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  • Hello everyone else
     Reply #30 - February 12, 2013, 02:52 AM
    and is that rum str* up...or rum and coke?  inquiring minds wanna know
    Do not go gentle into that good night.
    Rage, rage against the dying of the light.
  • Hello everyone else
     Reply #31 - February 12, 2013, 02:55 AM
    Quote from: tabularasa on February 12, 2013, 02:52 AM
    oh, I should have warned you to swallow all liquids first.  sorry sweetie.  whoopsie!

    That's good advice for at least half the threads on this site. When in doubt, swallow drink before reading.
    Devious, treacherous, murderous, neanderthal, sub-human of the West. bunny
  • Hello everyone else
     Reply #32 - February 12, 2013, 03:10 AM
    It's Mount Gay Extra Old on the rocks.......  dance

    It's finished, so am having have a hot chocolate with Disarrono instead. I am supposed to writing up notes for uni, it's 3am, but instead I'm going to re-read those surahs!

  • Hello everyone else
     Reply #33 - February 12, 2013, 03:15 AM
    Ooooooooo. Hadn't heard of Disarrono before. Sounds really good. dance
    Devious, treacherous, murderous, neanderthal, sub-human of the West. bunny
  • Hello everyone else
     Reply #34 - February 12, 2013, 03:22 AM
    It's sinfully delicious

    Like lots of things

    An advantage to be an ex-Muslim is that everything that I was brought up to believe was haram is EXTRA enjoyable & satisfying.

    Does everyone get that too?
  • Hello everyone else
     Reply #35 - February 12, 2013, 03:28 AM
    Ha!  well I wasn't brought up in Islam...I made the mistake of CHOOSING it out of my own free will and volition.  So I had full knowledge of what all those pleasures actually felt like, all whilst trying to act like a  Nun for 17 years.

    Do not go gentle into that good night.
    Rage, rage against the dying of the light.
  • Hello everyone else
     Reply #36 - February 12, 2013, 03:29 AM
    needless to say...the "pleasure principle" finally won out...
    Do not go gentle into that good night.
    Rage, rage against the dying of the light.
  • Hello everyone else
     Reply #37 - February 12, 2013, 03:31 AM
    Did you have a huge party to celebrate the end of those 17 years?
  • Hello everyone else
     Reply #38 - February 12, 2013, 03:37 AM
    heh heh heh..... Insert evil laugh

     whistling2

    it was kinda like this:

     Punk

    and this:

     sloshed
    Do not go gentle into that good night.
    Rage, rage against the dying of the light.
  • Hello everyone else
     Reply #39 - February 12, 2013, 03:43 AM
    Good on you!

    Have only just rediscovered the joys of living after leaving a long marriage. Had forgotten what freedom tasted like.

    It's all been a bit Fear & Loathing in Las Vegas Smiley

    Oh it's fun to rediscover fun dance bunny
  • Hello everyone else
     Reply #40 - February 12, 2013, 03:53 AM
    Welcome Amsterdamned Smiley Glad you joined up here (we were talking on Twitter, it's run by a few different forum mods).

    Quote from: Amsterdamned on February 12, 2013, 03:22 AM
    An advantage to be an ex-Muslim is that everything that I was brought up to believe was haram is EXTRA enjoyable & satisfying.

    Does everyone get that too?


    I've been an Ex-Muslim for about 15 years now (though I really only called myself that a few years ago). But I STILL get this feeling every so often. At first it was definitely a huge rush, to feel the freedom to eat, drink, go dancing, dress in whatever, wherever I wanted to. Now, I'm a lot more used to it, and I don't live with my Muslim relatives. So it's sometimes easy to forget what I escaped. All it takes is a small reminder, a visit from a family member, a trip to a mosque like I did a couple of years ago just to show my friend around, to remind me of how it used to feel being a Muslim woman. And yes! Then everything tastes sweeter again, knowing how incredibly against the odds my life is.

    Really happy to see you here and hope you stay and get more involved in all the different kinds of threads that go on here.
    "Blessed are they who can laugh at themselves, for they shall never cease to be amused."
  • Hello everyone else
     Reply #41 - February 12, 2013, 06:16 AM
     parrot

    Terrifying news item on BBC yesterday about sexual attacks on women in Egypt, and that they might be being co-ordinated by Islamicists.

    That is of course a classic tactic, similar stuff used by Nazi Germany.
    When you are a Bear of Very Little Brain, and you Think of Things, you find sometimes that a Thing which seemed very Thingish inside you is quite different when it gets out into the open and has other people looking at it.


    A.A. Milne,

    "We cannot slaughter each other out of the human impasse"
  • Hello everyone else
     Reply #42 - February 12, 2013, 12:57 PM
    Quote from: allat on February 12, 2013, 03:53 AM
    Welcome Amsterdamned Smiley Glad you joined up here (we were talking on Twitter, it's run by a few different forum mods).

