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I thought to post about this out of curiosity, I got excited when I saw Leo on Tik Tok for the first time while endlessly swapping, on an Arabic channel called "english_with_fuad" Leo opens the video with an idiom 'Might is right'. Followed by two other guys repeating the phrase. Enjoy https://www.tiktok.com/@english_with_fuad/video/6930612571988872450?lang=en&is_copy_url=0&is_from_webapp=v1&sender_device=pc&sender_web_id=6927655312841655810

My biggest sorrow being born in Iraq is that I don't get to experience cultural revolutions, as they are always been made elsewhere and imported to here. I am still fantasizing about a life where I can genuenly become a part of a cultural revolution, however, I am very grateful for the internet because it can give me a window to where these revolutions are taking placce. I do have a projector in my room, and I am very excited to watch documentries, and music from previous decades. I particularely love the 80s, and there's good materials from the 80s. My dream is to get to a museum one day that hosts experiences of the 80s, I feel I want be there and experience that period for myself. One of my greatest finds on the internet is this song from the 8s with mesemerising 4K quality, extracted from a cenematic film. ne of my

I woke up and did my usual daily morning routine, and the day was usual, however Qaaim didn't show up to clean the neigbour rooms, so I didn't pay attention at first, and I thought that he will come afternoon after he has his lunch. Qassim didn't show up, and when I went down to go have a meal, I didn't see him at the hotel lobby, and when I came out from the dinner, I asked Faisal, the hotel manager where's Qassim? He replied that Qassim has gone since dawn, and that he called him at 5 AM stating that he'll be leaving to his family because his newly born child has died after 3 hours of delivering birth. It was his fourth child. Qassim then started asking for money to cover the operation cost for his wife next day, and he asked for around $200 from hotel owner to be transferred to him. I told the manager that want to contribute $20 to him if possible, he said yes. Many days pass by, and Faisal is waiting For Qassim to come back, calling him every day or so, stating that by now he should have been over the pain and preparing to come back to his work. Eventually, Qassim started ignoring Faisal's phone calles, this is when the latter started to have his suspicion that Qassim will never return and that he staged the story of his newly born child's death in order to escape and then steal him by asking advane payment or aid. Especially when he noticed him play online game. I told him to be patient and that maybe he was playing so tha the can regain his balance and sanity after a tragic loss of his son. Faisal meanwhile was working himself cleaning the rooms when Qassim was away, and he was just tired of doing that and decided to hire a worker. He agreed to hire a Syrian refugee female worker to help him cleam the room after he gave up oh Qassim's return, however, when I was shopping one day after around 10 days, I came back and saw Qassim in the vicinity of the hotel. I welcomed him and told him some words to express my sorrow on his child's death. He said he want to have a word with me, took me to his room near the reception area, and gave me a gift, a Paklava sweets box, he said this is because his wife is OK and doing well, and he's celebrating that. He said it is good that his wife is alive, because she is now "a tent over the rest of children's heads". In this stage-purple, red, and blue culture, it is pretty common that people call women in object names directly, he didn't say she's now functioniong as does a tent, protecting children, no , he said "God kept her a life, she's a tent over the children's heads" She doesn't have an importance hrself built into her person, but only matters her role. Qassim didn't get along well with the new female worker, and the manager had high hopes that this worker is going to stay and help Qassim and also stay working at the hotel until the afternoon prayer time, but what he isn't able to notice that the hotel is a manly enviroment mostly, and that women cannot thrive there. For me personally, I would expect that the Syrian worker would be happy to work in a prostitution house (not as a sex worker, but as an employee) rather than working in this hotel.

