Friday, March 8, 2024

The Common, Hypocritical Divisiveness at the Bottom Class

 

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Tuesday, March 5, 2024

[BATTLE MODE] Muslim vs Narrow-Minded 'Free Thinker'

 

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Abdullah Al Rafi - I am Muslim.

If any christian or agnostic sincerely interested to learn about islam and have any question about islam, you can ask me in call in the messenger.

Remo Giani - If you really want to learn what Islam is, just ask me!

Muhammad Rasheed - @Remo... Are you Muslim?

Remo Giani - @Muhammad... I'm not Muslim, but if you want to learn the truth about Islam, just ask me, because I know the whole of Islam, better than any of your theologians!

Muhammad Rasheed - So, you are a hostile and biased outsider trying to poison Islam for other people by bearing false witness.

Interesting.

Muhammad Rasheed - Are you a Christian?

Remo Giani - More than anything, I am a free thinker, who through science, history and the evidence of facts, has demonstrated that certainly no sacred book contains the authentic word of God!

Remo Giani - I am not hostile to anyone, I ONLY seek the Truth that people like you trample on without dignity!

I DO NOT use any false witnesses, LIAR!

Muhammad Rasheed - Remo wrote: "More than anything, I am a free thinker"

That's the universal code for "narrow-minded atheist."

Remo wrote: "who through science, history and the evidence of facts, has demonstrated that certainly no sacred book contains the authentic word of God!"

That's weird, considering science, history and the evidence of facts confirm the sacred scripture of the One God as True.

Throw Down Your Rod, please. Let's see what you have.

Muhammad Rasheed - Remo wrote: "I am not hostile to anyone"

You admit you are a narrow-minded disbeliever who wants to poison Islam with your biases while using all of these aggressive exclamation marks. That's pretty hostile, to be sure.

Remo wrote: "I ONLY seek the Truth"

Have you ever read the Qur'an through, cover-to-cover then? Or are you content to sit on the outside throwing potshots at strawmen effigies the way you "free thinkers" typically perform?

Remo wrote: "that people like you trample on without dignity!"

The One God is the Source Truth that all lesser truths emanate from.

Remo wrote: "I DO NOT use any false witnesses, LIAR!"

We'll see. 😏

Throw Down Your Rod.

Remo Giani - You are ranting like any indoctrinated and plagiarized Muslim, but without independent thought!

Science DOES NOT confirm ANY verse of the Quran!

History shows that the Koran says bullshit (see the non-existent Bicorn wall).

The evidence of facts demonstrates that the Koran writes nonsense (see the non-existent "seven heavens"), or the Earth considered to be the center of the universe!

The Koran is spectacularly wrong every time it is confronted with reality!

Have I been clear enough, man with a narrow and plagiarized mind?

Remo Giani - I don't admit anything, LIAR! Can you read what I wrote?

I have read the Koran, Hadith, Tafsir, Sira, documents of the first Islamic historians and I know them better than anyone else: what don't you understand in such a simple statement?

Which true God are you talking about? 🤣🤣

Certainly not the one described in the sacred books!

Muhammad Rasheed - Remo wrote: "You are ranting like any indoctrinated"

Literally everyone is indoctrinated with SOMETHING. "Freethinkers," for instance, are indoctrinated with classic atheism tenets, various bolshevisms, trans-material humanism and, of course, the white supremacist ideology.

Remo wrote: "and plagiarized Muslim"

What did I plagiarize, Remo? 😏

Remo wrote: "but without independent thought!"

Sure.

Remo wrote: "Science DOES NOT confirm ANY verse of the Quran!"

1.) Science confirms the Abrahamic God's claim of the universe having a beginning (Big Bang Theory)

2.) Science confirms the Abrahamic God's claim of there being a Great Flood near extinction event (Younger Dryas Impact Theory).

Remo wrote: "History shows that the Koran says bullshit (see the non-existent Bicorn wall)."

What are you talking about? 

Oh, you mean "bi-HORN." You're talking about the impenetrable wall built by Dhu al-Qarnayn. Just because you haven't found it, doesn't mean it doesn't exist. That's a major logical fallacy you're riding there, bud.

Remo wrote: "The evidence of facts demonstrates that the Koran writes nonsense (see the non-existent 'seven heavens')"

You don't even know what it's referring to. lol How can you debunk a mystery? By pretending to solve it by conjuring a strawman effigy and "debunking" that? lol That does sound like the kind of slimeball games a narrow-minded 'free thinker' would play certainly.

Remo wrote: "or the Earth considered to be the center of the universe!"

Where does the Qur'an make such a claim?

Remo wrote: "The Koran is spectacularly wrong every time it is confronted with reality!"

This is pretty hostile...

Remo wrote: "Have I been clear enough, man with a narrow and plagiarized mind?"

It depends on if you answer my clarification questions, or decide to duck them like a coward. I think I may remember you... Were you the one with the out-of-control spam-rants about the lamps chasing away the evil spirits? 🤔

Muhammad Rasheed - Remo wrote: "I don't admit anything, LIAR!"

lol Sure, you did.

Remo wrote: "Can you read what I wrote?"

Yes.

Remo wrote: "I have read the Koran"

Hmmm. Maybe. We'll see. I doubt it though.

Remo wrote: "Hadith"

There's literally more ahadith than any single human can read in a lifetime, so no.

