#and it tells me enough about your intelligence your beliefs your mental capacity your principles and you as a person how you approach this

[lady-corrine]

"Rhaenyra being usurped had nothing to do with misoginy and her being a woman -"

"The Greens are not only constituted by misoginystic -"

"Aegon and Rhaenyra were just as bad and neither deserved to -"

"George is writing about how Aegon and Rhaenyra were equally bad, not about how misoginy and patriarchy killed a woman and ruined her entire life -"

"Rhaenyra being murdered has nothing to do with her being a woman, nor is she sexualized even in death-"

[mbti-notes]

I'm an isfj. I know someone with serious mental illness and I don't feel very compassionate when I hear about his life. I feel pity, I feel very helpless/powerless and angry, I feel guilty, or I feel uncomfortable and want to turn away coz it's scary that people's lives can go really badly. I feel really selfish being like that and I don't want to be this kind of person. How can I nurture more compassion?

Assuming typical brain development, you are born with the capacity to empathize. Empathy is an important part of human genetic history because we needed it for survival, specifically for successful cooperation. To work together well, we must understand each other well, we must support each other’s efforts well, and we must help each other contribute well. As with any raw, inborn capability, it’s up to you to develop it to its higher potential through the choices that you make. Your choices have decreased your ability to empathize. There are two common obstacles to overcome in the process of empathy development:

1) Egocentrism: People at low levels of ego development aren’t able to empathize because they aren’t able to recognize other people as subjects. Do you understand the difference between a subject and an object? Many people only know the difference in theory but can’t apply it. In English grammar, a subject is the “active” part of the sentence, e.g., the person who is doing something. By contrast, the object is the “passive” part of the sentence, e.g., the person who is having something done to them. This basic grammatical structure belies the framework that the mind uses to understand relationships in the world.

Everybody has their own experience, which means that your understanding of reality begins from your own personal vantage point - you see yourself as a subject, experiencing and doing things in the world. Your vantage point includes things like your self-concept, thoughts, feelings, ideas, beliefs, values, judgments, schemas, triggers, past experiences, etc. When you look out into the world through your vantage point, you don’t see the world as it is, rather, you merely see the world as it gets interpreted through the content of your vantage point. A simple example: When you look at a painting, what happens? All you see is a canvas with some colored paint smeared all over it? If that’s all you see, then you’re either not human or you don’t have a personality. No, for instance, as ISFJ, you see the colors and whether you like them, you see the image and how it makes you feel, you see the style and how it compares to the aesthetic styles that you’re already familiar with, and so on. 

The same principle holds true when you deal with people. You, the subject, acts upon the other person, the object, with the contents of your vantage point. You don’t see people as they really are but only as you want/expect/hope them to be - it’s all about you. For example: You think about how they make YOU feel, when in fact, they’re not purposely doing anything to make you feel anything. You think about who they remind YOU of, when in fact, they bear no relation to the people you’ve known before. You think about whether YOU are better/worse than them, when in fact, they are simply a person with strengths and weaknesses just like you. And so on.

There’s nothing wrong with having your own vantage point, as we all have every right to our own existence. However, the problem arises when you never learn or never acknowledge that there’s more to the world than your own vantage point, which means that you are, in essence, completely confined by it psychologically. In short, your vantage point gets in your way instead of aiding you. Egocentrism makes it difficult to empathize because you don’t really see people, rather, you only ever see aspects of yourself as you constantly project the contents of your vantage point onto them. This creates ego drama, as you are more concerned with your experience and how you’re reacting than what’s actually going on with the other person. When you’re not grasping the truth of someone, how can you know the most appropriate way to relate to them, comfort them, help them, or guide them, especially when their experience is very different from yours? You’ll be grasping at straws.

Therefore, empathy requires the ability to transcend egocentrism, essentially, to stop approaching the world as though your own experience is all there is (oblivious) or all that matters (narcissist). To have meta-awareness of your egocentrism and understand how it holds you back (in limiting your perception and distorting your judgment) is to create the space to choose differently, i.e., to refuse to be a slave to ego drama. When you finally wake up fully to the fact that you aren’t the center of the world but rather only one equal part of a greater whole, you will possess the humility that is necessary for empathy. Humility refers to the ability to put yourself into the right perspective. A genuinely humble person knows their rightful place because they are no longer a slave to the ego dramas that create craving for strength and superiority and/or fear of weakness and inferiority. Humility allows you to stop treating people like objects and respect them as subjects in their own right. In other words, their experience is just as important to them as yours is to you, and you are both fully equal in that respect, so you know to honor their existence, as you honor your own. This is the basis of the classic golden rule: do unto others as you would have them do unto you.

