Thoughts on Muhammad Ali and His Mental Decline

Man I watched about 3-4 hours of Ali interviews from 1964-2002, chronologically, last night and watching his mental decline is very disturbing and depressing for me to have watched. He was so outspoken and quick witted, he would have made a great politician or leader of some kind of movement, but he was silenced pretty much as soon as his boxing career ended, and it was very noticeable around 1978-9 between the Leon Spinks fights.  His speech was much slower and he just seemed mentally sedated, and it got progressively worse very quickly, after his final fight with Trevor Berbick.

He had talked about being an ambassador to other countries to negotiate peace when he was still in his mid 30's in an interview from 1974, and knew how intelligent he was and that he had tremendous potential to the world, but he lost his essential ability to communicate verbally at a very young age and it's really fucked.


He seems fine here in 1974 after the Foreman fight:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yByTH5QAFwg

And here is how he is less than 6 years later:
 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YkM0v4lYEUc

After watching all those interviews with this man, I can't help but feel inspired about improving my own life and being as strong willed and determined as he was to accomplish what he wanted to accomplish.  He's definitely one of the top 3 athletes of the 20th century if not number 1, but his verbal assaults against the establishment and for civil rights and his anti-Vientnam War stance, and the massive public influence he had over most of the modern world, both at the time and to this day, was more than any other athlete ever did outside of their profession.

Contradictions From the Roman Catholic Bible and Quran

The following texts are passages from the Bible and the Quran:



Whoever sacrifices to any god, except the Lord alone, shall be doomed Exodus 22:19 NAB

They entered into a covenant to seek the Lord, the God of their fathers, with all their heart and soul; and everyone who would not seek the Lord, the God of Israel, was to be put to death, whether small or great, whether man or woman  Chronicles 15:12-13 NAB

You must kill those who worship another god Exodus 22:20

Kill any friends or family that worship a god that is different than your own. Deuteronomy 13:6-10

Kill all the inhabitants of any city where you find people that worship differently than you. Deuteronomy 13:12-16
Kill everyone who has religious views that are different than your own. Deuteronomy 17:2-7


And slay them wherever ye find them, and drive them out of the places whence they drove you out, for persecution [of Muslims] is worse than slaughter [of non-believers]... but if they desist, then lo! Allah is forgiving and merciful. And fight them until persecution is no more, and religion is for Allah. Quran (2:191-193)

Then fight in the cause of Allah, and know that Allah Heareth and knoweth all things. Quran (2:244)

Fight them, Allah will punish them by your hands and bring them to disgrace... (Quran 9:14)

And the Jews say: Ezra is the son of Allah; and the Christians say: The Messiah is the son of Allah; these are the words of their mouths; they imitate the saying of those who disbelieved before; may Allah destroy them; how they are turned away! Quran (9:30)

Planes flying into buildings, bombings, suicide bombers, we are getting closer to there being a nuclear detonation somewhere in a major US city, mainly New York City.  All because of religion.  Things need to be changed.  People need to start forcing their governments to cooperate and make this world safer and more peaceful by getting rid of medieval middle-aged superstitions.