Mesopotamian

Adding music = Adding drama

Challenge: Can you forget that Eminem is a white famous dude while listening to his songs?

While crying, she says that humans should never google things in the middle of a work day! https://www.tiktok.com/@bigeyedamybeth/video/7151165977655282987?is_from_webapp=1&sender_device=pc&web_id=7149577942099920390

Just letting everybody knows that Dating is a purely western concept. In the eastern culture, it is not common that men and women goes out to places for the purpose of knowing each others and trying to form a future family. Whenever you see two people sitting at restaurant, cafe, or holding hands in places other than the west, you can't say that they are dating. The purpose of dating as I understand it is to go out with as many people as you can in order to find "the right one", but in place other than the western countries, that idea isn't welcomed. People in lower stages societies don't even have distinct personalities of their own as they are indoctrinated into their cultures , so there's no need to get to know each others before marriage, and the concept of engagement is there just so that there will be time to prepare for the wedding to take place. Also I've heard about the term "Arranged marriage" and you might think that if people were not dating freely, then their marriages are going to be arranged. The truth is that that these marriages in reality are imposed, not arranged. There's nothing that's arranged about them, yet they are imposed on young people, and the latter have no say at all when it comes to the details. Living in Iraq, I don't personally know any married people where they went through that freely, always imposed marriages. A man reaches a certain age, one of his parents or both tell him that he needs to marriage, then they present him with a bride of their choice..

I lately went to a party of expats in my city after many months of refraining from doing so, and when I looked at good looking girls around me, some of them are trying to start a convo with boys, I said to myself, I really hope that no girl would try to fall in love with me that night, and in my mind I would've just tried to repel any girl that would dare to approach me. Luckily I am not considered a hot guy, so this helps a lot with this matter. I realized that the last thing that you need in this life is for a girl to fall in love with you after liking you, or after liking how good you look or how you present yourself or based on how "attractive" or "hot" you are. Truth is that any liking you might receive from any girl on this planet based on those can't be mixed with love, and it is certainly not a ticket to get the genuine love that you need to have. That girl most certainly isn't falling in love with you, but rather she's falling in love with a form, a concept of how good-looking you are, or even how good your smells, or how good and safe it feels to be with someone as tall as you are, or how good she imagines you hugging her would feel, and all of those are not you! It is naive to think that if you can get a girl to like you, that would make her more willing to love you! liking and love are different things, and even when people say they like somebody, what they mean in fact that they do like certain qualities within that person that leave a good impression on them. I feel that love can only happen between highly conscious people, ones who are able to completely overlook the form and can see beyond that. One of the things that helps you as a man to get love is to try to step into a woman's shoes and try to see the world as they themselves see it, and the most precious thing in this life you can give a woman is the ability to see the world the way she does, and for me it was an eye-opening experience when recently a lady did let me into her life, sharing with me her everyday life and struggles for almost a year now. I've learned so much about how she sees the world. I imagine in the future it's going to be 1000X easier to connect with virtually any woman on this planet, just because now I have the ability to see the world the way they do, so how cool can that be? In reality, what a woman needs at the end of the day is someone who can understand her and understands how she feels, but only when she's frustrated, she's going to activate the emotional circuit to find a man whom she can fall in love with his form, and that happen most likely because she's driven by dozens of fear, like the fear of aging. Best of luck!

why? where are you at currently in partnership life?

