Ammar Yasir

Opinions are like assholes.
Everybody has one.

[Ammar Yasir @AYRhapsodist]

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@the_theologian_ @SyedMuzammilOFL illusion – ‘the tide that bore us along was all the while moving to this as its grand Niagara’.
Pankaj Mishra, Age of Anger: A History of the Present

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@the_theologian_ @SyedMuzammilOFL especially among those who have themselves never had it so good. History suddenly seems dizzyingly open-ended, just as Henry James experienced it when war broke out in 1914 and he confronted the possibility that the much-vaunted progress of the nineteenth century was a malign

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@the_theologian_ @SyedMuzammilOFL The modern religions of secular salvation have undermined their own main assumption: that the future would be materially superior to the present. Nothing less than this sense of expectation, central to modern political and economic thinking, has gone missing today,

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@the_theologian_ I just love it, the way you schooled him.

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Very interesting arguments. A random person schooling Syed Muzammil shah. The showboy

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[Şerşeh🍁 @_shershahhkhan_]

@SyedMuzammilOFL
Muzzamil, here is a genuine critique of your ideas. I argue that your understanding of Secularism, Liberalism (beyond the standard defintion), and understsnding of Islamic history (Especially Islamic intellectual history) is riddled with errors.

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The expectations of others. Sometimes they are a terrible burden, sometimes the only reason to get out of bed in the mornings.

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Lately, I've been feeling that life is a long search for the right words, hoping that those will become relevant at the right time.

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@Maheenbaloach Hahaha, wo nahi hota

[Ammar Yasir @AYRhapsodist]

On the one hand, I want to be close to people so that they wouldn't forget me. On the other hand, most of the time, I need some distance from everyone. What to do? what to do?

[Terms of Virgo @VirgoTerms]

What u know about a #Virgo is probably all they want you to know.

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#Virgos want the wealth without working too hard.

[VIRGO @AboutVirgos]

#Virgo procrastinate almost everything.

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I had thoughts on my ride back home and forgot to write all of them. I probably lost three people I could have been.

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@ansabbas432 I felt it.

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A famous quote, often ascribed to Mark Twain, says: "History never repeats itself, but it does rhyme". And I often wonder if he was referring to humanity's history or our personal ones. As a part of me still wishes to hear the last rhyming syllables of days now gone.

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Sometimes, in your youth, you draw lines inside of yourself, but when you return to examine them as an adult, you find that your map is no longer accurate. And it's strange that people are surprised by this; they grew with the years, so how would the lines stay in their place?

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This modern world is a hoax, a big fucking hoax.