You are so right. And much of the problem comes from a lack of critical thinking. Not something our education system want to teach or are allowed to teach. Obey or else.
The feeling of extreme helplessness can make us lose all hope. (Being hopeless can also mean being useless.)
But fortunately us humans are adept at hanging onto Hope or nothing would ever progress and grow. Spoken by a farmer used to watching life grow from shit and blood and dirt.
It isn't a lack of hope. It's a lack of thinking and pragmatism. Two completely different things. It's the strangest thing and I don't believe something we have ever seen before I history. I think we have been very well conditioned psychologically.
While the crap published in newspapers gets hundreds of thousands of readers I have to read this on someone’s Substack. One hundred procent with you on every single thing. If we had only a slither of courage we’d be dragging the likes of EMusk and Bibi by their feet from their mansions. We have nothing, and we’re not even willing to sacrifice that.
Yep. Back in the day leaders were scared of their people because they did get dragged in the streets, thrown in dungeons, stripped and paraded and I read one Byzantine emperor even had horse 💩 shoved in his mouth. Nowadays there's no reason to fear anything. They genocide wherever they want in practical peace.
I feel this deeply. I'm a convert who married a Moroccan. His aunt loves me more than my own aunt. I talk to his siblings and mother more than mine. I know more about his extended family, and they care about me more than my biological family. He grew up with relatives everywhere, helping each other, living together, working together. We opened a business in the US and can't even convince relatives of mine who live here to work with us, even the unemployed ones.
I heard there's a similar right to death law in Canada. Thankfully that law does not exist here as it absolutely would be abused. I already see what people do with their pets when they're not as cute or convenient anymore.
Though I've been Muslim for close to 20 years, I was disconnected from Islam in my heart for a long time. Gaza called me back, and when Western culture dug in harder against it, I drew closer still. Thank you for sharing your voice ❤️
I have been impecunious but loved lived like a queen because my family and community always look after me. I hit the hardest times and I never had to worry about anything, alhamdulillah.
Muslim community is very welcoming and very loving. Even as I write now you know you are my sister. We already have a bond that we both recognise as sacred and both would act upon if needed.
Thank you, sister ❤️ it's true. One of the things so lacking in western culture is the idea of community. In Morocco, I get so much affection from my in-laws and extended family, at first I get annoyed by the lack of privacy, then I bask in family love for the rest of the time, and I return to the US feeling the cold sting of loss the moment I get off the plane. A cold country, even in summer.
Islamophobia runs deep here, but I think if people got to know us, it would change their whole worldview. But I guess that's the phobia part.
Nice rant. With you on the death cult named Israel and actively supporting Palestine and its people. Not with you on your religiosity and contempt for those that reject religion. Unfettered capitalism, greed and avarice are definitely a problem. Same with the primitive feeling of tribal superiority over others that's prevalent in Zionism, Fascism and European and US-style colonialism. We both live in societies that are currently run by the worst humanity has to offer. Let's try to change that together.
I don't have contempt for those who don't follow religion. I'm saying everyone has a religion. The object of desire is 'god'. That god can be anything, but everyone has one. Ideology is religion. What you lay your life down for is your religion. I say those who have religion i.e. a supernatural, metaphysical God and those who don't have that god are actually the same.
Atheist and theists are both believers. One believes in a God. One believes in the absence of God. Neither know if they are correct. There is no such thing in an absence of belief - disbelief in one thing is belief in it's opposite and vice versa.
It's that that I'm critiquing. Not the nature of the beliefs.
The only belief I do critique is the ideology that makes money, god. But this is a religion that is far spread but completely denied by it's adherents.
You are so right. And much of the problem comes from a lack of critical thinking. Not something our education system want to teach or are allowed to teach. Obey or else.
The feeling of extreme helplessness can make us lose all hope. (Being hopeless can also mean being useless.)
But fortunately us humans are adept at hanging onto Hope or nothing would ever progress and grow. Spoken by a farmer used to watching life grow from shit and blood and dirt.
It isn't a lack of hope. It's a lack of thinking and pragmatism. Two completely different things. It's the strangest thing and I don't believe something we have ever seen before I history. I think we have been very well conditioned psychologically.
Good piece, thank you.
While the crap published in newspapers gets hundreds of thousands of readers I have to read this on someone’s Substack. One hundred procent with you on every single thing. If we had only a slither of courage we’d be dragging the likes of EMusk and Bibi by their feet from their mansions. We have nothing, and we’re not even willing to sacrifice that.
Yep. Back in the day leaders were scared of their people because they did get dragged in the streets, thrown in dungeons, stripped and paraded and I read one Byzantine emperor even had horse 💩 shoved in his mouth. Nowadays there's no reason to fear anything. They genocide wherever they want in practical peace.
I feel this deeply. I'm a convert who married a Moroccan. His aunt loves me more than my own aunt. I talk to his siblings and mother more than mine. I know more about his extended family, and they care about me more than my biological family. He grew up with relatives everywhere, helping each other, living together, working together. We opened a business in the US and can't even convince relatives of mine who live here to work with us, even the unemployed ones.
I heard there's a similar right to death law in Canada. Thankfully that law does not exist here as it absolutely would be abused. I already see what people do with their pets when they're not as cute or convenient anymore.
Though I've been Muslim for close to 20 years, I was disconnected from Islam in my heart for a long time. Gaza called me back, and when Western culture dug in harder against it, I drew closer still. Thank you for sharing your voice ❤️
This is so beautiful.
I have been impecunious but loved lived like a queen because my family and community always look after me. I hit the hardest times and I never had to worry about anything, alhamdulillah.
Muslim community is very welcoming and very loving. Even as I write now you know you are my sister. We already have a bond that we both recognise as sacred and both would act upon if needed.
Thank you, sister ❤️ it's true. One of the things so lacking in western culture is the idea of community. In Morocco, I get so much affection from my in-laws and extended family, at first I get annoyed by the lack of privacy, then I bask in family love for the rest of the time, and I return to the US feeling the cold sting of loss the moment I get off the plane. A cold country, even in summer.
Islamophobia runs deep here, but I think if people got to know us, it would change their whole worldview. But I guess that's the phobia part.
❤️
Nice rant. With you on the death cult named Israel and actively supporting Palestine and its people. Not with you on your religiosity and contempt for those that reject religion. Unfettered capitalism, greed and avarice are definitely a problem. Same with the primitive feeling of tribal superiority over others that's prevalent in Zionism, Fascism and European and US-style colonialism. We both live in societies that are currently run by the worst humanity has to offer. Let's try to change that together.
I don't have contempt for those who don't follow religion. I'm saying everyone has a religion. The object of desire is 'god'. That god can be anything, but everyone has one. Ideology is religion. What you lay your life down for is your religion. I say those who have religion i.e. a supernatural, metaphysical God and those who don't have that god are actually the same.
Atheist and theists are both believers. One believes in a God. One believes in the absence of God. Neither know if they are correct. There is no such thing in an absence of belief - disbelief in one thing is belief in it's opposite and vice versa.
It's that that I'm critiquing. Not the nature of the beliefs.
The only belief I do critique is the ideology that makes money, god. But this is a religion that is far spread but completely denied by it's adherents.
Yeah, no. I don't have any god 🙄 God is a myth. It's the 21st fucking century past time to put fairy tales to bed.