Remo wrote: "Tafsir, Sira, documents of the first Islamic historians and I know them better than anyone else: what don't you understand in such a simple statement?"

I understand that you've developed an argument style that twists the material to your narrow-minded "free thinker" fallacy folio. You appear to be quite proud of your approach, as I suspect it works well on the "English is not their first language" crowd and they may get tripped up easily with your tricks. 🤔

But ahm ya huckleberry. 😊

                       

Remo wrote: "Which true God are you talking about? 🤣🤣"

There is only One God, the Only True God that Jesus (pbuh) worshiped. That One. All-Powerful, Supreme Creator of reality.

Remo wrote: "Certainly not the one described in the sacred books!"

The very One.

Remo Giani - The admission can only be made by the same individual who made the previous statements, and I didn't do it, CLEAR?

All your ridiculous arguments are just repeating your previous idiocies!

EVERYTHING I claim works well with anyone, because FIRST my claims have been rigorously proven!

Your proclamations leave me indifferent, I repeat which God are you talking about?

The God unique Allah introduced by the Quran (choosing among the many pre-Islamic deities), is a non-existent God, invented by Muhammad and his collaborators!

Try to prove the opposite, if you are able!

Muhammad Rasheed - Remo wrote: "The admission can only be made by the same individual who made the previous statements, and I didn't do it, CLEAR?"

You give away your tells within your sloppy and emotional discourse. At this point, I don't think you can actually help yourself.

Remo wrote: "All your ridiculous arguments are just repeating your previous idiocies!"

Just answer my clarification questions, please. I may have expressed them in what seems like jest, but I was actually serious. Your participation will move the discussion along.

Remo wrote: "EVERYTHING I claim works well with anyone"

Ah. So, I was right. Good. #KingsToMeFernand

Remo wrote: "because FIRST my claims have been rigorously proven!"

lol You're using both "rigorously" and "proven" incorrectly.

Remo wrote: "Your proclamations leave me indifferent, I repeat which God are you talking about?"

The One God. I have no other to offer since the mathematical concept of "singular" greatly restricts my available options.

Remo wrote: "The God unique Allah introduced by the Quran (choosing among the many pre-Islamic deities), is a non-existent God, invented by Muhammad and his collaborators! Try to prove the opposite, if you are able!"

Here you are. According to Dr. Marijn van Putten, Qur'anic researcher at the Leiden University Centre for Linguistics:

"[T]hat if the identification of al-ʾilāh and aḷḷāh being related by native speakers, it's not that strange for aḷḷāh to become associated with the one God if al-ʾilāh is. From numerous finds of pre-Islamic inscriptions in the Hijaz now, it's fairly clear that aḷḷāh was understood to be the name of the main monotheistic deity in the pre-Islamic period already. So it's not Islam's innovation. In light of this pre-Islamic evidence, I think any attempt to make sense of aḷḷāh in a pagan context in pre-Islamic times is almost certainly wrong."


Remo Giani - M. Rasheed wrote: "Literally everyone is indoctrinated with SOMETHING"

wrong!

1) I am NOT indoctrinated by anyone, because unlike you, I think exclusively with my intellect.

2) I am not an atheist, thus your pathetic deductions and rants on "atheism, bolshevisms" I am only in your mind, plagiarized and incapable of expressing coherent thoughts!

Also, DON'T you dare accuse me without any reason of being a "white supremacist" or racist, you low and despicable LIAR!

DON'T DARE, CLEAR? 😡🤮😡🤮😡🤮😡🤮😡🤮😡🤮

Does criticizing the Koran and Islam mean being a "white supremacist", beast?

1) The Quran NEVER spoke of the expansion of the universe, but only that the universe was created very vast: study!

2) The Great Flood (which no one has ever proven) was mentioned long before the Bible and the Koran, so as usual, the Koran DOES NOT confirm anything!

3) You are so ignorant that you blindly believe the nonsense of the Koran!

Such a huge wall of iron and copper between two mountains could NEVER have been built at that time, both because iron was a rare material then, and because sufficient technology did not exist!

As regards its existence, satellite images are now able to distinguish details smaller than a meter on the surface of the Earth, but a gigantic and eye-catching wall between two mountains has never been found: it simply does NOT exist! Among other things, since the launch of the first Landsat satellite in 1972, image sensor technology has undergone rapid progress which has made it possible to collect increasingly useful data for identifying new deposits. Satellites equipped with latest generation sensors use the spectral properties of materials to identify minerals, but here too, no satellite has ever highlighted such an enormous quantity of iron!

Yet Islamic tradition states that Gog and Magog still wait behind that wall, until one day they manage to free themselves (21:96): once again, the statements of the Koran are proven FALSE!! 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

4) NO mystery exists, the "seven heavens" were copied slavishly by the Babylonians and from the Jewish Talmud (word for word), and indicate the seven planetary spheres, on which the 5 planets known at the time, plus the Sun and the Moon, orbit around to the Earth, considered at the center of the universe (geocentric model).

Confirmation also comes from your most eminent theologian, al_Ghazali, who stated that the Earth is the center of the universe, and the planets, including the Sun and the Moon, revolve around it in their respective seven spheres: exactly the description of the geocentric model!

(al-Ghazali – The inconsistency of philosophers page 9).

And again, ignobly, you accuse people, without any confirmation: COWARD you will be, who NEVER responded to my arguments!

