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[–]beermeem 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

This is exceptional ignorance.

Learn some vajrayana buddhism you new age fake.

[–][deleted] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

I just watched the beginning and gave up. Where's why:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alcohol#Etymology

The word "alcohol" is from the Arabic kohl (Arabic: الكحل‎, romanized: al-kuḥl), a powder used as an eyeliner.[12] Al- is the Arabic definite article, equivalent to the in English. Alcohol was originally used for the very fine powder produced by the sublimation of the natural mineral stibnite to form antimony trisulfide Sb2S3. It was considered to be the essence or "spirit" of this mineral. It was used as an antiseptic, eyeliner, and cosmetic. The meaning of alcohol was extended to distilled substances in general, and then narrowed to ethanol, when "spirits" was a synonym for hard liquor.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghoul

Ghoul is from the Arabic غُول ghūl, from غَالَ ghāla, "to seize".[2] In Arabic, the term is also sometimes used to describe a greedy or gluttonous individual.

The term was first used in English literature in 1786, in William Beckford's Orientalist novel Vathek,[3] which describes the ghūl of Arabic folklore. This definition of the ghoul has persisted until modern times, with ghouls appearing in popular culture.[4]

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So maybe the origin of the word isn't what they make out to be. Yawn. The rest is still 100% valid though.

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2 words actually. When they start the video with 2 things that are dead wrong it takes away their credibility.