Knowing and Being
- Michael Folk
- Aug 16
- 42 min read
Bismillah Ar-Rahman Ar-Raheem. Allah is greater than this world and this whole universe. La illaha ill-Allahu, Mohammad Ar-Rasoolullah.
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---- Sunday 08.10.2025
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This is yeah...it is weird how my NAFs seem to take it harder like on myself when it comes from not myself because it makes one feel bad, like they (myself I mean) have a hard heart maybe but if or when it comes out from the self, like later on or having came out sometime earlier but then knowing that and seeing and hearing it again. But this is knowledge. Knowledge of the self. But it is bad as we are getting this normalized. Even the people of Gaza at this point its more normalized now. They have every right to be very angry and hate us and my tonque is tied because...I want to do something, I’ve wanted to do something...Allahu aluem:
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“Knowing and Being | Tyson Yunkaporta” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6SGVmUIRdrM
Planet: Critical • 558 views How we create knowledge is as important as the knowledge itself. This is the message of this week’s guest, Aboriginal scholar and author, Tyson Yunkaporta. In his explanation of the importance…
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In summary, a new financial system cannot be built without the ability to custody assets, issue new assets, and uphold the settlement and monetary policy of said assets via a governing consensus. Yet, even with the successful formation of this necessary trifecta, the construction of a monetary network is simply fruitless without the acquisition of the last remaining pillar: a network of active users. This concept is well understood by both the private sector companies that have been mentioned throughout this series, in addition to the public sector that currently acts as the enabling environment for the rules and regulations of nation-state monetary systems upheld by central banks across the world. None of these public issuers of money, however, have the global impact of the U.S. Federal Reserve and the U.S. Treasury system, which provides immense privileges that come downstream from their issuance of the notes and reserves backing the world reserve currency, the U.S. dollar. With 66 countries worldwide listing the dollar as an official currency, the vast number of users utilizing these instruments makes the dollar system the largest financial network in the world.
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Money itself is but a technology that enables agreeable and predictable outcomes between two bartering parties. This axiom requires money that simultaneously acts as a unit of account, a store of value, and a medium of exchange. While all of these properties can be met by a multitude of currently circulating currencies – and even commodities – their usefulness for settlement across both time and space is determined nearly entirely by the number of users within their respective networks. The dollar system is the most liquid monetary network in the world, and has held this position for nearly a century. Historically, the world’s reserve currency has held its dominant status for roughly this same duration of time. With U.S. debt levels now growing at uncontrollable and exponential rates, the formation of proposed alternatives to the dollar’s monopoly are popping up across the globe. The world economy is a finite pie consisting of finite users, and with the dollar network appearing truly weak for the first time in decades, competitors are posturing for a piece. However, with the global broadband internet dissolving some of the control that nation states have over their own citizens’ monetary choices, the world is actually dollarizing faster than ever.
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As the internet age enters its third decade, the stakes for creating the internet of money have never been higher. For now, the proliferation of dollarized blockchains seemingly aims to fortify the dollar’s hold over global finance, not dissolve it. Regardless of the dollar’s domination of denomination, the upstart issuers of these tokenized assets have hemorrhaged away enough users that it now threatens many of the privileges the legacy system once enjoyed, mainly the available profits found by selling their data and leveraging their deposits.
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From Knowing and Being | Tyson Yunkaporta – Planet Critical:Um I guess that would be your literature review in the academy that part uh you know at
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the start but you know that's that's peer review there as well you know um and it goes all the way through
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and it doesn't just end with publication it keeps going beyond that but um
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you know but apart from that it's the same same process of developing scientific consensus and
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but also remaining fluid adaptable um incorporating new information, new knowledge, and very
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carefully studying it, not just having a common sense, knee-jerk, bloody emotional reaction to it, you know,
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etc., etc. So, you know, um yeah, I think there's a bit of a misconception out there about what indigenous
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knowledge is. Mhm. It's not just reporting on stuff that used to happen.
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Yeah. You know, it's knowledge production. The way of knowledge production. Knowledge production. Nailed it.
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Mhm. Oh, my sister. We're here. They're talking the same language here.
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I was trying to explain to somebody a few nights ago sort of exactly this like
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the if you want to if you want to dispute something scientific.
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Yeah. Then you have to understand that one person saying one thing especially if
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it's through the format of a YouTube video does not hold the same weight as the necessary consensus building. Yeah.
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that the scientific method approaches and it does that to try and um get a
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glimpse at reality, get a glimpse at what is going on. And because it is
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informed by so many people and informed by so much detail
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and also informed by so much care quite frankly I do think in the western world
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it is one of the only ways of kind of making decisions and and producing knowledge that is akin
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to certain modes of indigenous knowledge production which is that our way of being in the world is how we know about
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the world. It's how we make the world. The world is contextual. It is fluid. It
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is shifting all the time. Reality is only the nature of our relationships. And so what we do here and how we do it
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here matters. Yeah. And it's a completely different tradition from the Cartisian.
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I was speaking to a Samoan woman recently and she said, "I think therefore I am God."
