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Yes, lets imagine a world WITHOUT MUSLIMS, shall we?
Without Muslims you wouldn’t have:
- Coffee
Cameras
Experimental Physics
Chess
Soap
Shampoo
Perfume/spirits
Irrigation
Crank-shaft, internal combustion engine, valves, pistons
Combination locks
Architectural innovation (pointed arch -European Gothic cathedrals adopted this technique as it made the building much stronger, rose windows, dome buildings, round towers, etc.)
Surgical instruments
Anesthesia
Windmill
Treatment of Cowpox
Fountain pen
Numbering system
Algebra/Trigonometry
Modern Cryptology
3 course meal (soup, meat/fish, fruit/nuts)
Crystal glasses
Carpets
Checks
Gardens used for beauty and meditation instead of for herbs and kitchen.
- University
- Optics
- Music
- Toothbrush
- Hospitals
- Bathing
- Quilting
- Mariner’s Compass
- Soft drinks
- Pendulum
- Braille
- Cosmetics
- Plastic surgery
- Calligraphy
- Manufacturing of paper and cloth
It was a Muslim who realized that light ENTERS our eyes, unlike the Greeks who thought we EMITTED rays, and so invented a camera from this discovery.
It was a Muslim who first tried to FLY in 852, even though it is the Wright Brothers who have taken the credit.
It was a Muslim by the name of Jabir ibn Hayyan who was known as the founder of modern Chemistry. He transformed alchemy into chemistry. He invented: distillation, purification, oxidation, evaporation, and filtration. He also discovered sulfuric and nitric acid.
It is a Muslim, by the name of Al-Jazari who is known as the father of robotics.
It was a Muslim who was the architect for Henry V’s castle.
It was a Muslim who invented hollow needles to suck cataracts from eyes, a technique still used today.
It was a Muslim who actually discovered inoculation, not Jenner and Pasteur to treat cowpox. The West just brought it over from Turkey
It was Muslims who contributed much to mathematics like Algebra and Trigonometry, which was imported over to Europe 300 years later to Fibonnaci and the rest.
It was Muslims who discovered that the Earth was round 500 years before Galileo did.
The list goes on………..
Just imagine a world without Muslims. Now I think you probably meant, JUST IMAGINE A WORLD WITHOUT TERRORISTS. And then I would agree, the world would definitely be a better place without those pieces of filth. But to hold a whole group responsible for the actions of a few is ignorant and racist. No one would ever expect Christians or White people to be held responsible for the acts of Timothy McVeigh (Oklahoma bombing) or Andreas Brevik (Norway killing), or the gun man that shot Congresswoman Giffords in head, wounded 12 and killed 6 people, and rightly so because they had nothing to do with those incidents! Just like the rest of the 1.5 billion Muslims have nothing to do with this incident!
Sources:
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/how-islamic-inventors-changed-the-world-469452.html
http://articles.cnn.com/2010-01-29/world/muslim.inventions_1_hassani-inventions-muslim?_s=PM:WORLD
http://www.ummahedinburgh.co.uk/radio/files/Muslim-Invention-Article.pdf
hold me closer tony danza: Yesterday my mom posted a picture on Facebook of my 5 year old brother...
Yesterday my mom posted a picture on Facebook of my 5 year old brother Sam wearing a pair of shoes he picked out for his first day of preschool. She explained to him in the store that they were really made for girls. Sam then told her that he didn’t care and that “ninjas can wear pink shoes… This is absolutely awesome!
“Depression can be described as a particularly restrictive state of mind,” Carhart-Harris told Shots. “People are stuck on how terrible they are. This seems to suggest that people can have a lifting of that negative thinking under psychedelics.”
In the second study, 30 volunteers lay in an MRI machine while tripping for science. The brain scans showed less activity in areas of the brain that may act as connectors, or hubs. One of those areas, the posterior cingulate cortex, is thought to figure in consciousness and ego. It’s also hyperactive in people with depression.
The researchers hadn’t expected to find less brain activity with psilocybin. The thought has always been that psychedelic flights of fancy are the result of an overactive brain. The results were published Monday in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.”
—From NPR.
Help me prove this to my friend. Reblog if you wouldn’t care if your partner was trans.
I’m going to stick a little caveat on this because I think that “care” is the wrong choice of word - I would care that they are trans because I would want to be receptive to their needs and what they want. Instead I will specifically say; I would not be bothered by it nor regard it in a negative way, and specifically disregard it in any decision about whether I wanted to be in a relationship with them.
What she said. (Also, both my partners are nonbinary. So.)
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WIL WHEATON dot TUMBLR: How to Run a Business That Doesn't Suck: The Hank and John Green Rules
So Hank and I run or help run several businesses at the moment: Vidcon, DFTBA Records, the juggernaut that is 2-D Glasses, ecogeek, vlogbrothers, scishow, and crashcourse, as well as administering the nonprofit Foundation to Decrease Worldsuck. These are…
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[Image is a discworld reading order flowchart. Sorry, flowcharts are impossible/impractical to transcribe. Also I can’t read it anyway.]
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If you’ve always wanted to try out Terry Pratchett’s Discworld series - and you should, ‘cause it’s AWESOME - this is a good place to find out where to start.
