Voiding Into The Shout

Mushrooms growing on a dead leaf

@autistic-af arent you learning welsh? This is cool :)

I'm learning Irish, but still so cool!

I’m a Muslim but here’s a not-so Islamicly appropriate answer:

I converted about five years ago and pepperoni and specifically pepperoni pizza is one of my favorite foods. I am obsessed with it. I know most people think pepperoni are trash, but the point I need you to understand is that it was some thing that I actually almost decided to not convert because I didn’t want to go without pepperoni. That’s how much I liked it. Omar Suleiman had an encounter with a prospective Muslim that was similar. For that prospective Muslim, it was pork sandwiches. The man came up to the Imam and said that he wanted to be a Muslim, but he could never give up his pork sandwiches. But the Imam told him that he should convert anyway and that inShaAllah Allah would free him from this. Privately, he told the believers as an aside that it was better for this man to be a Muslim that eats pork from time to time then to be a non-believer that would definitely end up in the fire. Six months or a year later, the man found Omar Sulaiman again, and told the Imam that he did convert and sure enough a few months after his conversion, he managed to cut out pork completely. 

For myself, I knew that if I had to go cold turkey, I would probably just do what the asker is saying, and avoid fulfilling my Islamic obligations. I would feel shame and distance from Allah and I would avoid doing prayers, or I would let Shaitan convince me that I need to become a “better Muslim” before I “bother” Allah.  for myself, I decided then and there that I would restrict my consuming of this Haram substance to two separate pizza places that were each about 45 minutes to an hour away from where I lived. I intentionally made it inconvenient and hard to get to, so that this wasn’t the kind of thing that I would do too often. I wasn’t allowed to consume this substance anywhere else or in any other situation. Even if someone got it, and gave it to me, I needed to say no and about six months to a year later, I cut out pepperoni completely. 

My point is that sometimes you don’t have the deen to fight against a sin right now, because  of a variety of reasons, but if feeling shame about the sin is stopping you from strengthening your deen, you won’t develop the strength to fight against the sin. Sometimes you might need to create a compromise, limiting your ability to do this sinful thing to very seldom or inconvenient circumstances. Would this perhaps count as an Islamic innovation? Perhaps, and if that makes you uncomfortable completely ignore this advice, but eliminating all the pepperoni except for the ones from two places that are far from my house was a half step that I needed to eventually develop the strength to say no to it completely. As long as your sin is not hurting other people or making the Muslim community look bad (like a woman in a hijab drinking at a bar), a half measure will bring you closer as long as it covers a commitment that you can commit to with Allah and inshallah never break it. That being said, if you choose this, you are potentially committing shirk by choosing something over Allah, and that may not be something that you are comfortable with. You will be intentionally putting an obstacle between you and Allah and everything that that represents. Choose wisely. 

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The interactive cat.

Haters be like

“It’s totally possible to make a path that goes through every door exactly once”

Idk if I did it right

sorry!

it’s true you can’t draw one continuous line that would do the trick. but if the kitty and bunny set out by going through the doors they’re marked beside and each walked the certain way their colored arrows show at the same time their “collective path” as a team would go through each door only once. The moral of the story is actually about friendship , and cooperation, because in this world there are tasks you can’t do on your own.

im just fucking with you i’m pretty sure this has no right answer

i concocted a solution with a 100% mortality rate

Stop being so incredibly funny on my impossible puzzle post

You can switch the tracks so the trolley will kill one person, or you can allow it to attempt the fruitless crusade of running over each person in the maze only once.

all in a days work! *passes out*

My indecisive butt, walking in and being faced with having to make a decision, immediately leaving

oOoOoooo I’m a ghost!

Fire

dude my house

Ooh nice I actually did it

WAIT A SEC-

FUCK

you’ve made an honest mistake, roll a d20

I got a 12

I HAVE ONLY SEEN THIS LEGENDARY POST IN SCREENSHOTS-

Ta daaaaa

NOOOOOOOOO

They did actually do it. 

(Ignore the red line and follow the blue line)

L O L. I had a feeling I must’ve done something wrong, because it didn’t seem likely that I would be able to stumble upon a solution to an unsolvable puzzle.