What does humility look like in real-life relationships? It looks like LISTENING. To be a good listener is to listen without all the biases, prejudices, and judgments of your ego dramas. Reasonable and sound judgment comes only AFTER you have collected all the facts, which requires listening - only then should you be trying to apply what you know to their experience. But you won’t be capable of listening well if your ego drama is always twisting the facts or if your ego drama always gets triggered every time you interact with someone. To truly hear someone is no small feat. Not everyone who talks about their struggles wants “help”. A lot of human problems arise from never feeling truly seen and heard. Therefore, to be a great friend is, first and foremost, to have the ability to see and hear someone and receive their experience without judgment. Once you are capable of listening empathetically, compassionate action naturally follows.

2) Poor Emotional Intelligence: I have already written about this, so you should read the articles provided. It’s obvious from your description that you have poor emotional intelligence. The development of emotional intelligence is correlated with the development of the F function, so you struggle with using Fe properly. Being confronted by your friend’s struggle with mental illness, your emotions get triggered, your ego dramas start playing out, and in the end, you are stuck in your own head trying to make sense of what’s happening. Your attention isn’t on your friend, is it? You’re not really listening.

It’s common for people who struggle with empathy to frame the problem as “me versus them” - either I protect my own experience or I surrender to theirs. This defensive attitude is rooted in egocentrism. There’s “me”, there’s “them”, and there’s “us”. When you are egocentric, all that really matters to you is "me”, and "they” are only important insofar as they impact you. In “me vs them” mentality, you don’t want to feel any negative disruptions from the outside world, so you close yourself off to emotional influence (a common symptom of Ti loop). By being defensive, you are directly hampering Fe development. Without healthy Fe, establishing a sense of “us” in a relationship is impossible, because the wall of defensive fear never allows anyone to actually reach you. But what about the other side of F dysfunction, such as the people pleasers of the world? They are also egocentric in that they only care about their craving for acceptance and affirmation - it is still ego drama all the same. People pleasers give the illusion of not caring about “me” to get what they want from “them”, but it is actually all about ME and getting them to like ME, not about “us”.

When you have poor emotional intelligence, you aren’t able to accept and resolve your own feelings and emotions, which results in them becoming self-inflicted obstacles - they get in the way of good judgment. Having good emotional intelligence means knowing how to put feelings and emotions into the right perspective, such that they inform you to make BETTER decisions. Resistance to your own emotional life means damaging your decision-making ability as well as resisting all the negative things out in the world. When you encounter negativity in someone else, it reflects back to you your own negativity, and thus begins your ego drama of fighting and trying to bury the negativity in yourself. You are at least aware enough to honestly describe what you feel when you encounter someone that triggers you, but you don’t have the ability to resolve those negative feelings.

One of the main problems of poor emotional intelligence is not being able to tell the difference between thoughts and feelings. Feelings are simple, all you have to do is say, “I feel sad” or “I feel guilty”. That’s it. That’s a feeling. Once you start to say more, once you start to talk about the feeling, then you’re having thoughts. Feelings need not become anything more than what they are, and they come and go like the wind. But thoughts are complicated because they are about analyzing, evaluating, believing, speculating, etc. Thoughts stick to you in the form of ideas and beliefs, and they impair your judgment when you’re not addressing the underlying negativity that creates them. People often try to think their feelings away (i.e. rationalization), which doesn’t resolve anything and even spins you out of control.

You say that you feel guilty when hearing about his suffering. If you feel guilty, then feel guilty. Do you believe that there’s something wrong with feeling guilty? Is it not normal to feel bad for having more than someone when you’re an empathetic person who hopes that everyone can find their happiness? You say that hearing your friend makes you feel uncomfortable because you’re scared of confronting negativity. If you feel scared, then feel scared. Do you believe that there’s something wrong with feeling scared? Is it not normal to feel scared when imagining negative things that could threaten your survival? Why do you view feelings as abnormal or as something to be banished out of yourself? It’s a form of self-loathing.

From these two examples, do you understand that it is your own inability to accept yourself and your feelings that is the root of the problem? As SJ, it is typical to be more concerned with being “proper” than being real, so you consistently deny the truth about yourself because you don’t want to see the many ways that you are “improper”. Resisting your negative feelings and the truth that they reveal about your impropriety only feeds the negativity as you start judging yourself harshly, calling yourself “selfish”, thus your negativity escalates into ego drama and throws you for a loop. By contrast, if you were to simply allow your feelings to inform you about the truth of what’s happening with you and accept that truth gracefully, there would be no need for negative feelings to turn into a big ego drama. 

