“I've learned that everyone wants to live on top of the mountain, but all the happiness and growth occurs while you're climbing it.”
Tuesday, December 25, 2007
The Secret Movie
. . . a question i've always had in mind , would you rather be called "intelligent" or "wise"? and why? . according to my own simple understanding of it .. intelligence is knowing the problem and how to solve it .. wisdom on the other hand tells you whether you should do something about it or not! . "Knowledgeable" and "Wise" are some terms used to describe me by others, but rarely "intelligent". i guess people know better, i'm an educated fool! ... or maybe they're just being nice to my mother!. .
. . . couple of months ago a friend of mine highly recommened the secret movie and he was so into it, telling everyone around him to watch it... inculding me! but being the stingy lazy person that i am, i thought it wasn't worth paying some money to waste my time, i could do that without paying a fils.. thank you! but now since its online and for FREE and i'm already on a break so .. why not? guess it wasn't a waste of time after all!
The sickness of secularism The threat to tolerance and coexistence no longer comes from religion .
. . . --------------------------------------------------------------------- . . We are witnessing the rise of an arrogant secularist rhetoric founded on belief in the supremacy of reason and absolute faith in science and progress, dogmas which arouse ridicule in serious academic and intellectual circles nowadays. Hearing its proponents defend their rigid notions, you would be forgiven for thinking you were in the presence of the fathers of positivism: Auguste Comte, Diderot, or Condorcet, or that you were back in the Victorian and Napoleonic eras with their high hopes of remaking the world and human destiny in light of the utopias of reason and progress. . . These high priests of rationality, who in Britain include in their ranks such names as Richard Dawkins and Anthony Grayling have erected a world of dichotomies, borders and fences: secular v religious, rationality v superstition, progress v backwardness, public v private. This simplistic worldview fails to take account of the complexity of cultural and historical processes, or of intellectual and human phenomena. . .
"Reason" itself, whose praises they sing night and day, is a perpetually changing mixture of many overlapping elements. It is neither abstract, nor intentional and does not confront the rich, labyrinthine human world as its other. It is quintessentially imbedded therein, in its emotions, languages, historical experiences, religious traditions and cultural heritage. There is no such thing as an ahistoric reason. . .
This means that we do not have one but many rationalities, the Christian European, the Islamic, the Chinese, the Indian to name a few, each stamped by the specific conditions of its evolution, and in turn incorporating a multitude of sub-rationalities. Neither do these traditions of rationality exist isolated from each other. They have much in common, the product of the interactive and communicative activity of cultures. . .
Aristotle's logos, Descartes' intellect and Kant's transcendental reason, are illusions, which no self-respecting thinker can afford to defend in the 21st century. The truth is that today's self- proclaimed guardians of enlightenment and rationality are offshoots of the intellectual poverty of eighteenth century positivism and scienticism, who disfigure philosophy and thought, history and reality. They are the victims of what may be referred to as a sick secularist consciousness. . .
These contrast reason's absolute virtue with the evil of a straw man they have christened religion: a pack of superstitions, fairytales, demons, and angels, which intervene in the world only to corrupt and destroy it. They fail to realize that just as there are different species of secularism - the intolerant and the dogmatic (such as theirs), the open and the tolerant - there exist multiple forms of religion. Religion can be legalistic, spiritual, Gnostic, rationalized, conservative, innovative, quietist, reactionary, moderate and radical. These many expressions do not exclude one another but may be present in the same type of religiosity. An example of such intricate overlapping is the great Muslim thinker Abu Hamid al-Gazali (d. 1111), who was at once a brilliant jurist, philosopher, theologian, and mystic. . .
Just as they simplify the breathtakingly complex phenomenon that is the human being, these missionaries of secularism impoverish the social order, filling it with sacred boundaries between the private and the public, and strictly laying down what may and may not be practiced in each. You may indulge in your religious "superstitions" behind the thick closed doors of your home, church, temple, or mosque. But the moment you step outside into the light of the secular sphere, you must discard your cross, turban, or headscarf. Communication, they insist, is only possible within uniformity. Such was the argument used in France to ban the Islamic headscarf in schools and government offices last year, and which is gaining currency in Britain today. . .
What these ignore, willingly or naively, is that unless you suffer from schizophrenia, everything in your cognitive universe is interlinked and forms part of a single coherent whole through which you make sense of the world, its components and what takes place therein. There is a difference between recognizing the sanctity of the private and transforming it into a high fenced prison cut off from the rhythm of public life. A measure of the dynamism of a public sphere is its ability to incorporate multiple modes of expression and forms of life. If the radically secularist have a problem communicating with those who dress or speak differently from themselves, it is their problem and a symptom of their exclusionist dogmatism. It is not the problem of the religious. . .
Secularist dogmatism is no less dangerous than its religious sibling. Secularism itself can be, and indeed has been in many historical instances, highly destructive. We should remember that Europe's modern history is scarred with the brutality of secular totalitarianism. Neither the Jacobins, fascists, Nazis or Stalinists were priests or theologians. They were fanatical secularists who worshipped in reason's grand temple and sacrificed hundreds of thousands for the god of progress, fervently vowing to create a new man and a new world on the ruins of the old. . .
With the retreat of Christianity and shrinking of the ecclesiastical institution in Western Europe, the threat to tolerance and coexistence no longer comes from religion. What we should be dreading today is the tyranny of an arrogant secularism which hides its exclusionist and intolerant face behind the sublime mask of reason, enlightenment and progress. . .
