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Nikki, find your Self first. How you'r gonna do it I dont know. But you exist, which means there has to be a path for you. You have spread yourself too much. Try some meditation. Whatever school suits you.

For official purpose, say,"There is one God, Muhamad is his last prophet" in fornt of two people, and thats it. No ceremony required. They can lean whichever way they want too, or remain neutral.

Well firstly, quran wasent revealed as a written text. It was revealed as a rhymed sermon, devoid of dots, commas and diacritical marks. So there are different ways of putting dots, commas and diacritical marks. Secondly different tribes spoke (and still speak) their own dialect, with their own...

One can get most of the meaning by consulting 2-3 different translation, that also have the oral tradition associated with verses. But then there is a particular rhythm of meaning that cant be translated, and also the nuance of words, semitic idioms, arabic way of saying things etc that make no...

How many versions of quran you have seen? And what were the differences? Did you ask any arabs about these differences?

The speed at which white race is dying out, 30-50 years. Europe will need more humans. Also, the post renaissance thought has lived its life now. It gives people a hole in their soul, which usually gets filled with something eastern. qigong, vipassana, sufi, vedantic stuff. Muslim intellectual...

Eurabchina, dont forget the china ;-). I see a future where Eurasia is going to be slanted eye white, like many tatar-russian hybrid people of north asia. Apart from that, Europe owes a lot to middle east. Descartes is kind of the founding father of modern west. He took truck loads of thought...

Most likely

Europe will shift from Christianity to Agnosticism to Islam. China from Atheism to Christianity and Islam. Americas will slowly go agnostic and then may be buddhist/hindu/muslim/non-organised etc. Muslim regions will remain muslim. There isnt gonna be any standoff between Islam, Europe and...

And how is christianity going in mainland? Do people just replace buddha/nirvana for jesus/heaven. How and why do han people convert that easily? It took turks a thousand years to get 30% of SouthAsians converted to Islam. Why are chinese converting so fast?

How would you define Mahayana as a category. I understand theravada and vajrayana beliefs and practices, but mahayana is still very vague to me. If its all just rituals for heaven, then how is it even considered Buddhism. What exactly is taoism, in reality, rather than from western eyes. I know...

So what are the majority mainland chinese beliefs? It cant be that they dont believe anything. State can only kill practice. AFAIK "Tao-ism" is more of a western construct (I might be wrong on that). Also, Taoism and Tantric Buddhism are big business in the west, and in my experience much...

Regional powers (Saudi and Turkey) are interested in seeing Asad ousted, so do US and EU. So all of them are helping ISIS and killing them only when its mercenaries enter their own territory. The situation is now evolving into a proxy war between US side (EU+Saudi+Turkey) vs Ruskie side...

I never said that. My point, calling them "Islamic terrorist" is just a gimmick, because calling them US stealth forces wont sell. US interests, EU interests, Saudi interests, Turk interests, they kind of all converge at giving some good for nothing youth tonns of weapons and a bunch of Islamic...

ISIS is "Am-EU regime change mercenaries", who were marketed as "Islamic terrorists" to fool westerners into continuous regime changes and loot n plunder campaigns. ISISes will continue to occur where ever a "vassal government" and "liberalized economy" are required without "boots on ground"...

People forget these things, because they arnt told they are supposed to remember. Or because its good that they forget. See this nice family photograph? The forefathers of "Islamic" terrorism in turbans, the founding fathers in Black/blue suits, and the founding fathers of the political entity...

NW, El, Ela, Elah, Ilah etc are all variations of the same base which basically means Deity. Arabic Allah is basically Al (the) Ilah (Deity), which was worshiped as the God of Abaham, or the supreme God by Arabs. According to the legend, Arabs traveled around for trade, and brought many...

These debates are petty. They only provide an ideological basis for continuing the occupation of middle east that started just 2 years after the demise of USSR. I never saw any "Is the west a threat to the world" kind of debate. Talking to oneself about how awesome one is and how the rest are...

Not necessarily. I am mainly interested in experiential knowledge regarding the afterlife (or supra physical planes of existence), regardless of if one comes back here or not. Personally I dont think its such a nice place to come back.

Just read Proof of heaven by Eben Alexander. Good description of NDE by a Neurosurgeon.