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I am religious and believe in free will

70 (27.6%)

I am religious and do not believe in free will

10 (3.9%)

I am not religious and believe in free will

113 (44.5%)

I am not religious and do not believe in free will

61 (24%)

Total Members Voted: 249

[Orange Wizard]

Nothing about Islam yet AFAIK. Though That Wolf is still trying to drag my thread into nonsense, it would seem.

[Cryxis, Prince of Doom]

So in Islam, when the horn sounds does everyone get instantly judged or is it just the believers first?

[chaoticag]

Everyone gets in line and gets judged in the order they show up for judgement I think.

[TD1]

Is there any religious significance behind Muslim clothing, or even Muslim beards?

[Cryxis, Prince of Doom]

IIRC it's just supposed to be modest

[chaoticag]

Is there any religious significance behind Muslim clothing, or even Muslim beards?

Modesty for the clothing, but there's a few hadith that talk about how important it is to more or less fit gender expectations. So men can't wear silk or gold as it's a feminizing influence. Beards more or less is being more masculine. I think things change with fashion too. My grandmother isn't a fan of me having a beard for example. Still more people consider going full beard as excessive around here.

[UXLZ]

Everyone gets in line and gets judged in the order they show up for judgement I think.

I really hope those doing the judging can do it REALLY fast or there's a LOT of judging stations. By my calculations, if the entire population of the planet (rounded down to 7 billion) is judged at a rate of one person per second, it would take 222 years.

[Orange Wizard]

When you've got eternity, a couple of centuries is wholly insignificant.

[Cryxis, Prince of Doom]

You're forgetting all other humans who have died, depending on if you get judged upon death or not.

[UXLZ]

When you've got eternity, a couple of centuries is wholly insignificant.

It isn't to the humans who have not yet even lived 30 years. In hindsight it will be meaningless, but those judged last will likely be driven to insanity by the boredom and constant wait, especially if they can't do anything else but stand in line.

Also, comparing anything to eternity is... Odd. It's actually where the nihilistic parts of my belief come from.

[Bohandas]

And those judged last will have the unfair advantage of having been around while god was visibly doing something and therefore automatically having faith as a direct result.

[Cryxis, Prince of Doom]

I think it works more like the next person up enters a room and the door closes and no one else sees the inside of the room until the next
That and I'm pretty sure you can't get saved/gain faith on eh pure dead, or at least can't keep yourself from going to hell if you are going there before you died.

Though I have no idea because I didn't die.

[UXLZ]

And those judged last will have the unfair advantage of having been around while god was visibly doing something and therefore automatically having faith as a direct result.

If by 'last' you mean '500th and onward', possibly.

Also, there's a difference between knowing something to be real and having 'faith' in it.
If I saw God, I would believe in It, but I wouldn't have 'faith'. My first thought would be that It was misrepresented in whatever texts there were about it. If it was represented correctly, then I would be absolutely terrified of It.

[Frumple]

Just pause everyone that's not currently being judged. Deep freeze or whatever. No reason those waiting have to be aware of the time passing, if you're dealing with something that can effectively kill off the entire species with a horn toot or whatev'. It can do that, it can knock you out for a few hundred years or however long it takes.

[Cryxis, Prince of Doom]

There's also the whole, spirits aren't time based like people. Or at least god isn't so I can't imagine our personal appointments being time based either