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Your and mine experience
“How can you understand oppression if you’re not oppressed?” There is something called logic, imagination, inquiry, reason, understanding, conclusion, comparison, association, empathy, deduction, relating among many other things. We are all human and share the human experience. We all live in the same world. You don’t need to understand something fully to understand the essence…
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The heart of diversity
How can diversity have any meaning, if diversity of thought is rejected? How can diversity in people’s external worlds be of any value, if diversity in their inner worlds is banished? The former is superficial while the latter is essential (both literally and figuratively). Our inner worlds are our most intimate parts. How can one…
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Diversity of thought
A person voiced that “this generation is all about diversity, except diversity of thought”. This is such an important statement. No diversity matters if there is no diversity of thought, because it’s by thought that we perceive, discern, categorize and come to an understanding of them and anything else. Allowing the very existence of that…
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Hold my hand
People get called various personal attacks by one end of the political spectrum when they are, for example, being a certain skin color and not caring about or agreeing with certain issues related to that skin color. Or for being part of one group and caring about another. But isn’t caring about and acknowledging the…
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Prayer
You never gave up on me, and so I will never give up on You. You were there with me in my darkest moment. You were there with me when I was at my wits end, when I didn’t know in from out. You were there when no one else was. You brought clarity to…
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Movie review: Equilibrium
I watched the 2002 movie Equilibrium some years ago, and society is sadly and worryingly turning more and more like it. Everything must be perfectly measured, in place and “accurate”. No divergence. No feeling. No objection. No colors and no actual life. (Reminds me of another movie, The Giver from 2014.) Here are just a…
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Radiance
When I have seen people in the past, whether their skin is white or black or anything else, I have never even once looked at them and thought “oh, that’s a black person” or “oh, that’s a white person”. Up until recently, where the constantly contended issues in which (in my view) irrelevant weight is…
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About the burnings of the Holy Quran
Dear Muslims, You now have the greatest chance to prove to the world, the vastness of your religion’s complexity and its deep ability to handle conflict. It is now that you have a chance to show the world a mark of your religion’s tolerance and peace. It is now that you can show the greatness…
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Pure rain
Can you imagine calling someone a racist for dancing in the rain and sharing the instance? This is what is happening in today’s discussions. Take care, and stay far away from anything that seeks to diminish and extinguish your light. Don’t let it get to you. Your worth is above it. Whoever you are.
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Is truth a card?
The typical saying of that when you point a finger, three points back at you? It is indeed timeless. I once saw a picture in a window, facing the public, saying ”Give the red card to racism!”. How one could want to do such a thing is another topic. But it inspired this post. People…
The Searcher Who Wants to Give 