I’ve never heard a person became successful in both fields religion and secular {politico socio economics} in a life span. May Allah bless you all.
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Hz Muhammed (SAV) My prophet. Actually he is prophet of All people but some poeple dont believe him. When baby girls bury, when mans and mans marry together, when codgers dead, when slave traders by and sell slaves he come and change every thing change every world. Hey you, stop then think. He was leader of millions people but he was poor and he worked all time of days. Why ? Because same me and you he is vassal. he didnt agree fortune. He is work only for Allah and peoples.
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I had a professor who did :-)\n\nHe was awesome!\n\nIt's no more silly than people following any of the "popular" religions.
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(tsk, tsk..Linda...) Ahem, compared to people today, pretty much the majority of the founders of this great country, and its greatest universities (all the Ivy League schools started out as Schools of Divinity...more or less), were hard-core christians...so you could could end up founding a great country, and perhaps a great university...Your path of destruction will only provide you with your current level of amusement for a short time longer...and...if you summon demons, fallen angels, then you should be aware that there is a higher being that created them...and I guarantee you there is one... you just need to think things through a little bit more is all....maybe you'll get lucky and life will show you some lessons....life is much too comfortable today...people begin to lack reasons to call on God...but I think that's due for a change...
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I'm with you, my friend!  I tried until I was 40, and gave up!  It is SO FREEING to not have to stand on my head, to do tricks, to jump through religious hoops for someone or something that isn't there anyway!!  It's Father's Day, and my father used to tell me: "Like Mary said to Joseph:  Who needs ya'??!".  I don't need the kind of sadistic God that would let his children suffer the way we have, knowing he could have done A LOT BETTER WITH US!!!  Adam and Eve never spoke for me!!  So, none of it makes ANY sense, and it just KILLS ME when those bible-thumping fanatics start belching passages from a bastardized book written far too long ago to be relevant any more!!  If this is the best that God can do, I AM NOT IMPRESSED!!  (Thanks, George Carlin for that line!).  \n\nAnd thank you for a totally relevant question!!
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undoubtedly true.  though widely considered to be one of this centuries' great business strategists, i.e., experts (at least as measured empirically through shareholder returns), bill gates never graduated college.  there are countless examples of similar success stories, regardless of discipline, where the person in question didn't complete a formal education but went on to become an expert in their field.
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Little knowledge is dangerous. You are its best example. You have no shame to take an Id by a Hindu God and then condemn and ridicule your own Gods. It is better to be a good Muslim than to be a bad Hindu in Hindustan.
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I asked too, and was told he has always been present, which scares me and answer a lot of questions.  I guess he was around forever.  He was the one who created everything like, dinosaurs, etc. So I guess he got better along the way and created man and we have been here every since.  WOW!  I never thought of it that way.  Still confused, I am on a mission know.  To be honest I don't think we are going to get a straight answer because that will prove the true existence and challenge everything that we believe.  Imagine what would become of the world if we found out this was all a farce to keep most of us straight.  It is because of religion that we are doing okay today, of course man has rules. laws, and regulations for the ones who are non-believer's and the slackers. That would open up another Pandora's Box.  WOW!
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welcome to the club sister.  I don't think you have a problem at all.  I think that you are a free thinking and open minded person.  It's when you feel that pressure to conform and be like everyone else and resist it, that you truly begin to gain a greater perspective of reality.  I suggest you read "the herd" chapter from Nietzsche's "Beyond Good and Evil".  This is the book in which the phrase was coined "God is dead".  Don't let that scare you.  What I think he really meant to teach was that organized religion and the God they invent is dead.  He challenges you, in the chapter entitled "the herd", to ask yourself if all these things that people are telling you that "God" has said are indeed from "God".  Or, are they something made up by leaders of church to influence the masses opinions to get a desired social result.  That result is control.  Don't let anyone but God control you.  He wouldn't force control on you.  He doesn't want to control you.  He offers suggestions and you choose freely.  To me though, all this damnation and hellfire are not products of Christ at all.  Christ is like the sweetest friend I have ever had.  I don't live right at all.  I have done bad things in my life.  Yet, he has never left me.  People, on the other hand, have behaved terribly...  and for that matter... so have I at times.  I decided that I would not be controlled by "the herd" either.  People will accuse you of rebellion.  Rebellion it may be, but against whom?  God?  I don't think so...  The "herd", definitely.  I had to separate myself from them, and while it is lonesome at times, it is at least free.  Knowing God should never feel like being in a social or political prison in which you are interrogated and punished.  They're like religious nazis and they have confused social control with God.  Welcome to freedom sister.  You may find groups that you "fit" with...  I never did.  This is the tragedy of the genuine individual.  Perhaps you should start your own "group" on yahoo groups.  If you do, let me know, and I will join.  This topic is certainly worthy of discussion.  Don't feel like you are alone.  There are many, many, people who have went through this...
