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FADE TO BLACK - TRIUMPH OF THE IRRATIONAL
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FAREWELL POSTINGS
Introduction
Dear...,
It is always nice to hear from you. Thanks for the pictures. Everyone looks great.
I may live another ten years, and then again I may not. Isn’t that the situation for most people my age?
In informing me of the result of my latest thoracic echocardiogram my doctor said that I had been dodging a bullet for years, and I may continue doing so, but the odds were no longer in my favour.
She said she was sorry but it could happen at any time and there was nothing anyone could do.
I told her that, after what Lucette went through, I considered it a godsend, even if I don’t believe in the guy.
A silver lining; with my last book, Fade to Black, I thought I had nothing left to write about, and lo and behold I get to write about Lucette and me again and revisit stuff I wrote about Islam.
I am writing my Farewell Postings without the benefit of a proof-reader, or a Lucette to tell me “you can’t say that”, so expect more than some grammatical surprises that I hope will make you smile and not make you sad.
If I beat the odds, won’t I have egg on my face.
Love You
Bernard
What’s In a Name?
December 6, 2024
The less deserving a religious icon’s reputation for propriety, the louder will be the call to silence his critics, and, so it would seem, will be the rush by parents to name their sons after him where they enjoy the freedom to name their offspring after whoever they want*; proving once again, that you can take the believer out of the Land of Peace—the land where wars are never-ending—but you can’t take the Land of Peace out of the believer.
Muhammad was the top choice for parents naming their baby boys in England and Wales in 2023. BBC Dec. 5, 2024
My name, whose one meaning is “brave as a bear” will always be associated, not with a bear but a big, friendly dog. I am okay with that, although it would be nice to also be remembered as the author who revealed the real Muhammad in postings such as Most Common Lies Told About Muhammad, in a book about a war he started that continues to this day, in a unique biography etc.
As to being brave… the risk I took in writing about a violent, militant religion from the comfort of my home after a life lived is nothing compared to the risk we expose young people with their life ahead of them, when we send them to fight the likes of the Taliban and ISIS. Rest in peace.
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* For example, in the Land of Peace, naming your children after Greek or Roman gods and goddesses is considered an insult against Allah, the one and only god. Such insults are punishable by death.
The Man Who Will Find Me Dead and the Hijab's Connection to Public Latrines
December 4, 2024
Abbas calls every day, often more than once. It’s an arrangement we have. Should I fail to answer on any given day, he is to check in on me to make sure I have not passed. He has a key to my condo.
We talked about his home country a lot. Today, it was about Iran’s Parliament enacting a harsh new modesty law that will not only increase penalties for not wearing the hijab, a piece of cloth that was never about piety, but also for not wearing it correctly, i.e., not a strand of hair must be visible.
Abbas still hopes that the oppression of women by the ruling theocracy will lead to revolution but, as Uzza pointed out, they can’t do it without the men, and most of the men don’t seem interested.
Not Bleeding Into My Risotto and What Does the Prophet Have to Do With It
December 3, 2024
For reasons mentioned in my posting of November 22, 2024, The Oddsmakers Have Spoken, I usually dine alone. Should I have an aortic graph to extend my life for maybe five years I will, for the rest of my life, be on blood thinners; this, after a five hour operation under general amnestic and being put on and off a heart-lung machine which will probably leave me somewhat stupider than when I agreed to the procedure. My sister tells me I have brain cells to spare so I should not worry about that. She is being kind.
What I worry about is a quality of life that now hinges on going out for dinner without having to worry about my nose bleeding into my food because of blood with a viscosity approaching that of water. Of course, if I followed Muhammad’s medical advice for whatever ails you the idea of surgery would never come up.
At one point in time, there was talk of setting up a school of Prophetic Medicine. The idea was dropped when it became clear that much of it was nonsense. Example:
Narrated Abu Sa'id al-Khudri:
I heard that the people asked the Prophet of Allah (peace be upon him): Water is brought for you from the well of Buda'ah. It is a well in which dead dogs, menstrual clothes and excrement of people are thrown.
The Messenger of Allah (peace be upon him) replied: Verily water is pure and is not defiled by anything.
Abu Dawud 1.0067
Muhammad’s understanding of human anatomy, and the cause of diseases, was on par with the god for whom he spoke who could not even accurately describe the gestation process for which He took credit.
Islam is not so much a religion as a way of life, with thousands of indelible rules to instruct every waking moment of a believer’s existence. First, there is the Koran’s more than six thousand revealed truths, i.e., immutable facts communicated to a mortal by a god. Then, the more than 14,000 hadiths (the sayings and example of the Prophet Muhammad) of the Sunni Canon.
