everybody wants what they don't have Vic

If you are a male and lack it you have no chance in starting a revolution

True

Yoo

prime example

The west is screwed

We must colonize antarctica

http://chinesemov.com/images/character/Zhuge-Liang-1.jpg

This guy is the greatest General in Chinese history

Muh New Swabia

Classic

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aAmlNnsuU8Y

god it was cold for the first in a long time

winter is coming

*Al-Ghazali wrote that when fire and cotton are placed in contact, the cotton is burned directly by God rather than by the fire.*

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wow

How woke is this guy.

So woke

you actually discovered the meaning behind my nickname

i am impressed my old friend

Did God roast you by making you?

If God willed it, he would be incinerated, with or without the presence of fire.

no, with the symbolism that's being used by rumi, enlightenment is essentially a stage where you are burning with merging into the 'one'

i mean

if that makes any sense

>symbolism

yea

that makes sense

i don't think your flesh will be on fire while doing that, my old friend

No, but Ghazali was not talking about enlightenment.

i know, rumi was

and that notion of cotton was an important aspect in ghazali's philosophy

so you can combine them

From Rumi's perspective, you can.

that makes the symbolism more relevant since rumi was born later than ghazali

More recent may not be more relevant. Also, forgive me, but it is easier to re-purpose someone's work once he cannot defend himself. I am not sure was Ghazali would have thought of this.

i totally agree but i was talking about how it is relevant to me and the intent of making my nickname, since that's subjectively about how i interpret the philosophies of each of two

sometimes the urge of connecting the works of thinkers with interpreting them in a way that was totally unintended by those thinkers comes so strong