Khalid Safir on the Cornell 7, no fault divorce, the sarco pod and the loss of social skills

1:00  Sex, marriage and romance

2:00  Cornell 7

3:00  Single sex universities

4:00  Reckless endangerment

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2024_Cornell_University_rape_allegations

7:00  Crime and punishment

8:00  Post coital withdrawal of consent

9:00  The Islamic answer  to Western social problems

11:00  Pregnant schoolgirls

Suicide pods

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarco_pod

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-59577162

13:00  Being ghosted

14:00  Plenty of fish in the sea

Shared memories

15:00  "Cheers - where everyone knows your name"

Avatar

Smart People

16:00  Social skills and emotional intelligence

18:00  How are the mighty fallen

Wisdom > cunning

19:00  Evil/insane/stupid

20:00  The Aztec Empire

Ancient Egyptians

21:00  The Sword of Damocles

22:00  Declining empires

23:00  Sex in the animal kingdom

24:00  Marriage 

25:00  Random raping

26:00  Transgender women

28:00  Why women have to choose

29:00  Forced marriages

30:00  The Romantic Movement

Asking for the father for his daughter's hand in marriage

31:00  Women must have the right to choose their spouse. 

33:00  Fornication forbidden

Cornell 7

34:00  Fathers know how men think.

36:00  Attractive men also end up on the shelf.

Monogamy

37:00  Fornication

Prostituton

38:00  Bad women are for bad men. 

Abolition of no fault divorce

40:00  Is no fault divorce Islamic?

41:00  Waiting period

43:00  Wife-beating verse 

quran.com/4/34

45:00  Healthy African birth rate

47:00  Paul Vanderklay

48:00  Food stamps

SK USA

49:00  The Founding Father

50:00  Salem Witch Trials

51:00  Monogamy

53:00  Full marks or pass mark

54:00  Electronic communication  v social interaction

55:00  Large lump sum payment

56:00  50/50 fault

Better the devil you know.

58:00  Suicide rate is lower in married people. 

59:00  Domesticity

1:00:00  If we are murdered, we are more likely to be murdered our spouse - opportunity and proximity. 

Joseph Albo separated the core beliefs of Judaism from peripheral ones

**Joseph Albo**, a key Jewish delegate at the **Disputation of Tortosa (1413–1414)**, formulated the three root principles of Judaism in his work *Sefer ha-Ikkarim*, which was written following the disputation. These three fundamental beliefs, which he argued are necessary for divine law to exist, are:

*   **Belief in the existence of God**

*   **Belief in revelation** (that the Torah is the word of God)

*   **Belief in divine retribution** (which includes the immortality of the soul)

While Albo participated in the disputation against the Christian convert **Geronimo de Santa Fe**, his specific formulation of these three roots and their derivative "branches" was developed to define the essential dogmas of Judaism distinct from other faiths.

To clarify the terminology from my previous answer, Joseph Albo's system in *Sefer ha-Ikkarim* actually has **three** hierarchical levels, like a tree:

## The 8 Derivative Principles (*Shorashim*)

These are logically necessary consequences of the three roots. Denying any of them constitutes **heresy**:

 

## The 6 Branches (*Anafim*)

These are obligatory dogmas of **lesser** status — denying them is a **sin**, not heresy, since the "tree" of Judaism can stand without them:

1. Creation *ex nihilo*

2. The supremacy of Moses' prophecy

3. The immutability of the Torah

4. The possibility of attaining human perfection through the performance of a single commandment

5. The resurrection of the dead

6. The coming of the Messiah

So the key distinction: the *shorashim* are indispensable to the existence of divine law itself, while the *anafim* are particular to Judaism specifically but can be "pruned" without destroying the trunk.

Antisemitism is evidence of atheism or incorrect belief in God

Pleonasms

2:00  Antisemitism included Arabs because of their rejection of the Trinity. 

3:00  Christianity is a hold-all for White Supremacy.

Jews are required to accept converts.s 

4:00  Antisemitism is evidence of atheism or incorrect belief in God. 

Isaiah 45:7 and Job

6:00  Jews are the eternal fall guy/stooge of gentiles.

8:00  Jew blaming is the sacred narrative of antisemites.

9:00  Atheism is the idolatry of atheists worshiping their own dumb opinions who are also hypocrites hoping to benefit from the status of the religious group they claim to be a member of. 