Soon to be 20 years since the American Invasion to Iraq, and I still think it was a good happening and not the worst thing that happened to Iraq. I feel those who cry the Iraq war and think that it shouldn't have happened, I feel that they are actually crying over how Saddam Hussain, a moralist, tribal, criminal dictator was overthrown! This man was sleeping on Iraqi's chests, and was leading the country into wars with neighbors, and during those wars also millions were killed. This man came to power after a bloody coup, and he also solidified his ruling through assassinating all of those whom he thought would stand against his authority. Here's a fact: The war of Iraq and overthrowing of Saddam Hussain's regime only lasted 21 days or so? this is just based on my memory of what happened. As a teenager, it was one of the happiest days in my life when we saw the statue of Saddam comes down, and I ran to check out his vast palace complex, running from one palace to another, until I got exhausted, and then after that a spent 10 days at home trying to recover from sever legs pain. What followed after that and the prolonging of the occupation was actually because of the bloody resistance, bunch of crazy gangster people who were trying to use the religious scripts and international laws as pretexts to kill "the occupiers" and whomever works with them wherever they find them. I am also glad that these were dealt with firmly, and the incident of Abu Ghareeb prison, which personally I thought is a coordinated master peace, has been successful to put an end of that, and that's when those gangsters were promised to be exposed to rape, which is the highest dishonor in Islam. All the movement died and Iraq finally moved on. The ISIS thing happened because of the corruption, and if I had to point a finger to the folks whom were responsible for that, it is the Obama Administration, and the less involvement of Obama compared to George Bush in the Iraqi situation has led to the rise of ISIS. Trump had to deal with the efforts of liberating Iraq from ISIS and the whole country was mobilized to fight them, and also had less involvement. Now for Biden, there's zero involvement in the Iraqi situation, yet the corruption continues as high as ever. The Iraqi state is still the biggest looting operation in the history of mankind, but of course this won't be lasting forever. One day Iraq is going to fall into chaos and war again, and I don't think the idea will hold that it was all because of the war on Iraq in 2003.

Hello again! sorry for the delay. For the above, well, we can assume that he's a mimi-ayatollah for Iraq, and certainly trying to compete with giants who are not only older than him, but also more knowledgeable and reputable. The thing that gave him a push is that his dad was a reputable cleric whom allegedly was killed by Saddam Hussain's guys, and this is where he is gaining the authority from. and yes he was backed by Iran until late. In the following photo, you can see him siting between the Iranian Ayatollah, and General Sulaimani who was assassinated by a US drone strike Yet right now, it seems that the honeymoon has ended, and that's when his father's disciple who himself living in Iran decided to resign from his post, and in his final statement, he said that all Muhammed Alsadir followers in Iraq (Muqtada's assassinated dad) should follow the Iranian Ayatollah. I mean this could be true yes, although there are no solid reports of that and I haven't heard or seen any videos of such operations. What's better is just flying directly to Syria over Iraq using civilian jets and going undetected. I recently knew about his dad's disciple https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kazem_al-Haeri , a "true knowledge seeker" and his resignation and last statement in which he challenged Muqtada's eligibility . Basically Mr. Muqtada has authority as an heir of his dad. (Link to his dad's page : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mohammad_al-Sadr no not really, Muqtada won like 70 seats in the recent election, yet the other Shiite wing who has stronger ties with Iran wanted to deprive him the chance to form the government, and the armed wing of that political wing started shooting at his followers at that night. The country is run on bigotry and injustice and nobody actually cares for the future as long as everyone is getting their share of the treasure. All the security forces are there shutting the mouths of people on behalf of the whole world, suppressing and killing those who have opinions, I can see ISIS was probably a cry for justice, where the Iraqi government was really overthrown once more time by people driving Toyota pick ups, but then this government was restored and protected once again by sheer force, in the meantime tens of thousands were killed, millions were displaced, just in order for the corrupt government to come back to rule Iraq once more and for the oil to continue to flow. It is looking more and more that my ultimate goal for now is to leave Iraq forever, and I am trying to make plans for this. This country is going to go down, and one day, the US is going to find out that it is better not to get drunk on oil unless people who control it truly reform themselves and their corruption

Basically I hit the wall for hundreds of times, and that's when I learned.. The politicians don't hit many walls, all they have to do is to repeat and amplify what the collective think

Correct.. It was Audai, has a pretty interesting story and went through a failed assassination attempt which left him half paralyzed.. Was all over the media. The other was Qusai, was living a discreet life away from media while still occupying higher positions in the states, being prepared to be next in line to rule Iraq.

