Nothingness

[Harris]

Mass media is doing its utmost to portray all Muslims as culprit and most of the naive people do take these Muslims as real culprit.

I'm only going to comment on this one particular point...

To a point, I agree with you. It is far, far more common to see Muslims behaving badly in the media than not, and naive people will generalize from this and may perhaps think that all or most Muslims are bad people. (I'd like to make it perfectly clear that I don't hold that opinion at all, about Muslims, or anyone else for that matter. I also need to be clear that I'm generalizing a bit based on what I personally see in the U.S. media, and so my impression is necessarily subjective.)

It's an unfortunate truth that the news media is far, far more likely to report something negative than something positive, regardless of who the story is about. As the saying goes, "If it bleeds, it leads." Where I live, there are not very many Muslims at all - and so it is quite easy to incorrectly generalize beliefs about Muslims based on what is reported in the media. It's unfortunate. I for one understand that while there are terrorist Muslims, not all Muslims are terrorists. I for one would not judge someone solely on the basis of what religion they follow, but rather on the content of their individual character. I'm far from the only one here who feels that way. (Incidentally, atheists suffer from negative stereotyping much the same as Muslims, which is perhaps something you can understand.)

The unfriendly welcome that you received was, I think, largely due to the perception that your first post was insulting and presumptuous, not because you're Muslim.

Thank you for your polite and gentle explanation. If other members approach this way and explain then thing might me clearer to me. but if someone is hitting on the head first and after that try to explain ... I don't know what you call it. nearly every member of this site has tried to provoke me to use the similar language that they are using but they fail to understand that by using false language no can convey his/her idea in understandable manner.

anyway thank you again.

Anyway, thank you again for your polite approach.

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I didn't read all the topic.

But about the aggressive language I think it is useful to train yourself to be more confident (I am speaking honestly), to improve your language skills, to be more tolerant towards the world, which is aggressive by nature, and to search for knowledge because you will be compelled to defend yourself and have the ability to be aggressive too.

About that atheists believe the universe popped out from nothing: It is just a scientific theory ... even if you are a believer you can be a proponent of it. And even if you an atheist you can refute it. Atheism is, simply, saying that the Universe is not created by a god for there is no god.

About the definition of the nothingness, I will see if it is discussed here in this topic (or other topics) or not. I think I have some things to talk about.

Thank you for the suggestions concerning use of language. I think use of false language is the main cause of animosity.

If someone is using abusive language it is understood that he is not the one who wants friendly environment therefore its better to leave him on his own or try to calm him down by use of polite language.


As for the question of Nothingness and Universe please refer to my discussion with Little-Monkey. There you will get some material which provides you some ground to discuss further.