Why every ones afraid
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Peace everyone,
In a post in this thread, I argued that there are both pros and cons with social media. I am all for using technology for networking activities and to find information/knowledge. But I think that it would be prudent to use social media in moderation. Because it seems that social media is a good/useful thing, only if it is used in moderation.
I would like to share four more articles about internet/social media here.
This Is How The Internet Is Rewiring Your Brain
http//www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/10/30/shocking-ways-internet-rewires-brain_n_4136942.html
The Shallows by Nicholas Carr ? review
http//www.theguardian.com/books/2011/jul/03/shallows-nicholas-carr-internet-neurology
'The Shallows' Has The Internet Rewired Your Brain?
http//www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=127988880
Attention Spans Have Dropped from 12 Minutes to 5 Minutes ? How Social Media is Ruining Our Minds
http//www.adweek.com/socialtimes/attention-spans-have-dropped-from-12-minutes-to-5-seconds-how-social-media-is-ruining-our-minds-infographic/87484?red=st
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Osman,
The problem is not the forum itself but the misconception of what God is. I cause a disturbance by my commentary that we are a piece of God and to be associated rather than dissociated. It is heresy in the Muslim world.
But I participate still to a lesser extent but have moved much of my informative posting elsewhere. Now I carefully just add a comment most of the time that there is an alternative thinking. Not worth throwing pearls to swine and what is holy to dogs as Jesua said slightly sarcastically.
Be safe
Emanuel -
Osman,
God once said "I am who am I". "Tell the Children of Israel that "I AM" has sent you" (it would imply that you have sent yourself basically). Figure going to the Children of Israel "I AM has sent me. I have signs; look at this hand it is white as a leper's hand and my staff is mysteriously alive".
It was at this the word Elah began to be used which means "who is him" in third person instead of "I AM" (Allah is just an updated construct with Arabic grammar meaning "who is such as him" like an emphatic form). In the real system (deen) we are supposed to be a mirror of God, but that is forgotten knowledge in the wake of Paganism.
Have you reflected upon if you say "I am" you imply that you are alive.
In Persian they use the word Khoda for God, it means "self" in Farsi/Persian. It is a very very old word for God in that language.
Be safe
Emanuel -
I don't have a serious problem with meeting in real life, only by the boundaries of reasonable distance. As someone said very early on, for someone like me in the UK, with no disposable income, even getting from Manchester to somewhere like London, in the same country can be problematic.
Travelling Abroad is simply not possible at this time.
I'm a member of various facebook Quran only groups, which if I'm honest is occasionally flooded with hadithers who's english is so bad they don't even understand the group name. Sometimes the posts in some of the groups are interesting and relevant to living as a Quran only Muslim in society, others are as far as I'm concerned useless pictures with cheesy phrases.
A Skype/Whatsapp group is fine if it has anything relevant to bring to the table, is it about advancing the Quran only cause? About melding muslims of different opinions together? Then fine, this is a reasonable goal warranting such a group. Is it simply to chat/philosophise? then here is just fine.
I'm involved in UK politics, the only people who have my whatsapp number are those interested in the Muslim cause in the UK, and they are all; to my knowledge outside my own Wife + Ex Wife, hadithers. And that's the thing, hadithers care more about the day to day running of Muslim involvement in society so they are the ones I interact with on a daily basis.
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I don't have a serious problem with meeting in real life, only by the boundaries of reasonable distance. As someone said very early on, for someone like me in the UK, with no disposable income, even getting from Manchester to somewhere like London, in the same country can be problematic.
Yeah that was me, where are you based?
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Stockport, outside Manchester these days, I used to be in Walsall, Birmingham. Worse, I'm from Swindon, Wiltshire originally.
I can easily reach anywhere in Greater Manchester; Bradford / Yorkshire and West Midlands is manageable for a day out, London would have to be something special.
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Salaam,
Stockport, outside Manchester these days, I used to be in Walsall, Birmingham. Worse, I'm from Swindon, Wiltshire originally.
I can easily reach anywhere in Greater Manchester; Bradford / Yorkshire and West Midlands is manageable for a day out, London would have to be something special.
