Little tip:

to reach your goal with less effort and more time is much better than reaching your goal with less time and more effort.

A little recipe that kicks ass:

well, i can't tell you my ratios cuz i'm an ass hole, but if you know the macronutrient content you can figure it out. anyway, this is a healthy chili recipe that works extremely well for bodybuilding purposes (especially losing fat)

Ingredients:
1 kilogram of extra lean beef
1 large onion
1 large green pepper
1 teaspoon chili powder (the original recipe called for 4 tablespoons... i tried 1.5 tbsp and almost died... shits spicy as hell)
1 teaspoon salt
a dash of pepper
1 tbsp paprika
4 cups campbell's tomato juice
450 grams beans (i use baked beans... you can use anything you like)

Instructions:
cook the ground beef on a skillet (with no oil) until brown (med hi-hi heat), put the beef in a sieve and rinse it off (this gets rid of a lot of unwanted fat), return in the skillet and add the paprika, chili powder, pepper and salt... chop the onion and saute it without oil in another large pot. when the onions are golden in color, add the beef to it... cook on med hi heat for 1 minute, then add the beans, green pepper and tomato juice.... stir until you have a homogenous mixture ... turn the heat to hi until the tomato juice boils... bring it back down to med-hi to med heat and stir every five minutes until you get the thickness you desire (for me it's usually 45 minutes to an hour)...

this will make around 4 servings, each serving is 500 calories (give or take)

Note: This post is mostly about religion. So, if you are offended by thought provoking questions that aren’t frequently asked about religion, please don’t read this. The purpose of this post is for me to find answers to my questions, and not to offend anyone’s religion or religious beliefs.


First of all, I’m not the best candidate to start this discussion. Yes, I am a muslim, but I don’t pray as much as I should, and I don’t have enough knowledge to discuss complex issues about religion. I sometimes try to discuss some issues that get me thinking. Whenever I start these “taboo” discussions, I’m bombarded by replies like “this is haram, you shouldn’t talk about this.” Or “these questions were never meant to be asked, so don’t ask them.” Or my personal favorite “astaghfur allah!!! This is kufur!!” … when in fact, I haven’t read anything (up till this date) that says it’s a sin to talk about this. Let’s start, shall we?

Evolution

As Robin Williams said in his stand up comedy act describing a conversation between someone and a religious Christian: “do you think that when God said ‘let there be light’ he was referring to the big bang?”… “No… God just went ‘click’ (as in flicking a light switch)”… It’s funny, but at the same time sad. All what muslims know about evolution is that Darwin said that we are monkeys! They left out everything else and said that we are monkeys… very mature. Evolution is a reality… if you want proof, get some bacteria and watch them evolve week after week. With us humans, it’s a bit slower. My question is that, if Adam and Eve were sent down from heaven… does that necessarily mean that there wasn’t some form of primate evolving into man and the first evolved primates were actually Adam and Eve?
I once asked one of my close friends this question, and he got FURIOUS!! The first sentence he said after I asked that question was “ASTAGHFUR ALLAH AL ATHEEM!!!!” eh… I believe in evolution because I can see it in front of my eyes.

Culture and fate

We all know that the 3 “heavenly” religions are Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. To my knowledge, all of the prophets that sent the message of those religions live in the same environment (harsh, desert, full of poverty)… why weren’t those religions scattered in different regions? Why were they given to the “weak” and outnumbered? And if God knew that jews were gonna forge the Torah, and Christians were gonna forge the bible, but muslims can never forge the quran, then why didn’t God send down Islam and the Quran before any other religion and just give people a CLEAR sign that this is the only religion and you should follow it. Most people who aren’t afraid to answer say that God wanted to test man kind, and man kind failed twice. God then sent down the religion of Islam and showed that it is the true religion and it can’t be forged. Ok, it might be clear to MUSLIMS that ISLAM is the right religion, but it’s just because we were born muslims. Other people see that it doesn’t make sense. Also, wouldn’t changing the religion or faith of people 3 times cause a lot of confusion and misguidance? I’m telling you we’re human… that’s how it is with us… we start doubting. Plus, right now, we have no clear sign from God that Islam is the true religion. I’m just stating facts here… We can believe stories in history and all the miracles that HAPPENED long ago… stories (history) is nothing but that… each side of that history has 4-20 different stories and they don’t coincide. WHY ALL THE CONFUSION???!!!! If God knows what’s going to happen anyway, why mislead some people and lead others? If Islam is the right religion, how can we show that to all the other people who are not muslim? Will they go to hell because we bomb their asses, cause terror, and give them a reason to think that we’re not God’s “chosen” people? Let me seriously ask you this, if you weren’t born a muslim… and you’re jewish or Christian or Buddhist or whatever… would you convert to islam with the shit going on today? The obvious answer is “no”. will you go to hell for that?