I would like to start this post to highlight some of the events in my friend's life "Qassim", and then add some of my thoughts about it. I will write the entries in blue so that it is not mixed with the discussions if any. Qassim is a shiite man, around 25 years old. He came to the north of Iraq escaping the Shiite household south in order to gain his bread. He's about 170 CM tall, skinny, with a brown skin color. When I first met him, he was this bully who was trying to bully the other Syrian worker into submission, although the latter was working in the hotel before Qassim arrives. I didn't like him at first, and especially because I couldn't trust him. One time I met another new resident in the hotel, and I was surprised that he knows everything about me, so I told myself that Qassim has told him what I do, where I am from...etc. I discovered that Qassim has a weak personality, and can't say no to anybody, this is why when he's asked, he gave them all the info about me. Qassim was making decent money when the oil prices were up as a worker in refreshments shop, and he told me he was like making 7 times his current salary now that he's working in the hotel, but when the money dried up, he decided that it is OK to work anything in order to feed his family and children back home. Our relationship grows stronger when Qassim had an accident, and it goes like this: While I was cooking on my upper 3rd floor, I heard a loud cry, only to rush to the sound and see Qassim on the floor, he was in deep pain. He was able to manage to tell me one word 'the refrigerator' So I knew he was shocked by the refrigerator nearby in one of the hotel rooms. Many residents came out to see us, and I instructed them that they should immediately go down to the management and call the manager to come, and they did so. Manager came, and we stood all there, and they have zero knowledge on first aid, unlike me, I am trained in first aid and CPR, so they tried to improvise and they tried to apply their knowledge on Qassim. One of them started to massage his chest, one of them offered to get him to hospital, but non-of them gave him a blanket or tried to cover him until I did. As he was lying on the wall semi-paralized, the people were trying to figure out what to do to him. The thing that I am trained in CPR cuz I am open-minded enough to believe in science, and the hotel manager knows that I am trained, cuz I showed him the CPR doll given to me by my instructor before I took it to my storage room, yet he and his brother partner are so closed minded, and they think that whatever accident/emergency happens to a person, the he should be rushed in their car to a emergency hospital, and also the fact that there's no "good Samiritan" laws in the country, they all discourage me to even think of practicing CPR on Qassim even if in case he is unable to breath, cuz this will get me in troubles, and might get me jailed later if Qassim didn't make it afterwards. One more thing to add to the story, is that the faulty refrigerator was known to be faulty months ago and it was showing signs, but the manager did nothing to repair it, but whenever it was acting up, he would order someone to unplug it. He was unable with his unscientific psyche to see that it could do such a harm. About 20 minutes later from first receiving the shock, Qassim was recovering again, and they helped him to get up. Took him downstairs, and gave him a hot drink. Two hours later, Qassim was up and walking normal. but trying to recall the pain he had experienced in that moement, he said nothing that he know of before, and he said he struggled to tell me that it is the refrigerator because he was thinking that it might also shock me too. I told him that I am glad that he made it, and that I did understand what he meant when I got to him. PS: I called Qassim slave because he's the only worker in a hotel of 20 rooms, and he's responsible on all the cleaning, receiving guests, gate keeping, and he has no freedom of a day off, he sleeps in the reception area, while the hotel is owned by three partners including the manager, and its revenue is responsible to run families of these three partners, probably in total 20 people. This post is written after I took 50mg of Modafinil, it just makes me want to write!

Does sleep has to do with consciousness? how do these connect together? Leo, you have explained how psychedelics functions in altering one's consciousness. I bet the sleep video won't be a much more complicated issue than the latter, or is it?!

I just have this idea that Actualized.org content should be translated to many languages, and that we should do this through freelancer translators. I believe in doing so, many translators will be educated during the process, and I see translators as important part of the societies who have the ability transform their societies and create sort of harmony nations nations. They sort of represent the interfaces for different nations. In Arabic nations for example, we always see those translators almost always pick parts of speech of western politicians, and take it out of context, and then translate it and present it to the mass, and in doing so, they are working against creating understanding between nations. Example this Trump videos, where the translator has assembled all Trump said during his campaigns and presented it as an evidence that the US is an evil country, not mentioning the context which is election campaigns: If I had the money, I would hire a team of translators, and make them all work together through a collaboration process. I imagine at some point, they won't help it but to be transformed, and then they will be sort of ambassadors for what Actualized.org stand for, and they will help their nation create bridges with the rest of the world.

