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Beautiful woman wearing a red dress running through the woods. She frequently looks over her shoulder but we don’t ever see what she’s running from. Half way through the video, she goes into a house in the middle of the woods and has her make up re-done. She then leaves the house and continues to run from whatever she was running from.

Death in Vegas – "Aisha" (vocal by Iggy Pop)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TaQ7u4MSdAY

Great song.

I have probably a party on friday…how can i lose weight?
I want to do a fast and then start my abc diet but i don’t know how to do because of my mom…suggestions?

Fasting is pointless. You just get so hungry that you end up eating more than usual.
Instead of an extreme regime just eat less of what you usually eat. Have 1 slice of toast instead of 2 for breakfast. Have smaller portions at dinner. All you need to cut out is the junk candy bars and chocolate. All they do is rot your teeth and make you fat.

For the atheists that think there is no evidence for the unseen, actually there is. The evidence is string theory, (some of you may already know a bit about this) but not the normal string theory but M theory (membrane theory)

For as long as we can remember we believed the universe consisted 3 dimensions of space, simply if we could not see it, its not there. Until a man called Einstein came and discovered time also behaves like spatial dimensions.

But the time has come for another advance in our understanding of the universe. The 11 dimensional universe. Now it was thought that the extra dimensions could not be seen because they "curled" up so small that atoms were unable to "play" with it. But M theory says otherwise, these dimensions aren’t necessarily small its just we cannot perceive it with our senses.(or any living thing as far as were aware)

Whats your thoughts on this?

And by the way M theory has evidence, its evidence is through mathematics. Not only that but M theory helps us explain the big bang, black holes and wormholes.

P.s im not christian so don’t go where does it say this in your bible or silly comments similar.
I dont think some of you understand me. Atoms and Air can be detected and seen with an electron microscope (atoms). The higher dimmensions cant.

Well for starters it is not just about being ‘unseen’ it is about being un provable. Manythings cannot be ’seen’ but can be proven to exists, like electrons.

Now regarding your somewhat simplistic understanding of string theory, math is NOT evidence. It is simply a model. Many things in math we know are not real (such as the idealized geometric shapes like lines, a true mathematical line does not exist).

So tomorrow i have an english final, the professor will give us a choice of 7-10 short poems [7-15 lines] to write a 7 paragraph essay on.

How do i write an essay on a poem? how to i subdivide my 7 paragraphs – meaning – what would the 5 body paragraph entail and how would i write it

thanks

You may want to find similarities and differences in the themes, syntax, diction, and rhetorical strategies used in the poems. Whatever you do, never commit to only one strategy, be flexible.

Come on shi’a, argue this please

The Quran emphatically declares that the pure should only marry the pure. Allah (عز و جل) commands:

“Marry those among you who are single and the righteous ones among yourselves, male or female.” (Quran, 24:32)

Allah (عز و جل) further declares:

“Impure women are for impure men and impure men are for impure women. Pure women are for pure men and pure men are for pure women.” (Quran, 24:26)

The Shia revile Aisha (رضّى الله عنها), so to counter this argument, the Shia bring up the wives of Prophet Nuh (عليه السلام) and Prophet Lut (عليه السلام). Both of these women were married to pure Prophets, and yet they themselves were impure and will burn in Hell-Fire, according to the following verse in the Quran:

“Allah has made an example for those who are an unbelieving people: the wife of Nuh and the wife of Lut. They were married to two of Our servants who were believers, but they betrayed them and were not helped at all against Allah. They were told: ‘Enter the Fire along with all who enter it.’” (Quran, Surat at-Tahrim: 10)

However, it seems that this argument is inconsistent and we hope to, Insha-Allah, show that if anything, the fact that these two Prophets had sinful wives is only a testament against Shi’ism, since it creates a logical inconsistency in the Shia theology (which we shall examine in this article).

The Quran clearly says that a pure man should not marry an impure woman. In fact, Ayatollah Khomeini said: “It is forbidden in Islam to marry the Fasiqoon (sinners).” So the obvious question is: why did Prophet Nuh (عليه السلام) and Prophet Lut (عليه السلام) do so?