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Okay, like that. He said, "I think therefore I am." But there is a silent word at the end of that sentence. I think therefore
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I am God and I am capable of seeing everything from my quote unquote
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objective viewpoint. I think I think that um in Samoa that that the word
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after the ellipse there uh would be va what they call va well
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you know and that's that uh yeah relational space in between which is a sentient living
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you know um yeah relational space that it's your responsibility and your relationships between you and
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you know non-human others that you're in pairs pairs with you know family members friends people you meet anyone you're
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talking to, you know, yeah, there's that relational space in between and it's your duty to to beautify and complexify
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that that space and that's where the knowledge is kept. It's not in your head. There's a kind of
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distributed cognition, you know, that you find in most human cultures that aren't, you know,
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that still have remnants of that aren't domesticated, you know. Um, yeah,
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it's always there. Something I'm very interested about is this idea of
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part of knowledge gardening. Let's somebody said that to me a few years ago
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and I loved it like knowledge gardening, knowledge production in a lot of these cultures that are um
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more than western is that it comes through the body as well. Yeah. So it is a way of being in the world
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that helps you know about the world and that is very different to a tradition which says you know nature can sit
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inside his attic until they go mad and sort of figure everything out just by himself as if we are these sort of
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separate autonomous creatures whose mind is a gateway to something more whereas I mean surely
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it's the body in a way that is the gateway to something more because that is you sort of being
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this directional expression of life which is always reaching always weaving always interconnecting
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but and and that's really important in indigenous knowledge production which is basically just human knowledge
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production that's how we do cognition you know so uh there
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there's an elder um you know who who who that I think therefore I am you know God
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or whatever you said it's like uh she says I am located therefore I am you know so a lot of our
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cognition is spatial and it's about locatedness and trajectory as much as anything else
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but this is um I think this is important though that idea of a subjective
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you know self uh being connected to a broader object objectivity and that your experience of being in
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this body and your emotional reaction to things that that's that's a big part of
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it you know of forming your epistemology understanding your ontology
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but I I think in uh like contemporary you know sort of
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weird western educated, industrialized, rich, democratic, which is the default culture for the planet now.
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“which is the default culture for the planet now.”
This is the whole problem, which I was just reading and agreeable with, in the book, which is only the 1st volume, “
-and the metaphysical or philosophical space in which to attack (oppose). – Islam does not destroy “civilizational culture”, Islam preserves and is “the natural religion” of man (“the perfect” or “universal man”””), that of man’s (not excluding women here) innate fitra. It is the “universal religion”. It is for all mankind (- “because that which is devoid of “spirit” and of meaning and purpose (etc.) - can only ever be, like “waves of darkness”, which is man taking himself to be as “God” or “like-God”, which is extremely arrogant, which is actually the opposite of being “open” – because – you have to “be able to build” upon something, not just be “as nothing”, but when you make yourself more “as nothing” you open up your mind to expand into the...”new horizons” or “the infinite” (A.I. (and technocracy and the like) can and will - only lead to “chains” (which is exactly why “the elites” are/or would want to implement such a system on people/mankind).)
→ Modern Parenting Styles Are Hurting Our Kids | Dr Shadee Elmasry - Safina Society
I was having quite a few thoughts about this last night. It could be said, that there is definitely truth to the observation that “people are getting weaker” or what-have-you, the whole, generational thing or pattern of “what is wrong with kids nowadays, back in my day”, and the whole thing or of self thinking that says “I’m this and that”, - of not being ever or quite good or strong enough, when actually, just think of what you have lived and what you have went through, all in one’s life, all in life, how tough or strong you actually are; but, just as with when one accomplishes and/or achieves, and one is feeling like “I’m awesome” or like feeling really good about themselves from having achieved (something), it is actually all just very temporal - transitory thoughts and moments or “blips” in the overall picture of space-time and these, are mostly actually connected with or very much dependant upon the health of (one’s) body and/or the state or mindset of one’s mind. – But thank Allah we have such feelings – and feelings at all – as that is, ...life (the gift of)(→ consciousness, self-consciousness).
Trying to “awaken”, trying to “awaken”. LIFE. Is a gift. – Knowing – and Being.
→ That which is life, is life (Allah gives/revives life after it has gone (cold)), that which is death, is death (life doesn’t stop after death, it is just temporary).
“The killing of the mind” (creativity (imagination) – in children for example (being destroyed or taken away)) is, obviously...darkness and death.
– Knowing – And Being.
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It's true in the feeling or it's true in the Yeah, the feeling is true or that the
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emotion is true or something like that. How interesting. Um, you know, so it was sort of vibes based and that that's
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that that's not only um, you know, equally true of of the verifiable,
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measurable reality. It's it's actually more true and more important, you know.
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So, yeah. So they actually picked up these tools that were of you know critique and
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of you know um actually being able to elevate different voices and worldviews.