For my 30+ years of life on this planet called earth, I've haven't heard about another source that gave Muhammed the Quran, but I can understand now the different states of minds, and while I haven't tried but Mofdafinil so far, I can understand that there are certain substance that can make you smarter and make angels whisper genius ideas in your ears, ideas that are never heard of before. Only then you understand that intelligence is a separate entity from you, the you who has lived all his life struggling, and when you take the pill, it is like there's someone else dictating new concepts in your ears. Now Muhammed was a merchant for many years and he worked for his first wife Khadiga in trade for like 20+ years, and only when he went to the cave, he started seeing things and angels, he returned back to his wife who interpreted that he was seeing as Angeles, and this is a proof that he was the new prophet. and to his horror, he bought into this explanation. I would speculate and say that Muhammed, when he was meditating in the cave, he also might had some substance, and then he understood the ideas that he was receiving text from God. Now People do wish that Islam is going to evolve, and this is very far from the truth. Sufisim is NOT ISLAM. Shiisim IS NOT ISLAM. In fact, Islam cannot evolved since it's founder is dead, and all the new interpretations are mere efforts to continue what Muhammed has left his followers. However, I do consider Suni Islam is the most close representation to the spirit of Islam as Muhammed envisioned it. I hold this opinion almost as a dogma, and not because I think it is 100%, but I am rather frustrated by people wishing that Islam is evolving, and they wish that more peaceful versions can represent the true spirit of Islam, and this is very far from the truth, this is a huge delusion. I imagine some people see a woman Imam, and she's doing goat yoga classes while reciting Quran, they'll be tempted to consider that she's practicing a new form of Islam (which is true to some sense) but also they would like to project and say that Islam is evolving. Islam cannot evolve, cuz there's always the Quran, a well-kept book, almost down to the letters that constitutes the words within it, and also a thousand+ years of Islamic scholars books around Islam, and the life of the prophet. Anyone can always go back to the purest form of Islam through reading into the above, and also there's an OK number of folks who were constantly devising new versions of Islam, but what they do doesn't negate, and can't negate in my opinion the truer form of Islam, Sunnah, Sunnis. The Sunni followers still constitutes the majority number of Muslims around the world, so please don't delude yourself and get a microscope and look at a tiny sample and take it as a sign that Islam has evolved, can evolve, or will evolve. Have a look at this ISIS man, he's destroying a statue in Mosul Museum, it is the same act that Muhammed did when he occupied Mecca! But then there are those who desperately want to believe that the bellow dancing Sufi men do represent Islam and the spirit of it best!

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I would love to see Iraq re-occupied again, and then there should be a plan to concentrate Iraqi citizens in certain areas of Iraq, and make the rest of the land a no-human zone. How about this?

Iraq has a massive land area, and it is just normal take in other factors that it will he a hot bed for terrorist activities and organizations. After the double suicide attack few days ago, this is what how Iraqi government is responding: https://www.rudaw.net/english/middleeast/iraq/24012021 These people who are going to be executed belong to different tribes, and those tribes will develop anger towards what the consider an "alien, western supported political process". This will accelerate forming of new terrorist organizations and reviving ISIS, and in no time, Iraq will see rebellion in large areas of land, which means it will go out of control of government, and this in turn will lead to a new international intervention at best case, which will cause a new war-like situation.

Source: https://edition.cnn.com/2021/01/21/middleeast/iraq-baghdad-explosion-intl/index.html This happened at the first full day of Biden's Administration. My comment: Situation in Iraq is still very fragile, no, This is not still a result of Americans "messing and destabilizing Iraq". The reality is that Iraq's land area is so big, and according to https://www.nationsencyclopedia.com/ , "Present-day Iraq, comprising an area of 437,072 sq km (168,754 sq mi), Comparatively, the area occupied by Iraq is slightly more than twice the size of the state of Idaho" The truth is that it is hard to control this land with Iraqis still focusing solely on increasing numbers of security forces, recruiting over one million security personnel. Today's Iraq is a safe haven for terrorist organizations, and I can even argue that the latter are manufactured in Iraq. Honestly the lack of opportunities here, and the "Anti-Stage-Orange" mentality leads people to think to become criminals as a means of survival. I am doing my best to sponsor FB articles to teach people at least the importance of respecting the international laws, and any laws for that matter, in order to teach people how to respect a law or a convention or a constitution, all of are alien ideas to stage-red, and purple societies here. I believe this is the way to go, and to teach them the consequences of not respecting laws. I welcome any help in this regard, financial or intellectual.