In the history of psychology, the humanist psychologist Carl Rogers was perhaps best known for his ability to empathize very deeply. He said: “If I let myself really understand another person, I might be changed by that understanding. And we all fear change. So as I say, it is not an easy thing to permit oneself to understand an individual.” 

If you fear change, if you fear your heart being disrupted, if you fear confronting what is strange and unknown to you, if you are easily threatened by difference or negativity, if you fear feeling the heavy moral responsibility of helping someone in need, then you will fear the act of empathizing with people, because they may, at any moment, say/do something that turns your world upside-down. It is that fear which keeps you closed off and stuck within yourself, refusing to empathize when you clearly have the ability to empathize. It’s up to you to acknowledge the fear, accept it, and let it go. Until you make that conscious choice, you are merely stuck on your side of the wall, never able to truly see past it. Only by letting someone into your world, being emotionally strong enough to feel touched without feeling undone, can you establish a connection with them. Once you’re connected to someone emotionally, compassion comes easily (and that is the basis of having a healthy F function). 

[alittlefrenchtree]

Aaaand we're back at it and things are getting serious.

SPOILERS DUNE (Book II : MUAD'DIB, Chapters 10-11)

Chapter 10:

For a unknown reason this,

has become "twenty kilometers" in the french translation. So it's not as big as I thought but it's still quite big.

So the apparent goal of the Fremen is to plant trees (how ironic for a Timmy movie 😁) but they have to do it secretly because... Because with trees there wouldn't be as much spice and people who control Arrakis don't want that? I'm trying to simplify a hypothesis here so I can start caring a bit more about the political plot of Dune. I don't know if it's true.

Did I already wonder if Arrakis was Earth? What is left of it anyway. With all that water deep underground, that could mean something but I haven't really paid attention to details for that theory.

I'm less interested to the first part of the quote, which feels quite common than by the second and the importance it give to individuals. I'm not sure what I think about it yet, but it's interesting. Tell me more, Stilgar.

I'm starting to like this guy.

Ok, I don't know if we didn't talk about this yet or if we did and I already forgot,

but I haven't paid attention to the words used to talk about the prophecy and if it ever mentions a boy or if it's a genderless word every time like child or offspring. I don't remember ever seeing anything about a boy? Because this Bene Gesserit is going to have another kid. And based on how much Star Wars is "inspired" of Dune, do I have to consider that the Chosen One is not the one we expected but someone else from his family? Will Paul go full dark side and is the young sister going to bring balance to the Force? We'll see.

There is something mentioned in this chapter and in the next one that intrigue me a lot:

and this:

I wonder if it's because on something on Arrakis, like the Spice or if someone purposely did something. And if so, who?

So. We need to talk about the end of this chapter. It is part of the answer I was looking for, isn't it? I think?

I really feel like these last couple of pages are a gift celebrating all of my birthdays at the same time so I couldn't be happier. I'm not sure it's going to be the most interesting thing to read but I'm going to try to rephrase all that it says about prescience to sort my thoughts out and be sure I have understood everything.

So first, future in the Dune universe is not predefined timelines set in stone. Paul sees some of them, maybe too much of them for them to all be intelligible for him (yet?) but there are too many, each of them able to sprout from the tiniest changes, including one I hadn't considered before but that is very clever. Which is that, every time Paul accesses to prescience, he makes the future shifts by this very access to prescience.

But, even more amazing amazingness:

Quantum mechanics!! Remember when I was obsessed with it a few months back? Now I have the perfect excuse to make time to read about quantum mechanics again 😍 I'm so happy 😭

Edit: couldn't help myself and start reading about Heisenberg indeterminacy and omg it's amazing and it's even more amazing used it at a way to illustrate prescience. For those who understand French and are interested, I recommend this short and easy access video. But is exactly what's happening with Paul. Future reacts to him like quantum particles react to light. Why are quantum mechanics always so amazing? 😭

But let's go back a few lines above because:

First, Herbert was brillant for using the lexical field of water to talk about Paul's visions of the future. I mean it says it all by itself, isn't it? And secondly, am I supposed to read there that the blind spots of prescience are directly born from fear and that the litany is here to make the blindness go away or, to make the subject survive through blindness or am I not? Like when it says Fear is a mind killer, it isn't just a way of speaking, a psychological thing but a way of saying Fear makes you lose your prescience capacity?

