynenkoV @Hugo_StiglitzUA Все приказы в рос.армии преступные. И все приказы выполняются. Так устроена эта мясорубка.

[NOBUNAGA🇯🇵🏯_夏樹蒼依 @japan_nobunaga]

As a Japanese, I can't wrap my head around what's happening in the UK.

Hundreds of thousands of young girls raped by grooming gangs.
Fathers who reported it got arrested.
Citizens told to stay quiet.

If this happened here in Japan, it would already be a civil war.
Why isn't the British military staging a coup? What are they even doing?

This makes absolutely no sense to us. Can any British person explain this madness?

[старина саблезубый @Deksster_]

@Sytowiecki @AtheismAteo Ни как? Хорошо они справились? 😅

[старина саблезубый @Deksster_]

@AntonMakarovZOV А за что тебе стыдно, щекастенький?

[старина саблезубый @Deksster_]

@ham9300983 Когда я слышу - "тебе Россия всё дала, а ты её обсираешь!"
я отчётливо понимаю, что я в сумасшедшем доме и нужно быть очень осторожным.

[Ihtesham Ali @ihtesham2005]

A Russian psychologist spent 10 years proving that the act of talking to yourself out loud is one of the most powerful cognitive tools the human brain has, and almost nobody outside his field has read the work.

His name was Lev Vygotsky.

He worked in Moscow in the 1920s and died of tuberculosis in 1934 at the age of 37. He had no laboratory, no funding, almost no English readers, and a body of work that the Soviet government suppressed for two decades after he died.

He produced the foundational theory of how human cognition actually develops, and the central piece of that theory was a behavior almost every adult is faintly embarrassed about.

Vygotsky noticed that young children talk to themselves constantly. They narrate their own actions, they argue with imaginary opponents, they instruct themselves through tasks out loud.

The dominant theory at the time, from the Swiss psychologist Jean Piaget, said this was a sign of cognitive immaturity that children would eventually grow out of as they learned to think properly.

Vygotsky said the exact opposite.

He argued that this self-directed speech was the most important cognitive event in the entire developmental window, because it was the moment a child first started to use language as a tool to control their own mind. The child was not failing to think. The child was learning how to think by externalizing the process and listening to themselves do it.

He predicted that as children matured, this out-loud self-talk would not disappear. It would go underground. It would become silent inner speech, which is the running monologue every adult has inside their own head for the rest of their life.

The voice you hear when you read this sentence is the direct descendant of a four-year-old narrating their own block tower.

For 50 years almost nobody outside Russia had access to his work, and the few researchers who did pick it up could not get funding to test it. Then in the early 2000s the experiments finally started to pile up, and what they found was that Vygotsky had been right about something even more important than he knew.

The first major study came from Gary Lupyan at the University of Wisconsin and Daniel Swingley at the University of Pennsylvania in 2012. They ran a simple visual search experiment. Participants were shown 20 images at once and asked to find a specific object, like a banana or a chair. In one condition they searched silently. In the other condition they were told to say the name of the object out loud to themselves while looking for it.

The participants who spoke the target name out loud found the object significantly faster, with higher accuracy, than the participants who searched in silence. The effect was strongest when the spoken word matched a familiar object the brain already had a strong category for.

Saying the word out loud literally tuned the visual system to detect that thing better. The researchers called it the label feedback effect, and the implication was that the act of vocalizing a goal physically changes how the brain processes the world while pursuing it.

The second major study came out of the University of Michigan and Michigan State in 2017. The lead researchers were Ethan Kross and Jason Moser, and they used both EEG and fMRI to record what happens inside the brain when people talk to themselves while emotionally upset.

They asked participants to recall painful autobiographical memories and reflect on them in two different ways. Some used the first person, saying things like "why am I feeling this way." Others used the third person, referring to themselves by their own name, saying things like "why is John feeling this way."

The brain scans showed that the simple act of switching from first person to third person, even silently, decreased activity in the medial prefrontal cortex, the region responsible for rumination and self-referential pain. Within a single second of using their own name instead of the word I, participants showed measurably lower emotional reactivity. The shift required no extra cognitive effort. It cost the brain nothing. And it worked.

Kross described the mechanism in his interviews. Talking to yourself by name creates a small amount of psychological distance from your own experience. Your brain processes the situation more like a problem belonging to someone else, which means it can analyze it instead of drowning in it.

What Vygotsky had intuited in 1934 turned out to be even more powerful than the developmental theory he built it into. The voice you use to talk to yourself is not background noise. It is one of the most precise cognitive tools the brain has, and you can change how it works just by changing the pronoun you use.

People who talk through problems out loud are not anxious or unstable. They are running an externalized version of a process the rest of us are running silently and worse. The kindergartener narrating their block tower, the surgeon muttering through a procedure, the engineer pacing a hallway describing a bug to nobody, the athlete repeating a cue to themselves before a free throw, they are all using the same ancient mechanism that builds and steers human thought.

You can run the experiment yourself the next time you are stuck on something hard. Stop trying to solve it silently in your head. Say it out loud. Describe what you are seeing. Walk yourself through the steps as if you were explaining it to a colleague who is not in the room.

And when something genuinely upsets you, switch to your own name. Ask why this person is feeling this way, instead of why I am feeling this way.

The voice you have been told to keep quiet your entire life is one of the oldest pieces of cognitive technology you own.

Most people are still embarrassed to use it.

[старина саблезубый @Deksster_]

@_Kerim_Y +

[старина саблезубый @Deksster_]

@zhurnal_01 Я пытался зарабатывать короткими и интересными рассказами про пыль на подоконнике. Результат тоже нулевой.
Даже не знаю, чья идея лучше - моя или ваша.

[старина саблезубый @Deksster_]

@AtheismAteo Никогда. Религия для человечества это как раскраска божьей коровки.
"Нет пятнышек - нет божьих коровок" ©негей-володин.
Атеистам придётся тащить на себе этот их лядский крест до скончания веков.

[старина саблезубый @Deksster_]

@UnrealBluegrass Maybe you should try protecting DEMOCRACY from money? Big money. So that no Elon Musk can influence it.