That's right, it was me, and once again, you (and no one else) could come up with just one way for the stars to strike the demons!

Your failure to respond attests to your obvious ignorance and specious LIES!

Muhammad Rasheed - Remo wrote: "That's right, it was me"

🤣 What are you? A comic book villain? lol

Remo wrote: "and once again, you (and no one else) could come up with just one way for the stars to strike the demons!"

As I recall, I answered your queries, pushed back on your claims, and as usual, asked for clarification questions only for you to duck them like a coward. That's why I felt the sense of 'deja vu' earlier.

Muhammad Rasheed - I'll wait for you to catch up.

Remo Giani - As usual, you're only capable of rambling!

- Were you able to prove that Allah exists and was not created by Muhammad and his collaborators? NO, so what are you talking about?

- Were you able to prove that the "seven heavens" exist, and were not copied from the Babylonians and the Talmud? Do you want me to show you the verses that prove it?

- You stated that if the Bicorn Wall (which no one could have built) has not yet been found, it does not mean that it does not exist, but I have shown you that with today's satellite technologies, this is IMPOSSIBLE, so once again your Koran makes mistakes, as it does every time it is confronted with Reality!

What don't you understand in such a simple speech?

Muhammad Rasheed - Remo wrote: "As usual, you're only capable of rambling!"

This line of yours counts as rambling. You appear to have an issue sticking to the topic.

Remo wrote: "Were you able to prove that Allah exists and was not created by Muhammad and his collaborators?"

Yes, that's why I posted the link to Dr. van Putten's FAQ answer about it that you ignored like a confirmed coward.

Remo wrote: "NO"

Does it not show up on your device?

Remo wrote: "so what are you talking about?"

When I post stuff in response to what you say, you tend to ignore it and opt to play these kinds of games instead. I gave you five whole hours to catch up and this is all I received from the "free thinker," huh?

Remo wrote: "Were you able to prove that the 'seven heavens' exist"

In Surah 67, God refers to the seven heavens as part of this world that we can study with our own eyes from the perspective of a primitive, 7th century Arabian. That means, the 'seven heavens' could be the layers of earth's atmosphere.

Remo wrote: "and were not copied from the Babylonians and the Talmud?"

I don't take the silly claims that the Qur'an "copied" anything seriously.

Remo wrote: "Do you want me to show you the verses that prove it?"

Since you've asked, I want you to be quick to make a point, stick to the point until the topic is finished, be diligent in answering follow-up questions for clarification, and spend less time being an erratic, emotional loudmouth, please, so the discussion can move forward at a brisker pace. There's a lad.

Remo wrote: "You stated that if the Bicorn Wall (which no one could have built) has not yet been found, it does not mean that it does not exist"

I did, and it represents a basic common sense observation, Mr. "free thinker." Please recognize that the primary ingredient of the science, history and the evidence of facts you claimed to believe in is "discovery." 🙄 Take the hint.

Remo wrote: "but I have shown you that with today's satellite technologies, this is IMPOSSIBLE"

This is foolishness. You don't even know what you are looking FOR or even where TO look. smh

Remo wrote: "so once again your Koran makes mistakes"

How is your own clumsy projection a mistake on the Qur'an's part?

Remo wrote: "as it does every time it is confronted with Reality!"

You present as an erratic, emotional troll, not as an independent original thinker dedicated to truth. So far, every single one of your projections have been those of a unstable fool.

Remo wrote: "What don't you understand in such a simple speech?"

I understand your sloppy and uninformed opinions about the Qur'an are both weak & silly by turns.

What do you have that's actually serious you can defend with something more substantial than increasing numbers of exclamation marks?

Muhammad Rasheed - Remo wrote: "wrong!"

It's actually very correct.

Remo wrote: "1) I am NOT indoctrinated by anyone"

You're indoctrinated with everything I listed as your base.

Remo wrote: "because unlike you, I think exclusively with my intellect."

I'm looking forward to when you decide to demonstrate this trait. Will it be long in coming?

Remo wrote: "2) I am not an atheist"

You're CLEARLY an atheist since you mocked the One God not even 3-posts ago. 🙄

Remo wrote: "thus your pathetic deductions and rants"

"Pathetic" or not, they were dead-on. I'm not interested in your feeble protests about it either; I know I'm right and remain unmoved by your obviously drug-fueled, hyperactive tantrums.

Remo wrote: "on 'atheism, bolshevisms' I am only in your mind, plagiarized and incapable of expressing coherent thoughts!"

You know exactly what I meant and we both know I am right — you're quite transparent. Accept it, adjust yourself and move on. You narrow-minded 'free thinkers' come a dime-a-dozen; I have quite a few of you on my trophy wall. In your case, you're what I call a "failed polymath," who spends all of his time pretending to be smart by beating up on people who barely know their religion and barely speak English. You drown the pathetic truth of your woefully-deficient intellectual shortcomings in your drug cocktail of choice, hence your unfocused, erratic performance in this thread. Elementary.

Remo wrote: "Also, DON'T you dare accuse me without any reason of being a 'white supremacist' or racist, you low and despicable LIAR!"

Sure. It's just a matter of time before you show that face in the thread, lest you prudently decide to abandon the discussion should you get too uncomfortable. We'll see. #ThatTrainIsNeverLate

Remo wrote: "DON'T DARE, CLEAR? 😡🤮😡🤮😡🤮😡🤮😡🤮😡🤮"

Is this visual a clue as to which drug you're actually addicted to...? 🤔

Remo wrote: "Does criticizing the Koran and Islam mean being a 'white supremacist,' beast?"