And,

I absolutely love to see stillness making a comeback with an image close that what I have in mind. I can't wait to see what it will look like on screen. Given what I saw of Villeneuve's work already and the second Dune trailer, I trust him completely with this part. The inspiration is going to be amazing, the fan arts are going to be amazing, everything is going to be amazing.

I love and admire Herbert a lot for what he has done here with the end of this chapter and prescience in general. Trying to explain how a brain can apprehend concepts and principles that are too big, beyond everything that can normally be grasped by a human mind. Feeling the brain expands as it tries. Accept concepts that are opposite, contradictory even and still both true. It's really the kind of things I was expecting when I start reading so I'm very happy to see it deliver (and i need even more of it).

Chapter 11:

I was talking about religion vs propaganda last time and how maybe it wasn't that different for some aspects but... Bene Gesserit are religious people aren't they? I mean Jessica does pray. I don't know what or who she prays but she believes in the power of it.

"If I could only pray -- truly pray."

And by this truly pray, I suspect it's not only a matter of belief but the prayer does have real power. I'm-- confused about what kind of beliefs BG has given (more or less willingly) to Fremen (and probably other people around the universe as well). Is the religion only based on Bene Gesserit's powers? Is it a religion they believe in themselves? And for what purpose? Only create safe places for themselves or something else?

I also wonder why Chani is helping Paul so much as well? The guy just show up from nowhere and she already gives him tips to help him kill one of her people. It's weird.

Of course there are so many parts of the fight that made me go omg I can't wait to see Timmy play this. Gimme the fighting machine trained since the day he was born.

The after-fight is really interesting:

"Jessica stared at her son. Paul's were bright. He breathed heavily, permitting the ministration to his body rather than helping them."

🙇🏻‍♀️🙇🏻‍♀️🙇🏻‍♀️

This kid is going to be the death of me, isn't he? But Jessica bringing him down right after is kind of funny. From a semi-god to a child in one quick mental slap of his mother 😁

I've already talked about the tiny jumping mouse Muad'dib but it's really amazing. I wasn't expecting that at all. I'm guessing the mouse will have a bigger purpose at some point? No sure. What I'm really wondering is if I should expect Paul to go full Anakin on me? Wait. Oh. OH. Jessica is the one bringing him down so he doesn't grow so full of himself for killing opposants but what if she's gone? What if she dies, like Anakin's mom and, like for Anakin, the mom's death is one of the first steps leading the son to dark side? Damn. We see there are several futures where people walking behind Paul or the Atreides and setting worlds of fire (and not planting trees, obviously). It goes without saying that I would love, love to see Timmy plays a character who go dark side. Not sure if it will be the case here, but it could be interesting.

Ok, it's already long enough with only two chapters so I'm going to stop this for now. I have to read first anyway. See ya! 🌖💛

[cookehenry90]

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[hak-7]

