tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30984739.post4023699778294945895..comments2023-10-01T14:37:09.159+01:00Comments on Maysaloon - ميسلون: It's a question of starting pointsMaysaloonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06826378383173206624noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30984739.post-78651652422230206782008-11-22T11:55:00.000+00:002008-11-22T11:55:00.000+00:00GREAT GREAT post.I loved your reflections on this ...GREAT GREAT post.<BR/><BR/>I loved your reflections on this topic. very well written.<BR/><BR/>but pleaaasssseeee use paragraphs :) my eyes hurt ;-)Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00360700836153344575noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30984739.post-53733139711803114132008-11-19T22:50:00.000+00:002008-11-19T22:50:00.000+00:00Thanks for the great feedback guys.Thanks for the great feedback guys.Maysaloonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06826378383173206624noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30984739.post-39210592638652840312008-11-19T01:33:00.000+00:002008-11-19T01:33:00.000+00:00Wonderful post Maysaloon. The last paragraph real...Wonderful post Maysaloon. The last paragraph really resonates for me.lotf alihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09788117185725787291noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30984739.post-29827833491038694902008-11-18T19:40:00.000+00:002008-11-18T19:40:00.000+00:00Superb piece, thank you. Not in a 'thank you for t...Superb piece, thank you. Not in a 'thank you for titillating my intellect' kinda way - it's meatier than that.<BR/><BR/>A Westerner may be inclined to respond by embracing a perceived 'Western' tradition for its own sake, but one of the crucial points you hint at is that those social lubricants we might call 'traditions' are merely the upper stratum of a much deeper geology. <BR/><BR/>As soon as one <I>chooses</I> to embrace a particular tradition over and above others, that tradition is just part of your own pic'n'mix life and begins to look farcical. An upper stratum with nothing below. <BR/><BR/>You have helped me though Wassim. Like most, I doubt and wrestle with the implications of the 'Usool upon which I've built my life (God and his incarnation). Like everyone, theist or atheist, I can not prove that I know the Source like one can prove a simple formula. I could allow this doubt define me.<BR/><BR/>Or I could live as I hope it is. Traditions are just little tokens and perhaps to live with them is in fact to express hope that confounds the individual's <I>individualist</I> angst. <BR/><BR/>It is at least to concede that there is more than me to me.boxthejackhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16433708237098653640noreply@blogger.com