It’s a very humbling moment when you use a hammer for the first time…

The follow up video is.. 👨‍🍳🤌

youtu.be/JW-01upPRno

Me when

Huh, I’m curious to know if they believe that God would never rescind their salvation, like somehow that’d be inaccessible to GOD???

If no matter what you do, you’ll go to heaven because you believe the right thing, then you should definitely treat this life like a test you can actually fail.

For sure, I did think about Doug Ford and his dipshittery as mayor of Toronto, who I understand now has an even bigger role… which is concerning.

But Trudeau, despite his flaws, could explain how quantum computers work somewhat passably when he was PM so I decided to apply a discount!

These are the Democrats who voted with their Republican friends to double healthcare costs for millions of Americans. They're all millionaires.

Always teasing us from across the 45th parallel, with their $30 insulin and top leaders who can speak full sentences 🫠

I totally understand that not all religious nonprofits have the cash to act as a food bank, but if you can’t mobilize your congregation to find a SINGLE person who would be willing to cover baby formula…

I guess, if you can’t walk the walk, then you can’t talk the talk.

Huh… wow. I also couldn’t help but react to the inanity (and insanity) of this opening paragraph. The man was very clear about his policy position—what mask was he wearing exactly???

The dumbest thing is that their candidate of choice was wearing the thickest mask of all.

Wow, yeah I can imagine if you’re a parent and you receive a call like that, you can’t not drop everything and help out. It takes a village!

Also they must have known how tough it is out there, and desperation is not something you can simply shrug off.

I’m guessing the person who answered the call at the mosque was acting on these principles—they didn’t need the attention and helping people is part of the day-to-day operations.

I think the lesson is that it takes a system to encourage individuals to choose good over greed. Not just a religion.

Like if someone eats a fruit off the tree. Or you save a kid’s life and they do something good.

And one more concept here: the best form of charity is done without anyone (but God) seeing it. The saying is “Donate as if your left hand can’t see what your right hand is doing.”

Given all of this…

One flavor of sadaqa is called sadaqa-jarriyah—whenever you do something out of charity that will continue to help those long after you die, like planting a fruit tree or building a school. Essentially, any time someone benefits, even after you die, you still get pinged for it…

There is another form a charity in Islam called sadaqa, which is any charity on top of zakat. Essentially, there’s no restrictions—it can be whatever. Essentially, once you die, you’re kind of locked in to all the stuff that you did in this life, and your eternal souls is judged on that.

However…

In Islam, we pay zakat—you take 2.5% of your current wealth and send it wherever you want, locally or abroad, and that money MUST be given directly to someone below the poverty threshold (caveat: preferably Muslim, and they aren’t required to pay zakat).

But that’s just what’s required… 🧵

JK, it’s not Universal but it does have socialism (2.5% wealth tax)

Islam has UBI, just sayin’…

I’m sure they had this at the ready, for weeks