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Uh you know that we we all had that dream in in the academy. Um, it it's taken those
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things and and weaponized them, you know, in in a really extreme way, you know, to be able to
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just dodge anything, dodge any any crime, any bloody, you know, actual
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conspiracy, you know, but but I mean, they've been playing this game for like I mean, it's
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nearly half a century anyway. Uh, but it was more of an elite tool before. And I don't mean the liberal left elite that
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everybody thinks of, but you know, like with climate change, you know, there's
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at least four decades, you know, like an actual documented,
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you know, um open conspiracy out there for people um
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for, you know, um you know, mining lobby, you know, energy companies, etc.,
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you know, to say, "Okay, well, well, this is coming." Um and you know that's going to hit our bottom line and all the
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subsidies we get from government all that kind of thing. So therefore we will obfiscate
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you know we'll sew seeds of doubt and the public will challenge this. will insist on there being both sides,
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you know, so that uh yeah, twothroat basically. So there's the reality that's reported and then but
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it's got to be our side as well. And then we'll, you know, we'll bifocate this whole thing. So it's a left right
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bloody issue and everybody can fight about it into infinity. Um, and it's not, you know, it's not gotten better,
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it's gotten worse, you know, people real hardhead, stubborn, digging in their heels, doubling down, tripling down,
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you know. Um, yeah, this is a problem. Um, they've been able So, that's an
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actual conspiracy. Yeah. You know, measurable, verified, documented. Um, but, you know, half the
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population are going with, well, no, it's Jewish space lasers. Uh it's
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weather weapons, you know, uh climate change is a hoax. And there the there's these elite
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bloody, you know, academic Satanist pedophile Jews who are like uh you know,
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um changing the weather and targeting places and starting wildfires and
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uh setting off volcanoes and you know what I mean? It's just like oh with God.
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So, you know, there's there are, you know, so I guess there's classical conspiracism, which is, you know, what,
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you know, we've been doing in looking at structural racism, structural inequality, you know, etc., etc., the
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systemic sort of problems that, um, you know, eat the world
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and exploit people and land. Um, you know, that's your classical conspiracism,
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like you know, that the plastics people like fooling everyone into
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believing that plastic is recyclable. Mhm. Um, and that, you know, that's environmentally friendly. That kind of
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stuff, that's classical conspiracism. But you know, neo conspiracism is is
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just like absolute fantasy. You know, not really interested in protecting any
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real children who are being exploited, but you know, we will uh invent you
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know, imaginary children, the fantasy children they're being eating in a pizza basement in Washington
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DC. And it's like, well, if you Well, you disagree with that. Well, are you So, you're pro pedophilia then, are you?
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Exactly. You know, that kind of Yeah. So we we're in trouble. We're in trouble epistemologically,
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you know. Yeah. This is one I want to I want to weave a little bit here with you. So as you were
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speaking, what I was thinking about was what you said at the beginning of the conversation, which is like your your
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epistemology and your ontology are always in tandem, always making together, always collaborating together,
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both within and also in the wider within. Yeah. of the space of other people, of your relationships
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in the more than human world. And I think that what happened in post structuralist discourse might be a
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really good example of what happens when you have uh a correct a realistic a
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helpful epistemology. Yeah. Without the correct ontology to go with
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it. Because when you introduce the idea of everybody's subjectivity
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in and of themselves being a measure of the world without the ontology of how to
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live collectively, how to build meaning collectively, this idea of reality being
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a shared consensus. Yeah. Then you create a world which we exist in today.
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Yeah. Where every single person can stand in their little individualized or
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small group defined part of the world and say my version of the truth is
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correct or our version of the truth is correct because we haven't learned in this part of well I say this part of the world
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there's lots of different people living all over the world in every single land. But I think especially for the dominant culture that was ripped
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away from their lands a long long time ago, that idea of consensus or of living
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collaboratively or understanding our fundamental interdependence has created the conditions where that knowledge
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production has become warped in a way. Oh my god. Yes. But then the the the importance of a diversity of stories,
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you know, the the pluriversality, the the pluriversal understanding of of
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existence that kind of is characterized now by the global south, but they used to be, you
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know, everybody's way of looking at the world, you know, is that, you know, so you have
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your local stories, but then the next people over have a different, you know,
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actually that constellation is called this and the story is this, you know. Um but these can exist you know alongside
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each other you know and and actually enrich each other you know in being different stories um you know and that
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comes down to the issue of border work you know and I think that's a really handy way for us to start um uh to start
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I don't know addressing this crisis of of subjectivity you know that's that's infecting our
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reality that's that's kind of ruining everything in a post-truth world is having an understanding of border work.
