I love The Cure.

[batn1ghtz]

Fought with 8 people today

#menace

[batn1ghtz]

Attempting to understand/interpret Hegel:

Spirit (collective human consciousness) isn't merely something that lives within the world, rather it's a developing process that is coming to understand itself more and more. To actually "exist" it has to first be an object outside of itself, i.e. project itself into material world, nature, human history etc. This makes the spirit confront its otherness ( messy historical process of humans making mistakes, creation and wiping out of civilizations and overcoming obstacles) and everytime the spirit hits a wall it “sublates” the experience –> Aufhebung, moving past the wall by incorporating its truth into a higher synthesis/ higher more complete understanding.

[batn1ghtz]

sometimes I find the idea appealing.. of surrendering myself so fully to an ideology that I cease to exist as an individual. having to no longer carry this heavy weight of my identity because the “cause” would carry it for me. Maybe this is an instinct humans are biased towards, hence the faith/religion-centered majority. “Opium of the masses”?

But I don't have the temperament to sustain that kind of intensity for long. I find myself lacking the ability to, and I’m also aware that that level of fanatical devotion is probably more dangerous than it is holy.

[featherweightwing]

“The protesters in Iran are burning MOSQUES!!”

Islam isn’t the indigenous religion of Iran. Zoroastrianism is. Islam only arrived in the 7th century due to violent conquests. Persians didn’t choose to convert from the faith of their ancestors, they were violently forced to.

What’s wrong, “free Palestine” crowd? I thought you guys supported decolonization???

[batn1ghtz]

The only way to be seen is to leave

[batn1ghtz]

Really changes the way you view islam when you find out the etymology of the word "jahannam”, derived from hebrew word Ge Hinnom (valley of Hinnom-> later used to burn garbage) where Israelites used to sacrifice children to a deity called "Molech" the phonetic resemblance with 'malik' -> custodian of jahannum is.. interesting)

So valley of Hinnom only after becoming infamous & being called gehennah started being seen as a metaphor for post-death punishment, sin and fire, as a METAPHOR.

People like to believe that it was a prophetic teaching and hence a divine revelation, however this idea of hellfire emerged through jewish teachings only after the death of Moses/Musa whereas he gave no such "prophetic revelations", Later theologies only weaponized this idea further.

The matter at hand is how'd you call something (jahannam) "real" and "islamic" if its origin is so metaphorical, idolatrous and paganistic; knowing the fact that islam claims to oppose paganism and idolatry.

And to still think that 'God' must've coined the term when history is showing that after Moses and before Jesus some sacrificial idolatrous cultists developed a metaphor that got reintegrated in Christianity later too that only got weaponized and systemized even further by islam --- exposes "hell" exactly for what it is. Tool of mass fear and control to put a leash on people and terrify them into compliance, making them easy to control like a herd.

[batn1ghtz]

How decentering islam calmed down my nervous system significantly:

– Mysterious sounds at home isn't a jinn

– Having nightmares, sleep paralysis etc. isn't a jinn or shaytan

– I am not physically ill because of “nazar”, witchcraft or because I sinned

– The hardships in my life aren't “because” I sinned

– Hellfire is a psychological tool of control

– The grave isn't a torture chamber waiting for me

– Not praying doesn't make my day “unlucky”

– God isn't “testing” me everytime something goes wrong

– My body, skin, or hair (as a woman) isn't shameful and impure

Slowly undoing years of psychological conditioning <3

[batn1ghtz]

Religious people love to see any atheist/agnostic as hedonistic and frivolous, worship the “world”, and selfish. Reality is, leaving religion after believing for so long totally collapses your life. Your life is over, you have to build it all over again. You're thrown out of a “community” and left stranded. You're treated as “less than” by family and friends and seen as someone to guide. Especially in a religious country you have to be hyper-vigilant about spying, gossips, being reported, forced family seperation, violence, legal repercussions etc. Not to mention years of learned shame, guilt, second-guessing and the feeling of 24/7 surveillance becoming your baseline emotional state. All because you spent years of introspection and re-evaluating some dogmatism.