Islam, if it’s so clear…

Why do we have a lot of branches that believe in totally different things? Sheit, Hanbali, Shafi’i, Ismaili, Wahabi… etc. and almost everyone of those branches has transcripts to “prove” that the other branch is “wrong and they are considered infidels”.
We Sunni’s like to believe that others are that way because they hate us and they are “stubborn”. Also, we believe that Christians and Jews know that Islam is right but they are too “stubborn” to admit it. I truly don’t believe that is the case, and it’s silly to generalize that statement. We also believe that every other branch of Islam, or other religion at that matter, has a secret agenda to destroy Islam. To me, that’s just ridiculous. The world is too busy to focus on “us”. It’s a matter of power and money… that’s it. Simple. Most people choose to start a cult (religious or political or whatever) and lead them, for their own benefit(s). That’s why I think Islam got cut up into many different pieces. Please correct me if I’m wrong. Is this the case?

Hadeeth and credibility

My father was once helping my little brother (fahad) study for his “hadeeth” exam. When something caught his eye and we had a discussion about it. The hadeeth was saheeh (correct) according to the school book. The rawi (the man who heard the prophet say it) was Abdullah ibn mas’ood (I’m not 100% sure, but this is the best of my recollection). In the rawi information section, it mentioned that he was a credible source, and that the prophet (peace be upon him) died when abdullah was only 13 years old. My question is, how is someone who is less than 13 years old be a credible source of a hadeeth? And how come some sahaba (the prophets first followers) that are over 20 years old not considered a credible source because someone else said that they were “forgetful”?

Grave torture

My father was once in a discussion (my father has a hobby of listening to or reading the other side(s) of the story… be it political, religious, or just about an argument that happened at work) and one of his friends asked a religious person “now, if God only Judges us by what we do while we live on the day of judgement…. How come some of the sinners have to suffer in the grave before the day of judgement. Does that mean they are judged before everyone else?”… his friend just ended the discussion in the usual way anyone around here would… but now, I’m asking the same question… aren’t we all supposed to be judged in the day of judgement, and not in the grave?

Finally, placing the bets!

Ok, I’m serious when I say this to you… I want to see how you would truthfully bet on which is the most probable religion to be right according to today’s circumstances. From what I see today, I’d really think that God was helping the Jews out… I’m being truthful here and I’m not saying which religion is right or wrong… just who you’d bet on… Money, power, and total control over the media… JEWS!!!! Very smart people… they know how to manipulate everything. I’d bet on the Jews… you?

Please know that I do not want to offend anyone by this post. I just want answers. Lately I have been thinking deeply about things like this (surprisingly, when I told this exact sentence to one of my relatives, he told me that this kind of thinking would take you out of Islam… I’m not saying that this guy represents Islam, but I’m saying that there are retarded people out there who don’t want you to think for yourselves). All of this was brought up by a little sentence I found in a bodybuilding forum member’s signature of:

Question your beliefs, believe in your question.

Stay safe

Warning: this post contains some sexist remarks. If you are offended by such remarks, please fuck off, because being sexist is the way to go.


Last weekend we played this cool board game called “cranium”. There was a statement with a true or false answer and it was “women have 1 less rib than men do”. Of course, most of us said it was false, because it’s common knowledge that MEN have one fewer rib than women do. We have been taught (and reminded of on almost a daily basis) that women were created from a man’s crooked rib. The correct answer was FALSE, as we all said. But it explained that it’s false because women have the same number of ribs that men do. Hmmmmmmmmmmmm… I looked it up… and guess what? WE HAVE THE SAME NUMBER OF RIBS!!!! HURRAY!!!! In our culture, a discussion involving how men are superior to women always ends with “the prophet said that women are lesser in mentality and religion (I guess that’s a rough translation, please correct me if I’m wrong), that means men are superior. And besides, you bitches came outta our ribs!!!” … after that, shit usually hits the fan. Anyway, today I will explain to you why men are superior to women… these are real reasons pulled outta the latest encyclopedia called “my ass”

1- The vast majority of men are stronger than women… that means we can kick your asses if we can’t argue anymore. Hence, we are superior.

2- If a man has a deformed face, he accepts the fact and lets god take over by leaving his god given beard to grow. Women, on the other hand, depend on mere mortals, like channel and other bitches who produce paint, to cover up what’s really inside. Hence, women are traitorous, deceiving, and they can’t be trusted. Men, on the other hand, are extremely bad at lying and always get caught (especially if cheating on their wives), which tells you that men by nature are truthful, honest, and loyal. If women start arguing about that fact, please go back to fact number 1 and enforce it.

3- Men have a penis. We win.

4- According to our religion, men can marry up to 4 wives. Again, we win.

