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"I’m lost. There’s a few storylines that we’re following in each new chapter. i want to say that this is one of those broken timelines where the past, present and future are being presented in a non-chronological. i’m a bit lost." — Apr 27, 2026 03:31PM
"I’m lost. There’s a few storylines that we’re following in each new chapter. i want to say that this is one of those broken timelines where the past, present and future are being presented in a non-chronological. i’m a bit lost." — Apr 27, 2026 03:31PM
Affad Shaikh
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"even at the cusp of destruction framing the relationship between colonized and colonizer as “walking in the streets with Dutch and Javanese amiably smiling at one another given the restful Sunday activities” (paraphrased quote) - it’s just insane how the frame is solidly stuck on the Dutch were bad colonial masters but nothing was wrong until after krakatoa erupted!" — May 07, 2026 01:53PM
"even at the cusp of destruction framing the relationship between colonized and colonizer as “walking in the streets with Dutch and Javanese amiably smiling at one another given the restful Sunday activities” (paraphrased quote) - it’s just insane how the frame is solidly stuck on the Dutch were bad colonial masters but nothing was wrong until after krakatoa erupted!" — May 07, 2026 01:53PM
This is why we live in a culture of burnout.
“Because in the end, you won’t remember the time you spent working in the office or mowing your lawn. Climb that goddamn mountain.”
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“The graveyard is the richest place on earth, because it is here that you will find all the hopes and dreams that were never fulfilled, the books that were never written, the songs that were never sung, the inventions that were never shared, the cures that were never discovered, all because someone was too afraid to take that first step, keep with the problem, or determined to carry out their dream.”
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“...[A] strange necessity has been laid upon me to devote my life to the central concern that transcends the walls that divide and would achieve in literal fact what is experienced as literal truth: human life is one and all men are members of one another. And this insight is spiritual and it is the hard core of religious experience.”
― The Luminous Darkness
― The Luminous Darkness
“It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation.”
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“[T]he absolutely true...exists, and i know what it is. The problem is that you know too, and that we know different things, which puts us...armed with universal judgements that are irreconcilable, all dressed up and nowhere to go for authoritative adjudication.”
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NewGround- Muslim-Jewish Partnership Book Club
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NewGround began in 2006 as a response to the climate of tension and mistrust between Jews and Muslims in Los Angeles. But more importantly, NewGround ...more
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