You might think that you don't need to know much, especially when things are going well with your life, but then something suddenly happens, something might be far away from you like a virus in another continent, and when it reaches you, you lose your job, and your country's economy enters into a completely different state, but they inject money into the market and you have hope that things will go back again one day, when the virus ends. Truth is that whatever state your country's economy in, it took probably ten years to to get there or more, it took sometimes decades or century for something to develop, and even if that thing has passed, in this case a vaccine will be distributed, then it is an utter delusion that we will be ending up in a state of being that is familiar for us. You think that this will not impact you, but if think about the infinite dynamics that changes the society, example when you used to manufacture something, but people stopped using it due to pandemic, not only that, but they discovered another alternative that works better for them. In this case, your expertise is not needed anymore over a night. I came to believe that a person needs more knowledge about life, not only that, but also be able to communicate well with the rest of the people, cuz ultimately, you need to not only care for your survival, but sometimes your survival depends on the survival of your species, so you need better communication skills in order to communicate your findings with them. I think this money-based economy gives us (or not) a window in time in order to develop the above, cuz it is not as solid as I think it is. We need to replace it one day after we do the necessary work to elevate our consciousness. Economy and money cannot drive us all to safety, and if more of us are ignorant, there's a point where it will fail and collapse.

This is interesting, this memo talks about intelligence about advanced rocket attack will be launched by "People outside the law" on American embassy via advanced rockets. It specifies the date and time before 3/1/2021 (the day of Gen. Sulaimani's killing). Also the place of launch. Memo directed to the higher authorities, office of minster, and offices of higher security executive leaders. It just shows how this is a fake country, cause you can set up rocket and launch them into the embassies if you want to with hardly any consequences. The delusional writer of this memo projects that there's an abiding law, which in theory there's, but it means nothing in reality. It's war ladies and gentlemen! Trump actually wishes that one single American dies so that he implement yet another military attack on Iran. This is the link of the article, by American Sponsored Arabic Channel "AlHurra" Here's the memo itself, although in Arabic, supposed to be classified highly confidential !! I mean Iraqi government has no fucking authority but on people like me! They can prevent me from renting a place because they are racist against single people , but they cannot prevent advanced rocket attacks, and they cannot keep a confidential memo confidential!! Now let's say that some pro-Iranian militia has implemented a sophisticated attack, and Trump decided to bomb Iran for that, does it really matter if this pro-iranians militia has its orders from Iran or not? Let's suppose that I do it and Trump fires back at Iran. In my opinion it doesn't fucking matter at all who does these act as long as there's a high level of aggression that's decades long. Had I been the Iranian president today, I would go on television and try to suck up for Trump and America, cuz these are the most dangerous 25 days or so in their modern history maybe cuz if any stupid thing took place, it doesn't matter who gave the orders, the same way it doesn't matter if Iraq had WMDs or not!

I can't remember who recommended this book, but I feel serious discomfort when I try to read it. I tried to go through it, and whenever my eyes are on any paragraph, I see nothing new, no methods, no intelligence, just nothing. One silly story to remember is when a boss and his team discussing who's the one to blame for failure, and the author instruct not to make a joke on expense of the member they identified as a weak point, imagine reading a chapter in order to get basic stuff like that!