Sometimes. There's a lot of material to dig into, and that group certainly has found their favorite cache to twist and misinterpret as much as you've done this lighter work. Mayhap you'll kick around in the same areas if we manage to get to the Middle Game.

Remo wrote: "1) The Quran NEVER spoke of the expansion of the universe, but only that the universe was created very vast: study!"

Ah. This is a clue that you've never read the Qur'an through before after-all. I was right once again. #KingsToMeFernand

The Qur'an states that the universe had a beginning and was created, as well that it used to be compressed, was "cleaved asunder" to expand into the vast and awe-inspiring miracle we observe today. In fact, Allah pointedly directs the revealed verses to the learned among the unbelievers — obviously not those of the 7th century, but those of today who know better. lol Is this not a miracle? How then are ye deluded away from the Truth?

Remo wrote: "2) The Great Flood (which no one has ever proven)"

I LITERALLY referenced the smoking gun that proves the Great Deluge of legend really happened, and you completely ignored it like the fake intellectual coward I pegged you for in the very beginning of this thread. Take a bow, jackass.

Remo wrote: "was mentioned long before the Bible and the Koran, so as usual, the Koran DOES NOT confirm anything!"

I said that the science confirmed what the Abrahamic God claimed, not the other way around, doofus. Is it now clear why I keep prefacing your silly "free thinker" title with "narrow-minded?" Your ignorant brain is both smooth as an egg and firmly shut like a sprung bear trap. #FailedPolymath

Remo wrote: "3) You are so ignorant that you blindly believe the nonsense of the Koran!"

Is it truly "ignorant" to accept the claims of the Omniscient Being at His Word? 🤨 I don't see how you managed to think that line through, really.

Remo wrote: "Such a huge wall of iron and copper between two mountains could NEVER have been built at that time, both because iron was a rare material then, and because sufficient technology did not exist!"

You have no idea what you are talking about. For one, there's no consensus whatsoever as to who Dhu al-Qarnayn actually was in history, let alone which time period is being described, so you're talking out of your butt again. It's still a baffling mystery to modern science how the ancients built the Great Pyramid of Giza, so all your "IMPOSSIBLE" claims of what previous civilizations could or could not do are irreversibly stupid. In fact, this counts as a glimpse into your personal white supremacist traits. 😉

Remo wrote: "but a gigantic and eye-catching wall between two mountains has never been found: it simply does NOT exist!"

Again, claiming something doesn't exist because it hasn't yet been discovered is not only NOT how science works, it's also a logical fallacy.

Remo wrote: "but here too, no satellite has ever highlighted such an enormous quantity of iron!"

The unknowns involved include:

1.) Which mountains?
2.) How close were they?
3.) Where are they?
4.) When did the event take place?

This fourth unknown is worth exploring here for our purposes. What are the chances that an avalanche, or even the vast accumulation of natural debris over millennia, completely covered up the original wall? Or even environmental erosion worked on it so severely, you can't even tell it was originally manmade? All of this is real. I'm saying all of this only to point out how worthless your critical thinking skills are. Your "intellect" is trash. Your atheist biases prevent you from even TRYING to think.

Remo wrote: "Yet Islamic tradition states that Gog and Magog still wait behind that wall"

The Qur'an says it, so it's 100% true in everyway.

Remo wrote: "until one day they manage to free themselves (21:96): once again, the statements of the Koran are proven FALSE!!"

Logic dictates that we actually won't know if a prophecy about the future is true until the future of that predicted event actually arrives. The Gog & Magog thing was mentioned as a sign for the coming Last Day, was it not? Please work harder to be less of a narrow-minded idiot. I promise you'll be the better for it.

Remo wrote: "🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣"

🤔🤨

Remo wrote: "4) NO mystery exists, the 'seven heavens' were copied"

[*dismissed*]

Remo wrote: "Confirmation also comes from your most eminent theologian, al_Ghazali"

There is no priesthood in Al-Islam, Remo. Al-Ghazali was just some guy with his own opinions about the materials.

Remo wrote: "who stated that the Earth is the center of the universe"

In other words, it wasn't at all the Qur'an that said the earth was the center of the universe as you first sneakily implied, but it was just some guy with his own outdated and wrong opinions about the material who claimed it. Why are you bringing him up in this thread as if he holds some kind of relevance at all? 🤔🤨

Remo wrote: "and the planets, including the Sun and the Moon, revolve around it in their respective seven spheres: exactly the description of the geocentric model!"

So? 🤨

Remo wrote: "(al-Ghazali – The inconsistency of philosophers page 9)."

Literally all philosophers are inconsistent. What about it?

Remo wrote: "And again, ignobly, you accuse people, without any confirmation"

You labeled yourself a "free thinker." That tribe acts exactly the same way you are acting here. You are, the lot of you, an idiotic hive-mind with weak critical thinking skills...

Remo wrote: "COWARD you will be"

...and like you, your "free thinker" tribe routinely runs & ducks away from questions that challenge your silly, and poorly-reasoned assertions.

Remo wrote: "who NEVER responded to my arguments!"

I've very generously (some say OVER-generously) always respond to your arguments, even if just to discourage you from continuing to spread your befoulments about within my line-of-sight. Get your game up and be about it, or shut up.

