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What Arab teams want, and what they will get

Instead of taking ozempic or whatever else pharmaceutical diet (with no known long term effects, plus side effects and plateaus) all you need to do is eat real food, count your calories (and fat, sugar, carbs content), and move around for 1-2 hours per day. Since March 2025, I’ve shed off 25 pounds. I wasn’t obese per se, but 3 years of lockdowns, uber orders, and not paying enough attention to nutritional content brought me up to almost 207 pounds. I didn’t just look worse, I felt worse - my heart definitely had to work harder; I was snoring, I was getting bad back aches, etc. About a year ago, I got a Garmin watch as a gift. They track your heart rate, calories burned, sleep etc. It inspired me to start logging everything I ate. I try to net around 1700 calories per day - either purely through food or through gym / long walks (ultimately a combination of both). Today I hit 182, alhamdulillah. The one-meal-a-day thing didn’t work for me (because I would yo-yo diet). Low carb didn’t work for me either. And you can’t outwork a bad diet either. What started working for me was: one and a half meals per day. That’s basically one full meal and a “snack”. I could no longer do 2 full meals per day, because knowing me, I know I’ll randomly drink a juice, eat a chocolate, or be offered something unexpected during the day. A couple hours of intense workout will only burn 400-500 calories (if that), so it really is your eating that has to change mostly. For reference, that’s like 4 slices of toast, or one serving of fries, or two scoops of ice cream. Cutting can be irritating for the first 3 weeks, but after that, I guarantee you that you’ll get full faster and for longer hours. Modern people are so fat. Muslims are so fat. Stop being fat - be chubby, and then be flabby, and then be skinny-fat, and then just be yourself again.

Bad times are seasonal.

As a follow up - this post gives the benefit of the doubt to Israel, that it may achieve a victory in the region, build the Third Temple, and crown a messiah-claimant. That’s still a big “what if”. (1) This “forever war” has consequences: brain drain from Israel, a battle-weary IDF, a strained economy (despite the stability of the shekel), and reputational damage internationally. Netanyahu’s coalition is intent on achieving its goals through hard power, but it is testing the limits of Israeli society. (2) Israeli society at large may not be ready for a transition toward a full-on theocracy (which is what the Temple and the Sanhedrin would result in). This would divide Israeli society in unprecedented ways. (3) A Jewish messiah would hurt the Christian Zionist movement, which is the main supporter of Israel. Prior to Trumpenyahu, the Israeli strategy was to have very short term wars, and a fundamentally secular society. This post-Oct 7 reality is a real gamble, and there is no clear and absolute ending in sight. It is riding on the optimism of millenarians — that we are at the cusp of a Jewish hegemony and global surrender. That eschatological zeal may be the thing that leads to Israel’s gradual deterioration and eventual demise.

Israeli election interference in France, New York, Scotland, Angola, and Togo. https://fxtwitter.com/DropSiteNews/status/2065191175603265595/video/1

Morocco was the first nation to recognize the United States as a sovereign and independent state in 1777. 🇲🇦 American ships were granted protection and free access to Moroccan ports. This culminated in the 1786 Moroccan-American Treaty of Peace and Friendship, which remains the longest unbroken treaty in U.S. history. #CreepingSharia

Every Arab/Desi/Turk/Persian https://fxtwitter.com/GarbageHuman24/status/2065746349430276146/video/1

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What the hell man https://www.standard.co.uk/news/politics/london-council-meeting-bexley-cats-beheaded-go-ape-b1285880.html