In Islam: A Short History (2002), Karen Armstrong, former nun and unabashed fan of Muhammad, explains why hadiths were made necessary and how they transformed Islam:
The Quran contains very little legislation, and what laws there were had been designed for a much simpler society. So some of the jurists began to collect reports about the Prophet and his companions to find out how they had behaved in a given situation… Thus they believed they would gain true ilm, knowledge of what was right and how to behave... (p.49)
The Prophet, the Perfect Man, became the person to imitate. (p. 60)
Today, you imitate the "Perfect Man" if it does not cause you pain, as his medical advice is bound to, but not if it causes pain to another; that other most often being females with whom, like Muhammad, you can have sex with when they are still children, and stone them when they have reached puberty and beyond.
Today, you also imitate the "Perfect Man" if it does not cause you financial pain, which following Muhammad decrees on the exchange of goods would invariably do, while crippling the modern economy faster than Trump’s tariffs.
Of Scribes and Lawyers
December 2, 2024
With my mortality coming into focus I decided to simplify my will.
Mon 2024-11-25 8:30 AM
To: Lawyer
The following changes will greatly simplify my will:
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A recent thoracic echocardiogram has revealed that the odds of my aortic aneurism going ballistic have significantly increased since the last measurement. Time may be of the essence.
Thu 2024-11-28 1:31 PM
To: Lawyer
When can I expect a revised will to review?
Mon 2024-12-02 8:28 AM
To: Me
Given current work load, will do what I can to get this done before the holidays.
Not unlike Muhammad during the negotiations that would lead to the Treaty of Hudaibiyah, I decided to take matters into my own hands.
Mon 2024-12-02 9:50 AM
To: Lawyer
I understand. I am somewhat concerned about my durability; therefore, if you could send me the Word copy of my will, I will make the changes myself then have them notarized.
Muhammad rewrote a section of the treaty, to which the Meccans objected, after his scribe refused to make the modification. This raises the question as to whether the successful merchant was actually an illiterate as implied from Allah's use of the words "the unlettered Prophet" in Revelations 7:157-158 and as reiterated in a questionable biography.
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Lucette once explained to me how to differentiate a friend from an acquaintance. She said, “a friend will do things for you even if its inconvenient.” It was my fault for thinking Andre was a friend and not just an acquaintance with a lot to do who would tell me to take my business elsewhere when I tried to expedite the changes to my last will and testament, just in case…
My and Muhammad's Death
December 1, 2024
Unless I get hit by a bus, or suffer some other misfortune before the blessed event, my official cause of death will be a ruptured aorta, not unlike what Muhammad expected. The Prophet thought he was dying from poison he ingested a few years earlier from eating a leg of lamb, prepared by a Jewish cook, that was causing his aorta to rupture.
Narrated Aisha:
The Prophet in his ailment in which he died, used to say, "O Aisha! I still feel the pain caused by the food I ate at Khaibar, and at this time, I feel as if my aorta is being cut from that poison."
Bukhari 59.713
Muhammad's Official Cause of Death
Allah’s Love of the Male Gender and My Estate
November 30, 2024
Islam makes no allowance for reasonableness and that is particular evident in the disposition of an inheritance. Abu Hanifah (b. 700 - d. 767), founder of the Hanafi Madhhab, the most progressive of the four mainstream Sunni schools of Islamic jurisprudence, denied that reason played any part in his rulings using Revelation 4:11, “Allah commands you, with respect to your children, that the male shall inherit the equivalent of the share of two females.”
Hanifah: Who is weaker, man or woman?
Baqir: Woman.
Hanifah: Which of them is entitled to larger share in inheritance?
Baqir: The man.
Hanifah: If I had been making deductions by analogy, I should have said that the woman should get the larger share, since on the face of it the weaker one is entitled to more consideration. But I have not said so.
Allah's love of the male gender and the disdain that He shares with Muhammad for females—which many women find endearing—played no part in my giving a male, in my last will and testament, a slightly larger portion over time of my modest estate. If I don’t continue to support him after I am dead, he risks becoming one of Trudeau’s homeless, and I wouldn’t want that no matter the gender.
POST-MORTEM
What happens to boreal.ca after I am gone is one thing, my books quite another. In Remembering Uzza, a character is prosecuted under a law that makes it a criminal offence to cause anyone “dogmatic distress” because of something they said or wrote. Under legislation making its way through Parliament that type of offence will likely become reality.
While Bill C-63 is ostensibly aimed at what is posted online, under new powers granted the Canadian Human Rights Commissioner by the legislation, they will be allowed to entertain and rule on any complaints filed by anyone alleging to have suffered the equivalent of dogmatic distress, including from what has yet to be said or published. My books will definitely cause some readers to experience “dogmatic distress”, especially my latest and last: Fade to Black.
In my last will and testament I have instructed my executor to transfer all my published and unpublished material, including cover art, into the public domain. You will be free to publish any or all of my books under your own label, just give credit where credit is due. To make it easy, contents of all my books is available as web pages and as free downloadable PDFs.
Cheers!
Bernard Payeur email