Charity, What Does It Mean? - Sadaqa, Matlab Kya He?


An essay on the meaning of the term 'charity', with scientific, philosophical and historical discussion.

"There is no person who does not have the obligation of doing charity every day that the sun rises."
Prophet Mohammed

"Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, and have not charity, I am become as sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal."
Saint Paul

All people in all lands share a common tool: language.

Petermann Ice Island (2010) - The Mörner Version

The world of climate science according to wishful thinkers.

I was raised at the seaside.  I lived through the 1953 floods which resulted from the North Sea storm surge.

Nils-Axel Mörner seems to have visited the seaside once or twice.

To Anthony Watts,

Letter before action in accordance with the rules of common law jurisdictions in general and of the English Civil Courts¹ in particular.

In the general context of this letter, my use of the term 'you' shall be taken to mean, include and imply any or all of the persons Anthony Watts, Steve Goddard, Christopher Monckton and any other person who may have, at the relevant time, been responsible for the provision of main content or the administrative oversight of articles and / or comments unless the context hereunder clearly indicates otherwise.

Propaganda - An Application Of The Forgetting Curve

Learning curves,  forgetting curves, adjacency and the scientific roots of the black art of propaganda.

Weird World Weather

There is a lot of happy talk out there that is premised on the belief that you can't tell the public the bad news because it’ll scare them and they'll not do anything, or they will fall into despair.
David W Orr