NEGLECT NOT YOUR SHARE OF THE MATERIAL WORLD "Seek with every means that I have availed you the Hereafter, but do not forget your share of the material world." Quran I want to be bigger tomorrow, I want to be further ahead tomorrow, I want to be better tomorrow, I want to be richer tomorrow! You hear that? I want to be richer tomorrow! You say 'I didn't know you were rich.' I'm not! A lot of times I don't have enough gas to put in my little four-cylinder car, but I never think of myself as poor. I may have four dollars in my pocket, but that's not because I can't get more. I can have four thousand dollars in my pocket everyday, but I don't want to sacrifice my principles to have it, I want to wait for the time to present itself, when I can have four thousand dollars with honor, with self-respect, but don't think I want to be poor; I want to be rich one day, and I'm 65 almost, and I still want to be rich. Should Want Wealth And any person that doesn't want to be rich, there's something wrong with him. 'I'm a Muslim, brother, and I don't put my values there.' Allah says, work with what I have given you, for the Hereafter, for the end promise, but don't neglect your share of what's here now. That's the speaking of Allah in the Holy Book, and the Prophet said, those people are best among you, and I'm quoting now, the Book of Mahdi, Mahdi Nakosteen, I believe, is how you spell his name. This well respected scholar in Islam died recently, and he gives this quote from Prophet Muhammad in his book, called "Islam and Its Contribution to Western Education." He gives this quote that I am about to give you from the Prophet, in his book, after he already established that the great learned, the bright intellects of the early days of our enlightenment, the community of the people on this earth knew the religion, and he refers his readers to Al-Ghazzali. Some of you, I'm sure, are well-aware of, some of the scholars, are well-aware of the history, Al-Ghazzali and his belief in the levels of knowledge, so he is quoting the levels of knowledge, which we should understand, because I see a great importance focused that Al-Ghazzali had, where he says the levels of knowledge, where some of us are hung up on one level of knowledge. He says the level of knowledge, Divine revelation is number one. In the second level of knowledge, is science, true sciences, and he said, the third level of knowledge is intuition, and some of us worry so much about what we are going to come up with on our own — 'where does that come from, brother? what do you base that upon?' Well, according to Ghazzali, I can say intuition, from my own effort. In my own intellect, from the nature that God has put in my own intellect, I have come upon this knowledge, and according to Ghazzali, you have to prove that my knowledge is not knowledge. You can't say I'm not entitled to speak that. Yes, and not only Al-Ghazzali, but many other scholars, in fact, most of the intelligent among the intellectuals of Al-Islam, will stand upon that. We have to understand that. One level of science, but what is the first step in that progression? Common sense, the great ability to use in an intelligent way common sense, to rely upon external information, to dictate what your mind should do, and the beginning of that exercise is right at home, we learn from mama, the good lesson of common sense. She's the mother of that school of thought. Yes. Praise be to Allah. There is much to say on these things. We would like to spend more time in these areas, and I wish I could spend more time in these areas, but we are just hitting upon concerns. So dear Muslims, in this day and time, we should understand that we should respect the intellect of man, as has been established for us in our Holy Book, and in the teachings of the Prophet. But we are around here watching each other and afraid of everything someone says, "what's your authority for that?" Country Stagnant This country is stagnant right now because it has to have a credential or an authority or media support or somebody's support for everything that a man is trying to do . Many good works that can change the city of Chicago are ignored because the man didn't have the credentials that they look for! Muslims shouldn't have that kind of mentality. We should have Islamic sense, the Islamic mentality to look at something for its worth, and not associate it with personality. A man can come up and he might be the slowest person in the masjid, he might be the one who hasn't impressed me at all, but he comes to me and speaks, I'm not going to see this personality, I'm going to hear his words, because out of the mouth of babes, comes perfect praise, and that's not Islamic, that's Christian. Babes Can Offer Perfect Praise I believe that's what they say, "out of the mouth of babes, comes perfect praise." Sometimes it's out of the mouths that you look down on comes the excellence. And there are groups that will look at another group; in fact, there are many groups looking at us right now that say, hey, what are they trying to do, they think they can come about this knowledge on their own, they think they can rise as a star of Islam by themselves-, they need us to tutor, they need us to be their shepherd, they need us to walk with them hand in hand, they need us to lead them as babes, until we make them men. That's their attitude. Many of them from Saudi Arabia, from Egypt, from Pakistan, from all over the Islamic world, are looking at us, and just because we are African-American, and just newly embracing the religion, they think that we don't have anything going for us, unless they give it to us. Allah created us, and He gave us the ability to come into the levels of knowledge: Qur'an, science and intuition. He gave us the same capacity, that He gave them, so if we have faith and if we are sincere, if we wrestle hard, if we endeavor to comprehend what God has put in the Qur'an, there's a possibility for us that we will have intellects born among us, that will rise up to their level and maybe surpass them. And understand this, another concern we are bringing to you today is emphasis on distinction. Allah has created unity and harmony but Allah has also made things to multiply by diversity. And let me tell you, don't ever absorb yourself into another race; don't absorb yourself into another people's culture, into another people's ethnicity. Be distinct as African-American people, and rise up into excellence without losing your distinct personality as a group. Most Precious And that's more precious to me than all the money you give me from all the oil in Saudi Arabia. Because I sense a great future. My father and mother turned me on, they gave me a great hope, and many times I couldn't see, they left me in the dark. In many situations I was in the .dark, but they didn't leave me without the light of hope in that dark. They have just excited me with such great hope, that one day the African-American is going to do what Marcus Garvey said would be done — he's going to take his place in the constellation of the stars of heaven. I have a strong belief, and I know Allah, God the Almighty, Lord of us all, He is with us. We are going to get aid. Don't turn down aid from anybody. If an immigrant will help you, alhamdulillah, thank you, we embrace our brother, he's the same as us, if he's a Muslim, he's the same as we are. We love him, we embrace him, but we are not going to be dependent upon him to the extent that we look to him