    So it's sometimes easy to forget what I escaped. All it takes is a small reminder, a visit from a family member, a trip to a mosque like I did a couple of years ago just to show my friend around, to remind me of how it used to feel being a Muslim woman. And yes! Then everything tastes sweeter again, knowing how incredibly against the odds my life is.

    Really happy to see you here and hope you stay and get more involved in all the different kinds of threads that go on here.


    I know precisely what you mean. It's those little moments & little reminders that perhaps the happiest of my life, that remind me that life is for living
  • Hello everyone else
     Reply #43 - February 12, 2013, 01:05 PM
     signwelcome

    Quote
    An advantage to be an ex-Muslim is that everything that I was brought up to believe was haram is EXTRA enjoyable & satisfying.


    Yep! Love the no hijab feeling - don't matter how overrated it sounds. Hair blowing in the wind - awseommmmme bunny
    Quote from: ZooBear 

    • Surah Al-Fil: In an epic game of Angry Birds, Allah uses birds (that drop pebbles) to destroy an army riding elephants whose intentions were to destroy the Kaaba. No one has beaten the high score.

  • Hello everyone else
     Reply #44 - February 12, 2013, 01:07 PM
    Quote from: moi on February 12, 2013, 06:16 AM
    parrot

    Terrifying news item on BBC yesterday about sexual attacks on women in Egypt, and that they might be being co-ordinated by Islamicists.

    That is of course a classic tactic, similar stuff used by Nazi Germany.


    Sadly, sexual violence against women is a common part of aggression in most wars - recently, think Libya, Syria, Ivory Coast, Rwanda, Mali, lots of women in lots of places, it isn't just Egypt, but we have it very bad right now.

    Having said that (it's so nice to feel free to say what I think). In my opinion, Egypt is the WORST place in the world for endemic sexual harrassment & violence & I've lived in 3 middle eastern countries, been backpacking on my own round SE Asia, been drunk & lost in Mexico City on my own in the early hours of the morning. This is a deep seated problem & I've been complaining about it for years, only to be called a traitor/drama queen/tart etc. Am so pleased it's now a big out in the open problem, but I think it's a deep seated social problem that can't solely be put down to the Brotherhood, they're just keeping a tradition alive & perpetuating it. Even before they were in power, I've felt more unsafe in Egypt, from a sexual harrassment perspective than anywhere else, which makes me furious!

    Also, am not so happy about the rape culture in existence everywhere else for that matter. Sometimes I find it difficult to believe we are in supposed modernity, with the medieval attitudes to women that still permeate global society. I mean, WTF, man... Grrrr.........
  • Hello everyone else
     Reply #45 - February 12, 2013, 01:11 PM
    Quote from: Jila on February 12, 2013, 01:05 PM
    signwelcome

    Yep! Love the no hijab feeling - don't matter how overrated it sounds. Hair blowing in the wind - awseommmmme bunny


    Feeling a warm breeze on my skin... what a joy (although it's been a couple of months since I've seen the sun).

    About 7 years ago,  I was in a charity naked calendar (was still too scared to put my face in though). Now, THAT was a liberating feeling. I have a thing about being in the nude.

    Last year, I did half a Britney, as well, I shaved half my head, that was a strange & beautiful thing. It is difficult to put into words, but I really reconnected with humanity as a simple human with other human animals - wonderful. Think I'd always felt a little uncomfortable in my body until then. Not in a not-confident way, but in a slightly alienated from myself kind of way, like my body wasn't my property, yet alone my home..
  • Hello everyone else
     Reply #46 - February 12, 2013, 11:24 PM
    Sorry for my delay in respone(I only get the odd chance to post) and thanks for your detailed response regarding the Egyptian political situation. It's fairly awful what's going on there. I wonder is it a similar situation to what's going on in Tunisia and even Malaysia to a lesser extent?
    First of all you get a gradual or rapid rise of Islam introduced by the respective governments. Followed by the usual short commings and broken promises by the politicans in power. Add to this the people now being told that they shouldn't eat, wear, listen to that, they must do this or the punishment will be such and such. It's no wonder sizeable segments of the population become disillusioned by it all and begin protesting. Tell me if I'm compeletely wrong on all this?
    As for these organised gang rapes, it's compeletly sickening to any decent human being. Is this organised by any particular group or is it just random opportunistic gangs of men. Is it unfair to blame the Salafist for this even if they are completely, unreasonable, irrational, crazy/scary? I find it quite ironic(or maybe not) that some of . . .tbc
  • Hello everyone else
     Reply #47 - February 12, 2013, 11:29 PM
    The most sexually repressive countries have higher rape statistics compared to the more liberal ones(Feel free to correct me if I'm wrong on this anyone).
    Any thoughts on all this?
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