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How there is, you know, exclusionary, you know, eliminationist kind of uh
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approaches to borders, you know, where these things are barriers where you keep things out and you keep other things in
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uh where the border is there to to establish inroups and out groupoups,
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you know, and it's not just a border of a country, but the border around each person,
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you know. Um yeah and I I guess the indigenous um protocols of border work
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are about facilitating norms of access and flow across those. So there is in
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discernment there is a there is a membrane you know around each person
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around each family etc. But it's kind of a um you know the border is a site of
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kinm making a site of relationality of increasing
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um you know uh just that va I guess from the saman point of view. Um yeah so
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I mean yeah so every person and every group you know that dares that boundary
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and that boundary is supposed to be a a place of embassy you know with the world
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with other groups with other people um and you know where you can share your
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really diverse worldviews and actually you know uh find really rich meaning uh
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rich layers of meaning and and and solutions to things and you You know because every system is
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interconnected with other systems and and there is flow across them you know in the natural world with like you know
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half the bloody life half the biomass you know in your local place migrates
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you know seasonally you know around your region but then beyond it even to the other side of the world you know a lot
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of birds and fish and whales etc but then you know a lot of seeds as well
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and other windborne things, waterborne things. Um you know some species will
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migrate like above and below the ground in different seasons and you know um
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yeah there there is a lot of movement and a lot of fluid sort of exchange across between worlds that that happens
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you know in our lands uh within our territories and that goes for people too and culture and language uh
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relationships you know uh adoption marriage you know there's that notion of freedom
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as as being freedom of um of movement of being able to journey where you wish to
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journey. Um and then there's that kind of you know freedom of uh refusal that
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you can just say no to any uh instruction or order that you're given
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and these are basic human freedoms uh that belong to indigenous people but to all people you know before the these
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kind of dominant structures came into place and there's also freedom of like association affiliation
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you know you you it's not a modern thing of spoiled bloody,
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you know, millennials or whatever that people choose to divorce their parents or, you know, um, choose other families.
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You you you have the freedom and the right to, you know, move and affiliate through marriage or adoption or any
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other way with, uh, you know, with other families. Um, you can change your language, change
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your culture. You know, that's always been the case. Um yeah and it's this uh sort of fluid border work that allows
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for that. Um but there's these kind of imposed national identities and you know
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ethnicities now that it doesn't reflect the reality you know of most people on
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the planet who are in some way in diaspora. Most people do not live on their
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homelands. Y, you know, they've been moved or they've chosen to move or, you know, and even if
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they identify still with that homeland that they maybe have never even seen, and that land might even be a different
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time, a different era, you know. Mhm. Um, yeah. Like, yeah. Like, ah, I used to be
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Thrian several generations back someone might say, but now thrace is not a thing
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anymore. Yeah. Um, yeah. uh you know it that's the reality
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you know of of everybody but this idea that you have these iron ethnicities and
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you know identities and cultures it's it's so important for the power structures just to um you know establish
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these insider and outsider groups and you know these mass
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compliance sort of structures when it comes to identity and that's around family like what a family is.
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Yeah. you know what sex is, what love is, what marriage is, what, you know, all these things. It's how we do our
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how we do our border work now. You know, it's these things that need to be policed and
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yeah, you know, fought over to the death. Every hill must be died upon. And so that's how the discourse is as
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well. Um, yeah.
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You know, this is, if I may, I'd like to bring in
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fossil fuels right here. Here we go. Because
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having access to an energy source, figuring out how to work this energy
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source that allows us to artificially stimulate the energy of of
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a thousand generations in one day. M it means that
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traveling through borders has become exponentially faster. M
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and so if I were to think about traveling on foot or on on mule
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uh through different worlds and essentially gaining the right to pass
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over each border that would come with picking up customs and picking up language and learning
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about the changing environments and traveling slowly enough so that nothing
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actually feels alien. ev
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because of the speed at which we can go literally across the world 24 hours to
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travel halfway around the planet on a normal passenger flight. I think that's part of what provokes this sense of um
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alienation and fear which then is the feeling that the you know the right the
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authoritarian that that fascism needs to make our borders static
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and iron rather than permeable and fluid. Yeah. because there is no real way to to
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travel through slowly enough to to learn with essentially and then also to become
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with to be changed by and I think that's maybe partly why people are afraid to let others in
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and also afraid to go out because everything just happens so fast and that's hugely to do with the energy
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source that's available to us and frankly if we just electrify everything it that won't change that problem.
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Yeah. Well, I I think that's a that's an effect rather than a cause,
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you know, sort of neoliberal systems. Mhm. Um,
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you know, that the the problem with money is that it's been tied to uh your
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ability to survive. Yes. you know, it's been, you know, bound up with, you know, whether or not
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you can, you know, acquire the food, shelter, nutrition, security that you
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need just to just to survive. The absolute basics, you know. So, and that's that's how
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money well that's how wealth can be power is only through that mechanism,
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you know, because if you could have access to the things you need to survive um without it, then worlds of work would
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be very different. you know, um I could take six months to
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go to New York. Yeah. New York State and sit down with, I don't know, an upbe whatever people, you
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know, um and and meet other people as I go and allow myself to change through that
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journey. But you know, I I don't I jump on a freaking plane and um
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“Which is just it's just all so awful. Anyway, it's all Yeah, it's it's none of it's
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looking particularly good at this from this vantage point at this stage in the world. I was just my listeners will know
48:51
this. I was just in South America making documentaries with uh marginalized communities who are on the front lines
48:57
Yeah. of the existential crisis in some way. For some that was, you know, suffering under structural racism, not
49:04
having the funding to, you know, educate their children essentially, so doing it themselves. Um for others it was their land being
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taken away, the threat of mining companies. Um, and it was very interesting being
49:16
there and seeing how uh these massive multinational mining corporations are
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now using the quote unquote energy transition as the excuse for the next land grab, the green land grab. Yeah.
