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*pre-post rant alert. You have been warned...* :salam2: So I'm just supposed to ignore my friends and family like they don't exist? Turn away from my parents and not respect them? Isn't that contrary to what Islam teaches? If I go one way, I'm "embracing the kaffirs" and if I go the other...

:salam2: I am curious now. I may have to check it out, to see what is in the mind of the Muslim woman. For research purposes, you understand...

:salam2: I pray as often as I can. I'm not up to 5 times a yet, but that's because I am concentrating on trying to do each prayer correctly. When I get one down, I move onto the next one.

:salam2: Recent events in my life have forced me to learn to become a leader. I'm still not completely ready, but I am learning, so that when the time comes, I can be ready.

:salam2: I am probably going to anger some people with this, but here we go. My wife can do whatever she wants. If she wants to work, she can work. If she wants to stay home, she can stay home. I don't care what she does, as long as she loves me.

:salam2: Ah... well thanks, brothers and sisters.

:salam2: All you need is just a little patience...

I prefer Ritz myself. They have a little more color and flavour.

:salam2: I put it to you... the viewers at home... What do YOU think about THIS white guy? :p

I never said that I don't lower my gaze, I just said that I struggle with it. I know that it is the right thing to do, but sometimes the right thing is not easy. 's all I'm saying, man.

No problem, harb.

Fornication is not the problem. I've always been a bit phobic of women, so I don't really pursue relations with them. It's lowering my gaze that I struggle with. A hot girl walks by, and I check her out almost on reflex. Then too there is *!*!*!*!ography so readily available now.

:salam2: So.. is headbanging considered dancing? :p Sorry... just trying to lighten the mood a little. I sense some tension here between our sisters, and I want to try to ease that...

:salam2: Short answer: No. Long answer: See my many rants about how politics is a conspiracy and the results of elections are pre-determined, and the elections only exist to maintain the illusion of democracy.

:wasalam: Alcohol and women are the biggest struggles in my life. When you're raised in a culture that expects and encourages behavior of drinking and chasing women, it's really hard to give that up all at once.

:wasalam: Well, plate tectonics is something of an amateur interest of mine. It goes along with my being an Atlantophile and having done extensive research on the possibility of an Atlantis existing sometime in the past...

History and geography go hand-in-hand. I am something of an amaeteur geologist as well, and I have seen the computer models you are talking about.

Well there are circumstances in my life right now that prevent me from hanging out with those people, actually. So that's a blessing in itself right there...

:salam2: I have been hearing for decades about how California will become an island after a massive earthquake in the San Andreas Faultline. It has not happened. It probably will not happen.

I quit drinking for about 4 months last year, but all of my old drinking buddies had a reverse intervention for me to start drinking again. They said that I was too much of a jerk when I was sober and they wanted the old me back. :angryred: