Mustafa Abu Aaliyah

  • The gardener and the warrior

    War is a wretchedness. A misfortune. A nuisance. An infliction. Not the standard, which the statement “I’d rather be a warrior in a garden than a gardener in a war” infers. It is not those that are unable to defend themselves that are to be blamed for the harms caused by war. It is those…

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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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  • 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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  • 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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