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Um, and seeing that impact on indigenous people, on peasant farmers, on
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communities that are mixed through together, having, you know, sort of eaked out a subsistence and a pretty
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happy life for, you know, a couple hundred years together. Um, and now in the name of the
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continuation of capitalism in its form, in whatever necessary form that takes,
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yeah, it causing devastating impacts. And yet that rhetoric not quite reaching the
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people who are meant to be most sort of allied to decolonial or postc colonial thinking
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or action on this side of the world. Um so from every vantage point we're
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looking pretty stuck.
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Yeah. Well, you know, I mean, if you have land and you have a land-based
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culture, land-based knowledge, land based tradition, and you're living within that, then, you know, I mean, I
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guess you're short of as being in poverty. But if you have those things, then you you have no
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you have no need. Yes. Exactly. you know for you know to work to get your nutrition or
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you know health shelter all these things you know even meaning
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or knowledge or education um you know that is all provided by the land
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the land gives you everything you need yeah and that that's just that's
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anathema and needs to be destroyed people can't see that happening because who the hell would uh participate in any
51:04
of this if they knew that was available. Wow. And if there was just a a sudden
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mass collective refusal, you know, but I see all these like alt
51:17
economies um you know, platforms um you know, projects, you know, people
51:24
starting up to do a um you know, a commons or a
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alternative currency or a barter system where people are trading you know
51:36
directly their services and goods. with each other. I I see all these things starting up. Um but they're not
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economies of care, you know, which is essentially that's what you need, you know, you can't you
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can't do any of these things unless there's that safety net there. It has to be foundationally an economy of care,
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you know, that values care and has that at the center, care and carers. Um, and
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everybody knowing that inevitably at some stage in your life, somebody's going to have to wipe your ass for you.
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Um, you know, and people people are thinking of that. Um, but you
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know, also they're unable. They just know that they have to have a million dollars cuz you have to have a million dollars basically if you want to retire.
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If that's even enough anymore, that would have to be the absolute minimum. And you'd have to live like a dog.
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Yeah. Yeah, you have to be a millionaire to be able to live like a dog through your retirement and
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you know have a dignified death. Um yeah and that's just so people can't
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jump. So all these things end up being you know all these al alternative
52:48
economies the structure is of a multi-level marketing scheme a pyramid
52:53
scheme you know there must be a greater fool and that means all green you know
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regenerative finance everything like that you know it's all based on like either a government
53:06
you know um you know demanding that that corporations have to cough up so you
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know they have to lose out. They have to lose money or it's uh you know using taxpayer money to subsidize or fund you
53:19
know these credits over here or this you know. Yeah. We got to we got to have,
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you know, a value for nature, you know. Um yeah, all all these things and and and you know, communal economies,
53:33
collectives, anything like this, you know, it's always somebody who's like uh
53:38
you know, they've made a lot of money and and they've just had an an epiphany and they want to step out of it, but
53:44
they still have to make a living, you know. So they always want to set up these these schemes uh in a way that
53:51
will guarantee them an income, you know, and it always means that someone has to, you know, miss out,
53:57
but there has to be enough greater fools to jump into this, you know, scheme. And that could be a cryptocurrency or bloody
54:04
anything. They all operate the same way. They all operate the same way. And I don't think that that's any worse than a
54:10
distributor autonomous organization that's you know uh all about you
54:16
creating a a collective you know commons uh you know economic
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commons for a whole heap of people to look after each other. Um yeah that they all operate the same way. Um so you know and and
54:29
you know it's not because people are stupid or evil or that they you know can't see any other way except this you
54:35
know system that we're in. It's just comes down to the fact that, you know, people need to know that they can be fed
54:42
and sheltered and not die on the side of the road in the rain. Um
54:48
yeah. Um we're all stuck with that and that's tricky. You know, it would
54:55
take everybody jumping at once, but even then, you know, that would be, you know, billions of people would have to die.
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Yeah. if everybody, you know, collectively decided to refuse this.
55:08
So, you know, the only thing that could make that change is that I mean, the whole idea of mutual aid activism is is
55:15
probably the closest thing, but basically you you'd have to begin, you know, any revolution with um you know,
55:22
um enough people saying, "Okay, I've got uh yeah, I've made I've made enough
55:27
money to live uh for 10 years uh without working." Um, so what I'm going to do is
55:34
for this whole community and neighborhood, I'm going to offer free babysitting. And that's what I'm going to do. Um,
55:41
free babysitting and aged care, uh, to all the families, you know, um, around here. A person
55:47
would have to do that. Um, and then those people with their time freed up, they might they might, you know, then
55:55
go, "Okay, well, uh, we'll start growing food for the people who don't have enough food or, uh, we'll start sharing,
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you know, we'll make a bit of a food bank here." And it it would have to be that. It would have to be an economy of
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care that grew up organically, you know, out of something as simple as that.