The Canada-Inquisition Attacks TV Cartoons That Time Forgot!

 

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Deputy Dawg (1961)

Muhammad Rasheed - This Terrytoons creation favorite of mine, "Deputy Dawg" was paired with Mighty Mouse shorts when I grew up in late 1970s Detroit MI. They came on during the weekdays in the 3:30 pm block.


The Mighty Heroes (1966)

Muhammad Rasheed - Created for Terrytoons by the ever-controversial Ralph Bakshi, "The Mighty Heroes" was another one of my personal favorite cartoon shows. Showing up during the 3:30 pm block, these shorts were a delight as part of the "and Friends!" within the Mighty Mouse & Friends show from my late 1970s Detroit MI childhood.


The Abbott and Costello Cartoon Show (1967)

Muhammad Rasheed - This Hanna-Barbera created treat, "The Abbott and Costello Cartoon Show" came on during the weekdays (3:00 pm) back in Detroit MI in the late 1970s/early 1980s. The theme song was genuinely great and hilarious.

Jae Brown - I used to watch it in Toronto, Canada. It was not exclusive to Detroit

Muhammad Rasheed - I can't imagine why it would have been exclusive to Detroit, considering the Hanna-Barbera studios were in California.

Muhammad Rasheed - That would have been weird.

Anyway...

Mighty Mouse (1942)

Muhammad Rasheed - Terrytoons' flagship star, "Mighty Mouse" burst onto my Detroit MI family's tv screen at the 3:30 pm timeslot with the world's most famous operatic catchphrase. Today, the sound very well may include an intrusive mental image of comedian Andy Kaufman cuttin' up on stage, but in my late 1970s/early 1980s childhood, it was only the sound of good ole afterschool, cartoon action!

Rick D. Day - Andy's performance made Mighty Mouse Famous. fight me.

Muhammad Rasheed - Mighty Mouse was already famous, that's why the bit worked. Kaufman was performing—as a straight-faced, deadpan adult—what the kids used to do when the show intro played.


Kidd Video (1984)

Muhammad Rasheed - In the time-honored tradition of properties like C. S. Lewis' Narnia and Mark Evanier's Dungeon's & Dragon's cartoon, "Kidd Video" also featured a group of kids finding themselves within another dimension where they had the rock-n-roll adventures of a lifetime. Back in the mid-1980s of Detroit MI, this cartoon, with it's bangin' theme song, was the very last cartoon of the day and formally ended my favorite part of Saturday morning.


Porky's Bear Facts (1941)

Muhammad Rasheed - ♪ Working can wait! This is paradise, having no work to do! And taking it easy, too! Working can wait! ♫ 

In Porky's Bear Facts (1941), original WB 'Termite Terrace' animator Friz Freleng put his own spin upon the classic "lazy grasshopper/hardworking ant" fairy tale, and cast farmer Porky Pig opposite his lazy bear neighbor. I first saw this short in Detroit MI, back in the summer of 1982. 

I'm confident the classic short never, ever showed anywhere else in the entire universe except on my family's Detroit television.

Jae Brown - Please stop saying that cartoons were exclusive to Detroit

Muhammad Rasheed - lol Not once did I ever say that the cartoons were exclusive to Detroit. I said that's where I was when I saw them as a kid. You're reading into my posts what is not implied.

Jae Brown - No, you're implying but are now denying

Muhammad Rasheed - I'm clarifying what I meant to clear up any confusion. I'm not denying anything.

Jae Brown - You implied then denied. Please stop the implying

Chris Putt - @Jae... Muhammad Rasheed is pointing out that he watched cartoons like these in Detroit. I live in the Detroit metro area but watched Kidd Video growing up in my hometown of Lima, OH in the 80s so it wasn’t exclusive to Detroit. No need for taking this so seriously or for the rightfighting.

Muhammad Rasheed - Jae wrote: "You implied then denied. Please stop the implying"

Meanwhile, I did neither of these.

Why are you trying to pick a fight with me? I thought you were supposed to be a follower of the Christ? Did he likewise go about falsely accusing people of imaginary deeds, too? I suggest you return to your bible and adjust your behavior, please. Thanks.

Jae Brown - No false accusations have been made. Rather, you've been falsely implying things and, called on them, opted to try to deny doing so. Please just quit it. Do it again and I'll be reporting and blocking you

Muhammad Rasheed - Jae wrote: "No false accusations have been made."

Sure, they were. You did it. To me. Please stop. #AsChristLovedTheChurch

Jae wrote: "Rather, you've been falsely implying things"

Noooo. Rather, you have been interpreting my posts through your cockeyed Canadian-French understanding of English. Do better.

Jae wrote: "Please just quit it."

From now on (starting retroactively from the Porky's Bear Facts post), I plan to actually pretend all tv shows I watched as a kid only EVER played on my family's tv alone.
 
#WelcomeToThePettyverse #TakeYourShoesOff

Jae wrote: "Do it again and I'll be reporting and blocking you"

Bring it, Pastor. 😠

Muhammad Rasheed - I think you're only behaving like this because you saw I had a Arabic name and it triggered you. Shame on you.

James Flanagan - You may be right. Never saw this one in the NY/NJ area

Noelle Seymour - Not true Sir. Way out here in California too!