My Bible note is a book called "influence" . I am reading around 10%a month just because every chapter is an absolute mind fuck. Based on scientific research. I can't remember the name of the author. I believe starts with Robert. I am outside right now

I am kind of being delusional now that my 'God Self' asked for the pandemic to happen. Since I detached from my society and lived in a hotel. I needed time to sort my life and work on myself. I've always wished that I could live a life of a monk, separated having a distance from society. The hotel I am living in, is like a solitary place, and the stage-blue owner is busy defending his name and tribe that he neglects the business side. I am living in a floor mostly empty for myself. Yet before the Covid hit, I was forcing myself to go out more often just because I thought the people at the hotel are judgmental, and I needed to go out in order to avoid questions about me. Sometimes i used to go wonder in the city, in the gardens or in the malls for hours per day to give the impression that I am a normal conformist. When the pandemic happened. Everything is changed, and I saw it a chance to stay at my room for most of the time, and I even got praised by people in the hotel for my "astonishing ability to #StayHome". I now have plenty of time to work on my problems from past life. IBS, Sleep disorders, anxiety, low self-esteem, business ideas, and many others. #2, I never had a hair cut at a salon for about 15 years now. When I was younger, textbooks and newspapers were warning of AIDS, and I figured out that it could be transmitted by barber tools, so I never went there, yet just about a month before the pandemic, I decided hey, let's try it once again, let's sit and make another person take care of that, and the pandemic hits, and it was like the message from the universe to me that I should go back to cutting my own hair. #3 Most of the time in the pandemic, I was able to maintain good social distancing, due to being isolated from public. #4 It serves my egotistical agenda to transform people to science believers, just a bit, and change the way their minds work on a large scale, since now they will be forced to be exposed or should I say bombarded with practical scientific information. I think this will make my life better on the long run. Right now, I cannot but entertain the idea that it is working for me! but I also wonder what will happen if I get it one day...

I was watching a documentary about Adam Smith, and in that documentary discussed how the founding fathers relied on smith's philosophy heavily. It also talks about the congress library, and how it was re-established after the British burned it in 1815, and how Thomas Jefferson has donated his own books to be the core of the new library of congress. I sensed that the founding fathers are like the modern day's prophets, or the saints of America, because the way they talk about them , and the way they want to preserve their possessions, like for example how they are trying to re-assemble the original library of Jefferson since 2/3 of its books were burned again in 1850s. It is similar to how other nations take care of what left of their founder's life. I remembered when Leo talked about Structure VS Content, and in a sense Muhammad and his inner circle are considered the founding fathers of Islam, so as Jesus and his disciples. I can see now that there's little distinction when it comes to which school is better, America, Islam, or Christianity, while before, I would see America as a progressed place or nation, while Muslims and Arabs are backwards closed-minded people/nations. I came to believe that what the fathers of these schools have done is giving their nations a blueprint of how to progress, but there will always be there sort of infinite amount of work or improvements to be done.

I though this is interesting to share with you guys. During the Olympics, a body builder has requested asylum during a press conference, Video says it happened in Atlanta during 1996 Olympics, and Auday (Saddam's son, you cannot mistake him in the video) he was the head of all sports institutions back then, he was pissed off, and send to bring the parents of the athlete at 5 AM from a different city. Those parents have absolutely no fucking idea that their son has requested asylum, and the video opens with Auday telling the father about this 'new trend' as he calls it. He said what about your son who has this new trend? He's now a runaway and speaks badly about the Iraqi government, and Saddam Hussain. the father was shocked as you can see. Then the video progresses with more details, and shows an interview with the athlete himself later after the fall of the regime. Then It shows Auday discussing with his officials who were trading accusations of who is responsible, and the mother of the athlete talks about that night when the security forces got them out of their beds at 5 AM while telling them a different story that "Audai will give them an acknowledgment for theirson's achievements achievement" Then after that it ends with the new decision that all the athlete who go out of Iraq should have someone close to them to sign a paper stating that they will guarantee their return or else face a death sentence. At one point, they mention that Audai ordered the cameras off so that he can threaten them all of beheading. Also he kept asking about the athlete's wife, mentioning that everyone is looking for her, but they are unable to find her. Also on camera he shames the father, saying that only a dirty house would produce a dirty son like his.

@Michael569 I don't care. This book is absolute garbage, I wrote here so that people will stay away of it. It almost feels like gossip stuff. If you care enough to prove it is a good book, I challenge you to bring me one advance tip of how to be a better person from the book itself. It sounds weird that you care so much to disqualify my opinion in the book, it is as if it touches something in you. It is just a book, let it go, and it is a total garbage.