Thoughts 2023

[Quran313]

There's too much work pressure on me. I already complained 4 times to the manager, but no good. This is the 5th or 6th times that I'm thinking about leaving the company. There was another argument today. I work 10 hours per day, no overtime pay, and still complaining that I'm not good. I really value my work and my colleagues but there's no moral in business.

I know everyone has a problem in life. Family issues, parentings, financial issues, marriage problems, unemployment, etc. This is how I try to calm myself down that this is my problem. But at the bottom of my heart, there's a pain that doesnt want to leave my heart. I was crying in the office bthrm today. Keep me in your duas.

[Haji 2003]

European Maths Olympiad 2023

1st China, 2nd United States

 

Third place Australia:

[notme]

3 hours ago, Haji 2003 said:

1st China, 2nd United States

Nice! As a US math teacher, I'm surprised. Most likely these US students are self taught or taught by private tutors. 

[ireallywannaknow]

22 minutes ago, notme said:

Nice! As a US math teacher, I'm surprised. Most likely these US students are self taught or taught by private tutors. 

They all, first second and third place, look East Asian MashaAllah. It could also be a cultural or genetic thing. 

Life without coffee is so much better! I don't feel like I'm being dragged around anymore. 

[notme]

9 hours ago, ireallywannaknow said:

It could also be a cultural or genetic thing.

Cultural.  The families value education more than is typical among other ethnic groups, at least in the US. 

 

I've thought of giving up coffee too, but I enjoy it, and I only drink a cup per day.  It's just that if I don't have my one cup I get a headache, and I don't like being addicted.  

[Guest Window]

Writing Literary Fiction is hard work. Crafting sentences with care and love is challenging at times, but so rewarding. 
 

[Haji 2003]

1 hour ago, Guest Window said:

Writing Literary Fiction is hard work. Crafting sentences with care and love is challenging at times, but so rewarding. 
 

No one is doubting that. But it's important what it's for. If it is for personal satisfaction and the writer gets that, that's fine. If it's for therapy and it works, that's good too. And it is for passing the time, and it does that, ok. And if it is for some kind of external validation and that is achieved - that works too.

The problem arises where something is being done for external validation, it's not achieved and the person in question does not pick up the signals.

I am currently dealing with a 15-year-old and his father, who think the son is excellent at cricket when he's patently only good and he's overweight to boot. Any poor performance on the field by the son is put down to 'bad luck'.

At some point, they are going to be very disappointed.

[rkazmi33]

2 hours ago, Haji 2003 said:

No one is doubting that. But it's important what it's for. If it is for personal satisfaction and the writer gets that, that's fine. If it's for therapy and it works, that's good too. And it is for passing the time, and it does that, ok. And if it is for some kind of external validation and that is achieved - that works too.

The problem arises where something is being done for external validation, it's not achieved and the person in question does not pick up the signals.

I am currently dealing with a 15-year-old and his father, who think the son is excellent at cricket when he's patently only good and he's overweight to boot. Any poor performance on the field by the son is put down to 'bad luck'.

At some point, they are going to be very disappointed.

I think judgement of a writer is very subjective. Sometimes people go through traumatic experiences which make them less productive. For example, whenever two people are having a conversation near me, I always think they are talking against me. This makes professional life so difficult. That's why I often think about becoming a writer or influencer because I have interesting stories to tell. I also think that in 2000s, entertainment had better quality. As a viewer, I would definitely prefer someone's story of trauma over the stupid love triangles and high school drama. Life is more interesting and the story written by God is more interesting than any story created by humans. The problem is that now so many doctors and scientists are becoming influencers. They criticize influencers for earning easy money but they have no problem earning money for themselves. It's just greed. Not everyone is intelligent enough to become a scientist or a doctor. People need to make a living and odd jobs have very toxic working environment. Anyone would prefer the easy route of becoming influencer and you cannot blame them. 