Meghan Munn - @Noelle... Was about to say this, independent channels that played cartoons found anything and everything, now independent channels are mostly gone and it’s untraceable to tell what played unless someone back then recorded it

E Bernhard Warg - Wow. Come up with a creative way to say “I saw this on local TV as a kid, and have never seen it anywhere else,” and people take it WAY too literally.

Muhammad Rasheed - You're very generous.

Someone originally was accusing me of saying the shows I watched were exclusive to Detroit just because I was mentioning where I was when I first saw them. When I explained the situation, then he accused me of lying. At that point, I just went into petty mode. So, yes, this one is *literally* saying it ONLY played on my family's tv and NOWHERE ELSE and I hope that jackass reads it and chokes. lol

E Bernhard Warg - To coin a phrase, I understood the assignment.


Pole Position (1984)

Muhammad Rasheed - In mid-1980 Detroit MI, it was difficult to catch the cartoon "Pole Position" (created from a DIC/MK Company partnership) because it came on Sundays for some reason, and I always kept forgetting about it. It was always a treat, primarily because I was surprised to see a Saturday morning quality toon on a Sunday, so I probably actually enjoyed it more than I normally would have just for that alone. It did have one of my all-time favorite theme songs though.

None of you probably saw it because I'm sure it only played on my family's tv specifically. #TooBad #SorryNotSorry

Paul Dostal - I remember watching it at the time, but I haven’t watched it since then. It’s on my list of shows to watch and relive.

Muhammad Rasheed - You must be from Detroit.

Muhammad Rasheed - From my exact house.

Paul Dostal - The closest I have been to Detroit was Niagara Falls on the Canadian side. Otherwise nope.

Muhammad Rasheed - Coincidently, there's a [sociopathic] Canadian around here who keeps falsely accusing me of implying that all the shows I've named were exclusive to Detroit.

Now I'm in Petty Mode.

Ashanti Ghania - It was on at 11am on CBS in my neck of the woods.

Muhammad Rasheed - Nah.

Ashanti Ghania - Yes, it was. It was initially a video game, then a cartoon. The station was either CBS or NBC because the ABC Weekend Special had the 10:30 am-12:00pm slots on Saturday mornings.

Muhammad Rasheed - Ma'am, if you want to stay in this group, you're going to have to stop with all the lies. Thanks.

Ashanti Ghania - Huh? How are my statements lies? If I still had the 400+ VHS tapes I’ve been recording my cartoons on I would prove it to you.
Nevermind, my memory is enough for me.

Evan Meadow - @Muhammad... Considering I watched it Sat Mornings on CBS AND there are ads promoting it in comics, you are most definitely mistaken.

It was later syndicated on USA Cartoon Express so maybe that’s how you saw it on Sundays.

Muhammad Rasheed - @Evan... The ads were only in local Detroit comic books. Obviously.

Muhammad Rasheed - Plus, my family didn't have cable tv in those days.

Muhammad Rasheed - It was the 'crack era' though. That's clearly why you two remember seeing a show you actually didn't see. 🤔


Thomas E. Reed - As an avid watcher of cartoons, who was a TV engineer for three decades, let me clue you in. Many stations had local kid shows, and tape-delayed what they thought were the "worst cartoons" to Sunday morning. That satisfied the network's contract to run it while the station made more money with their own show. In St. Louis they pulled this trick with "Super President."

Muhammad Rasheed - Thanks for that!

Muhammad Rasheed - The Jetsons also played on Sundays in those days, which seems weird based on your behind-the-scenes reveal (who didn't love The Jetsons???).


Lumber Jack-Rabbit (1953)

Muhammad Rasheed - Lumber Jack-Rabbit (1953) was one of a few Bugs Bunny shorts featuring giants as the antagonist. In this case, it was "Smidgen," Paul Bunyan's dog. Directed by original "Termite Terrace" animation legend Chuck Jones, this is one of the first shorts I think of when Bugs Bunny comes to mind, having seen it several times back in the 1970s of Detroit MI. This is the one where Bugs is singing "Blue-Tail Fly" (Jimmy Crack Corn) throughout the adventure.


Hyde and Hare (1955)

Muhammad Rasheed - "YOU are a mental case."

Hyde and Hare (1955) was another Fritz Freleng masterpiece that pitted Bugs Bunny against the Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde duo personality monster. I adored any and all WB treatments of this gag—taking enthusiastic infusions of the influence on my own later works—with this one being my top favorite of the bunch.


Southern Fried Rabbit (1953)

Muhammad Rasheed - "What's this I hear about you whippin' slaves?"

The Southern Fried Rabbit (1953) WB short directed by Friz Freleng, is one of the classically problematic cartoons from the jim crow era. For some reason, it played all the time in post-Civil Rights Era 1970s Detroit MI, and I still have most of the dialog memorized from it. This is one of the two shorts that first pop in my head when fan-favorite character Bugs Bunny comes up in discussion.

Alley Oop - Poor you.

You should concentrate less on being a victim and watch Rabbit of Seville more.

Muhammad Rasheed - You should thank God you escaped being hanged for treason after the Great War. :)



Alley Oop - okay then 

Muhammad Rasheed - ;) 

Alley Oop -  god, I love the Constitution


Muhammad Rasheed - Clearly not. That's why you cooked up your own when you attacked my country, right?  🇺🇸

Alley Oop - pardon me! I attacked my country! That was the whole point!