Tom Bombadil was one of my favourite characters in Lord of the Rings, and the fact that he was cut out of The Fellowship of the Ring movie disappointed me as a preteen. The older I get, the more I think about Bombadil - a heroic figure, an old wise man, an eccentric, living in the forest. Tolkien wrote a certain theology into him as well. He was the oldest creation, and he was fatherless. If he is ever conquered, "Night will come"; so the world rests on him. He sees the hidden matters (Frodo's Ring has no effect on him). "He is", Goldberry says to Frodo, when she is asked who Tom Bombadil was. Is this an echo of God's famous answer to Moses in Exodus? ("I am who I am") Writing to his editor in April 1954, Tolkien wrote this regarding Bombadil: "The story is cast in terms of a good side, and a bad side, beauty against ruthless ugliness, tyranny against kingship… but both sides in some degree, conservative or destructive, want a measure of control.But if you have, as it were, taken a 'vow of poverty', renounced control, and take your delight in things for themselves without reference to yourself… then the questions of the rights and wrongs of power and control might become utterly meaningless to you, and the means of power quite valueless…" So, Bombadil lives like a man who is entirely content and even delighted with the world around him. This is why the Ring has no power over him - "one Ring to rule them all" is just another ring to him. The last thing Gandalf does before returning to the Undying Lands is pay Bombadil a visit; as if he is accessing that pure and delightful mode of being. Besides resembling a sort of English nature spirit, Bombadil to me represents: (1) The concept of the hujja, abdaal, qutb, or tsadik in mystical forms of Islam and Judaism. This is a man, or a group of people, who stand between God and humanity, and whose presence provides respite, and whose attendance delays the chastisement of God and the destruction of the world. The chastisement of God came down on the communities of Noah, Lot, Salih, Hud, and Shu'ayb only after they were commanded to leave those communities. So long that they were among the community, God's chastisement was withheld, and there was a chance for guidance and repentance. The Quran says "But Allah would never punish them while you ˹O Prophet˺ were in their midst. Nor would He ever punish them if they prayed for forgiveness." (8:33) The idea is that, without good people, the world would sink into itself; and blessings come from heaven so long that these good people are among us. Bombadil also mirrors the idea of a hidden messiah, who remains in his little paradise until the time is right - a friend of the righteous, but otherwise stowed away. (2) The righteous see things as they are. There is an oral tradition, found in Ibn Abi'l Dunya's Kitab al-Yaqin, where the people asked Jesus "how is it that you walk on water?" He struck his hands into the earth and grasped two fistfuls: gold in one, and dust in the other. He asked, "which of these two is more beloved to your hearts?" They said, "The gold." He said, "To me, they are the same." Once one achieves radical contentment, they are delighted by the smallest of things, and live in a state of bliss with God and with nature. Even in philosophy, the correct approach is to go in without presuppositions, without attachments, and without a need to "control" the narrative. True philosophy is meek, as it accepts things as they are, without the ego and without power dynamics. I pray that we are made into righteous, content, and modest vessels, because that is the only peace we will find in this world.

—❗️🇺🇸/🇮🇷 President Trump: ‘It could be the greatest deal in history. They could wave the white flag of surrender. They could say ‘we surrender, we surrender, we’re finished, we’ve had it, the United States is the greatest power, praise be to Allah!’ @Middle_East_Spectator

As U.S. airstrikes occur in Iran, remember that we noticed a change in Iran’s anti aircraft capabilities in 2026. The airstrikes are responding to a helicopter that was shot down. What happens if one or more of these airplanes are shot down?

The IDF initially said that the car in the West Bank was speeding toward them, and that they responded with single shots that injured three Palestinians. The footage clearly shows that the car halted. The IDF shot a 7 month old in the head and killed him. Aka, they kill Palestinians just because they are Palestinians before they’re even old enough to know that they are Palestinians. https://t.me/theologyandgeopolitics/15658

“Religion lost social prestige because it was subjected to ridicule, satire, mockery, and cultural pressure, [not because it was] decisively refuted philosophically.”

Biology doesn’t care about your calendar https://fxtwitter.com/Tablesalt13/status/2064701694324183187/video/1

There is a strong messianic current in Zionist Orthodox Jewish circles right now. They point to a few historic preconditions: (1) the ingathering of exiles back to the land of Israel (Isaiah 11:11-12, Ezekiel 36-37, Jeremiah 30-31), (2) preparations for the Third Temple (red heifers etc), (3) religious Jews believe that the coming of the messiah will be preceded by a loss of some kind and a period of mourning in Israel (Messiah Ben Yosef). Many including Rabbi Tovia Singer actually believe that this occurred on October 7, (4) religious Jews believe in a war of Gog and Magog, of which Persia is the head of the coalition (Ezekiel 38). The Talmud posits a war between Rome and Persia. Rome is seen by most as the West, while Persia is modern Iran. So to this cohort, the coming of the Davidic messiah is near - he is expected at the end of this war with Iran. Afterwards, there is supposed to be a period of universal peace, with no wars. Everyone accepts the God of Israel, gentiles will take hold of the sleeve of a Jew because God is with them (Zechariah 8:23), and gentiles will even worship in the Third Temple. All of this is basically the minimum — the maximum would include the resurrection of some of the dead, and other supernatural events. There have been messiah episodes in the past. Most notably, Bar Kochba and Sabbatai Zvi. They ended in upset. Now, there is a good chance that we see a new messiah claimant and a new temple. Israel may even achieve some kind of victory in the region. But what happens when the messiah is just a regular dude, and there is no universal peace and no supernatural events? As the blood dries and the dust settles in these wars, what if the world doesn’t suddenly love Israel, but the trend of anti-Israel sentiment continues to grow? What you will have is just another king — one with an extra special title — but a king nonetheless who governs for a time, has his supporters and opponents domestically and internationally, and then dies. The contrast with the true messiah, Jesus the son of Mary, would be striking. It is inevitable that Israelis find out that you can’t create a messiah. You can’t force your way into the messianic age with bullets and bombs. You can’t crush the Dome of the Rock, and kill up to half a million people, and expect the world to become Zionist and philosemitic. This is delusional, and we may find out the hard way.

Aka, Netanyahu will control both CBS and CNN https://nypost.com/2026/06/09/media/cbs-news-boss-bari-weiss-poised-to-oversee-cnn-editorial-operations-report/