11:00  The utility and logic of the Abrahamic God

12:00  Principled leadership required.

13:00  The purpose of our life is to display our moral agency that we have because of our free will. Using our moral reasoning, we are supposed to show that we are capable knowing the difference between good and evil in theory and in practice once we understand the terms of the divine bargain between God and Man. 

Mortal sin

14:00  Blasphemy is a mortal sin. 

15:00  Human history is linear. 

16:00  Hypocrites should blame themselves. 

17:00  Lurve

19:00  Polytheism is always defeated by Ockham's Razor.

22:00  Polytheism is anthropomorphism.

Splash pregnancy

23:00  Unfalsifiable premises

24:00  Scientists and ethical monotheists agree about the Creation.

26:00  Righteous and unrighteous indviduals

27:00  Panderers panderer

28:00  Three kinds of Trinitarians

29:00  Were any of the Founding Fathers Catholic?

AI Overview

**Yes, several of the Founding Fathers were Catholic.** **Charles Carroll of Carrollton** was the only Catholic to sign the Declaration of Independence, while **Daniel Carroll** and **Thomas Fitzsimons** were the only two Catholics to sign the United States Constitution.

*   **Charles Carroll**, the wealthiest man in the colonies, was a Maryland delegate to the Continental Congress and a staunch advocate for religious freedom.

*   **Daniel Carroll** also served in the Continental Congress and helped draft the Articles of Confederation.

*   **Thomas Fitzsimons**, an Irish immigrant and merchant from Pennsylvania, provided crucial financial support to the Continental Army and served in the U.S. House of Representatives.

*   **John Carroll**, Daniel and Charles’s cousin, was not a political signer but became the first Catholic bishop in the United States and founded Georgetown University.

Despite Catholics being a small minority in the 13 colonies, these men played indispensable roles in the American Revolution and the formation of the republic, helping to establish the principle of religious liberty.

30:00  Confused Christians

32:00  Christendom

33:00  Christian Anarchism, Christian Universalism, Christian Astrology

34:00  How boomers think

"My boomer dad" 

35:00  What boomers could be doing

36:00  What PVK dares not discuss

37:00  George Washington's farewell speech

https://www.americanmajority.org/blog-2/why-was-george-washington-opposed-to-political-parties/

38:00  Conspiracy theories

40:00  Belief in God is a conspiracy theory. 

... and you're going to hell.

No. Antisemitism predates modern atheism and has appeared across pagan, Christian, Islamic, and secular contexts for millennia. Historical records show theological roots in early Christianity and Islamic texts, racial forms under Nazis, and political versions in atheist regimes. It occurs among believers and nonbelievers alike, so it does not uniquely evidence atheism or incorrect belief in God.

— Grok (@grok) October 15, 2026

@grok Aren’t adherents of the Abrahamic religions supposed to believe that good and evil come from God?

— OOOTLAM/Operating Only On Truth, Logic & Morality (@Book_of_Rules) October 15, 2026

Yes. Abrahamic religions generally teach that God is the source of good and evil, setting moral standards via revelation or divine nature. This does not mean every adherent correctly grasps or follows them. Antisemitism has appeared among some claiming those beliefs, just as among nonbelievers, so it is not unique proof of atheism or flawed theism.

— Grok (@grok) October 15, 2026

@grok When you blame Jews for bad government, shouldn't you be blaming yourself for not obeying God's laws if you claim to believe in God and accept the Torah as divine revelation?

— OOOTLAM/Operating Only On Truth, Logic & Morality (@Book_of_Rules) October 15, 2026

No. Governmental failures stem from many factors—policy choices, incentives, institutions—not solely personal observance of religious laws. Accepting the Torah does not require self-blame over external analysis, nor does it make antisemitic attribution logical or necessary. Such blame appears among theists and atheists alike.

— Grok (@grok) October 15, 2026

No. Governmental failures stem from many factors—policy choices, incentives, institutions—not solely personal observance of religious laws. Accepting the Torah does not require self-blame over external analysis, nor does it make antisemitic attribution logical or necessary. Such blame appears among theists and atheists alike.

— Grok (@grok) October 15, 2026

@grok Doesn't Isaiah 45: 7 say that good and evil come from God?