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I feel like an Islamic economy could do that because if their wasn’t inflation and there wasn’t monopolies etc...and if you built products and things with more intentionality in the design, of being long-lasting, of being repairable, etc. of sovereign, food sovereign economies, of fair wages (or “wage relations”), of the State playing its role (protecting people – is giving or consenting to people and things their due rights) but not being oppressive within the marketplace, the marketplace of monopolies (that which the State can or could also be a sort of corporation in its own right, which is true, because it can) so that there is just a natural kind of dynamism, but with rules that protect people and property and life – as protecting things” (the non-living materials of the world) is protecting property, which in actuality is not owned by any single or singular person or entity but only (to) Allah S.W.T., of course…
It’s cool if people like to work and want to work, but if you have everything you need and are just accumulating money that which is not needed, then what are you going to do with it? Work has to be, or should be purposeful anyway, especially in the believers life, we don’t or shouldn’t just do things for no reason. There is an end goal. But money doesn’t suppose to be the end goal itself, its only a medium of exchange in order to reach a goal or goals etc. All obvious, but anyway...
“say, well, I would platform Ant. And I would ask people to read the ants like you. I always say this and you
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know, I don't know. You can go noble savage and go, "Wow, that's really wise." And then that's it.
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Or you could go, "Ah, that's rubbish." You know, um, that's really, you know, simplistic, bloody indigenous stuff or
1:05:41
whatever. That tends to be how how you go when people read an indigenous person. They do it for wow or woo or or
1:05:49
just wow, nothing, you know. Um, but, you know, seriously, I keep saying it
1:05:55
because it's um, you know, the ants are everything. They're your the foundation of your system. You know, if you start
1:06:01
paying attention to the ants and what they do and and um you know, then you'll start to anticipate changes in weather,
1:06:08
temperature, um you know, flood events, bloody everything. you know, you look to
1:06:13
where they keep changing and moving and rebuilding their nests and, you know, when they're carrying eggs uh upwards up
1:06:21
trees and and fences and walls, you know, um and then just that I don't know
1:06:27
that perfect night that they wait for where everything aligns and they know that it's coming, you know, they they
1:06:34
they got this precognitive thing about what the land's going to do because they're shaping it, you know, and and
1:06:39
and they transform and they grow these wings. And then at the exactly that moment, you know, it's just a couple of
1:06:46
nights a year they explode out of the nest and fly around in this ecstatic mating ritual and everything's joining
1:06:52
in like eating them and you know following around. Everything gets really excited. It's like uh you know there's
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constant there's constant beautiful things if you want to understand your system and become embedded in your
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landscape even a cityscape you know is land you know and the ants are always there like follow the ants read the ants
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platform your ants um and and and and all the answers are there you know you
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can be responsive you know to land and the actual ontology
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um yeah and you can take others with you and you can sit together with that and
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then you know your little collective there can like sit together with other collectives and check in on their story
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and you go from there.
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- Surah An Naml (The Ant). – I don’t know the surah well at all but it makes me want to review it and yeah, the Qur’an is so amazing, just one Surah one could be with trying to extract and gain knowledge and understanding from and living there life, their entire life with basically, with just one surah. It is true (but well, you need the whole Qur’an as well of course).