I have observed that evaluation of someone's skills is very subjective. I have worked in companies where I worked very hard, was constantly stressed out, always thinking about my work, still my employers were not happy with me. At other places, work was easy, I didn't even try very hard and still my employers were happy with me. The pay was same at both type of companies. People are using marijuana and other drugs to become more intelligent. It's like cheating on an exam. Scientists are openly talking about how marijuana can improve neuroplasticity and just saying one sentence that use of marijuana is illegal and I have never used it. I know the smell of marijuana and I have smelled it on my co-workers at many places. No one works hard enough to deserve billions and millions. These greedy intelligent people will need to learn to share resources with other people. 

Edited July 2 by rkazmi33

[notme]

3 hours ago, Haji 2003 said:

Any poor performance on the field by the son is put down to 'bad luck'.

At some point, they are going to be very disappointed

And are likely to blame anything but lack of skill or talent or demand for whatever talent the boy does have.  Lack of personal responsibility is a frequent attribute of those who grow up with privilege. 

[rkazmi33]

1 hour ago, notme said:

And are likely to blame anything but lack of skill or talent or demand for whatever talent the boy does have.  Lack of personal responsibility is a frequent attribute of those who grow up with privilege. 

Wow! Democrats are sounding just like Trump. You can not hide behind the use of word privilege. Everyone knows that kids from rich families are not the only ones becoming influencers and they are not the only ones not wanting to work odd jobs. Whatever poison Trump spewed, it was not his personal beliefs. Everyone in power thinks same. 

Edited July 2 by rkazmi33

[Ashvazdanghe]

On 4/26/2023 at 5:25 AM, ShiaChat Mod said:

That would be excellent. Life After Life is such a beautiful show but my Farsi is not that great.  

Salam this is a seperate thread about it

 

[Haji 2003]

[notme]

2 hours ago, Haji 2003 said:

 

[Guest Window]

My parents don’t like online forums, especially not ShiaChat. They think I should stay away and live more “in reality”, whatever that means. But I’m glad I have a Shia Online support system. It’s better than nothing.

[Abu Nur]

O the Army of the Master of Time
Be ready...Be ready
For a war in which there is no peace for enemy
Be ready...Be ready

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q0_xDMMdDVo

[Hameedeh]

2 hours ago, Guest Window said:

My parents don’t like online forums, especially not ShiaChat. They think I should stay away and live more “in reality”, whatever that means. 

:Sigh: 

[Haji 2003]

[Quran313]

People celebrate Eid Ghadir in a 6 mile amusement park, Iran

 

https://www.ruptly.tv/en/videos/20230708-001-Kilometres-of-fun-Tehran-celebrates-Eid-al-Ghadir-with-10-km-long-amusement-park

[Quran313]

 

[Haji 2003]

Viral thread on Qur'an

Accusations made and rebutted

The western academic mentioned has his own thread:

 

[Quran313]

Family Gathering

 

[rkazmi33]

Ever since I can remember, I always go to majlis on Aashura day. Last few years, I only went because I thought I will commit a sin by not going. But it is not a sin and I think I won't go this year. Do you think something bad will happen to me if I just don't go to majlis on Aashura day? I am not attending other majlis, just listening online. 

[Ashvazdanghe]

3 hours ago, rkazmi33 said:

Ever since I can remember, I always go to majlis on Aashura day. Last few years, I only went because I thought I will commit a sin by not going. But it is not a sin and I think I won't go this year. Do you think something bad will happen to me if I just don't go to majlis on Aashura day? I am not attending other majlis, just listening online. 

Salam there is no sin about not going to majlis on Aashura day but onth e other hand attending in any Majlis about Imam Hussain (عليه السلام) will has great rewards even just through listening online .

[Haji 2003]

The Indian vegetarian anomaly

Whenever the environmental impact of meat eating comes up, someone points out how good India is in that regard (the first pic below). What they ignore is the second pic.

