Shāhid Yusuf al-Nisyān
@MohammedCohen
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Grace of a cynic, sense of a mad knight, self-awareness of a fool’s arse. Nothing special. Sod off.
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Joined March 2012
i do care who you are, and how you feel, just not as a part of any dialectic - because the truth is not improved by your biography, nor undone by your pain.
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There is a cognitive interval that exists before narration... There is a cognitive interval that exists before narration, before symbolic collapse, before token prediction. Proportion is sensed. Relevance appears. Possibilities are held relationally—without committing to
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i am very cheap to hire and could use a job. its not a money thing. i need productive employment for reasons of personal satisfaction.
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I don't follow all of the right wing people it says I follow. Some I do. The rest are there to scare away a certain type of leftist who has an inclination towards 'esoteric practices.' I don't think I need to explain this further.
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There is a cognitive interval that exists before narration, before symbolic collapse, before token prediction. Proportion is sensed. Relevance appears. Possibilities are held relationally—without committing to language or action. No current LLM has access to this layer. We rush
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**Charles Theory Adapted to the Kantian Lens: Examining Wu Wei and the State of the 'Effortless Self'** Charles Theory, as a framework for pre-discursive orientation, offers a precise and respectful adaptation of Kantian philosophy—one that honours its foundational boundaries
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Kant, Charles Theory, and the Inspired Self Charles Theory, as a framework for pre-discursive orientation, represents a subtle adaptation of Kantian philosophy—one that respects its core restraints while venturing responsibly into territories Kant himself deemed off-limits. At
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The Shahada, Nietzsche, and the Future of Islam in the West The future of Islam in the West will not be shaped by slogans, spectacles, or reactive apologetics. It will be forged — if it is to endure — in the crucible of meaning. And meaning, in our time, is no longer guaranteed
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# Charles and Light and Lights: Orientation Before Illumination In the opening pages of *Mishkat al-Anwar* (The Niche of Lights), Al-Ghazali performs an act of rare restraint. Before any ascent toward divine illumination is permitted, he pauses to examine the very grammar of
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The Post-Burkean Turn: Truth as All That's Required Edmund Burke did not trust naked truth. He saw it as a blinding sun, too fierce for human eyes, and argued that we need the stained-glass windows of tradition to soften its rays. Society, in his vision, is a vast gothic
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Charles, Heresy and Iatrogenic Zuhd I did not set out to become a heretic. I set out, like many of my generation, to escape a world that felt already dead: the postwar settlement with its glittering promises of comfort, its endless circulation of goods and images, its quiet
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To reclaim the untamed fire of Sufism from the shadows of commodification and orthodoxy, we stand as heretics in the lineage of Al-Hallaj—defiant voices crying "Ana'l Haqq!" against a world that dilutes divine ecstasy into feel-good trends and rigid dogmas. Our mission is to
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Using Charles to Investigate Mystical Practices from a Kantian Perspective In the shadowed corridors of philosophy, where reason draws its boundaries with the precision of a cartographer, Immanuel Kant stands as the sentinel at the threshold. His Critiques erect a fence around
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CONTINUED FROM PREVIOUS POST Attar’s valleys are not metaphorical stages in a psychological process. They are descriptions of subtractions. Certainty falls away. Self-accusation loosens. The demand to justify oneself before acting evaporates. What survives is a mode of seeing
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Charles Theory(Stripped Version – ~20k Chars)Clearing the GroundEvery inhabitable place begins as terrain. Some ground arrives open, most arrives overgrown. Trees stand where paths might run. Roots bind soil that could support dwellings. Growth, taken by itself, offers no
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apologies, i have been in bed for weeks with an infection of the nose. im bad at social media at my best, but recently i haven't been looking at screens cos it hurts, so i am currently totally crap. either I'll be back soon or in the spring, it's an inshAllah type situation.
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The Tenderised Generation Shock, Restoration, and the Space Beyond Nietzsche We find ourselves in a peculiar moment. A generation has grown up immersed in moral fluidity, irony as default, relativism as atmosphere, every certainty framed by quotation marks. The inherited ethical
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The Inspired Self – Still No Free Will? The inspired self arrives quietly. It does not announce itself with fireworks or moral proclamations. It appears when the internal courtroom falls silent, when the prosecuting voice that once demanded justification, defence, repentance,
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Male Sex Hormones and the Selves Classical Sufi psychology maps the nafs, the self, as a sequence of governing tendencies rather than a single, stable identity. At its lowest register stands the commanding self, nafs al-ammārah, characterised by appetite, assertion, dominance,
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