Saturday, 24 October 2026

Khalid Safir and I discuss the indistinguishability of stupidity, insanity and evil


1:00  Research on me by Khalid's student
3:00  YouTube is a zoo of mental illness.
4:00  What is stupidity, insanity and evil?
5:00  Aztecs
6:00  Called stupid, mad and bad when we were children
7:00  Jesus and Muhammad were called mad.
8:00  Dismissing without enquiry
9:00  Refusing to engage in an honest and rational discussion
10:00  Truth, Logic and Morality
11:00  The Koran warns against speculation.

Several verses in the Quran warn people against following guessing, speculation, or unverified assumptions (zann):
Surah Al-An'am (6:116)
"And if you obey most of those upon the earth, they will mislead you from the way of Allah. They follow nothing but assumption, and they do nothing but lie [or speculate]." [1]
Surah Yunus (10:36)
"And most of them follow not except assumption. Indeed, assumption avails not against the truth at all. Indeed, Allah is Knowing of what they do." [1]
Surah Yunus (10:66)
“Those who invoke others beside Allah, associating them with Him in His divinity, only follow conjectures and are merely guessing.” [1]
Surah Al-Hujurat (49:12)
"O you who have believed, avoid much [negative] assumption. Indeed, some assumption is sin. And do not spy or backbite each other..." [1]
Surah Al-Isra (17:36)
"And do not pursue that of which you have no knowledge. Indeed, the hearing, the sight, and the heart—about all those [one] will be questioned." [1]
Surah An-Najm (53:23)
"They follow nothing but assumption and what their souls desire, yet there has already come to them guidance from their Lord." [1]

 

12:00  The pain of excommunication and leaving your gorup

13:00  Marriage

14:00  Ahmadi Caliphate met the President of Israel 

15:00  Emphasising with the morally fallen

16:00  Speaking gently and  briefly

17:00  Daniel Haqiqatjou''s imama debate with a Shia.

19:00  Less is more.  

20:00  YouTube algorithms

21:00  Who to socialise with

22:00  Shorts

Nick Land

23:00  Peter Thiel

29:00  Phatic communication

31:00  Rational discussion

32:00  Nathan Ormond

34:00  Astrology

"They call themselves Christian because they were born into it and they're white."

35:00  People who claim to be both Christian and Buddhist

36:00  Taking Christian doctrine seriously

37:00  US citizenship > Christian identity

38:00  Meaning Crisis

39:00  Being well-travelled

40:00  Mental illness and convictions

41:00  The Subtle Art of Not Giving a Fuck by Mark Manson

42:00  Being expected to die for your principles

44:00  Religion and hierarch

45:00  Muslims are not allowed to call any Muslim not a Muslim.

46:00  Wisdom can come from any source.

47:00  Takfir

48:00  Opinions

49:00  Reasoned arguments

50:00  It is always better to know you are low status than not know you are low status. 

51:00  False certainty

52:00  Empathising and steel manning

53::00  Taking someone's point

54:00  When violence breaks out

56:00  Abdul El-Sayed

1:00:00  Cannibal rat

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