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b'Subscribe to the podcast and notes:\\xa0https://qurantalk.podbean.com/\\nQuran translation on iOS:\\xa0https://apple.co/2C1YGXj\\nAdditional Resources:\\xa0http://www.masjidtucson.org\\nContact: qurantalk (at) gmail (dot) com\\n\\xa0\\nEvolution vs. De-evolution\\nSign of intelligence is that new information is created\\nE. coli Long-term Experiment on Evolution -\\nStarted 24 February 1988.[2] \\n66,000 in November 2016.[3] \\nNo new molecular machines\\nNo newly designed cell structures \\nNo new protein-coding sections of DNA\\nEvolution vs De-Evolution\\nExample of how to make a car go faster - throw out the seats \\nhttp://myxo.css.msu.edu/ecoli/\\nBecause it is easier to destroy than to build\\nAsk you what are some decisions in your life you can make to make your life worse? \\nEasy\\xa0\\nRun out in front of traffic\\nPoke your eyes out\\nBurn all your savings\\nHit your head with a hammer\\nHold your breath underwater until you pass out\\nIf I ask you what can be done to make the future WORSE \\nYou can probably come up with a whole bunch of ideas\\nAsk you what decisions you can make to make your life BETTER? \\nLittle harder - \\nAt best you will come up with ideas of what to remove not what to add\\nEasier to break down rather than to build\\xa0\\nBecause it is easier to destroy than to build\\nIf I ask you what can you do to make the future better\\nMore difficult\\nEasier to point out the downside and all the reasons something can fail rather than how it can succeed\\nBut more ideas does not mean that the ideas are any better - but makes us feel smart\\nTypically an inherent bias that we equate things that we can imagine as more likely than things we can\\u2019t \\u2026e.g.e shark attacks\\nPessimism isn\'t just more common than optimism, it also sounds smarter. \\nPessimist are intellectually captivating, and people pay more attention to them rather than optimist who are often viewed as an oblivious sucker.\\nIf you say the world has been getting\\xa0better you may get away with being called na\\xefve and insensitive. \\nHarvard professor Teresa Amabile shows that those publishing negative book reviews are seen as smarter and more competent than those giving positive reviews of the same book. "Only pessimism sounds profound.\\xa0Optimism sounds superficial," she wrote.\\nWhy?\\nHere are a few other reasons I\'ve observed for why pessimism gets so much attention.\\n[4:147] What will GOD gain from punishing you, if you became appreciative and believed? GOD is Appreciative, Omniscient.\\nComplaining makes us feel like we are smart\\nThere is a form of an iQ/creativity test where the objective is to see how many ideas you can come up in a given amount of time:\\nWhat can you do with a brick?\\nCome up with different ways that someone can go from place to another?\\nThe more answers one comes up with the smarter they feel\\nThis is good for creativity, but there are somethings that the quantity of answers is not what is important but the quality\\n1. Optimism appears oblivious to risks, so by default pessimism looks more intelligent.\\xa0\\n2. Pessimism requires action, whereas optimism means staying the course.\\xa0Pessimism is "SELL, GET OUT, RUN," which grabs your attention because it\'s an action you need to take right now. You don\'t want to read the article later or skim over the details, because you might get hurt. Optimism is mostly, "Don\'t worry, stay the course, we\'ll be alright," which is easy to ignore since it doesn\'t require doing anything.\\xa0\\n3. Optimism sounds like a sales pitch, while pessimism sounds like someone trying to help you.\\xa0And that\'s often the truth. But in general, most of the time, optimism is the correct default setting, and pessimism can be as big a sales pitch as anything \\u2013 especially if it\'s around emotional topics like money and politics.\\xa0\\n4. Pessimists extrapolate present trends without accounting for how reliably markets adapt.\\xa0That\'s important, because pessimistic views often start with a foundation of rational analysis, so the warning appears as reasonable as it is scary.\\nThomas Malthus 1800 \\nProphets were the ultimate optimi'