to know how we are going to breathe, how we are going to eat, how we are to smile, how we are to walk, how we are to talk, we follow the Sunnah of Prophet Muhammad, not the sunnah of Egypt, or the sunnah of Saudi Arabia, or the sunnah of other nations. We don't follow their sunnah, we follow the sunnah of Muhammad. And the sunnah of Muhammad, is a type put before me, to tell me what the capacity is that God has given me, that God has brought this out, that this is your potential. Muhammad is your potential, come, grow, follow it to your own potential, so I can follow Prophet Muhammad, because he doesn't represent a race, not in his usrah, not in his model, he does not represent a race. He represents the common excellence of man. So I can follow that common excellence, but I can't follow it if you put an Egyptian label, or a Saudi Arabian label on it or if you say a Saudi personality. A Saudi personality belongs in the desert. Now I'm not criticizing. That Saudi comes out of the desert and goes to Egypt, his personality is going to change. But some of us are so petty-minded, the Saudi comes over here and impresses us with his Islamic language, his Arabic tongue, and pretty soon, the brother that came out of the south side,and it's five below zero on Lake Michigan in Chicago, he's walking down here in sandals, in his long, white Saudi garb, and wondering how come nobody pays attention to him when he's talking Islam, he's telling the world he's situationally insane. He might not be clinically insane, but he's environmentally insane. Now this is not to invite us to go back to the old extremes, where we think we are some special species of God's Creation; the black man is the god; that's insanity in every circle. That's insanity everywhere, that's clinical insanity. We don't want to degrade ourselves after stepping up to the excellence of the universal human man to go back and pick up that barreled, shrunken-brained idea. No. We don't want to do that and is not going to do that. In fact, I have some brothers tell me they will go to physical blows with some of you if you ever try to impose that on the ignorant of our society. The Beloved Leader And Teacher Imam W.D. Mohammed (raa)THE CAVE WITHIN "As Jonah was in the fish three days and three nights so shall the son of man be in the heart of the earth." Social potential. Heart of the earth, the social potential. He shall be in the social potential. He shall be a germ, a potent germ, in the social potential. He will be dormant in the body of mankind. But when the right thing happens in the environment that dormant life shall become restless. It's going to be bored with its state and it's going to become active and it's going to rise up from the heart of the earth. A picture of that is practically every prophet, but we're going to look at Muhammed the prophet, peace be upon him. The social potential in Muhammed was oppressed, his environment oppressed his social potential and it got so painful to him that he had to leave his environment and go to the cave, in seclusion, and strain to get revelation or some kind of help from whatever G-d was responsible for his being and the creation. And in time he was pressed three times. Right? "Fee thulethan, three veils of darkness". He was pressed three times the third time he received the light, communication. He began to read the revelation. So where was he before he received revelation, before he began to be revealed? Where was he? Understand that he was the word too, living, demonstrating, communicating clearly, rationally, to us in the world; not by signs, like Jesus. He's not the word communicating by signs like Jesus. Now, don't go and tell somebody that the Imam said Muhammed is Jesus. You'll be lying and you'll be wrong. I didn't say he was Jesus. I'm talking in the language of signs, fulfilling signs. Okay! And I distinguish between him and Jesus. I just said that Jesus was the word communicating to us by signs and Muhammed is the word communicating to us with the clear, rational language. So, the second coming of Jesus is not the return of that Jesus. That's why it says "I go away and you see me no more. The real me, this me that you identify it's never coming back again. But the same that produced me is going to happen again. And nevertheless, you shall see me. Not this one, but you'll see the word in Muhammed!" Yeah, I heard somebody say, "as plain as day" that's right! Now, I thank Allah. And I thank Allah for being put among you all. Because if I hadn't been put among you all, I wouldn't have had that heavy burden on my potential. And it says, "he shall come treading the wine press alone." But who provided the wine press? Somebody. Praise be to Allah! So, Muhammed then was in the heart of the earth, wasn't he? His social potential was suppressed, oppressed in the heart of the earth and the pressure on it made him rise up from the earth and go up in the mountain; go up in a cave in a mountain, seeking seclusion there so he could perhaps have privacy with the one that was responsible for his existence. And G-d came to him. Yes, G-d came to him and began to address his needs. The Sacred Qur'an - 31:28; Death, resurrection as single soul 31:28 "And your creation or your resurrection is in no wise but as an individual soul: for Allah is He Who hears and sees (all things)". And [Muhammed] in addressing his needs he was addressing the needs of all mankind on this earth. Oh yes! It says, "the life and the resurrection is as one soul"; or "death", pardon me, "and resurrection is as one soul, nafsen waahidah." So that is repeated over and over again in history. But now we see it in Muhammed, his life. Actually his death was his refusing to have his life and character molded by the world. And the cave means dead, the mind is dead, the mind refused to have any light of its own. The cave really is a picture of the skull. They don't tell you he went into a skull, into a human skull. But that's what the cave really means. The wise will tell you the cave of man's skull. It means he emptied out all of his brain. All the life of his own mind he emptied it out until there was nothing left but the encasing for that life. In other words, he sacrificed himself to receive the light of G-d, the word of G-d; sacrificed himself completely so that he received the light of G'd. And in that cave G-d came to him and He created him from nothing. From nothing! Right? There was nothing in terms of enlightenment. There was nothing in terms of a brain that would become Muhammed's brain. There was nothing, except the framework. Except his uswaa. His uswaa is the framework. It's the container for what G-d is going to put into it. So G-d actually came to the cave Himself. You see that's what we have to understand. He went up into the cave of himself and he made the cave (skull) empty of all of his appetite and influences and everything and he became still, perfectly still, as a completely, totally dead mind or intellect. And he became non-existent, so to speak, pleading to G-d. He made the best sajda. He went farther than the fetus in the womb, He went back farther than dust! He became non-existent of any reality. As any reality he was non-existent, in his straining for understanding, perception, enlightenment, guidance for the intellect and in that empty cave G-d spoke to his non-existent body. He said "`be' Kun faya kun!" And when he came down the heavens was as smoke, as smoke in commotion. Imam W.D. Mohammed (raa)