I wish I knew about more about systems thinking, and my intuition tells me that there was something there and the regime that Saddam was on top wasn't going anywhere anyways.. Here's an actual footage of Qusai, teaching his children (soon to rule Iraq) how to use guns, and makes me wonder at what age he would start teaching them to use it on people? https://youtu.be/5mvB-dDLSh4

@Leo Gura You're completely and absolutely right with the two points that you've just mentioned Leo. Saddam was ruling with an iron fist, and as some Iraqis also think that he was "keeping a lid on the manhole". My next point is that it was very hard to forge this national identity that you've . here are some factors that might have prohibited that: 1- During his 30 in power, there were no practical attempts or initiatives that I know of in that direction. Unlike let's say Ataturk who worked actively to forge that identity. 2- He kept the tribes and tribal system intact and used their support in order to solidify his power. 3- He himself was a tribal man, and even his sons, both of them were tribal. Even Kim Jong Un said to have studied in Europe, yet Saddadm was refusing to open up and send his children to study abroad. 4- he was actively trying to get himself into wars, and basically starting from 1991, he positioned the Iraqi people to be at war with the united states. His attitude has shifted more towards considering the US to be his number one antagonist, thus mobilizing Iraqis to look at the united states as their no. 1 enemy. Basically if anybody to support him stay in power, they are also supporting endless suffering and wars for Iraqi people I don't want to build my national identity on hating America! I love America!

https://www.washingtoninstitute.org/policy-analysis/removing-all-militias-baghdads-international-zone

Some Iraqi news was quoting from: https://www.washingtoninstitute.org/

Thanks again for the solidarity here. It is nice to learn that good people like you do think about my safety Let's get back to business: Muqtada Alsadar is today the strongest man in Iraq, has a wide populous base, and a militia. He's playing power games though, and it's been many years where he learned that he can have the biggest mass in the street, bigger than any other populous mass. He seems to be playing power games, reminding everyone that in case they don't take what he wants in account, he's going to be causing chaos. Now his political wing won the election, yet other political Shiite are not letting him also have a subordinate as the Iraqi PM. That would be solidifying his position as the ultimate leader of IRaq, making him sort of similar to the Iranian situation, and for that, he actually gave his followers 24 hour to do whatever they want to do, by claiming that he resigned from his post. Next day, and after they turned Baghdad into a complete chaos, he went on TV and expressed his dissapointment in his ,militia and followers! ordering them to go home in less than 60 minutes! As if he had nothing to do with what was happening! That's true, there was sever fire in the "not-so-green" zone.. it continued for the whole night until he appeared again on TV the next day at around 12 PM maybe? So what's happening is that now everyone is complementing him and sort of sucking up to him for ordering his followers to go home, even his rivals, and the Iraqi president, and current PM, they are all applauding him for that! Now we are in the next phase, are they going to listen to what he wants and go to a new election? It is really dark and complicated, yet after the chaos night, I believe everybody is going to try to take what he wants in account in order not to upset him again.. Also his resignation came as a reaction for his deceased father's friend and disciple, himself a religious man living in Iran, and the latter when he resigned, he said that Muqtada doesn't represent his father anyways, and that all the current followers of Muqtada and his deceased father should follow the Iranian Murshad Khaminie.. And that's when Muqtada made a statement, scolding that man, and announcing resignation, and that's when the chaos started and storming the green zone... Yet Basically, as I stated before, Iraq is probably the biggest looting operation in the history of humanity, and at the end, everybody is going to come together so that the oil flow continues.. Today I've read headlines that even the US is making statements that goes with some Muqtada's Demands.

Hello there thanks for checking on me.. I just came back to the forum again. I'm fine and I hope you're too I'll try to comment soon on the topic again and elaborate..

With my simple English, I just want to say thank you for sharing this here. I've read it all and I like what's in it.

