What was your first thought when you joined ShiaChat?

[Ruqaya101]

^ Answer it.

[Moalfas]

I was fuming as I waited for my posts to be approved by mods lol 

[hasanhh]

Something like: This looks like a good/will-be-interesting lsIamic site.

[Gaius I. Caesar]

"I hope I can learn more about the Shi'a, that Quranist forum was a disaster"

[Guest]

I don't think I remember what I had for breakfast yesterday. You think I will be able tell you something from ten years ago?? 

[Propaganda_of_the_Deed]

Granted I was Sunni and out of my comfort-zone.

[3wliya_maryam]

lol my first thought was "omg this is going to be so cool , I finally get to have debates with Sunnis", but there's hardly any anymore  

[Sisterfatima1]

Wow I’m going to join a bunch of religious pious people 

what a joke 

[habib e najjaar]

Oooo Shias galore 

[Revert1963]

I had actually been reading the forum on and of for years before I joined, but never dared create a profile.

[Moalfas]

2 hours ago, habib e najjaar said:

Oooo Shias galore 

YAAAAA Ali

[Hugo Boss]

so uh, after a classmate showed me a video made by antimajos production, I got a hyped to get back and clear some of that misconceptions they had (I honestly thought it would work to talk to these people), but I have 0 knowledge back in that old time, so whenever they'd ask me about something I didn't know about, I would search up the keywords on google, and shiachat would always be the first website that came about. After over a year or so, I then decided to create an account, because I kinda owed Shiachat for the help.

:o and then I realized it had a chatroom... :-] 

3 hours ago, 3wliya_maryam said:

lol my first thought was "omg this is going to be so cool , I finally get to have debates with Sunnis", but there's hardly any anymore  

Good thing u came to the right, because this place: https://discord.gg/TvJSJR9 would happely want people that want/can/would like to learn how to debate Sunnis/other theological groups

[3wliya_maryam]

13 minutes ago, Hugo Boss said:

so uh, after a classmate showed me a video made by antimajos production, I got a hyped to get back and clear some of that misconceptions they had (I honestly thought it would work to talk to these people), but I have 0 knowledge back in that old time, so whenever they'd ask me about something I didn't know about, I would search up the keywords on google, and shiachat would always be the first website that came about. After over a year or so, I then decided to create an account, because I kinda owed Shiachat for the help.

lol trust me ive been there too, was quite annoying

14 minutes ago, Hugo Boss said:

Good thing u came to the right, because this place: https://discord.gg/TvJSJR9 would happely want people that want/can/would like to learn how to debate Sunnis/other theological groups

jazakallah for this I'll look into it

[Gaius I. Caesar]

7 hours ago, Sisterfatima1 said:

Wow I’m going to join a bunch of religious pious people 

what a joke 

Interesting, what are your thoughts and views now? Just for comparison's sake.

[Gaius I. Caesar]

7 hours ago, starlight said:

I don't think I remember what I had for breakfast yesterday. You think I will be able tell you something from ten years ago?? 

Yes, quite frankly I do. Everybody should be able to remember a decade ago or so.

[Guest]

1 hour ago, Gaius I. Caesar said:

 Everybody should be able to remember a decade ago or so.

Not when you have a habit of resetting your brain every now and then to discard useless information.  I can recall organic chemistry from high school but I have no clue why I came across ShiaChat or what made me sign up. 

[Reza]

When I first came here:
What is this “mooota” thing? I see it everywhere.

[Ruqaya101]

6 hours ago, Reza said:

What is this “mooota” thing? I see it everywhere

I died at this! Literally everyone relates!

[karbalaii]

I remember when I first joined.. it was Muharrum. And all the threads were about tatbir and Sunnis asking us why we hit ourselves in Muharrum. So yeah I was just very annoyed and left the site for a while because I can’t stand people talking bad about the way we mourn for Imam Hussain. 

[hasanhh]

17 hours ago, Revert1963 said:

...I joined, but never dared create a profile.

Doesn't matter, the gov't has had a file since this past March.

[AStruggler]

I hate this giant shiamatch ad, hopefully no one can screenwatch my device  

(not sure if this was actually my first thought, but it def must've been one of the first)

Edited October 21, 2019 by AStruggler

[hasanhh]

22 minutes ago, AStruggler said:

I hate this giant shiamatch ad, hopefully no one can screenwatch my device  

(not sure if this was actually my first thought, but it def must've been one of the first)

l have wondered if that constant blinking is interferring with the site. ShiaChat is the only place where l can have multi-minute delays before the next page comes up.

[Totoro]

Finally, somewhere people talk about the religion as if it matters. 

[notme]

I was expecting wise, intelligent, and knowledgeable people. 

[Ruqaya101]

9 minutes ago, notme said:

I was expecting wise, intelligent, and knowledgeable people. 

#Truth

[The Green Knight]

On 10/21/2019 at 5:22 AM, Totoro said:

Finally, somewhere people talk about the religion as if it matters. 

This

On 10/21/2019 at 7:46 AM, notme said:

I was expecting wise, intelligent, and knowledgeable people. 

And this

[AkhiraisReal]

21 hours ago, Reza said:

When I first came here:
What is this “mooota” thing? I see it everywhere.

lol. This was exactly my reaction. I had never heard of it before. And honestly it sounded like prostitution when I read about it, that was when I was not so informed about mutah.

[hasanhh]

5 hours ago, notme said:

I was expecting wise, intelligent, and knowledgeable people. 

"l know you are not thinking of me."

"Extremism in the Pursuit of Hysteria is no vice."

[notme]

19 minutes ago, hasanhh said:

"l know you are not thinking of me."

"Extremism in the Pursuit of Hysteria is no vice."

To be honest, I found all three, but not in one person. 

[83838]

waqifis and akhbaris' hideout

[Celtic Twilight]

The only thing that has really surprised me has been the cat fighting thing.

[hasanhh]

4 hours ago, Celtic Twilight said:

The only thing that has really surprised me has been the cat fighting thing.

This, and the young guys preoccuppied with sex rather than their educations and skill sets.

[The Green Knight]

On 10/21/2019 at 2:33 PM, 000 said:

waqifis and akhbaris' hideout

There have been many on here over the time. Also including Deists, Hindus, Malangs, Apostates, and so many others. I think its all good if not necessary to learn and know where we stand.

[83838]

2 hours ago, Darth Vader said:

There have been many on here over the time. Also including Deists, Hindus, Malangs,, Apostates, and so many others. I think its all good if not necessary to learn and know where we stand.

I'm not saying it's necessarily a bad thing. When I was younger I really had learnt a lot from internet forums where I faced different perspectives from different heritages (In real life, most probably I have met them, but only superficially). Just wanted to point out that we won't meet real akhbaris let alone waqifis in real life.

[ali_fatheroforphans]

When I first joined "Shiachat" - "wow I feel like people care about my opinions"

When I joined "Chatroom" - "OMG!!! I want to spend 24 hours of my day with these beautiful people."

Edited October 28, 2019 by ali_fatheroforphans