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Synaptol Review: Don’t Buy Before You Read This!

What is it?

Synaptol is a homeopathic supplement that is said to be helpful for treating the symptoms of ADD. They claim in their advertising that it can reduce hyperactivity and increase focus levels and attention span, even in particularly extreme cases.

Its formula is supposedly safe for both children and adults, and its promotional materials say that it can help decrease impulsivity, irritability, and fidgeting. It is also possible that it could help people that do not have ADD increase their concentration levels and reading comprehension.

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Synaptol Ingredients and Side Effects

Aconitum Ferox HPUS Adrenalium HPUS Flos HPUS Apis Mellifica HPUS

Aconitum Ferox HPUS: A plant native to India that is a member of the monkshood family that is also known as Indian aconite or blue aconite. The “HPUS” designation means that it is prepared in according to the regulations set out in the Homeopathic Pharmacopoeia of the United States.

Homeopathy is a discredited branch of health science that is based on principles of dilution and inoculation. When a product is designated as HPUS, that means that it has been cut with water multiple different times and tumbled with seashells and other materials.

The thought behind this is that it helps to activate the vital energies that are stored within the herb. Modern science has found no data to support these beliefs, and many homeopathic tinctures are so diluted as to contain no molecules of the original materials pre-dilution.

Aconitum ferox has not been shown to have any medicinal or therapeutic value. It has been used to treat heart failure, nerve conditions, and inflammation, however there is no data that supports these applications.

Aconite is a poison that is deadly in high enough concentrations. In Hong Kong it is the most frequent cause of herbal poisoning, and it was even at the center of a high-profile poisoning murder in India.

Most doctors agree that it is unsafe for humans to consume aconite. Side effects that can be caused by aconite can potentially include:

Nausea and vomiting

Paralysis

Breathing problems

Heart problems

Death

Adrenalium HPUS: A homeopathic dilution made from the secretions of the adrenal gland. It is used within the homeopathy community as an allergy remedy and for treating acute lung congestion.

Adrenalium is thought to be a vasoconstrictor, shrinking the diameter of the veins and leading to elevated blood pressure. It also increases heart rate and, according to homeopathic medicine, can be helpful in treating the following conditions:

Grave’s disease

Addison’s disease

Arteriosclerosis

Chronic aortitis

Hemophilia chlorosis

Adrenalium is not thought to be safe for regular use. Even most homeopathic websites discourage users from frequent ingestion, which severely limits its usefulness in a daily nutritional supplement. Consequences to use and over-use may include:

Adrenal gland failure

Vertigo

Nausea and vomiting

Heart failure

Death

Flos HPUS: This is an incredibly lazy, inaccurate entry in their ingredients panel. “Flos” is the Latin word for flower, and on an ingredients list it could refer to literally hundreds of different species of plant, each with their own set of uses and dangers.

It could be referring to chrysanthemums, bitter orange, honeysuckle, elderflower, or magnolia, all of which are frequently used in homeopathic tinctures. Without more information it is impossible to tell what specific plant this is, what its uses and effects are thought to be, and even if it is safe for any given user.

