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February 3rd, 2012, 8:55 am
(quote not shown) Do you have any credible sources, i.e. an accredited historian, for this historical account? Hi Scott Yes, I can refer you to the account of Muhammad's marriage to his first wife Khadija, and his daughter's marriage to Ali. (note: Almost all of important evens of early Islamic hist...
February 2nd, 2012, 12:36 pm
(quote not shown) I don't think all of us are in an epistemological crisis. At least It's never been so for learn Shiites; those have drawn on the full capacity of their intellectual/cultural heritage. They had successfully solved the oldest most persistent philosophical problems such as the very fa...
February 2nd, 2012, 7:01 am
(quote not shown) The first premise is flawed, therefore the whole reasoning. Man is not an entirely material thing. Because it has mind, imagination and spirit. Plus characterizing certain phenomenon as "material" is due to our cognitive imperfections. Matter is an objectification of spir...
February 2nd, 2012, 1:58 am
(quote not shown) Hi, Thinking critical Post modern man is a man caught up in an epistemological crisis. It's failure in finding the essentialist bases for his natural and social life leads him to arbitrary and subjective proclamations of what is described as "contextual, local" truths whi...
February 2nd, 2012, 1:26 am
(quote not shown) Perhaps we should clarify what we mean with marriage. But reading through the posts now I think I understand what the users here mean by the term. I believe marriage has historically been an oath of life, a mutual promise of loyalty and commitment. The ritualistic aspects of marria...
January 31st, 2012, 2:15 pm
Hi, youngful and thank you for your reply.
January 31st, 2012, 1:09 pm
I personally believe that love of the Creator is the ultimate purpose of life. Loving Him with your whole existence and with an absolute dedication. Under the light of this, marriage has to functions: 1. reproduction: raising worthy and virtuous children 2. perfection: Man is the manifestation of Go...
January 31st, 2012, 12:57 pm
(quote not shown) So you call it dumbness to endeavor for reforming desperate human beings and making sacrifices for it? I believe that's the ultimate moral virtue to endanger oneself for guiding those soles who are lost in ignorance and corruption. The ultimate end of spirituality is to eliminate o...
January 29th, 2012, 9:56 am
I voted C cause I found both options extreme and immoral. I think the decision regardless of any for and against argument depends on the merits of the mother as well. A woman's selfishness not to take care of an already living human may lead her to abortion. In this case I think abortion is immoral....
January 29th, 2012, 9:10 am
(quote not shown) Thank you dear Youngful, I agree with you and your concerns. I found nothing in my life as adorable, beautiful and reforming as "God" (in double quotes hehe) and I feel sad that due to human distortions and manipulations religion has become almost synonym to evil for most...
January 29th, 2012, 6:45 am
I posted my interpretation of the Adam and Eve story in our thread, Doctrine of Original Sin and the Garden of Eden
January 29th, 2012, 6:37 am
Hi, It's a nice subject to discuss. Well, again in this thread I use theories from my own philosophical tradition (Shiite) to explain this. Sin in the common sense of the term means immorality. Immorality includes transgressions: such as lying, stealing, murder; or intrinsic immoral traits such as a...
January 29th, 2012, 5:47 am
Maybe you could have offered a definition, then.
January 29th, 2012, 4:18 am
I think we first need to define courage. Ruthlessness, risk, violence, self-sacrifice etc. which one do you think is courage?
January 29th, 2012, 3:58 am
(quote not shown) Why do you think only human mind is intelligent? When you define intelligence as an exclusive property of humans you ignore the fact that other forms also act intelligently e.g. plants and animals. Now the question is where does living forms' intelligence come from? We know that it...
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