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I've never quote thought of it the way you just stated, but I myself have decided to cut out the middle management and talk to the boss himself. Like the middle man in sales, I buy direct and avoid other's profit$, (prophets?) I don't make a point a claiming to have any great revelations for the world, in fact, I make a point not to, as I know most people would have about the same interest in my divine revelations as I have in their's, not to mention being considered a nutjob. Why don't some of the bigmouths today such as Pat Robertson realize how they must look to the world? I don't even take much stock in what the prophets of old of any religion ever had to say about the almighty ultimate power of the universe. Some people might say things about the problem of having every ding-a-ling on the planet running around touting  his own brand of theology, but that doesn't seem like it would be a problem if that's how the master of the universe wanted to disclose himself to the world. To me, it's all about controlling other people with fear and superstition while gaining prestige and nothing more. God's judgement sounds to me like just another way of saying "You just wait until your father gets home." Well, my father has an open-door policy and allows me to communicate with him about whatever is on my mind without having to go through the middle man.  - 'nuf said!
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I was a student at King's College, London, many years ago. Probably there is not much difference, but they are possibly more disciplinarian? Of course students are always 'lively people' the World over.There is not so much emphasis on success-certainly there is much hard studying involved. The ethnic makeup of the British population has changed much over the years.
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I'd like to say some people are just born leaders, but environment can't be denied.  You wonder why there are so many children of politicians/leaders who become leaders also.  Or why children of successful people, e.g. doctors, lawyers, etc., are also successful.  I believe people should be taught, or need to learn, the importance of education, of service, of law.   It's not necessarily the subject they learn, but the process of learning.  If you learn the skills of learning, or the skills and importance of service, you will generally seek greater/more learning and will seek to make a different in your community.
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Since it seems you want to be so logical about this stuff, I'll offer you a few more concepts.\n\nLet's really look at this...\n1. Through out mankind all successful societies have had some type of state-religion. Only when the individual is exaulted, with all it's lusts, does a country actually fail.\n\n2. Hitler is a pretty good example of what happens when you mix 'new' science and politics. Hitler wanted to place his "master" race in dominion over and above all the other races. He recognized evolution as 'fact' and took it the next logical step, diminish inferior races and promote the master race. Since he really had no god,  -the he himself was god. Choose whom to kill.\n\n3. Mankind has an innate desire to have a relationship with his creator. You can preach materialism, individualism, or any other "ism" that you want, - but in the end, normal healthy individual know that their life matters and that there's significance to their existence.\n\nWhen / if the world does get rid of the traditional religions that promote the highest ideals of humanity, -then you better replace it with something better, AND QUICK. The great sucking sound will be the void that's been created in individual's lives, and the money 'not being wasted', won't be used for shopping at the mall or going to the beach.
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Unfortunately the story is mentioned in Islamic history. This is the problem when faith gets mixed with politics. Assissanation and killing opponents is very common among politicians, but it was not supposed to be for a prophet.
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both r developing contries.......both has enormous potential in the realm of energy.it's high time to put aside the differences and get moving.........
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Don't waste your valuable life on such nonsense. Be a productive citizen and study Buddhism or Spiritualism or something.
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Living in an extremely religious country I'm afraid I have to agree with you. \nThe most educated and knowledgeable people I know are atheists, agnostics, secular humanists.\nI don't think it's a coincidence.
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No one can know the mind of God, because I don’t think anything written in ANY religious book is from a divine source, it’s from people who were trying to control the status quo in whatever time it was written.  It had more to do with politics than it did worship.