NEW YEAR'S RESOLUTION:- . 1- LOSE WEIGHT ( bs 3ad emsakhat, kil sina you wanna lose weight? get it over with) . 2- GRADUATE ( willy eyeebley 6ary il PHD YA WAILAH ;-p) . 3-(elley fey baly) . 4- not think twice about what would people think about me, if... ! . 5- BE WISE & SMART( omniyat 7ayaty =( )
Bored at wrok,I found the below and couldn't stop laughing after reading it, thought you'd enjoy a good laugh so I cut and paste it for you. . . This was an actual posting on Craigslist.com in the personals space. Lady in NYC looking for a man. The news wires picked this up and did a blurb on it, at which point the woman pulled the personal ad. . . . Enjoy. . . . ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
What am I doing wrong? . .
Okay, I'm tired of beating around the bush. I'm a beautiful(spectacularly beautiful) 25 year old girl. I'm articulate and classy.I'm not from New York. I'm looking to get married to a guy who makes atleast half a million a year. I know how that sounds, but keep in mindthat a million a year is middle class in New York City, so I don't thinkI'm overreaching at all. . . Are there any guys who make 500K or more on this board? Any wives? Could you send me some tips? I dated a business man who makes average around200 - 250. But that's where I seem to hit a roadblock. 250,000 won't getme to central park west. I know a woman in my yoga class who was married to an investment banker and lives in Tribeca, and she's not as pretty asI am, nor is she a great genius. So what is she doing right? How do Iget to her level? . . Here are my questions specifically:- . . . Where do you single rich men hang out? Give me specifics- bars,restaurants, gyms- . . What are you looking for in a mate? Be honest guys, you won't hurt myfeelings . . -Is there an age range I should be targeting (I'm 25)? . . - Why are some of the women living lavish lifestyles on the upper eastside so plain? I've seen really 'plain jane' boring types who have nothing to offer married to incredibly wealthy guys. I've seen drop deadgorgeous girls in singles bars in the east village. What's the storythere? . . - Jobs I should look out for? Everyone knows - lawyer, investmentbanker, doctor. How much do those guys really make? And where do they hang out? Where do the hedge fund guys hang out? . . - How you decide marriage vs. just a girlfriend? I am looking for MARRIAGE ONLY . . . . . Please hold your insults - I'm putting myself out there in an honest way. Most beautiful women are superficial; at least I'm being up front about it. I wouldn't be searching for these kind of guys if I wasn'table to match them - in looks, culture, sophistication, and keeping anice home and hearth. . . . .
PostingID: 432279810 . . . . . . THE ANSWER . Dear Pers-431649184: . . . I read your posting with great interest and have thought meaningfully about your dilemma. I offer the following analysis of your predicament.Firstly, I'm not wasting your time, I qualify as a guy who fits yourbill; that is I make more than $500K per year. That said here's how I see it. . . Your offer, from the prospective of a guy like me, is plain and simple a crappy business deal. Here's why. Cutting through all the B.S., what yousuggest is a simple trade: you bring your looks to the party and I bring my money. Fine, simple. But here's the rub, your looks will fade and my money will likely continue into perpetuity...in fact, it is very likelythat my income increases but it is an absolute certainty that you won'tbe getting any more beautiful! . . So, in economic terms you are a depreciating asset and I am an earningasset. Not only are you a depreciating asset, your depreciation accelerates! Let me explain, you're 25 now and will likely stay pretty hot for the next 5 years, but less so each year. Then the fade begins in earnest. By 35 stick a fork in you! . . So in Wall Street terms, we would call you a trading position, not a buy and hold...hence the rub...marriage. It doesn't make good business senseto "buy you" (which is what you're asking) so I'd rather lease. In case you think I'm being cruel, I would say the following. If my money were to go away, so would you, so when your beauty fades I need an out. It's as simple as that. So a deal that makes sense is dating, not marriage. . . Separately, I was taught early in my career about efficient markets. So,I wonder why a girl as "articulate, classy and spectacularly beautiful"as you has been unable to find your sugar daddy. I find it hard to believe that if you are as gorgeous as you say you are that the $500K hasn't found you, if not only for a tryout. . . By the way, you could always find a way to make your own money and then we wouldn't need to have this difficult conversation. . . With all that said, I must say you're going about it the right way.Classic "pump and dump." I hope this is helpful, and if you want to enter into some sort of lease, let me know. . . . . ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- . . . . . and there is no freaking way i'm gonna let this post pass without posting a youtube video ... "yeah i'm goin toddai, helpmay"! . .
. . . .ya 7ilohum! . .
. . . . * a tough exam coming tomorow, wish me luck.. and EID MUBARAK, where ever you are!
تخيلوا كل هالبشر عايشين بالكويت بصفة "البدون" و انهم بتكاثر و تزايد غير طبيعي...خذ لحظة و تأمل وجوهم و اشكالهم المتواضعة, لا تعليم, لا صحة, تخيلوا لو داموا على هالحال و لم تنحل هالقضية و حكومتنا الرشيدة يمددون و يمهلون فيها ... ماذا تتوقع حال مصيرنا؟
بينما الدول المتقدمة تقوم بتجنيس الناس المتعلمة المثقفة او حتى التجار و ملاك العقارات و المخترعين تقوم الكويت باعطاء الجنسية الكويتية لمن لا يستحقها و قليل لمن يستحقها لأن المتقدم فداوي عند الشيخ فلان او صباب قهوة عند عشيرة بن صلبان... شيء مؤسف
و بما ان بنو صلبان هم من يحل و يربط بالكويت في هذا الزمن..هم الوزير و النائب و الدكتور و الوكيل و المعلم و العقيد و الكويت كلها... فهم ايضا لا يسمحون لشخص مثل نورية الصبيح بأن تقف عائق على واسطاتهم لأبنائهم بالتربية.
