I find this issue of free will one of the most puzzling matters within theism.
It seems that we have it, but not in a full sense. That is to say: our will operates within the will of God.
Bought a new book.
I want to get into the habit of reading again. So, thought it was useful to start off with easy reading material.
About the journey of a man who walked all the way to Rome starting from the Netherlands.
Hanafee in madhab. For no particular reason other than that it was the first madhab I encountered. And my people are mostly hanafee.
Athari in aqeedah.
Hey!
al-Imām Mālik says:
“It is not from Murū’a (morals expected from men) to ask a man about his age
If he is young, they belittle him
And if he is old, they assume he has become senile”
Heya!
No, that’d be difficult to do.
In philosophy, we call this the is-ought problem, or ‘Hume’s Guillotine’.
Therefore we have to assume certain axioms.
I hope you are united with your crush!
My last crush was a Moroccan girl like 6 years ago, when I worked at a grocery store.
However, I was a very shy guy back then and clumsy with women. Not understanding their hints and childish behavior - I was not as misogynistic back then.
And I dreamt of her for years after I quit my job there.
Nothing is considered more rude in Arab culture than behaving in this manner. The lowest peasant would never even exhibit such mannerisms. Like if my grandfather saw this he'd think Hijab is mentally ill
I’m inclined to believe God, as the Creator of all matter, is Himself immaterial.
Not fully convinced of it yet, though.
But the corporealists make it sound like we’ll be gazing at a huge being with limited size, eyes, hands, feet etc. in the hereafter.
It sounds odd, unless they show how I’m confused.
For years I was a neo-luddite, thinking it was the based position.
But, they see the state of current tech, focus only on the negative sides of it and look for solutions in the past, instead of the future.
Instead of bettering the human condition by advancing tech which eventually will eliminate suffering. They look back at primitive societies, where the human is pushed to his limits (often for the worse) and say: we should live like this.
Basically, because hunting your own food is satisfactory.
We must do everything we can to achieve human-machine synthesis.
More funds to AI research, BCI companies (Neuralink), robotics, space exploration, etc.
We now have the chance to eradicate poverty, disease and aging!