Indians may not eat cattle for religious reasons, but they do raise a heck of a lot of them (for religious reasons) and that meat has to go somewhere.

 

vs

[Irfani313]

12 hours ago, Haji 2003 said:

The Indian vegetarian anomaly

Whenever the environmental impact of meat eating comes up, someone points out how good India is in that regard (the first pic below). What they ignore is the second pic.

Indians may not eat cattle for religious reasons, but they do raise a heck of a lot of them (for religious reasons) and that meat has to go somewhere.

 

vs

Selling the cow-mama!!! Despicable truth.. 

[AbdusSibtayn]

A big reason why people need to stop posting in Arabic if they don't know a scratch of the language, just to look cool- You never know that you might be destroying your hereafter while showing off. 

[AbdusSibtayn]

[Haji 2003]

Republicans are anti-science party. Low vaccination rates amongst Republicans

 

[notme]

4 hours ago, Haji 2003 said:

Republicans are anti-science party. Low vaccination rates amongst Republicans

The problem is "both sides" are essentially the same. Republicans refuse to consider anything they don't already know, and Democrats latch on to any current theory and condemn anyone who questions it. If you can't tolerate questions, you are not pro-science. One direction or the other - it is the same thing. 

[Haji 2003]

 

[Haji 2003]

A puzzle for you

Someone who was born and brought up in Karachi goes to London and works there for some years.

He returns to Karachi and for Eid goes to the market to buy an animal. He is dressed in worn local clothes, his local sandals are broken, and he has his local nephew is with him. He talks to a stallholder. Meantime his brother who works locally arrives, and he's dressed in a suit. 

His brother says that he'll take over negotiations, but the stallholder says he'd prefer to speak with the brother who has returned from London.

Why?

Not a rhetorical question, answers below.

 

[Naz_]

On 8/6/2023 at 8:33 AM, Haji 2003 said:

A puzzle for you

Someone who was born and brought up in Karachi goes to London and works there for some years.

He returns to Karachi and for Eid goes to the market to buy an animal. He is dressed in worn local clothes, his local sandals are broken, and he has his local nephew is with him. He talks to a stallholder. Meantime his brother who works locally arrives, and he's dressed in a suit. 

His brother says that he'll take over negotiations, but the stallholder says he'd prefer to speak with the brother who has returned from London.

Why?

Not a rhetorical question, answers below.

 

What an odd puzzle/question to ask.

Nevertheless, I assume its because the brother who was actually from London had less of an ego than the one from there. Or it could be that he noticed the accents. 

If you're asking why he wanted to speak to the one from London then it's because he'd get more money out of him than the one from there. 

[Ashvazdanghe]

On 8/6/2023 at 11:03 AM, Haji 2003 said:

his local sandals are broken

Salam because his local sandals are broken  which he has not cared about it & being looking too local.

[Haji 2003]

 

3 hours ago, Naz_ said:

I assume its because the brother who was actually from London had less of an ego than the one from there

The foreigner gave himself away not because of his accent, but because he was polite.

And yes, it's because he'd likely pay more.

[Irfani313]

On 8/6/2023 at 3:33 AM, Haji 2003 said:

A puzzle for you

Someone who was born and brought up in Karachi goes to London and works there for some years.

He returns to Karachi and for Eid goes to the market to buy an animal. He is dressed in worn local clothes, his local sandals are broken, and he has his local nephew is with him. He talks to a stallholder. Meantime his brother who works locally arrives, and he's dressed in a suit. 

His brother says that he'll take over negotiations, but the stallholder says he'd prefer to speak with the brother who has returned from London.

Why?

Not a rhetorical question, answers below.

 

Because the nephew kept saying لندن with d = د and the shop owner must have heard Londoner uncle saying it with that queen’s accent of heightened sounds of syllables.
 

Besides attire wise Karachites are more Londoners than born and bred Londoners.