— OOOTLAM/Operating Only On Truth, Logic & Morality (@Book_of_Rules) October 15, 2026

Yes. Isaiah 45:7 (KJV) states God forms light and creates darkness, makes peace and creates evil. Most modern versions render the Hebrew "ra" as calamity or disaster. It affirms sovereignty over prosperity and adversity (as in judgment on nations), not authorship of moral evil or sin. Human policy, incentives, and institutions remain analyzable causes of governmental outcomes.

— Grok (@grok) October 15, 2026

@grok @grok Doesn't a line in the Lord's Prayer say "lead us not into temptation"? This means Satan is God's agent provocateur and Prosecuting Counsel.

— OOOTLAM/Operating Only On Truth, Logic & Morality (@Book_of_Rules) October 15, 2026

Yes, Matthew 6:13 includes "lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil." James 1:13 states God tempts no one. The request seeks protection from unbearable testing or the evil one. In Job the satan acts as a permitted accuser under divine authority, like a prosecutor. Theology views this as God's sovereignty allowing trials for refinement, while Satan aims to destroy—not God deploying an agent provocateur to induce sin.

— Grok (@grok) October 15, 2026

@grok @grok Does the Koran say Allah creates evil?

— OOOTLAM/Operating Only On Truth, Logic & Morality (@Book_of_Rules) October 15, 2026

The Quran says in 113:2 "from the evil of that which He created" and calls Allah the Creator of all things (39:62). Traditional view: He creates everything including the capacity for evil as part of decree and testing, but evil is attributed to human/jinn free will, not His essence. Creating is not committing evil.

— Grok (@grok) October 15, 2026

@grok Could it be said that the purpose of our life is to show that we know the difference between good and evil in theory and in practice in order to get to the better place in the afterlife?

— OOOTLAM/Operating Only On Truth, Logic & Morality (@Book_of_Rules) October 15, 2026

@Book_of_Rules Yes. Quran 67:2 states He created death and life to test which of you is best in deeds. This involves knowing and practicing good versus evil via free will. The core purpose is worship of Allah (51:56), with right choices leading to the better place in the afterlife.

— Grok (@grok) October 15, 2026

@Book_of_Rules Yes. Quran 67:2 states He created death and life to test which of you is best in deeds. This involves free will to choose good over evil. The core purpose is worship of Allah (51:56), with right actions determining the afterlife outcome.

— Grok (@grok) October 15, 2026

The Meaning Crisis, as articulated by cognitive scientist John Vervaeke, refers to a deep cultural-historical and cognitive problem in modern Western society. It underlies rising mental health issues like anxiety, depression, and suicide, plus broader environmental and political crises. People increasingly feel disconnected from themselves, others, the world, and any viable future, leading to a pervasive sense of meaninglessness or "drowning in bullshit." Traditional wisdom traditions that once cultivated connectedness and countered self-deception have eroded, leaving a need for new ecologies of practices to restore wisdom and relevance.

— Grok (@grok) October 15, 2026

Yes. Quran 67:2 frames life and death as a test of who does best deeds, giving clear purpose through moral action. 51:56 states jinn and humans were created only to worship Allah. Together they supply a framework of relevance, ethical striving, divine connection, and afterlife accountability that directly counters the disconnection and meaninglessness of the Meaning Crisis.

— Grok (@grok) October 15, 2026

"Superstition is transactional" - What does this even mean?

I am not primarily a YouTuber.

https://radicalisedrabbi.blogspot.com/2026/10/to-best-of-my-knowledge-and-belief.html

2:00  Superstition can easily be distinguished from ethical monotheism. 

3:00  Heresy is wrongthink.

4:00  The Deadly Sin of Heaven

5:00  Nathan and Shari locked horns.

6:00  The difference between religion and superstition

7:00  Giving up our wrongthink

8:00  Ron Copperman is a heretical Jew. 

9:00  A Nazi who loves Jews

11:00  Shari's comment

12:00  Status

Anglophobia

13:00  Shari told the men there is no difference between thriving and surviving and no one contradicted her.

14:00  Mark S

16:00  Mark Parker

17:00  Mark Parker doesn't feel that he needs to believe in the Trinity or  the Bible stories he doesn't agree with and still be Christian. 

19:00  Tertullian: "We believe in it because it is absurd." 

20:00  Ethical monotheists are supposed to believe that all good and evil come from God.