The Ahlus Sunnah has a simple answer to this question: Prophet Nuh (عليه السلام) and Prophet Lut (عليه السلام) did not know about their wives’ sinfulness at the time that they were getting married. Hence, they did not violate Allah’s commands willfully. They did not marry sinful women intentionally. Had the two known that their wives would be Kufaar (disbelievers), it is likely that they would never have married them in the first place. But only Allah knows Al-Ghaib (the Unseen), and only Allah (عز و جل) knew their eventual destination of Hell-Fire.

To this, a Shia might respond that perhaps Prophet Muhammad (صلّى الله عليه وآله وسلّم) likewise married Aisha (رضّى الله عنها) without knowing her true nature. Perhaps he too married an impure person without knowing. However, here a problem arises within Shia theological beliefs. The Shia adamantly believe that the Prophet (صلّى الله عليه وآله وسلّم) and the Imams know the Al-Ghaib (the Unseen); they have knowledge of everything in the heavens and the earth. So it is not possible for the Prophet (صلّى الله عليه وآله وسلّم) not to know the nature of Aisha (رضّى الله عنها) since–according to the Shia–he must know everything.

“Imam Ali said: “I swear by God Who holds my soul in His hand that I know all that the Prophet knew, and that I know all of the past and all of the future, up until the Day of Resurrection.”

According to Al-Kafi, the most reliable of the four Shia books of Hadith, the Imams could supposedly tell who is going to Paradise and who is going to Hell-Fire merely by listening to a person’s voice:

“By listening to the voice of a person, the Imams can tell if the person was destined to go to hell or to heaven; they would thus answer his questions accordingly.” (Usool Al-Kafi, p. 185)

Hence, the Shia cannot make the claim that the Prophet (صلّى الله عليه وآله وسلّم) did not know the nature of Aisha (رضّى الله عنها) when he married her. If Aisha (رضّى الله عنها) was impure and sinful, then the Prophet (صلّى الله عليه وآله وسلّم) knew it (according to the Shia belief). If the Prophet (صلّى الله عليه وآله وسلّم) then knowingly married an impure and sinful person, then the Prophet (صلّى الله عليه وآله وسلّم) was violating multiple verses in the Quran which forbid this.

There is no way around this for the Shia. The fact of the matter is that the Shia have no way that they can rationalize the manner in which these two Prophets married sinful women. According to the Shia belief, the Prophets knew the character and destination of these women. It is simply an inconsistency in the Shia belief: were not the two Prophets being sinful by intentionally marrying sinful women?

You should refer to the Shiite talmudic scriptures (Al Kafi, Bihar Al Alanwar..etc)

Or refer to the fatwas by Rabbi Khomoaini™ such as necrophilia, sex with animals, sex with infants, shirk, drugs (my favorite)…etc

Why is that which is most apparent, most simple, the most difficult for us to see?
Thank You for answering.
Many Blessings!
You guys are not making this easy for me, LOL!
Not a "wrong" answer in the bunch.
Thank You all for answering.
Many Blessings!

We cannot see the obvious because we spend most of our lives spent caught up with the ego. the ego cannot see what the spirit has to offer because the ego is trained to be the almighty and all knowing one. In order for the ego to see the spirit (which it never will) than the ego must release itself from control and give over to the spirit. From birth and before we are taught the ways of the ego, for many years this continues. Therefore the ego only sees what it wants to see, it has been trained for many years, our entire lives. When we train ourselves to be spirit then we can only begin to see what is so obviously obvious, the most apparent, the most simple.

Is it true that the FULFILLMENT of our hoped-for dreams is the faith that is given us as a gift? The faith itself is the gift that fulfills us. So that proof is not only unnecessary. It is irrelevant.

Faith is believing something is real. I have faith that God is real, and i don’t need proof, although having proof (The Bible) is helpful to me.

If evolution theory is valid, there must be an unseen evolutionary force that somehow influence human development and is present even now ! Believe ?

your misunderstanding of science is profound

I have my mom & some other family members as a friend on FB. I’m in a relationship and I’d like to change my relationship status on my profile w/out making it invisible, but so that the family can’t see it. Is there a way I can do that?

stop being a whore and you have nothing to worry about

For me Goat$e, oh the horror.

my tummy!