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baqar reacted to Muhammed Ali in The Eye Is Evidence Against Intelligent Design
You cannot appreciate design unless you see examples of 'imperfection'. These 'imperfections' reciprocate the existence of design. You cannot have mountains without valleys. "Imperfections" create a perfect world.
You could have asked this question about anything, e.g. death, genetic illnesses, natural disasters etc.
Since when has imperfection indicated non-design? When you play a video game with bugs, do say it wasn't deigned?
Even if I was an atheist, I wouldn't believe in the nonsense of neo-Darwinian evolution. Even Thomas Nagel doesn't.
And there is a lot more that could be said.
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baqar reacted to hasanhh in Favourite Word Of The Day
When l was in college, Reader's Digest was/is not an authoratative source and any citations/footnotes to it were a failing manuever.
Besides, R.D. is wrong. 0ther "dreamt" words include "indreamt" and "redreamt". So for R.D. to declare that dreamt is the only word that ends in "mt" is obviously something R.D. dreamt up.
Meanwhile . . . as Steven Colbert says . . . the fresh milk has stood for a day now and the cream has risen to the top of the milk can, so the milk is now creamt.
Where is Carls'two, there one what ever? She was fun to argue with.
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baqar got a reaction from hasanhh in Favourite Word Of The Day
So you have found a dictionary that seemingly caters to slang words of a bygone era.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Urban_Dictionary
According to the above article, the Urban dictionary is a crowd-sourced dictionary of slang words and phrases.
It does not have the stature of the two pillars of the English language - Oxford and Cambridge, neither of which accepts the word as standard English.
Nor does any other standard dictionary.
Don't forget that my original claim that "dreamt" was the only word that ended in "mt" came from Readers Digest.
It is hardly plausible that Readers Digest would make such a grave mistake.
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baqar got a reaction from hasanhh in Favourite Word Of The Day
Sorry, but "creamt" is not a word in the English language.
Remember, my friend, slangs do not always make it to the dictionary.
Some are extremely local while some others die an early death.
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baqar reacted to hasanhh in Favourite Word Of The Day
@baqar l heared "creamt" when l was little back in the 50s. People used "t" endings for the past tense a lot more back then.
Like built, wrought, writ, burnt and "creamt" was used around the old dairy farms.
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baqar reacted to hasanhh in Favourite Word Of The Day
dreamt = dreamed
creamt = creamed
l couldn't think of any others.
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baqar got a reaction from hasanhh in Favourite Word Of The Day
And you won't.
Because there is no word in the English language other than "dreamt" that ends in "mt."
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baqar got a reaction from hasanhh in Favourite Word Of The Day
I did not say that there is no other word in English with the same meaning as "dreamt."
So pointing out that "dreamed" has the same meaning was not very useful.
And there is no such word as "creamt."
Not in English.
So your second line is also meaningless.
The word "dreamt" is the only word in the ENTIRE language that ends in the letters "mt."
It is an established fact.
Established NOT by me but by the greats of the language.
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baqar got a reaction from hasanhh in Favourite Word Of The Day
dreamt is the ONLY word in the English language that ends in mt.
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baqar reacted to hasanhh in Favourite Word Of The Day
syzygy -a conjunction, astronomical, usually refering to Sun-Moon-Earth.
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baqar reacted to AdinAnikas in The book Peshawar nights
Its available on youtube and on an app called Shia toolkit
but in this book a lot of Sunnis turned into Shias and ill listen to it again and see what their discussions on Umar and all were
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baqar reacted to Ashvazdanghe in Calculating if khums is applicable or not
Salam amount of paid khums at first years doesn't enter to calculation of second year.
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baqar got a reaction from Ashvazdanghe in Calculating if khums is applicable or not
OK
Let us first calculate the Khums for the first year.
You say that he has nothing to begin with.
So total at the beginning of the first year x1 = 0
He earned $ 20,000 in the first year and spent $ 10,000 out of it,
So at the end of the first year, he has 20, 000 - $ 10,000, that is $ 10,000.
Therefore total at the end of the first year x2 = 10,000
Therefore Khums for the first year = (x2 - x1) / 5 = (20,000 - 10,000) / 5
= 10, 000 / 5
= 2,000
The total at the end of the first year has been calculated as $ 10,000 and this will also be the total at the beginning of the second year.
Agreed so far, I hope?
If you don't agree, please let me know
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Now let us calculate Khums for the second year
Total at the beginning of the second year as established above is $ 10,000.
Therefore x1 = 10,000
The person earned $ 20,000 in the second year and spent $ 8,000.
So at the end of the second year, he has $ 10,000 + $ 20,000 - $ 8,000 =
$ 22,000
Therefore x2 = 22,000
Khums for the second year = (x2 - x1) / 5
= (22,000 - 10,000) / 5
= 12,000 / 5
= 2,400
That is how the standard calculation is done.
Your point about spending $ 8,000 from his earning of the first year is not meaningful in the calculation of Khums.
Whether he spends it from earnings of the first year or the second year is meaningless.
It is the same money.
If you don't agree, I am sorry I will not be able to help you with the problem.
You can send your question to Ayatullah Sistani with the same figures you have given me and see what he says.
https://www.Sistani.org/english/qa/01234/
Khuda Hafiz
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baqar got a reaction from Azadar-e-Ali in Calculating if khums is applicable or not
I did not say that you subtract this year's profit from last year's.
You have misunderstood my calculation.
x2 and x1 in my calculation are NOT profits.
They are the total sum of money I have on the two dates.
Brother, I have paid Khums ALL my life and I know that my calculation is correct.
But let us not waste your time and my time unnecessarily.
Read my last few posts and ask the question of Ayatullah Sistani, as I have suggested.
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baqar reacted to Azadar-e-Ali in Calculating if khums is applicable or not
Let me try one more time to explain it to you, and if you don't understand it, then pls tell me which part of it you don't understand.
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At the end of first year, you have $10,000. You pay khums on it which is $2000. Now you have $8000 left with you.
You spend all of this $8000 to buy a new car.
Then in the second year, you get your salaries every month out of which you pay your expenses. At the end of second year, you have $8000.
Your calculation (incorrect)
(Second year profit - first year profit)
$8000 - $8000 = 0 khums
True calculation
Second year profit = $8000
Khums paid money from last year = $0 ( you used all of it to buy car)
$8000 - 0 = $8000
khums applicable this year 8000 x 0.2 = $1600
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Your calculation is making an error of $1600 khums which you think is not applicable but in truth it is. Hope this clarifies.
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baqar reacted to AmirioTheMuzzy in What Tafsir book should I start with if I have never read one before?
This!
Also, Qur'an.al-Islam.org (tafsir: Pooya/M.A. Ali) & al-Qur'an.info (translation: Ali Quli Qarai)
NOTE: Remove the apostrophes ' from the website links
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baqar got a reaction from Peer Kristijan in A non-Shia who is interested in Shiism
There is ONLY one main theological difference between Sunni and Shia Islam - the concept of Imamat.
Shias believe that the Holy Prophet (sa) was succeeded by twelve divinely appointed Imams beginning with Imam Ali (عليه السلام), and followed by Imam Hasan (عليه السلام), Imam Hussain (عليه السلام), and their descendants right up to the Imam Mahdi (عليه السلام), who is living and has been living for nearly twelve centuries.
Sunnis do regard, to varying degrees, most of these twelve Imams as worthy of respect but have no belief in the concept of Imamat.
They do believe in a Mahdi but one who is not yet born.
They do not believe that any of our Imams was divinely appointed.
All OTHER differences emanate from this prime difference in beliefs.
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baqar got a reaction from hasanhh in What are some of your favorite idioms?
to throw a spanner in the works
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baqar got a reaction from Panzerwaffe in What are some of your favorite idioms?
Hook, line and sinker
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baqar got a reaction from Gaius I. Caesar in Love in the times of Corona
Dear sister
I think we should wait for his instructions.
He may not want to call us.
Instead, he might consider it more useful that we carry out his instructions in the place we are in.
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baqar got a reaction from Son of Placid in What are some of your favorite idioms?
Goody two shoes = A person who is overly well-behaved, someone who is smugly virtuous
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baqar got a reaction from Diaz in 2020 United States Elections
I would vote for Bernie Sanders because I think he is the most honest of them all.