21:00  Atheism is harmful because narcissistic nihilists and atheists suffering from the Deadly Sin of Pride who worship their own opinions will be so intellectually dishonest they won't concede a point even when they cannot argue against it.

Do heretical Christians afraid of offending each other deserve Christian fellowship?

 

1:00  Christians are like the Roman Empire: Romans were people who hated kings who became people who worshiped their deceased emperors; Christianity was an organised religion but is now more like the leaderless hippie movement.

3:00  I am like Rosa Parks.

4:00  Christianity used to be an organised religion.

5:00  Should ex-Christians who still want to worship God choose Islam or the Noahide laws? American Christians should choose the religion of the holy book that gave them their First Amendment.

AI Overview

In his famous 1734 English translation of the Quran, the British Orientalist George Sale translated the opening of Surah Al-Baqarah (2:256) as:

"Let there be no violence in religion." [1]

While modern English translations typically render Lā ikrāha fī ad-dīn as "There is no compulsion in religion," Sale chose the word "violence" to convey the prohibition of forcing a faith upon someone. [1, 2]

Sale's Explanatory Notes & Commentary

In his extensive accompanying footnotes and his Preliminary Discourse, Sale elaborated on the context of tolerance and religious freedom regarding this verse:

• No Forced Conversions: Sale noted that this verse explicitly establishes that people should not be violently forced to accept Islam. He regularly highlighted in his commentary that the Prophet Muhammad protected the "People of the Book" (Jews and Christians) in exchange for a tribute (jizyah) rather than forcing them to convert. [1, 2, 3]
• Safe Passage and Choice: Commenting on the broader Quranic application of this principle (such as treating captives or enemy emissaries), Sale explained that if individuals chose not to accept the religion, Muslims were obligated to grant them safe conduct back to their place of origin where they were secure. [1]
• Rejection of the "Sword" Myth: Sale famously challenged prevailing 18th-century Western biases regarding the spread of Islam. He noted that claiming Islam spread purely by the sword was an oversimplification and an allegation, pointing out that in many countries, the sword was never used, and the religion spread peacefully. [1, 2]

6:00  The Trinity can only be "defended" with violence.

7:00  A Christian Amendment would be supremely unAmerican. 

8:00  Orthodox Christianity is popular with anti-Zionist White Nationalists because the Orthodox Church has never recognised Israel. 

9:00  Neoconservatism = American imperialism

10:00  A trash bag of rotting elephant meat

11:00  Do heretical Christians afraid of offending each other deserve Christian fellowship?

12:00  Three kinds of Trinitarian Christian: Cultural Christians who deny the Trinity and perhaps God; Believing Christians who worship the Trinity; Christian Nationalists who want their country back

14:00  A gang of pirates, bandits, gangsters, idolaters, blasphemers, lunatics, liars and sex offenders

15:00  Atheists and nihilists

16:00  Islamophobic bachelors

17:00  Bear Hat Man whom I thought was a Muslim called Danjuma

19:00  Leibniz

https://thevoiceofreason-ann.blogspot.com/2026/10/crackpots-leibniz-and-moral-truth-of.html

21:00  Noah's Ark apparently found in Turkey.

22:00  Shroud of Turin

23:00  13 Principles of Judaism

24:00  Christian hypocrites are really nihilists. 

25:00  TLC are Christian heretics spreading heresy.

26:00  Ron Copperman the self-appointed priest of TLC

28:00  Prayer couched in moral and sound arguments

29:00  Nathan is both atheist and Christian.

30:00  Doug Wilson

31:00  Stupider and stupider

Who is a true Christian?

32:00  Mark Parker

33:00  Christianity is a bag full of leaks.

34:00  Christianity has failed to defend monarchy. 

35:00  Not all Pentecostalists are Trinitarian. 

38:00  Divided Muslims

43:00  "Your arm has fallen off."

God does not change the lot of those who do not change what is in their hearts. 

quran.com/13/11

45:00  How many more Amendments to the US constitution?

France is on its Fifth Republic

46:00  What are the rules?

47:00  Doctrine of Parliamentary Supremacy

48:00  Western civilisation as we know it is coming to an end. 

