Feelings of the word "Allah"

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Feelings of the word "Allah"
OP - April 25, 2011, 11:37 AM

Even today, I seem to able to laugh off the thought of a jinn, yet the word Allah seems to have been driven into my emotions with fear, and as a result I can't as easily make fun of the word.

If I was to say, "Jinns, lol, what a joke!" - I can't as innocently feel that emotion if instead I was to say, "That Allah, what a joke!".

Although I'm fairly easily about to think, "That Mohammed, what a joke!", without too much regret. But Allah still strikes me with some fear. Pretty lame of me right after all these years being an atheist?

I blame the human nature of being emotionally ever so slightly scarred

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Re: Feelings of the word "Allah"
Reply #1 - April 25, 2011, 11:46 AM

Idk how I used to feel about god, didn't think of him that often,

But I'm not weird about Allah now. I told a muslim friend that I would fuck Allah bc he sounded feisty. She said she'd never been more offended. I don't think much of the fictional character

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Re: Feelings of the word "Allah"
Reply #2 - April 25, 2011, 12:26 PM

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Re: Feelings of the word "Allah"
Reply #3 - April 25, 2011, 01:03 PM

Quote from: Ephemeral on April 25, 2011, 11:46 AM
Idk how I used to feel about god, didn't think of him that often,

But I'm not weird about Allah now. I told a muslim friend that I would fuck Allah bc he sounded feisty. She said she'd never been more offended. I don't think much of the fictional character

Does he have tentacles in your mind

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Re: Feelings of the word "Allah"
Reply #4 - April 25, 2011, 01:51 PM

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Re: Feelings of the word "Allah"
Reply #5 - April 25, 2011, 02:11 PM

I feel indifferent regarding the word Allah. He doesn't exist. I guess the childhood indoctrination never really took root in my brain. Perhaps I'm an unemotional, cold fuck.

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Re: Feelings of the word "Allah"
Reply #6 - April 25, 2011, 02:32 PM

Well, it could have that the people around you, and the way they expressed their emotion of Allah. Emotions are contagious right? So I wouldn't think it is too much of a tangent to suggest that emotionally charged ideas/culture/thing can also be contagious to a child's mind.

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Re: Feelings of the word "Allah"
Reply #7 - April 25, 2011, 02:38 PM

Anyone here a Star Trek Voyager fan? Chakotay was brainwashed into hating the Kradin, even when the truth was apparent to him, his emotions were still firmly in tact.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nemesis_(Star_Trek:_Voyager)
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Due to his recent experiences in the Vori simulation, an uncomfortable Chakotay leaves sickbay and privately confers with Captain Janeway about the difficulties in putting aside his hatred for the Kradin

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Re: Feelings of the word "Allah"
Reply #8 - April 25, 2011, 03:49 PM

i for some reason just feel angry. the mass delusion, the centuries of slow progress, the human rights abuses, silly restrictions.

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Reply #9 - April 25, 2011, 03:51 PM

Quote from: HighOctane on April 25, 2011, 02:38 PM
Anyone here a Star Trek Voyager fan? Chakotay was brainwashed into hating the Kradin, even when the truth was apparent to him, his emotions were still firmly in tact.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nemesis_(Star_Trek:_Voyager)

even though i didnt watch star trek i have heard that the show had many anti religion sentiments ?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MsZy8CfE6C0

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Re: Feelings of the word "Allah"
Reply #10 - April 25, 2011, 08:47 PM

I used to feel fear but now I think of it as just another Santa Claus.
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Re: Feelings of the word "Allah"
Reply #11 - April 25, 2011, 09:20 PM

Quote from: canex on April 25, 2011, 03:51 PM
even though i didnt watch star trek i have heard that the show had many anti religion sentiments ?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MsZy8CfE6C0

Awesome! Yeah there's usually loads but I've never seen one quite that obvious.

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Re: Feelings of the word "Allah"
Reply #12 - April 25, 2011, 09:21 PM

Quote from: X-Shia on April 25, 2011, 08:47 PM
I used to feel fear but now I think of it as just another Santa Clause.

That f*ck*ng Allah, what a santa clause!!

See even when I write that I feel guilty.

Stupid irrational mind. >.<

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Re: Feelings of the word "Allah"
Reply #13 - April 25, 2011, 09:55 PM

Quote from: HighOctane on April 25, 2011, 09:21 PM
That f*ck*ng Allah, what a santa claus!!

See even when I write that I feel guilty.

Stupid irrational mind. >.<

lol dude, I meant that I'm just indifferent about allah, he's just a myth, like the bogeyman, santa, easter bunny etc
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Re: Feelings of the word "Allah"
Reply #14 - April 25, 2011, 09:59 PM

The only thoughts and emotions I have when I hear 'allah'
is stupidity and disgust at the hands of it.
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Reply #15 - April 25, 2011, 10:15 PM

Quote from: HighOctane on April 25, 2011, 09:21 PM
That f*ck*ng Allah, what a santa clause!!

See even when I write that I feel guilty.

Stupid irrational mind. >.<

how religious were you before your apostasy HO ?

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Re: Feelings of the word "Allah"
Reply #16 - April 25, 2011, 10:39 PM

Its not the name "Allah" that would scare me or stop me from lik cussing him out, Its the fact that it isn't Allah's fault.
Allah didnt do anything to me, or anyone else, it was Muhammed that made up all that stupid shit.
If Allah existed, I would imagine him how I imagine him- love, peace, forgiveness, strength, etc.
Thats my Allah. The prophet had a sick view of Allah.

Fuck Muhammed, not Allah
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Re: Feelings of the word "Allah"
Reply #17 - April 25, 2011, 10:49 PM

Quote from: canex on April 25, 2011, 10:15 PM
how religious were you before your apostasy HO ?

Oh god - hmm, put it this way, I'd go out of my way to use a room at school for Zurah prayers!
Fairly religious as moderate go then I guess. *cringe*

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Re: Feelings of the word "Allah"
Reply #18 - April 26, 2011, 07:09 PM

Quote from: billy on April 25, 2011, 01:03 PM
Does he have tentacles in your mind

>.< Billy y u gotta bring this shit up

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Re: Feelings of the word "Allah"
Reply #19 - April 26, 2011, 11:25 PM

The word Allah has this tremendous weight to it for the simple reason of repetition I think. Repeat the name “chewbacca” in the context of Chewbacca is all knowing, all wise, all loving, all powerful enough times and the word transcends beyond its semantic nature. It becomes personal in a sense.

Till this day I can feel a connection with the structural language of the Quran. It's like a Bob Dylan song. Change a word from it and it loses its power for some reason.

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Re: Feelings of the word "Allah"
Reply #20 - April 26, 2011, 11:35 PM

The latest and dullest incarnation of God. An infantile stab in the dark, inferior to older traditions, not even worthy of sharing the same shelf as Greek or Egyptian or any classical mythology, which are infinitely more interesting and enchanting.

Too fucking busy, and vice versa.
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