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The question of which industries are doing well is a bad question, as apparently it is very difficult to get into trades as an apprentice in Canada, especially recently.

The real question one should be asking is: Which industries are still in demand and looking for people, rather than oversaturated?

Tech is oversaturated and in crisis globally, healthcare is oversaturated in north america, finance is oversaturated in canada, retail and hospitality are oversaturated in canada. Physics and chemistry are no longer viable in canada and biotech/medtech nearly so. A disproportionate amount of the few biotech jobs are in Greater Toronto and Greater Montreal where the high cost of living combines with low wages and high taxes, most of which are in multinational companies where it is difficult for an intern or entry level person to stand out. The entire federal government is restructuring and cutting jobs.

Trades and engineering might not be oversaturated but both have a high barrier to entry. In the trades it is difficult to get an apprenticeship in Canada and engineering in general requires many years of hard study and difficult to suddenly pivot.

So what? Energy? Construction? Supply chain? Natural resources/forestry?

I have very little work experience outside of school due to a difficult personal and family situation when I was younger. My parents are aging and retired, I have no siblings, I am not very close to most of my family, the ones I am close to I have no experience or interest in the field where they work. I think this is my biggest hindrance in getting a job in the current job market. I have family and family friends who are in fields more related to my experience but we don't talk anymore for years. I had to go back to school but I don't think it is easy to find professors with connections to industry. Networking events cost money and I have no idea how I'm supposed to stand out from all the dozens, sometimes hundreds of people there with way more experience and they always make me feel inferior to everyone else who attends them.

(For those asking I now consider myself more of a Christian Democrat/Red Tory later in life. But I think you can still be progressive and have this position.)

The pro choice argument of "viability" taken to its logical conclusion means that you should have a "choice" to kill infants, the elderly, the infirm, the disabled, and people in comas if it burdens you. You might as well abolish disability and elderly benefits because it's a "burden" on society.

This is a soft eugenics position, increasingly becoming a hard eugenics position as many of the parties pushing eugenics are also pushing MAID.

Many NGOs promote abortion and birth control as a form of population control in third world countries using arguments that poor mothers in Asia and Africa having many children is bad, this would not be out of place in 1930's Germany. Additionally it is disproportionately the disabled unborn children of poor women who are aborted.

Let us take examples:

• The idea that poor Asian and African mothers are having too many children is reminiscient of the Yellow Peril and Great Replacement conspiracy theory.
• In 1930's Germany there were mathematics textbooks that brainwashed students into supporting the death camps by asking students how much money the government would save by killing vulnerable people.

I think pointing out the connection between pro choice arguments and eugenics is a better option than focusing on whether life begins at conception, because for most people the argument isn't about life but about "viability". This is a very bad slippery slope.

As a disabled person it was very easy for me to see the connection between eugenics and the pro-choice position. I think more of these arguments should be used and would be easier than focusing on whether life begins at conception or abstract concepts about "bodily autonomy". Concrete examples are always more convincing.

I see them listed in records in the UK, they married in the 50s, then their spouse married again in the 60s, I see records of their spouse and their spouses' new wife but not them after 1960. Her father is Indian and her mother's maiden name is a very common Welsh surname so I am lost. She was born in the 1930s.

Such as that found in the Nag Hammadi text "Melchizedek" which identifies Melchizedek with Jesus Christ/the pre-existent Logos.

It seems far easier to get a job in the USA after university or college or as an apprentice than in Canada.

My last "job" that isn't an academic project was an internship that lasted a couple months, 5 years ago. Before that I was an admin assistant for a few years while studying part-time. My undergrad degree was received 3 years ago. I am currently back in school for a second diploma.

Apparently it was big in the early church and almost became canonical.

Epstein Class, conspiracy oriented beliefs, talking about Hunter Biden, "Hassan Derangement Syndrome", etc.

Among these, engineering actually seems the least saturated.

What are the job prospects in Canada for architecture versus architectural engineering versus architectural engineering technician versus structural engineering? I am currently enrolled in a technical college for a diploma after a bachelors degree in statistics. Among these, drafting or GIS seem the most appealing and realistic to me.

What about agriculture versus urban/construction? What is the most useful diploma or certificate to take for someone with a bachelors in statistics but with no experience in the field?

Many scholars say the reason the Genesis Creation narrative sounds similar to Babylonian Creation stories, but is also different, is because it's a politically/religiously motivated response to promote a monotheistic correction to a pagan Creation narrative current in Babylonia in the Iron Age.

After speaking with some scholars in Eastern Christian and Middle Eastern Jewish traditions, I am starting to wonder if the same thing is happening with the Quran, and why it appears to have a docetic view of the Crucifixion and similarities with Gnostic Infancy narrative accounts about Jesus and Mary. It preserves the Gnostic duality of the lower and higher realms (the Dunya versus the Akhirat), and the life in the lower realm (the Dunya) being considered lesser than that of the higher (the Akhirat). Whereas in normative Christianity and normative Judaism there is a greater acceptance of "living-in-the-world" (compare Augustinian Just War theology or the Jewish idea of Tikkun Olam neither of which exist in Gnosticism).