- Islam is universal(!)
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Al Lulu Wal Mur’jaan. - - The opening of. Similiar to, but shorter, than this:
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It is narrated on the authority of Yahya b. Ya'mur that the first man who discussed qadr (Divine Decree) in Basra was Ma'bad al-Juhani. I along with Humaid b. 'Abdur-Rahman Himyari set out for pilgrimage or for 'Umrah and said:
Should it so happen that we come into contact with one of the Companions of the Messenger of Allah (peace be upon him) we shall ask him about what is talked about taqdir (Divine Decree). Accidentally we came across Abdullah ibn Umar ibn al-Khattab, while he was entering the mosque. My companion and I surrounded him. One of us (stood) on his right and the other stood on his left. I expected that my companion would authorize me to speak. I therefore said: Abu Abdur Rahman! There have appeared some people in our land who recite the Qur'an and pursue knowledge. And then after talking about their affairs, added: They (such people) claim that there is no such thing as Divine Decree and events are not predestined. He (Abdullah ibn Umar) said: When you happen to meet such people tell them that I have nothing to do with them and they have nothing to do with me. And verily they are in no way responsible for my (belief). Abdullah ibn Umar swore by Him (the Lord) (and said): If any one of them (who does not believe in the Divine Decree) had with him gold equal to the bulk of (the mountain) Uhud and spent it (in the way of Allah), Allah would not accept it unless he affirmed his faith in Divine Decree. He further said: My father, Umar ibn al-Khattab, told me: One day we were sitting in the company of Allah's Apostle (peace be upon him) when there appeared before us a man dressed in pure white clothes, his hair extraordinarily black. There were no signs of travel on him. None amongst us recognized him. At last he sat with the Apostle (peace be upon him) He knelt before him placed his palms on his thighs and said: Muhammad, inform me about al-Islam. The Messenger of Allah (peace be upon him) said: Al-Islam implies that you testify that there is no god but Allah and that Muhammad is the messenger of Allah, and you establish prayer, pay Zakat, observe the fast of Ramadan, and perform pilgrimage to the (House) if you are solvent enough (to bear the expense of) the journey. He (the inquirer) said: You have told the truth. He (Umar ibn al-Khattab) said: It amazed us that he would put the question and then he would himself verify the truth. He (the inquirer) said: Inform me about Iman (faith). He (the Holy Prophet) replied: That you affirm your faith in Allah, in His angels, in His Books, in His Apostles, in the Day of Judgment, and you affirm your faith in the Divine Decree about good and evil. He (the inquirer) said: You have told the truth. He (the inquirer) again said: Inform me about al-Ihsan (performance of good deeds). He (the Holy Prophet) said: That you worship Allah as if you are seeing Him, for though you don't see Him, He, verily, sees you. He (the enquirer) again said: Inform me about the hour (of the Doom). He (the Holy Prophet) remarked: One who is asked knows no more than the one who is inquiring (about it). He (the inquirer) said: Tell me some of its indications. He (the Holy Prophet) said: That the slave-girl will give birth to her mistress and master, that you will find barefooted, destitute goat-herds vying with one another in the construction of magnificent buildings. He (the narrator, Umar ibn al-Khattab) said: Then he (the inquirer) went on his way but I stayed with him (the Holy Prophet) for a long while. He then, said to me: Umar, do you know who this inquirer was? I replied: Allah and His Apostle knows best. He (the Holy Prophet) remarked: He was Gabriel (the angel). He came to you in order to instruct you in matters of religion.
