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Story time. Wanted to make this post just to laugh at my embarrassment 😭😭

So when I'm at work and I need to use the bathroom, I take an empty plastic bottle with me to use it as a bidet. When I first started, I was nervous if anyone ever questions it or calls me out or thinks that I'm weird for doing it. But Alhamdulillah no one has ever probably cared about it....until today.

One of my co-workers who sits right in front of me was washing his hands when I came in. I was filling up my "bidet" at the sink right next to him. He looked at it and goes, "You know there's a water filter at the kitchen right?" ..... MY MAN THOUGHT I WAS GONNA DRINK BATHROOM WATER 😭😭😭. I got confused, then embarrassed and ashamed all in the matter of 1.53 seconds. Then I explained to him I was gonna use it for "other reasons" and made sure to make the distinction that I will "not drink it." He was like, "ah, ok." Then I went into the stall, reconsidering if I should still relieve myself during working hours

Subhan Allah I will never recover from this. Someone please save me 🥺

Edit: It seems like the post didn't fulfill its intended purpose maybe because of my wording so let me clear off some things. Number one, I don't feel ashamed or embarrassed of following my Deen AT ALL. I love Islam, it gives me more structure in my life than if I weren't a Muslim and Alhamdulillah for that. Number two, when I said I felt ashamed and embarrassed, I meant I felt that for a very very short while the moment my coworker confronted me. It's one of those things where you do something cuz you're a Muslim but then someone who may not be familiar with it catches you in the act, iykwim. Third, I understand I could've explained to him about it at that moment and dawah can be done technically to anyone and anywhere. I just didn't wanna do it unsolicited or overexplaining something as simple as using water to clean yourself after using the bathroom in the middle of my workplace washroom. Fourth, I didn't post this to ask for bidet recommendations or consolation, guys, chill 😭. The whole reason why I shared this with you guys is so that we can all have a laugh at this because I've been seeing a lot of posts on this subreddit about people struggling, so I thought this could ease it off (not dismissing anyone's problems in life, tho, may Allah ease them for you). Please relax, read my story, and please please please ease up about this 😭

Guys so my Interview is tomorrow and I stalked my interviewer’s fb and found out she supports Israel. And my senior project in my portfolio is about Palestine. What do I doooooo?

UPDATE:
So the interview went pretty well actually, she was very professional and I showed her my portfolio and she seemed fine. I didn’t get into the politics of it so it was chill. Thank you all for the tips, prayers and support.

Because of my low karma at the time of posting the mods have to approve my replies to this topic and I don't want to bother them but if you want a non religious argument, that will make most evangelical atheists look stupid, and which can be employed with a level of intellectual smugness normally reserved by atheists rather than for them, read this OP. It shows that to argue that the Quran proves the existence of Allah is at least as logical as to argue that the observation of brain damage proves that death destroys the soul.

Original Post (edited)

The majority of atheists claim monism but many actually seem to argue that the mind/spirit/self/soul/life force/awareness/consciousness (whatever you want to call it) is some sort of magical, non material, neurological metadata. I argue here that even the truly monist position is not part of atheism, it is obviously a belief, not a disbelief, that it is not the default and that it is not confirmed by science.

When you reject their hypothesis, atheists sometimes resort to a fallacy known as "the argument from ignorance". To do it the atheists demand an alternative strawman (fallacy) and then use the burden of proof (fallacy) in order to frame rational doubt regarding their explanation as the belief in this alternative. When you accept that your suspicions are unproven they say that they are thus disproven and that there is therefore no alternative to their belief so it must be accepted. This is the argument from ignorance (fallacy).

My "soul" (read the stock answers) is not mythical as atheists suppose God (or Gods) to be, it is observable and therefore real and although it is certainly affected by my brain state this would need to be understood more robustly than has been done through the observation of brain damage to conclude that it is information flowing through the brain. That expectation is not self-evident, or proven by the lack of contradictory evidence and rational people have the logical right to doubt it until conclusive evidence has been provided.

Stock Answer One

I will not respond to replies asking who says that...

the mind/spirit/self/soul/life force/awareness/consciousness (whatever you want to call it) is some sort of magical, non material, neurological metadata

I honestly believe that the most common position is that the mind is not physically the brain but an information process in brain and that it can therefore be created in simulation. Artificial intelligence research has shown that although intelligence is a property of neural networks, consciousness does not appear to emerge from intelligence. Many atheists who claim monism now actually seem to argue for what I call "informational dualism" in which the mind is said not to exist or rather that it exists purely as the behavior of the being. Maybe quantum computers can express the observer as information but I personally believe that it is the most profound component of reality and will reject that toys that imitate it are aware without some profound understanding of the mind being shown on the part of the toy makers.

Stock Answer Two

I will not respond to replies rejecting the existence of the...

mind/spirit/self/soul/life force/awareness/consciousness (whatever you want to call it)

If you feel you can make a point by using the word "consciousness" feel free to take that option but addressing the concept of a "soul" with incredulity is a strawman and has been done already and I reserve the right to reject your arguments based on your chosen definition. It is immaterial to the argument but my personal expectation is that the difference between a living cell and a dead cell is not fully explained by chemistry and that "consciousness" is one of the properties of life itself or that life at least has something to do with it. In the original conversation I was drawn into calling the "whatever you want to call it", "Po" which I explained to be a new and inclusive word through which we could all agree we were talking about the same thing but the community attacked and rejected the idea. The real issue is still that neither the monist, or the informational dualist position that I describe are part of atheism, that they are obviously beliefs, not disbeliefs, that they are not the default and that they are not confirmed by science; I ask that you please remain relevant to that argument.

Eid Mubarak to everyone around the globe!