Comments by "Emir" (@irongron) on "Sam Harris"
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My ancestry is from the former Yugoslavia (Mother Serbian, Father Bosnian). For me, Islam never felt right, for starters most of my fathers side of the family were closet drinkers, so I would not call them real muslims. I grew up in Australia and going to the mosque there was weird, it was mostly Pakistani's and us Bosnians. All of us kids hated learning Arabic to read the Quaran, so we would go out in the back yard and play cricket, Pakistani kids love cricket and Australians love cricket, so that was it for us. When I moved to Ukraine a decade ago, I was baptised into the Ukrainian Orthodox Church, thus correcting a mistake my father's ancestors made in the Balkans hundreds of years ago because of the Ottoman Turks. Anyway, thanks for the scholarship Mr. Harris and I hope this comment helps as a kind of "value add" to your quite lively discussion with Mr. Stewart!
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Brilliant episode Mr Harris. Your postulation on manufacturing anything modern form scratch like a smart phone, had me thinking that was unfair, in that maybe let's even it up a bit and make it more simple and fair (like when Elon bet you that covid-19 would not exceed 35,000 cases and you offered a more fair bet of 35 million and he refused and promptly lost the bet and cheated you and the charity of a million bucks), so could anyone make a simple thing like a toaster ? Ok, so the smart-asses would say, build a fire and put a slice of bread on a stick, there's your "toaster". Ok fine, so can they make the bread from scratch ? Grow some wheat, harvest it, grind it down, to get flour, then add a water, make dough, then bake it to make bread, then manufacture a knife to slice the bread and put it on a stick in a fire to toast it. I doubt any modern person, including me, could make the bread from scratch (not gong to the supermarket and buying flour but MAKE the flour!) let alone mine and smelt the iron for a knife and forge it.
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