THEORY & THEOLOGY

Migrants! Homelessness! Housing Crisis! (What in the heck is going on, some opinions, brain storms). Migrants interviewed in Chicago: https://youtu.be/fk3bmBChbps?si=2hQwQbajhpjoQqDi Dr. Phil vid: https://youtu.be/5CAVVp9Qqms?si=6nwCgiR_l2qbb2uq El Salvador: https://youtu.be/5qS-BF_IL30?si=p0LUy8rlijmQcC_x Hawaii Lahaina wild fires: https://youtu.be/nm1cfHqnMt4?si=nfk17GfQARENHTeb USA military: https://youtu.be/CY0_E3M1ids?si=RQyHlXjJ-LILLbMa

Remote Work Options? (Can you make remote work options for yourself? My experiences with e-commerce) I’ve studied sales, social media management, digital marketing and digital advertising in recent years. And as a portfolio (since I had a hard time finding internships or experience) I basically created my own E-commerce and online remote service sales. What started out as a project became extra income. It’s possible to make about $100 per week conservatively working remotely by yourself, while you work elsewhere or continue applying. You can make even more! But I would say conservatively $100 is very doable. That’s decent profit. Here is my other pod with some more educational tips and ideas: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/game-and-compute/id1540830049 NONE OF THIS IS GET RICH QUICK! Mostly you just have to slowly try and then scale once you find something that works. Get good at the math and make sure you’re actually profitable because these days there’s tons of overhead with all the fees for everything such as shipping, payment gateways, platform fees, promotion fees, advertising fees, and hosting.

Job Update (is prayer improving my life?). I’m experimenting and being brave with some spiritual practices and trying to practice some techniques that some religions mention. Is there a way to see if or how my life is impacted? Is it just in my head?

Was Jesus Muslim? By Mufti Menk the story of Eesa (Jesus in the Quran): https://youtu.be/eq1mTa-nZD8?si=goYuXcbZ55zhVRSb

Religious Practice and Prayer and Study (my experiences in college and what Adventists versus Hindu and Muslim friends were doing). Adventist lesson plans example website: https://www.sabbath.school/LessonBook MidEast American channel (unique historical Jewish prayer): https://youtu.be/0aHWASyMjwg?si=SOYQRm2oLpFX4R_m

Ramadan Experiences with Food and Prayer and Dreams (non Muslim experience)

My First Ramadán Experience

TIMESTAMPS

(Minute 00.00.08) Ramadan before sunrise at 6:30am to 7:31am

(Minute 00.18.37) About praying and times

(Minute 00.34.12) Skip the next 27 mins to avoid menstrual period topics

(00.35.02) Cramps and fasting

Final prayers and full day recap

NOTES:

Prayer times for 4/8/24 and my experience notes:

4:45am and 6:15 am thought of prayer, 6:33am missed prayer

5:20am (closer to 4:45pm and wasn’t focused and tried to replace the sunrise prayer)

6:31am (missed by 6:33am, Lord’s Prayer).

First bites of breakfast meal 7:54am chicken ramen with lemon and chilli peppers, 2 fried eggs and 1/2 avocado, water bottles. 1 bullet proof coffee little butter, coconut oil, instant Folgers instant four sigmatic focus coffee with chaga and lionsmane.

12:55pm (noon was distracted being outside the library when timer sounded and was late nearly 7-9 mins)

[3:14pm had water, broke fast, ate pasta due to severity of cramps from 2pm and worsening cramps and flow].

4:32pm (4:02pm) and pod recording.

7:19pm (7:27pm as I was finishing a shower when the alarm sounded and got my food ready before prayer, Lord’s Prayer and 23rd Psalm).

8:30pm (9:05pm read some of Psalm 78 at random and said the Shema).

Quote from educational website (https://myislam.org/are-5-daily-prayers-in-the-quran/)

“IS IT 3 OR 5 PRAYERS ACCORDING TO QURAN?

In the Quran, there’s is no direct naming of the five prayers. It does not say pray Fajr, Zuhr, Asr, Maghrib and Isha salah.

Nowhere in the Quran does it say this explicitly.

The disagreement between the two sides of 3 prayers or 5 are due to different interpretation of the ayats presented above.

From Surah Nur it says “before the dawn prayer and when you put aside your clothing [for rest] at noon and after the night prayer.” Some Shiites would read this and interpret 3 daily prayers. But the Sunni’s would argue no, that’s not what the ayah is referring to as it is just referring to three distinct time periods.

Dawn – Fajr
Noon – Zuhr and Asr
Night – Maghrib and Isha.”

Experiment to Attempt Ramadan for 1 Day (last day of Ramadan 2024)

Mishnah and the words of Jesus (book by Dr. Roy B. Blizzard)

Coffee and Tea Routines, protecting from doom and gloom social media content (psychological take)