By contrast, consider the following differences:

• its account of the Torah is far more philo-Judaic than conventional anti-Judaic Gnostics who view Elohim as an evil class of demiurges headed by the God of the Jews. The Arabic cognate of Elohim, Allah, related to the Hebrew El, is viewed as all-Good by the Quran's author;

• Gnostics who promote a docetic view of the Crucifixion and the Gnostic Infancy narratives about Jesus and Mary are normally anti-Torah and view the Mosaic Law as evil, while the Quran's legislative ideology is far closer to Torah and Kosher laws, and view its ruling as a current 7th Century revival of that Mosaic Law;

• Gnostics discount prophetic continuity through Abraham, sometimes bypassing the Sethian line altogether and promoting a Cainite genealogy, while the Quran emphasizes the Abrahamic prophetic lineage throughout.

This appears to be similarly motivated to be a political response to situations in the Late Antique Near East, within the frontiers and fringes of the Roman/Byzantine and Sassanid Empires, where these various heterodox groups co-existed and competed with one another for adherents. These various heterodox groups would have been more successful amongst the nomadic Arabs, rather than normative Christianity or normative Judaism, as they were outside of the core of these empires. It sounds like the recipe for a political alliance. We see concepts of this in the Ansar and Muhajirun for example.

I think only my mum has dual nationality. My dad is very old and I think might start to need help managing his affairs, but he doesn't have anyone. My parents are separated. I have no siblings. Most of my cousins are older and also busy. All their friends are also older. My mum has younger relatives she is close to who might be able to take care of her, but my dad's family is spread out across the country and the world and smaller than my mother's side, or very busy with work, and not as in touch. I don't want them to be isolated or lonely if I have to go.

But I can't see myself living here in the future.

I'm stuck.

Seems like today this political position is completely marginal both on the right and the left globally. In every country, if you are anti Trump on the left you have to be open to communism or at least "Democratic Socialism" and hating Israel and loving Hamas/Hezbollah, or on the right and anti Trump you have to be some kind of Groyper Neo Nazi, most of whom also hate Israel and love Hamas/Hezbollah though for different reasons. Mainstream MAGA sucks and I don't like them, but it seems to be the only political movement that is viable that is uniformly against hating Israel.

Officially "Anti Trump and supporting Israel" is supposed to be the position of the mainstream political liberal establishments across the West but they are increasingly complacent against the growing surge of extremists on the left (such as with Mamdani and other figures in USA local elections). They are practically irrelevant now, especially if you are in the younger generation, and only barely still in power, but I dislike them for other reasons including their growing authoritarian tendencies especially when it comes to digital authoritarianism which is a completely separate issue. (Compare the crises of leadership in the UK Labour Party, Canadian Liberal Party, Australian Labor Party, and American Democratic Party, and their acceptance of anti-West and anti-Israel groups in their ranks, another major reason I am starting to dislike them.)

I support liberal capitalism and a moderate foreign and domestic policy. What existed in the 90s and early 2000s. This doesn't really exist anymore.

Does anyone else feel this way?

It was 5 years ago just for a couple months. I think that might be hindering my employability and instead maybe I should focus on academic projects? I had to go back to school because I couldn't find work after a couple years of searching after graduation.

The purpose of getting a hadith, a popular narrative, to be Sahih was based on whether the transmitter was a reliable source (the so-called science of Ilm al Rijal), but the transmitter viewed a reliable source based on received wisdom, i.e. from a popular narrative.

Another way of asking is: Is there a way that classical Islamic scholars verified Hadith without appealing to the biography of transmitters that was also part of parallel Hadith traditions?

I'm not saying that absolutely no Hadiths are verifiably authentic, but it seems a bit contradictory to use received traditions about transmitters, to authenticate the narrations, which could themselves be subject to the same process.

As a contrast, in Christianity and Judaism, the way traditions that are considered verifiably authentic about Jesus or Moses, in Canon Law or the Talmud, are generally assumed to be what is accepted by the majority in the early community and the first centuries of both respective religions, and what is found commonly across cultures and date to an earlier time is seen as more likely to be authentic. And the reliability of a "Transmitter" (in this case a Priest/Theologian or Rabbi) is only derived secondarily from whether they opposed the general consensus, it does not inform the viability of the tradition as it is in Ilm al Rijal.

Interestingly, the methodology of the Maliki school seems to be the most closely paralleling this process, though is limited to North Africa:

The Maliki school's sources for Sharia are hierarchically prioritized as follows: Quran, then Tawatur (mass-transmitted sayings, customs and actions of Muhammad);`Amal (customs and practices of the people of Medina and the Muslim world), followed by Ahad Hadith, and then followed by consensus of the Sahabah (the companions of Muhammad), then individual opinion from the Sahabah, Qiyas (analogy), Istislah (benefit of Islam and Muslims), and finally Urf (public opinion of people throughout the Muslim world).[15] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maliki_school#Principles