Muhammad Rasheed - Uhh... You attacked my country and literally invented your own constitution to go start up your own. The president sent the Union soldiers to put you back in line.

Alley Oop - okay then. What you don't know (and it's probably not your fault) is, that... there were other things going on at the same time. See, my family was poor and were fighting for their way of life as they perceived it. To burden them with the full weight of modern ethics is naive at best. Many of my personal ancestors fought and died for that symbol(that you take time out of your day, every day, to hate despite your lack of understanding it). Those poor southern folk didn't know any different. They were a proud and ignorant people. Much like your own. Who could deny that America was built on the backs of the poor black, (and the poor white) people who have supported her economy, (actually and social) from those days right up up to our generation? I will not be shamed for my pride in my forbearers ...any more than you should be.

Muhammad Rasheed - lol There's literally nothing worse than listening to one of you silly degenerates make up nonsense about my nation's history.

You should have danced from the gibbet for your treachery. Full stop. The only thing I want to hear from you is, "Damn. You're right." There's no way I'm going to read that block of ignorant foolishness.

All you did was attack the country because you are a greedy sociopath. You should thank God you survived into the modern day. How did you survive?

Because God said the evil-doer has respite until Judgment Day.

Alley Oop - okay, then let.me just revert to my upbringing. Come get you some.

Muhammad Rasheed - I'm not homosexual. Finish off with your dad some more.

Eric Matthews - Closing comments. Again, folks can't be civil.

The Admin Team - @Muhammad... We removed your post "Southern Fried Rabbit (1953)" in TV Cartoons That Time Forgot! 

we get your intent, but there's certain types of posts that (unfortunately) are dog whistles to racists - it's like they're compelled to let it out. it was also reported by other members as "menber[sic] conflict". so it's going away

Bugsy and Mugsy (1957)

Muhammad Rasheed - "I don't know how you's done it, BUT I KNOW YOU'S DONE IT!!!"

Bugs Bunny terrorizes the career criminal duo Rocky & Mugsy in Bugsy and Mugsy (1957), a ridiculously funny classic masterpiece from WB director Fritz Freleng. I didn't see this one as a child, but in my adult years well after I'd left Detroit MI. Every gag tickled me just now as I searched for the perfect screenshot.


Rabbit's Kin (1952)

"Eh, how many lumps do ya want?"

Rabbit's Kin (1952) directed by original WB 'Termite Terrance' alum Bob McKimson. This is the classic short that introduced the criminally under-used Pete Puma character, voiced by Stan Freberg doing his John L. C. Silvoney impression ("Crazy Guggenheim" from the Jackie Gleason Show). This one showed pretty often during my Detroit MI childhood, and was an instant favorite. 


The Alligator King (1971)

♪ Said the Alligator King to his 7-sons,  "I'm feelin' mighty down" ♫

The Alligator King (1971), one of several classic shorts animated & directed by Bud Luckey for Sesame Street, taught the young viewing audience how to count to 7 while telling the tale of possibly depression-fueled burnout amongst the alligator ruling class. I always end up singing this ditty when playing the Uno® card game with my daughter because of my long-time habit of dealing the cards out loud, much to her annoyance.

Saturday, March 2, 2024

All These Powers, and You Chose Lame-Assed

 

[original cartoon pending]


CITATION
Rasheed, Muhammad. "All These Powers, and You Chose Lame-Assed." Cartoon. The Official Website of Cartoonist M. Rasheed 00 Date 2024.  [cartoon pending] Pen & ink w/Adobe Photoshop color.


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Q: What is the best superpower to have?

Jim Christmas - I haven't seen this answer yet, so…


Doesn't look like much does he?

This is “The Mule," a mutant from Issac Asimov's Foundation series. The Mule ruined a very detailed plan for the future with his unanticipated power.

His power was the ability to influence… uh… strongly. He couldn't read minds, but he had a sense of the thoughts around him, and he could make adjustments. By playing with the internal control knobs of your psyche, he could cause you to live in mortal terror of the person you love the most. He could make you work non-stop until you died, on whatever he deemed worthy. He could tweak minds in such a way that his staunchest enemies would become his most loyal followers. These people would know that they'd been altered, but they wouldn't care. They would follow the Mule's wishes for the remainder of their lives.

He could make you so desperately unhappy that you would die from it. He could give glimpses of rapturous pleasure so intense that you’d do anything just for a second look.

His power has no outward clues. To watch him would be to see nothing at all happen, except that those he focused his mind on for just a moment would forever spin in a new direction.

Muhammad Rasheed - So, if there are no humans around, he doesn’t have any powers.

Fail.

Jim Christmas - And if there's no metal, Magneto has no powers.

No atmosphere, Storm has no powers.

No people, Xavier had no powers.

No yellow sun, superman had no powers…

Etc.

Muhammad Rasheed - “What is the best superpower to have?”

Jim wrote: “His power was the ability to influence”

The ability to influence other human beings isn’t the best power because it is hinged upon other humans being around.

Jim wrote: “And if there's no metal, Magneto has no powers.”

Earth is full of metal. There’s metal everywhere. #FalseEquivalency

Jim wrote: “No atmosphere, Storm has no powers.”

If there was no atmosphere, all humans would die and the earth would be barren. #FalseEquivalency

Jim wrote: “No people, Xavier had no powers.”

