tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3059702633077150344.post2723980960211031093..comments2023-07-10T03:26:48.897-04:00Comments on أنا سوري: On being a Moderate Conservativeأنا سوريhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06048406444294823581noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3059702633077150344.post-72138382217706498612009-09-17T14:16:09.662-04:002009-09-17T14:16:09.662-04:00Abu Fares,
The funny thing is that I'm never o...Abu Fares,<br />The funny thing is that I'm never offended by your views. I think it's because you really don't try to offend anyone. You express your views in away that everyone knows you still love and appreciate them no matter what. To be honest with you, I expected strong reactions to this post, specially the last part, but I had to do it for my own good. I enjoy disagreeing with you because we do it in a friendly and civilized way. That's what informed discussions are all about. I'm sure we'll have many more friendly arguments my friends. They'll keep us alive and thinking.أنا سوريhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06048406444294823581noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3059702633077150344.post-78565933282861761212009-09-17T14:08:16.376-04:002009-09-17T14:08:16.376-04:00Yazan,
I want to thank you first for your visit. Y...Yazan,<br />I want to thank you first for your visit. You're always welcome here. When I started typing this post, I didn't have your blog in mind. It was a cry against some other blogs that made fun of Ramadan and fasting and the whole thing. I think you took it personal thinking it was your post that caused my reaction. I will never ever thrust my tolerance or point of view on you or anyone else for that matter. I have no right to. I believe in what I talked about strongly. Maybe that's why I sounded a little arrogant or over-confident. We don't know how long it took the universe to evolve for sure, but we're always guessing, and many findings that scientists have made recently, there were clues for its existence in the Quoran. I'm not going into too much details regarding this subject. It'll take alot more than a post or a comment to even start with. My late father would've showed his friend the same respect I was talking about, and yes, it is respect, not just compassion. My father always did something for that friend come christmas time, a meal or a small gift. <br />The "don't ask, don't tell" policy could also be applied to religion, although I don't see it happening because of the public religious practices. Your believes and my religion should never affect the good way we treat each other. <br />Last, I'm not trying to throw my religion in every post. I quoted some in a couple just to make a point. It's also not the same as talking about your sexual preferences and practices.أنا سوريhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06048406444294823581noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3059702633077150344.post-42514718802011817602009-09-17T03:52:14.572-04:002009-09-17T03:52:14.572-04:00My friend
I want to call you so because there is a...My friend<br />I want to call you so because there is already a bond between us despite the fact that we have our disagreements.<br />My intellectual evolution shared a common course with yours but didn't stop. I was never a conservative in the true meaning of the word. I was never excessively religious but I was a follower. I have broken free when I realized (for myself not for others) that religion(s) was too human to be divine. Even God in religion is too humanized. The fact that he needs humans to advocate HIS reality was the final blow to my mind and I decided that I needed to put an end to my own intellectual hypocrisy.<br />In my writing this is what I try to expose: My conflict with religion not with the idea of God. That, I prefer to keep for myself. Like Yazan, I don't perceive the universe around me or the human body and mind as perfect. I see the persistence and evolution of the universe and all consciousness in it as inevitable. Like water the cosmos are following the course of least resistance. An untold number of catastrophes took place over the infinity of time until "THIS" became what "IS" going on. It could end anytime and it might... but then it will start again.<br />I respect your points of view deeply. As a matter of fact I shared several of them until very recently. In a perfect world people would live in a place that is a combination of the best ideas human societies have invented over the centuries and continue to adapt new ones. Such a place does not and will never exist. We will never achieve perfection. Be that as it may, I think (presently) that the West with all its flaws have evolved further than we in the East have. I say that with a grain of salt but if I had to chose between what we have at the moment or what they have I will go with them. At least what is regulating individual behavior, rights and freedom is a law drawn by humans not of "divine" origin which means that we can change it if we don't like it without bringing the wrath of God upon us. But more importantly to be safe of the tyranny of those who consider themselves HIS men and HIS soldiers down here.<br />A GOD, any god, never needs them to defend him or to speak on his behalf.<br />Thank you for this interesting post.Abufareshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05528721595411746558noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3059702633077150344.post-70202017789305383352009-09-17T03:19:03.560-04:002009-09-17T03:19:03.560-04:00Marhaba Ana Souri,
May I ask you whether your fat...Marhaba Ana Souri,<br /><br />May I ask you whether your father also abstained from his breakfast when his Christian friend was fasting?<br /><br />That's really a rhetorical question and I expect no answer. Whether yes or no, it would make little difference to me. Fasting, or whatever spiritual activity one chooses to do, should be between himself and God, and other people around him should not influence that, and should not even be counted in that equation. Now, when I don't eat in front of my fasting friends during Ramadan, it comes not out of respect for their fast (respect has nothing to do with this), but rather out of compassion with them. But you have no right to ask for that sort of compassion from everyone.<br /><br />I admire your tolerance. But you seem to thrust it upon us from a place above, morally. As if it's a favor. It's not, and if that's the case then it makes little difference to me, whether you're "tolerant" of me or not. My tolerance and acceptance of ANY religion or ideology or idea (not just the ones that "make sense" to me, because to be honest, personally, the idea of God makes absolutely no sense to myself), is not by considering them non-existent and deleting them from my mind and expecting them to hide when I'm around. On the contrary it's out of belief that whatever you have in your mind is perfectly human and that I have no moral leverage over anyone when it comes to thought.<br /><br />On a side note, the perfect harmony you speak of in the universe took 40 billion years of cosmic disasters to come by (disasters that are still happening everywhere else in the universe) and the functioning human body (which I think is no where near "perfection"), took 2 billion years to evolve into this state. And the fact that if it wasn't functioning you wouldn't be here questioning why it isn't functioning? So to bring that as proof of the existence of God, makes little sense to me.<br /><br />You ask, Why throw your sexual orientation and preferences in the middle of every cause?, and I throw this question back at you sir, why do you throw your religion in the middle of every sentence? Would you accept a "don't ask, don't tell" policy when it comes to your religion?<br /><br />Last but not least, my post was certainly not intended to offend anyone, and I am sorry that it did offend you, but you are always free to skip a blog.<br /><br />Best,<br />YazanYazanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01774113380444289294noreply@blogger.com