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[thefudge (dr.fudge) @thefudge_on_ao3]

really, really tired of the modern dumbing down & girlbossing of jane austen. "being agreeable never did a woman any good" oh wow. so brave. so bold. never seen this before. the novel is called "sense and sensibility"; you're meant to see the benefit of BOTH restraint and passion

[Ismail Royer @IsmailRoyer]

This is a very important point. So much of the stories we tell ourselves have very recent origins.

[Omar @omar_dddg]

The secular version of Mohamad ﷺ is more puzzling than the religious divinely inspired one.

The combination of roles Mohamad ﷺ had is the rarest in history.

Most world-historical religious figures occupied one lane. Jesus and the Buddha were teachers who held no state and commanded no army; their political and legal systems were built by others, later.

Muhammad ﷺ was simultaneously a religious founder, a lawgiver, a head of state, a judge, a diplomat, and a field commander,( and his enemies also accuse him of being a great poet, a knower of Greek science, philosophy, and Judeo- Christian apocryphal scripture spread across hundreds of monasteries and scrolls,) and he was also effective in all of those roles at once, in the same lifetime.

Very few people in history have done even two of those well.

The starting conditions were also unpromising. An orphan from a respected-but-not-ruling clan, no inherited wealth, no kingdom, no army, by tradition unlettered, who didn't begin preaching until around forty.

He then spent over a decade as the leader of a persecuted minority, was driven out of his own city, and still ended up, roughly 23 years later, with most of the Arabian Peninsula unified under a single religious-political order for the first time.

The slope of that trajectory, from those starting conditions, is very very very steep.

[s. @muslimmelange]

It is lost on Western observers in this discussion that sin in Islam and sin in Christianity are conceived in two wholly different registers. Where the Christian ideal aspires to freedom from sin, Islam accommodates with remarkable grace the truth that man cannot escape it!

[yusuf @veryplumpcat]

@midnitesun0 What does this mean?

[yusuf @veryplumpcat]

@sdqintsgi I don’t understand

[yusuf @veryplumpcat]

@fusehound Which skin has the rock n load text?

[Carl Zha @CarlZha]

Iran declares Butlerian Jihad

[s. @muslimmelange]

Pickthall

[𝕭𝖎𝖗𝖉𝖞 𝖛𝖘 𝕭𝖆𝖇𝖞𝖑𝖔𝖓 @mary_got_grace]

You have angels assigned to you. They aren’t winged babies playing harps, they’re ancient, terrifying, tactical and ferocious. They are not nice at all, they are gangster.

[signüll @signulll]

ppl rarely understand that scaled internet systems maximize liquidity while externalizing emotional cost. that’s the sleight of hand.

lots of peeps make the argument that “everything is a numbers game” but this framing assumes retries are free. they’re not. every interaction has a psychic toll & emotions are definitively *not* zero marginal cost.

abundance thinking works for compute, ads, & inventory. it fails spectacularly for intimacy, trust, & self worth. optionality goes up. meaning goes down. roughly everything on the internet eventually turns into a signal vs. noise issue.

[🌻🔻 @goldenintifada]

glory to all the martyrs

[Jokermen @JokermenPodcast]

Bob Dylan on Willie Nelson in The New Yorker

[Master of the Flying Jetski @jetskitosway2]

gm

[yusuf @veryplumpcat]

@fleabagfreak

[Dr. R. J. Vein @VeinRichard]

the elder zoomer speaks of the wii with reverence