Hey have you tried experimenting with this? seems that it works for me https://vm.tiktok.com/ZMNVgmnky/?k=1

Did the colonial era ended? not really... I live in Iraq, and it is a made up country, a British lady known as Gertrude Bell helped tribes in Iraq to form the first ruling council, and it didn't work, as after that there were many bloody revolutions and regime change, and the last one when the United States came to Iraq and installed a pseudo-democratic regime. What are Iraq's foundations? -Oil industry invented by the west. -Oil exported to the rest of the world in exchange for dollars -The dollars are distributed to people from top to bottom, and poverty is very high due to corruption. -The western countries invite the children of wealthy top people to their universities and taking their money, giving them worthless certificates. -Everybody is selling Iraqis something and no one wants to purchase anything from them except the oil -Corruption is very common -Iraqi passport isn't really a passport, it is a document that deny its holders from entering most countries of the world, having the second from the end of the list position and only beaten by Afghanistan. The west insist that this is a developing country, assuming that it can develop in the future, but in reality they are sponsoring all kind of corruption that's happening in Iraq, and stealing Iraqi people's money through their educational institutions. Like seriously, the only people who can afford to send their sons and daughters to study abroad in western universities are corrupt upper class ruling people in Iraq, and westren enducational institutions welcoming them with open arms. Are they choosing to teach the most brilliant people of Iraq? of course not! Are you thinking that sons of wealthy and corrupt are going to want to build this country when they have higher degrees? But even though nobody seems to care, Iraq is going to be as it has always been for the past 20 years or so a source of trouble for the whole world, until somebody think to pay attention and come and try to sort this mess up and make things work.

@ThePoint Upon reading your reply I feel like I remember a part of my life when I had this kind of anxiety, and I didn't know how to describe it or what it is actually, and I used to feel annoyed by that. The source of my anxiety was the fact that I am living in Iraq, where things get out of hand every now and then, above that there were news about possible future disasters like a dam that could collapse and kill 500 thousands people in 24 hours. I think what helped me to be calmer is that I learned how to get to a place that enables me to be safe psychically, and also watching lots of videos from Leo, which helped me recontextualize things in a totally new manner Do you think you can share what type of life you're living? with what people? and such... it would help to try to figure out the effect of your surroundings on you..

I am sorry to hear about your situation, and yes I used to have some of these anxiety episodes. you said you feel like this 24/7, but is that really the case? can't you experience some peace during your day? like when you first wake up from the morning..and such

@Leo Gura I mean you've said it before that government is the most complex thing that humans have ever invented, what makes you have hopes that they might work when imposed on nations? This is indeed the new colonialism. when you are the greatest country in the world, and you expect all the nation of the world to copy you, and have similar governance systems, and to stay afloat, even though their respective nations are way less developed. In Iraq, the US came and deliberately installed a regime, but with other dozens of countries, the US's work is more subtle than that, but it is kind of the same, it is to maintain the world order and current "countries doctrine"

Hey Leo, I am afraid I can't agree, from where I am, I see the notion of a country is very fragile one and needs not to be taken seriously. It is not like countries can work unless there's corruption, but it is that the notion itself is corrupt. I hope you can one day start to teach about how the country notion is supposed to be about management purposes, and not something to be taken for granted. If any set of countries don't work, simply they need to cease to exist. I kind of noticed that if we have Islam, Christianity, then the modern religion is probably is the international laws and conventions that hold these imaginary borders and makes them sacred, causing the suffering of millions of unlucky people who are stuck in misery and wars. Thank you

I've noticed through the years that stage green people tend to only judge stage orange values, but other than that, they put a fake mask of zero-judgment. They can't judge stage blue's actions or values for their develiry, heck they can't even seem to be willing to judge the situation and see it as is if in case it belongs to stages lower than orange. They are in this regard only practicing hate towards one step down, ie where they used to come from. Just like an athiest who hates religion and religious people the moment he gets out of religion It is so toxic to just start bashing the stage-orange as soon as they grow out of it, but they are completely blind to the devlilery of other stages. For pure blue and below they have nothing but utmost respect. It is frustrating for someone like me who lives in Iraq that those people who sometimes come to here can't really see things the way I see them and can't feel my suffering. They fucking condemn the 2003 invasion but can't notice the lack of freedoms in Iraq and thus can't even associate it with rigid moralistic stage red-purple-blue stages. As a result they fucking even refrain from judging a situation and that's utterly frustrating. And as of this moment, I am starting to think that I will never be able to have friendship with stage green folks ever in my life. I quite frankly hate them for that I mentioned above and have a strong feeling against them and their blindness.