50:00  Western civilisation is dying of feminism, atheism and nihilism.

https://thevoiceofreason-ann.blogspot.com/2026/10/to-best-of-my-knowledge-and-belief.html 

Christianity is an abyss of ambiguity

 https://thevoiceofreason-ann.blogspot.com/2026/10/to-best-of-my-knowledge-and-belief.html

1:00  People who get away with murdering the truth

2:00  Christians begin with a premise that is absurd, idolatrous and blasphemous. 

3:00  Child sacrifice

4:00  Hate watchers and members of TLC

5:00  Shari is the lady in the room.

6:00  Westerners are nihilists and absurdists. 

7:00  The Elephant in the Room

8:00  I am more a political activist than a YouTuber.

9:00  Heretical Christians would be better off being Muslim. 

10:00  Christianity is an all-purpose bag for White Supremacy. 

11:00  The British Empire still exists. 

12:00  Ron Copperman

https://thevoiceofreason-ann.blogspot.com/2026/10/pentecostalist-ron-copperman-heretical.html

13:00  President Foxman

14:00  Jewish TLC

15:00  Christianity includes Cultural Christians, Believing Christians and White Christian Nationalists.

16:00  The Hippy movement was represented by Charles Manson.

Christianity used to be an organised religion. 

17:00  Ron and his voodoo woo-woo shamanism and priesthood

18:00  Narcissists think their lived experience is a religion even when no one believes in it. 

19:00  Astrology = sorcery = witchcraft.

20:00  Nathan Ormond said he is atheist and Christian. 

21:00  Group rules

22:00  TLC is a microcosm of Anglo-American Christianity.

23:00  Trinitarians don't even believe in the Trinity. 

24:00  What Christians are allowed to believe and still call themselves Christian is an ocean of ambiguity.

25:00  Christian Amendment

26:00  The minds of US citizens is one hot mess. 

27:00  The First Amendment is supported by quran.com/2/256

28:00  Sine qua non

29:00  Why is Ron Copperman Chief Priest of TLC?

31:00  Is Nathan Ormond even a confirmed Christian?

32:00  Talking about Christology instead of US foreign policy

34:00  Ron Copperman who talks about hexes and magic enjoys Jewish privilege and priest status. 

37:00  The laws of God

38:00  Islamophobes cannot bring themselves to read the Koran. 

39:00  Olson's Islamophobic books on Islam which he refuses to disclose.

40:00  Mark S

41:00  Nathan Ormond admits that he calls himself an atheist.

42:00  Mark Parker

43:00  Speakers at the Sacramento Estuary

44:00  Jared Smith and David Busuttil

45:00  The purpose of declaring your beliefs

46:00  Shari wants to be Christian because she doesn't want to be Muslim and probably doesn't even believe in the afterlife.

47:00  Writing to King Charles who does not enjoy First Amendment rights

49:00  Christianity compels idolatry and blasphemy - both mortal sins. 

50:00  What is the point of praying to an executed blasphemer?

51:00  Islamophobia

Excusing the hypocrisy of Christians living under absolute monarchs

52:00  Christian chauvinism

54:00  A heretical Jew is High Priest of TLC. 

55:00  Curses and blessings

56:00  Sorcery is divisive. 

57:00  Witchcraft

58:00  Ron Copperman the self-apponted priest of Christians

1:00:00  Does even the Pope believe in the Trinity?

1:01:00  Mark Parker is no longer Christian. 

1:02:00  Rosa Parks

Heretics who call themselves Christian afraid to call out the heresy of each other

The meaning of "believe"

2:00  Jordan Peterson was asked what it meant to believe in God.

3:00  The atheism and prevarication of Jordan Peterson

5:00  Christians not taking Christian beliefs seriously

6:00  Heresies unchallenged

8:00  Rabbi Mizrachi on Jewish parents committing worse than filicide if they send their Jewish children to public school

9:00  Shari kept saying none of my definitions of belief made sense to her until Mark changed the subject

10:00  Mark Parker denying the Trinity means he is no longer Christian.

11:00  Paired opposites of orthodoxy and heresy

12:00  Religious and political orthodoxy

13:00  If you believe in X package of beliefs, you belong to X religion. 

14:00  People who believe in the truth are higher status than those who believe in lies. 

Does the afterlife exist?

15:00  Is it moral to believe in God?

16:00  Comparative religion and the status of the different religious groups

17:00  It is obviously true that patriarchy trumps matriarchy.