Apis Mellifica HPUS: A homeopathic tincture made from honeybees. Common honeybees are trapped, killed, and crushed, then mixed with alcohol and diluted many times over.

Homeopathic sites claim that this is a way of curing the pain and allergic reactions that come with bee stings. There is no scientific data that corroborates this claim.

Other unverified uses for apis mellifica may include treating sore throats, swelling, and hives. Homeopathic websites also claim that it can be useful for alleviating sadness, fear, jealousy, whining, and irritability, however these claims are verifiably false.

There has never been an implication that consuming crushed honeybees can have any kind of nootropic benefits in any respect, even amongst homeopathic websites.

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Synaptol Quality of Ingredients

Synaptol has one of the lowest-quality ingredients blends that our team has ever encountered. There is not a single ingredient in Synaptol that has any clinically verified nootropic effects, and two of their ingredients are known poisons that can be fatal in high enough doses.

Homeopathy as a method has been thoroughly discredited. Every aspect of its scientific process – from the materials that are used, the methods by which they are prepared, and the results that they claim to get – is deeply flawed and in no way supported by modern science.

Even given that homeopathic methods are ineffective for treatment in any respect, this is still an odd blend of chemicals. Not a single ingredient has ever been linked to increased attention, focus, learning, mental performance, or any other nootropic benefit.

Instead, these ingredients are known poisons, one of which is so deadly that it has been used to commit murders. Not only is there no reason to think that Synaptol could be effective, there is very little reason to think that it is even safe. Our panel of experts cannot caution our readers against this ingredients mixture strongly enough.

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The Price and Quality of Synaptol

Due to the extreme dilution that occurs in the homeopathic preparation process, their products are often far cheaper than normal supplements of the same type. Synaptol, which is available through their manufacture’s website and through several independent supplements dealers, tends to be sold in this price range:

1, 2 fl. oz. bottle of Synaptol serum: $29.95-$39.95

According to their instructions, this is enough Synaptol to last for two months. This is somewhat more expensive than other homeopathic products, however it is less expensive than the vast majority of effective nootropic products.

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Business of Synaptol

Synaptol is manufactured by HelloLife Inc., a subsidiary of Ionx Holdings, Inc. The contact information that they list on their contact page is as follows:

Phone Number: (800) 875-0850

Address: 4460 44th St. Ste. C600

Email: service@hellolife.net

There are numerous complaints online regarding Synaptol, HelloLife, and Ionx Holdings. Many are regarding unethical business decisions and customer abuses and can be found on consumer watchdog sites like Ripoff Report and the Better Business Bureau.

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Customer Opinions of Synaptol

There are hundreds of negative reviews of Synaptol posted online by their previous customers. Here are some of the things that past users said about their experiences with the product:

“Gave this to my six-year-old that was acting super hyper. Within minutes he was docile, but then after that he started getting sick. I stayed up all night with him as he vomited. I only tried giving it to him one more time and I got the exact same results.”

“This had the opposite effect on me as it says it would – I got all antsy and nervous, I couldn’t concentrate and everything made me really upset.”

“Synaptol made my child’s ADD worse. He’s hyperactive as is, but after taking this he was on another level. His behavior was horrific, almost as if this stuff turned him into a demon.”

The reviews from previous customers list quite a few different side effects, including nausea, vomiting, and gastro-intestinal distress, hyperactivity, and headaches. Other complaints were related to the high cost of the tincture relative to other homeopathic products, and general product ineffectiveness.

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Conclusion – Does Synaptol Work?

Our review team is rarely as united in their opinion of a product as they were in their analysis of Synaptol. They did not have a single positive thing to say about the product, its ingredients, its manufacturer, or even the science of homeopathy.

Homeopathic methods have been disproven time and again by clinical testing. It is not a reliable method of preparing supplements and there is no reason to believe that Synaptol could be any more effective.

Not only are none of its ingredients thought to be effective for ADD, attention span, or any other sort of nootropic benefit, but it also uses two poisons that are not recommended for human consumption in any capacity. Our team of experts cannot encourage our readers to find an alternative to Synaptol strongly enough.

The nootropic product that has the best clinical track record is Memotenz. Their ingredients are all thoroughly vetted and have long histories of effectiveness.

It has been shown to help improve memory function, attention span, and energy levels in its users, and is highly recommended for increasing thinking speed and problem solving skills. Click here to read the full nutrition information panel for Memotenz.

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