What about finance? You can pay my rent, pity me^CoSMic DoRiS^^ said:lol, sorry. just hang in there till you're old enough to move out
What about finance? You can pay my rent, pity me^CoSMic DoRiS^^ said:lol, sorry. just hang in there till you're old enough to move out
Get a job like everybody else.bassistx said:What about finance? You can pay my rent, pity me
Not enough.boris said:Get a job like everybody else.
Of course, ultimately our understanding in and of its self never changes the final result, whether we choose to believe the reason global warming occurs is because the omnipotent invisible spaghetti monster has decided to heat the place up as a punishment or we say it's from our pumping of carbon into the atmosphere, the end result will still be the same... But let's say we want to effect that end result - If we start sitting around and singing hymns to the flying spaghetti monster we will be wasting our time.bassistx said:Whether it's religion or culture, it does not make a difference when it comes to respect. If we said Islam was culture and not religion, it wouldn't make a difference. If we said Islam was purely just religion, not influenced by culture, it wouldn't make the slightest difference.
Because my parents are still cousins.
Understand?
bassistx said:You're so cool, calm, and collected.
Lucky bastard.
They're setting up Christian schools. Think WorldVision. Worship Christ, we'll give you food. Anybody going to say no? I don't think so.
The mentality will never change. I'm talking about older people. Generation Y is fine, nothing to worry about there. But older generations are pressuring younger ones to follow what they and their ancestors have been following for aeons.
The solution is to completely abandon your family. It's sad, but it's the only way you'll live without being forced into a marriage or something.
You can't move out 'til you're married. And you can't marry anyone who isn't from your background and your religion.
You can't just change these things. My parents are both educated, with university degrees (dad went back for his masters, but then dropped out because it was too much theory, not enough hands-on). My father is an engineer. He travelled the world in his college days. He's been everywhere.
My mother's a horticulturalist.
They're not dumb. But they're narrow-minded.
I was watching the Vicar of Dibley yesterday laughing like an idiot, almost splitting my sides and my dad said a million times "That's haram" because they were "making fun of the prophets".
Grrr.
Now that the Saudi dictatorship is armed to the teeth, there is no solution. The people don't want that type of government, muslims don't want that type of government, it's damning to both the people and the religion.Enteebee said:I don't think there is a religious solution because I don't think any of these things come about by any sort of divine means and are more just given the label of religion to protect them from outside criticism. Of course I have no ultimate solution (perhaps some ideas that could lead to a slightly better situation, i.e. Secular western schools set up in poorer parts of the world), but I do definately know that if there is one then understanding the problem will help discover it.
I was just wondering coz nobody has posted in that thread for a while..sam04u said:*facepalms*
How is that on-topic?