These charts confuse me. When I reread Discworld, I read in publication order. This is also chronological order, afaict! It is a good order! Also it doesn’t require a flow chart! And I love *all* the books, so it’s not like I’m going to read Witches and skip Rincewind or something. (I know people who claim not to like the witches books. HOW. GRANNY WEATHERWAX AND NANNY OGG ARE BETTER THAN YOU.)
You can click on this to go to the webpage, then click on the language you prefer, and it gets bigger. (And I’m not fond of Rincewind, he gets on my nerves.) I like this flowchart because if I feel like reading about the Watch, then I know which ones they are without having to look at them all and try to remember which is which, or the witches, or whatever.](http://30.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lydg5vWPdW1qzu0zao1_500.jpg)
[Image is a discworld reading order flowchart. Sorry, flowcharts are impossible/impractical to transcribe. Also I can’t read it anyway.]
If you’ve always wanted to try out Terry Pratchett’s Discworld series - and you should, ‘cause it’s AWESOME - this is a good place to find out where to start.
These charts confuse me. When I reread Discworld, I read in publication order. This is also chronological order, afaict! It is a good order! Also it doesn’t require a flow chart! And I love *all* the books, so it’s not like I’m going to read Witches and skip Rincewind or something. (I know people who claim not to like the witches books. HOW. GRANNY WEATHERWAX AND NANNY OGG ARE BETTER THAN YOU.)
You can click on this to go to the webpage, then click on the language you prefer, and it gets bigger. (And I’m not fond of Rincewind, he gets on my nerves.) I like this flowchart because if I feel like reading about the Watch, then I know which ones they are without having to look at them all and try to remember which is which, or the witches, or whatever.
"A recent Boise State University study of 484 heterosexual women showed that “50% of the women had fantasies about other women that involved some kind of sexual experience”. Does this mean they’re bisexual? Lesbian? Bicurious? Who knows and, to a degree, who cares? We don’t need to label every thought that comes into our minds, unless doing so helps us in some way. I’d imagine that there are plenty of heterosexual men who’ve entertained a homoerotic fantasy at some point, but are reluctant to admit that for fear that doing so would “make” them gay. The same goes for sadomasochism and dominance and submission. Plenty of people get off to BDSM scenarios they wouldn’t necessarily want to try, yet too many are ashamed of these fantasies and don’t even fully admit them for fear of being seen as somehow deviant, when the fact is that eroticising power, helplessness and pain are extremely common.
Attraction and action are two distinct things. Sometimes they are one and the same, and visualising yourself in a given sexual situation will lead to wanting to pursue it, but not always. We need to put a higher value on the act of fantasising and recognise that it can help revive a relationship or be a tool in figuring out what arouses us. Maybe you fantasise about being with someone other than your longterm partner, or watching them with someone, or having sex in an exotic location, or being watched, or something that couldn’t ever happen in real life. Allowing yourself the freedom to simply explore what turns you on, sans judgment, is important."
Rachel Kramer Bussel (Our fantasies say less about us than we think | Comment is free | guardian.co.uk)
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PLEASE REBLOG THIS LIKE THE PLAGUE
This is a petition on the Directgov website - this goes straight through to parliament and at the current time of posting it only has 21 signatures I know a lot of people are reblogging the one sponsored by anonymous which is great but if you live in the UK, this is going to be your best best at getting yourself heard about ACTA - even if you don’t live in the UK or even the EU, PLEASE REBLOG THIS, as ACTA is something that not only affects Europe but the rest of the world as well and this could be one of the only opportunities for it to be downturned COME ON GUYS!!!!! No more pretending to be US citizens just to sign petitions! This one’s international so we can petition our government too and we NEED to let them know we’re not ok with this. We’re already in danger of extradition just for posting links to pirated files (see Richard O’Dwyer’s case), and this would make things a whole lot worse. At time of reblobbing, it’s on 5,358. Bit rubbish, no? If you too reblob you could reach a few UK followers and help yourselves as well as us. (via shiyiya)
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Thank you, Richard.Not only is it a good cause but it doesn’t advertise itself with that stupid ‘it won’t ruin your hipster blog’ crap.
reblogging because water is delicious
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water you still reading this? reblog guys
water you still doing? reblog
water you doing reading these comments? reblog
water you doing?? reblog
C’mon water
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"Slut” is how we vilify a woman for exercising her right to say “yes”. “Friendzone” is how we vilify a woman for exercising her right to say “no”."
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Greg Hanscom at Grist: This old house: Why fixing up old homes is greener than building new ones
A study released Tuesday finds that in almost every instance, remodeling an old building is greener than building a new one. Beyond that, it shows that reusing old buildings provides immediate results in the fight against climate change, while a relatively energy efficient new building won’t pay climate dividends for decades. Taken to the scale of the city, the study has some fascinating implications. Cities, it turns out, serve as a sort of carbon sink — the existing buildings hold a tremendous amount of “embodied energy.” Conserving that energy by sparing these buildings from the wrecking ball does a lot of good for the planet, too. (Source: meloukhia)
John Green: GAY is NOT an INSULT (x)
EPIC SET. Thanks for doing this…whoever did it.
YES. THANK YOU.
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"Sweet Marie, she loves just me
(She also loves Maurice McGhee).
No she don’t, she loves just me
(She also loves Louise Dupree).
No she don’t, she loves just me
(She also loves the willow tree).
No she don’t, she loves just me!
(Poor, poor fool, why can’t you see
She can love others and still love thee.)"
Just Me, Just Me
By Shel Silverstein
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