Agreed. Telepathy isn’t the best power either for the same reason this ‘Mule’ guy doesn’t have the best power. Perhaps only a Dutch enslaver descended from the VOC crew would think manipulation of other people is the “best power.”

Jim wrote: “No yellow sun, superman had no powers…”

If there were no sun, earth would die. #FalseEquivalency

Jim Christmas - So you want only superpowers that work in the absence of other humans, but you do require a yellow star even though Kal-El's home planet didn't have one (so not a super power while back at home), and you don't care that Magneto was imprisoned by distancing him from all metals…

All seems rather arbitrary to me. What's your pick?

Muhammad Rasheed - Jim wrote: “So you want only superpowers that work in the absence of other humans”

lol No. I love the wide variety of power ranges. That’s genuinely cool. What we’re evaluating here is the BEST super power to have. Your decision to interpret my critique as meaning I personally wish there to only be a limited type of power in all fiction counts as the #StrawmanEffigy fallacy.

Jim wrote: “but you do require a yellow star even though Kal-El's home planet didn't have one (so not a super power while back at home)”

Very true. The Kryptonian is only powered up in very specific circumstances, similar to the “X-Gene” mutants of Marvel Comics.

Jim wrote: “and you don't care that Magneto was imprisoned by distancing him from all metals…”

Regular humans being able to take advantage of Magneto’s inherent weakness does count towards disqualifying “master of magnetism” as the best super power to have. I just pushed back on your precise verbiage (“if there’s no metal”) which seemed unreasonable, considering we live on metal-plentiful earth.

Jim wrote: “All seems rather arbitrary to me.”

I readily agree that any genre discussion that evaluates what’s the best [fill-in-the-blank] will have a great deal of subjectivity attached. Despite the snippiness of my writing voice, please understand that my critique was not provided in a spirit of meanness, but only in the routine, fellow fanboy debate challenge.

Jim wrote: “What's your pick?”

Stand by...

Muhammad Rasheed - The best power to have is to be a living battery for a vast, unlimited energy source, to use to grant yourself various additional abilities & enhancements at will.

Silver Surfer (Vol. 3) #3

The best mainstream comic book example of this power is possessed by the two characters shown in my Marvel Comics cover example above:
  • The Runner of the Universe
  • The Silver Surfer
Both the Runner and the Surfer are examples of living batteries for the ‘Power Primordial’ and the ‘Power Cosmic’ respectively. They have both trained themselves (the Silver Surfer’s power usage is more inherently instinctual) to use their energy sources for a wide variety of effects, to include super-strength enhancement, super-speed, interstellar flight, energy manipulation & projection, regeneration, immortality, matter manipulation, psionic powers, etc.

The best possible source for this type of power would come from learning, as opposed to it being granted to the character by generic, in story-verse fate, or the fickle whims of a desperate Cosmic Being. This way no one would be able to arbitrarily take your powers away from you since they would be based on what you know (unless you were somehow lobotomized by a far more powerful being). An example of a character learning how to give himself such power is best demonstrated in the short story Green Magic by Jack Vance.

Olumide Maborukoje - M. Rasheed wrote: "So, if there are no humans around, he doesn’t have any powers. Fail."

Surely superpowers only exist because there are other people around. In the absence of other people there is no frame of reference for what makes powers super.

Ultimately, the question is subjective. For a person who struggles with self image, the Mule’s power might seem awesome. For me, it’s terrible.

Muhammad Rasheed - There’s a wide spectrum of different types/levels of superpowers. The weakest ones are hinged upon whether other people are around or not. The best ones determine your personal levels of comfort & security up to and including immortality and planet-destroying offensives.

Olumide Maborukoje - That’s opinion.

I respect that opinion, but I disagree with it. As I said, the question is subjective.

As an individual, the comfort of the people I surround myself by is a big factor in my personal comfort and security.

For instance, you speak of immortality. As a person who values community and friendship, immortality would very quickly become a burden for me.

Muhammad Rasheed - Olumide wrote: “That’s opinion.”

lol There’s an estimated 300 million users sharing their opinions on Quora world wide, yet my posts are especially singled out as extra-opinionated for some reason. If you didn’t want to have a reasonable, civil discussion, why respond to my post?

Olumide wrote: “I respect that opinion, but I disagree with it.”

Okay.

Olumide wrote: “As I said, the question is subjective.”

Jim and I already discussed the subjective nature of sharing our genre trope opinions elsewhere in the thread. It is also my subjective opinion that continuously pointing out how our subjective opinions are subjective opinions can be quite tiresome.

Olumide wrote: “As an individual, the comfort of the people I surround myself by is a big factor in my personal comfort and security.”

Finally you got to your actual point. Thank God. lol

Olumide wrote: “For instance, you speak of immortality. As a person who values community and friendship, immortality would very quickly become a burden for me.”

As a committed practicing Abrahamic theist, I likewise would not enjoy the power of immortality in the material universe, as I actually look forward to the One God’s offer of Eternal Bliss. I get it. On an individual level, not all of the superpowers on the spectrum—even the higher level ones—would be equally appealing to every personality. I never made the claim that they were, but I’ll admit it is fun to tease people who gush over powers I personally find lame (like Jim’s goofy Mule fandom).

Olumide Maborukoje - The last sentence of your response answers my initial question.

Your initial response to Jim seemed dismissive, and I was trying to understand.

All in all, thank you for an interesting few minutes.

Muhammad Rasheed - Peace.