5- When someone says “you got fucked”, it usually means that you’re in a bad situation. When a man has sex with a woman, she gets “fucked”, which is putting her in a bad situation. Someone who is constantly in a bad situation cannot possibly be superior to someone who is not. Hence, women are fucked.

6- There are no countries where men can’t drive. But there is one country where women can’t, which means you suck.

7- It is common knowledge that women were created to make babies and cook. Tell me, why are men the best cooks? Because we are superior.

8- True, we can’t make babies… but who the hell said being pregnant is a good thing? Can you jump rope in your 8th month of pregnancy?... EXACTLY!!!

9- Finally, as that teacher in southpark with Mr. Hand said: “I don’t trust anything that bleeds for 5 days and doesn’t die”


Now, I can safely say that……………… if my wife ever reads this, I’m gonna be sleeping with ruffles under the ironing board for the next 6 months.

Update

Well, I talked to the ittihad team coach and he told me that the eastern province championship was going to be in january (i don't know when in january, but i'll probably know exactly in late december). so, i decided to compete. i won't spend a lot of money or effort in this since i'm already trying to drop fat and become the leanest i've ever been. 14 weeks is more than enough time for me. i might compete at a very low body weight because for the past 8 weeks, i've really let myself go (well... actually it's the opposite)... i don't eat much.. only 4 meals per day... my strength went down... doing a lot of cardio... around 3 hours per week at 80-90% MHR... i'm kinda thinking of this as my "time off"... taking a break for a while. i already last 22 lbs since i left for malaysia in late august. i'm planning on losing another 15 lbs which'll put me in the middle weight class (80 kg)... i'm not focusing on the eastern province, but since i got 3rd last year in the national championship, i'm planning on taking the gold home this year in the heavyweight class (90 kg). Also, i've cancelled my deal with skip... I have my reasons... i don't care to discuss them, but i'll just say that i knew where it was going and it wasn't for me. I tried that method before and it ruined my body completely. so, i'm gonna do everything on my own from now on. I will also go back to my old way of training, bulking and then cutting and then 8-10 weeks of rest and focusing on health. That's how i grew to the 85 kg class... and that's how i'll grow into the super heavyweight class in 3 or 4 years...

Operation "Raw Deal"

If you haven't heard of it, just google it. If you can't see that this operation was conducted to:

1- make the DEA look good because they were doing the worst job ever fighting real drugs
2- pharmaceutical companies not getting a cut of the action

i know some of you might think i have these conspiracy theories and shit... but lets face it... why is NARCOTIC drug use on the rise and then the DEA focuses all of it's investigations (18-24 months worth) on shutting down china, mexico, and the anabolic steroid market in the USA? does that make any sense whatsoever? other than that, more "rejuvination" clinics that basically sell steroids to old people (yes, because they have a lot of health benefits) are losing business because people were starting to buy 1 gram of testosterone for 70 cents, when it was being sold in the clinics (that only sell Schering, Pfizor and upjohn test) for $100... also, Growth Hormone was being sold at an average of $1.2 per iu in the black market, while it was being sold at these anti-aging clinics (Pharmaceutical brands) for $40+ per iu.... It's pathetic... america is becoming so pathetic, it's not even funny. Times like these, i'm happy i live in this country. pretty soon bodybuilding will be "illegal" in the united states. oh yeah, congress is working on making creatine a "prescription" supplement...

Why do people want to live longer?

seriously, ask yourself... why do you want to live longer? do you have a certain purpose in life? do you want to bring happiness to other people's lives? or are you just afraid of not existing anymore? I really don't get it... why don't people focus on quality instead of quantity? For instance... i smoke... i love smoking cigarettes... especially when i have nothing else better to do. i have some obese people, who eat like shit, have a 99% chance of dying of a heart attack in the next 3 minutes, and exercised for a total of 3 minutes in their entire lives come and harrass me for smoking and lecture me about "how it'll kill me and makes me look older".... am i hurting anyone by smoking? is it releasing some stress? yes, it'll probably kill me in 90 more years... but it makes me happy... i exercise and diet not because i want to live a longer and healthier life... NO! i do it because it makes me happy and i'm not hurting anyone by doing that... making me live longer is just another plus (or minus to some people)... some people choose drinking, some smoke pot.. i don't care for that shit... and i think it's wrong... not because it'll rot your liver or fuck up your lungs and brain... but because you won't be able to think straight when you do those things... what i'm trying to say is, everybody has his poison. as long as it's not hurting anyone around them, and it makes him happy... i say to hell with it and keep on doing it... just my point of view, not a fact. So, if you have another point of view, post it in the comments... if you're gonna start saying "you're wrong, this is not right, people should try their best to live healthy lives becusae that's what god wants." please don't... i'm only interested in points of view and not some "fabricated fact" that you were brain washed into believing... if i wanted fabricated facts i'd go to the religious police and ask them to tell me what they think about women.