Travel to London can be expensive. I travel to London from Yorkshire more or less every week and it costs circa ?200 (for King's Cross) but that's because I can get away with just buying the ticket on the day. I'm okay though because my travel and accommodation is reimbursed. Ironic, I'm actually in London right now for the next week.
However, apparently, you can get train tickets on grand central if you book them way in advance. There is also megabus / megabus plus which I haven't used at all in the last two years but I remember tickets for single journey's being ?3/4, which is what I have used in my younger days. The capital of your own country shouldn't be so inaccessible for you to visit. I know people where I live and they think going to Leeds is such a big thing- let alone London. When in fact, it isn't. I would suggest looking on 'Megabus' and 'Grand Central' trains.
Salaam.
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Stockport, outside Manchester these days, I used to be in Walsall, Birmingham. Worse, I'm from Swindon, Wiltshire originally.
My goodness, even the Israelites wandering through the desert didn't have it as bad as you! Walk with God friend I have also lived in Birmingham city centre.
The capital of your own country shouldn't be so inaccessible for you to visit. I know people where I live and they think going to Leeds is such a big thing- let alone London. When in fact, it isn't.
Yes but that would make too much sense to be practical with any British government. I've never known a country as bad as the UK for transport, its bad enough during the week then on Sunday NOTHING works ANYWHERE in the country, and I mean all over the UK because I've worked all over the UK and transport links are always replaced by a replacement bus service on Sunday no matter where you are.
Also which boggles my mind is how a simple 200 mile trip can take 3, 4 or even 5 hours on a bad day - no other country I've lived in has this problem and I've lived in a few that are supposedly 'less developed'.
Strangely enough I am now living in Leeds city centre and its funny what you say because a lot of the people here only go out during the week because on the weekend the city is taken over by these strange creatures that come in from the Yorkshire countryside, they are devilish looking beings that are always walking around looking up at all the fancy tall buildings, making a mess, shouting, belching, vomiting an urinating all over streets.
There is a self-imposed segregation between the places that these people frequent as opposed to the places the urbanites frequent.
Where abouts in Yorkshire do you live?
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What's wrong with Huddersfield?
Everything is wrong with Huddersfield Nah, just kidding. Hehehe ;D
Huddersfield is probably a nice place.
By the way, I would love to visit the UK one day. Because I have never been in the UK. And because UK is an interesting country, in my opinion.
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Everything is wrong with Huddersfield Nah, just kidding. Hehehe ;D
Huddersfield is probably a nice place.
By the way, I would love to visit the UK one day. Because I have never been in the UK. And because UK is an interesting country, in my opinion.
Everyone who hasn't been to the U.K. Seems to think it's an interesting place.
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Everyone who hasn't been to the U.K. Seems to think it's an interesting place.
Well, I think UK is an interesting place because of its history, diversity and opprtunities. Also, I like European countries in general and would like to travel to several European countries in the future, if I get the time/opportunity to travel to several countries. Don't you think the UK is an interesting place?
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Well, I think UK is an interesting place because of its history, diversity and opprtunities. Also, I like European countries in general and would like to travel to several European countries in the future, if I get the time/opportunity to travel to several countries. Don't you think the UK is an interesting place?
As an Englishwoman, I do not find the U.K. to be an interesting place.
Our history is basically colonialism, pillaging, converting the heathens, the theft of natural resources, etc., etc., etc. There's nothing "interesting" about that.
Diversity? We have serious issues with "diversity". This evening, I had to intervene when a bunch of young ruffians threw a ball at a Muslim woman's face outside a supermarket. They then proceeded in sticking their fingers up at her and swearing at her. Diversity is nothing without acceptance and respect.
Opportunities? What opportunities? England has such poor employment statistics and the education system is a mess. The socio-economic reality is so grim, I despair.
You, like a lot of people, seem to have an idealised view of Europe, and particularly England, which simply betrays the reality.
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the education system is a mess.
I went to an academy in London. It was comparable to a zoo. Pupils were out of control, shortage of teachers, fights everywhere, food being thrown around, toilets with graffiti, urine and faeces on the floor. The "supply teachers" they use are not even qualified to teach.