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This year, the Fédération Internationale de Football Association (FIFA) international association football (which I will refer to as "soccer" in the rest of this piece for the sake of consistency), beach soccer, and futsal federation held their quadrennial international men's soccer event, the FIFA World Cup, which I will refer to as the "World Cup" in the rest of this piece for the sake of convenience. Hosted in Canada, the United States, and Mexico, this World Cup was particularly divisive, with controversy after controversy coming out of it. I will state my own thoughts of this sporting event. I thought the choice to host across three countries was dumb. I generally think World Cups should be hosted in one country at a time, as multiple countries co-hosting a World Cup raises more expenses and effort for hosts, travelling fans, and the playing teams. Additionally, I felt it was really only the United States that this World Cup was meant for, as the Canadian a...

I am beginning a quest to research every religious and philosophical tradition in-depth. To start this journey, I am beginning with Sunni Islam. More specifically, I will begin reading The Sealed Nectar , an acclaimed, award-winning, comprehensive biography on the life of Muhammad ibn Abdullah ﷺ, the final Prophet of God according to Islam. Out of respect, I will not do a typical "out-out-of-ten" rating system. The Sealed Nectar Chapter 1: Location and Nature of Arab Tribes The geography of the Arabian Peninsula and the history of its people, the Arabs, are briefly explained. Due to the harsh, sandy deserts of the Arabian Peninsula and links on land and at sea with most nations at the time, the land of the Arabs an economic, cultural, religious, and artistic centre of the old world whilst simultaneously maintaining complete historical independence, never being conquered by any foreigners, including its powerful, expansionist neighbours, the Byzantine and Sasanian Empires. Aft...