Mustafa Abu Aaliyah

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  • Night and day

    Cancel culture doesn’t seem to be able to grasp perhaps one of the most infant forms of perceiving truth; that two things (or more) can be true and of importance at the same time.

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  • Seek to build, not disrupt

    There is something I notice in today’s discourse. The race-based mistreatment white people endure today is – in some ways – worse than what other people have endured in history. (I’m not talking about extreme and specific things now that has happened to other people, but in a general sense.) This is because when for…

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  • Life is dynamic

    I don’t see the world in terms of who has power and thereby is bad. I look at life as a dynamic between different things where each thing can have several different values depending on its prerequisites, causes and potentials. The ideal society for me is the one in which those with power appreciate those…

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  • Virtues

    Virtues such as inclusion, representation, diversity etcetera, are good, but they exist in relation to other virtues as well. It is wrong to take specific virtues and give them blanket unlimited virtuousness that override all others. It is like baking a cake and following a recipe, where all ingredients represents a virtue. Each different virtue…

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  • Kindness and truth

    When kindness becomes the highest purpose of truth, truth becomes threatened. Kindness is good as an ideal, but not as an expectation and demand. Then it loses its beauty and constructiveness. It is not kind to expect that people mustn’t speak about what is right, true, honest or of value to them, or stand for…

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  • The taste of terms

    I believe that a big part of the popularization of concepts and ideas comes from the way the names of their terms taste to express morphologically, rather than those concepts and ideas actually have any value. It’s so verbally pleasing and easy to say terms such as “passive aggressive”, “Islamophobia”, “right/left wing” (these are just…

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  • The haste of terms

    It is very prevalent in today’s society and culture that simply because you come up with a word or term for something, along with a definition that has a sensitive or troublesome word in it, that entire concept, term and understanding becomes valid in an of itself. This is a great mistake I believe. Simply…

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  • Freedom and fairness

    You can’t have freedom without a little bit of unfairness, and that makes it fair.

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  • Rise, my friend

    People unfortunately use the existence of power, class and race to hold down people of all powers, classes and races.

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  • Who am I?

    Who am I? I am. I am me. A refining person. A searcher and creator of meaning. A lifeful person. A person that expresses my personality and my interests. A person that realizes, knows and cares for my worth, and lets it rise freely. A person that aims for greatness in all good things and…

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  • The meaning of life

    To ask, “What is the meaning of life?”, is to miss it – because the answer is in the question.

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  • Justice, always

    As a general principle, I believe that people’s value lies in relation to themselves and not in relation to others. As such, I find great mistrust in the presupposition that because a person has suffered great injustice, the injustice that someone else has suffered becomes insignificant in relation to it because it is smaller. Injustice…

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  • Ignorance or innocence?

    Be mindful and take care of what you let nurture your mind. It is not ignorance to preserve its innocence. It can be teared down in the pursuit of expectations. Let it grow like a healthy trunk that forms the most vivid and living leaves, a mind that gives and takes in symbiosis just like…

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  • Life remains

    Even if you sometimes feel disconnected from life, life will always remain. Life will always be there, ready to embrace you, when you are ready. To be welcomed back. To be filled with its warmth. Do not worry. No matter what you are going through. It will always be one tap away. The beginning of…

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