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Question everything

There are two parties doubting the after-life: Those who gave up hope of coming in peace with themselves and forgive their own actual and imaginative sins, those who like to believe that there is a universal personal end for everyone, and no one will rise from the dead to testify against their twisted ways of living. The second are those who chose to question everything, and their only objective in life is to find the truth.

Typos

My typos are my signature of authenticity.

Fate, actions and beliefs

Fate, actions and beliefs Yes your actions will not change your fate but your knowledge will definitely do. there are two zones where "fate" comes to play, one is the reason-world as we know it, and the other is the tiny very personal space inside each of us, the one we call the human soul. Fate in our world follow different paths from the one in our souls,  and that tiny but deep space inside us that makes the real difference for our fate.

Imagination

People with imagination are more capable to start new complicated tasks, but once they get those task up and running they become equal in performance or even less than any skilled worker.

We can do so much

We can do so little for ourselves and so much for others. We can gain so much for ourselves by doing a little and genuine effort for others.

If you would not be forgotten

"If you would not be forgotten, as soon as you are rotten, either write something worth reading or do things worth the writing" Benjamin Franklin

The City Walls

Notice the strong walls of our city . . . Now examine the inner walls of our city. Examine the fine brickwork. These walls, too, surpass all others! No human being, not even a king, will ever be able to construct more impressive walls. Gilgamesh, Tablet I, 2IOO B.C.

Our ubiquitous ignorance

Most of the creativity resides in asking a new question rather than finding an answer to it. Most of our questions are lacking this creativity, for example, most of our questions have their answers ready in the FAQ list, simply because we (as a society) have the tendency to ask the same questions over and over again, in other words, we are united by our strangely ubiquitous ignorance about the same aspects of any slightly complicated brain demanding activity.  Asking a question, that is related to the subject yet it's not in the FAQ list, requires some creativity. Although to ask a question is not considered any kind of real achievement but we really need to reconsider and give it some credit.

Think positive

Those who get surprised by their happy feelings will not enjoy them for long.

It's not what we do, but how we do it

Tendency to finish things fast reflects a lazy behavior, because we want to wrap it up and finish on the expense of a good closure.

Over thinking

The easiest way to fall into procrastination is to over-think anything you have to do.

Handwriting

What printing presses yield we think good store. But what is writ by hand we reverence more. —John Donne

Knowledge is a Chance to Progress

One who is successful without knowing the reason of his success is facing an imminent failure. However, who is unsuccessful but already knows the reason of his failure is on the verge of a genuine and lasting success.

Thin as a paper and deep as an ocean

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Cause of existence

Discussion give the words their real meanings, after all humans invented language to discuss and elevate their cumulative comprehension of their own existence. But after some time, somebody invented politics and the real meaning of words become a far fetched objective. Communication achieved between truth-seeking minds is our cause of existence. When I say that, I feel like an archeologist rather than a thinker.

غابة المرايا او الكاليدوسكوب

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لم يعد لي ما يكفيني من المرايا, في غابة المرايا انعكست حياتي على اربع ولم يبق لي سوى ثلاث ولكن حتى وأن كانت هناك أخرى فلست متاكدا أن ما ستؤول اليه شعلتي سيكون كافيا للانعكاس على ثامنة الان تنعكس حياتي على هذه المرآة ومعها ينعكس كل شيء, كل شيء بدأ بالتحول الى انعكاس ضحل في المرآة التي كانت نافذة نحو الفضاء المتسع , وأصبحت سجنا صقيلا يجبر الضوء على الانعكاس نحو الداخل المتجدد إنعكس الكون بأكمله  إلا تلك البقعة المعتمة في طرف المرآة, اكاد اجزم انها تقاوم التحول كاي شي الى مجرد انعكاس لضوء لم يعد لتاريخه رواة اتمنى ان اكون مخطئا وان لا يكون  لمراياي امد محدد,  فكل مرآة انعكس عليها تجعلني أجمل وانا الان أجمل من اجمل أحلامي   لا شائبة تبقى على جسد المرآة النقي, وإن لم يعد لي الكثير من المرايا فلا بأس, عندما تنفذ مراياي سارحل الى اطراف الزمن وأسكن هناك في ظلال الشمس, وستصبح السماء مرآة كبيرة ينعكس عليها كل من نفذت مراياه لتعيده كسرا زجاجية ملونة, ترقص حول نفسها وسط غابة من المرايا

Choosing the right things to ignore

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 Human smartness lies in the remarkable ability to ignore the unimportant details.

Patriotism can not be engineered

Patriotism can not be engineered but it can be farmed like trees.

Tools and Civilization

Archaeologists always measured the civilization development  from the complexity of the tools used by that particular civilization. It's time to change this approach to measure the complexity of the tool purpose, instead of the complexity of the tool itself. A scalpel is a simple tool, it will not measure alone the real civilization development unless its purpose is considered as the main tool in the hand of a surgeon performing a life saving surgery.