حَدَّثَنِي أَبُو خَيْثَمَةَ، زُهَيْرُ بْنُ حَرْبٍ حَدَّثَنَا وَكِيعٌ، عَنْ كَهْمَسٍ، عَنْ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ بْنِ بُرَيْدَةَ، عَنْ يَحْيَى بْنِ يَعْمَرَ، ح وَحَدَّثَنَا عُبَيْدُ اللَّهِ بْنُ مُعَاذٍ الْعَنْبَرِيُّ، - وَهَذَا حَدِيثُهُ - حَدَّثَنَا أَبِي، حَدَّثَنَا كَهْمَسٌ، عَنِ ابْنِ بُرَيْدَةَ، عَنْ يَحْيَى بْنِ يَعْمَرَ، قَالَ كَانَ أَوَّلَ مَنْ قَالَ فِي الْقَدَرِ بِالْبَصْرَةِ مَعْبَدٌ الْجُهَنِيُّ فَانْطَلَقْتُ أَنَا وَحُمَيْدُ بْنُ عَبْدِ الرَّحْمَنِ الْحِمْيَرِيُّ حَاجَّيْنِ أَوْ مُعْتَمِرَيْنِ فَقُلْنَا لَوْ لَقِينَا أَحَدًا مِنْ أَصْحَابِ رَسُولِ اللَّهِ صلى الله عليه وسلم فَسَأَلْنَاهُ عَمَّا يَقُولُ هَؤُلاَءِ فِي الْقَدَرِ فَوُفِّقَ لَنَا عَبْدُ اللَّهِ بْنُ عُمَرَ بْنِ الْخَطَّابِ دَاخِلاً الْمَسْجِدَ فَاكْتَنَفْتُهُ أَنَا وَصَاحِبِي أَحَدُنَا عَنْ يَمِينِهِ وَالآخَرُ عَنْ شِمَالِهِ فَظَنَنْتُ أَنَّ صَاحِبِي سَيَكِلُ الْكَلاَمَ إِلَىَّ فَقُلْتُ أَبَا عَبْدِ الرَّحْمَنِ إِنَّهُ قَدْ ظَهَرَ قِبَلَنَا نَاسٌ يَقْرَءُونَ الْقُرْآنَ وَيَتَقَفَّرُونَ الْعِلْمَ - وَذَكَرَ مِنْ شَأْنِهِمْ - وَأَنَّهُمْ يَزْعُمُونَ أَنْ لاَ قَدَرَ وَأَنَّ الأَمْرَ أُنُفٌ . قَالَ فَإِذَا لَقِيتَ أُولَئِكَ فَأَخْبِرْهُمْ أَنِّي بَرِيءٌ مِنْهُمْ وَأَنَّهُمْ بُرَآءُ مِنِّي وَالَّذِي يَحْلِفُ بِهِ عَبْدُ اللَّهِ بْنُ عُمَرَ لَوْ أَنَّ لأَحَدِهِمْ مِثْلَ أُحُدٍ ذَهَبًا فَأَنْفَقَهُ مَا قَبِلَ اللَّهُ مِنْهُ حَتَّى يُؤْمِنَ بِالْقَدَرِ ثُمَّ قَالَ حَدَّثَنِي أَبِي عُمَرُ بْنُ الْخَطَّابِ قَالَ بَيْنَمَا نَحْنُ عِنْدَ رَسُولِ اللَّهِ صلى الله عليه وسلم ذَاتَ يَوْمٍ إِذْ طَلَعَ عَلَيْنَا رَجُلٌ شَدِيدُ بَيَاضِ الثِّيَابِ شَدِيدُ سَوَادِ الشَّعَرِ لاَ يُرَى عَلَيْهِ أَثَرُ السَّفَرِ وَلاَ يَعْرِفُهُ مِنَّا أَحَدٌ حَتَّى جَلَسَ إِلَى النَّبِيِّ صلى الله عليه وسلم فَأَسْنَدَ رُكْبَتَيْهِ إِلَى رُكْبَتَيْهِ وَوَضَعَ كَفَّيْهِ عَلَى فَخِذَيْهِ وَقَالَ يَا مُحَمَّدُ أَخْبِرْنِي عَنِ الإِسْلاَمِ . فَقَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ صلى الله عليه وسلم " الإِسْلاَمُ أَنْ تَشْهَدَ أَنْ لاَ إِلَهَ إِلاَّ اللَّهُ وَأَنَّ مُحَمَّدًا رَسُولُ اللَّهِ وَتُقِيمَ الصَّلاَةَ وَتُؤْتِيَ الزَّكَاةَ وَتَصُومَ رَمَضَانَ وَتَحُجَّ الْبَيْتَ إِنِ اسْتَطَعْتَ إِلَيْهِ سَبِيلاً . قَالَ صَدَقْتَ . قَالَ فَعَجِبْنَا لَهُ يَسْأَلُهُ وَيُصَدِّقُهُ . قَالَ فَأَخْبِرْنِي عَنِ الإِيمَانِ . قَالَ " أَنْ تُؤْمِنَ بِاللَّهِ وَمَلاَئِكَتِهِ وَكُتُبِهِ وَرُسُلِهِ وَالْيَوْمِ الآخِرِ وَتُؤْمِنَ بِالْقَدَرِ خَيْرِهِ وَشَرِّهِ " . قَالَ صَدَقْتَ . قَالَ فَأَخْبِرْنِي عَنِ الإِحْسَانِ . قَالَ " أَنْ تَعْبُدَ اللَّهَ كَأَنَّكَ تَرَاهُ فَإِنْ لَمْ تَكُنْ تَرَاهُ فَإِنَّهُ يَرَاكَ " . قَالَ فَأَخْبِرْنِي عَنِ السَّاعَةِ . قَالَ " مَا الْمَسْئُولُ عَنْهَا بِأَعْلَمَ مِنَ السَّائِلِ " . قَالَ فَأَخْبِرْنِي عَنْ أَمَارَتِهَا . قَالَ " أَنْ تَلِدَ الأَمَةُ رَبَّتَهَا وَأَنْ تَرَى الْحُفَاةَ الْعُرَاةَ الْعَالَةَ رِعَاءَ الشَّاءِ يَتَطَاوَلُونَ فِي الْبُنْيَانِ " . قَالَ ثُمَّ انْطَلَقَ فَلَبِثْتُ مَلِيًّا ثُمَّ قَالَ لِي " يَا عُمَرُ أَتَدْرِي مَنِ السَّائِلُ " . قُلْتُ اللَّهُ وَرَسُولُهُ أَعْلَمُ . قَالَ " فَإِنَّهُ جِبْرِيلُ أَتَاكُمْ يُعَلِّمُكُمْ دِينَكُمْ " .
Reference : Sahih Muslim 8a
In-book reference : Book 1, Hadith 1
USC-MSA web (English) reference : Book 1, Hadith 1
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(2) Chapter: Explaining the prayers which are one of the pillars of Islamباب بَيَانِ الصَّلَوَاتِ الَّتِي هِيَ أَحَدُ أَرْكَانِ الإِسْلاَمِ
It is reported on the authority of Talha b. 'Ubaidullah that a person with dishevelled hair, one of the people of Nejd, came to the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ). We heard the humming of his voice but could not fully discern what he had been saying, till he came nigh to the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ). It was then (disclosed to us) that he was asking questions pertaining to Islam. The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) said:
Five prayers during the day and the night. (Upon this he said: Am I obliged to say any other (prayer) besides these? He (the Holy Prophet, ) said: No, but whatever you observe voluntarily, out of your own free will, and the fasts of Ramadan. The inquirer said: Am I obliged to do anything else besides this? He (the Holy Prophet) said: No, but whatever you do out of your own free will. And the Messenger of Allah told him about the Zakat (poor-rate). The inquirer said: Am I obliged to pay anything else besides this? He (the Holy Prophet) said: No, but whatever you pay voluntarily out of your own free will. The man turned back and was saying: I would neither make any addition to this, nor will decrease anything out of it. The Prophet remarked: He is successful, if he is true to what he affirms.
حَدَّثَنَا قُتَيْبَةُ بْنُ سَعِيدِ بْنِ جَمِيلِ بْنِ طَرِيفِ بْنِ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ الثَّقَفِيُّ، عَنْ مَالِكِ بْنِ أَنَسٍ، - فِيمَا قُرِئَ عَلَيْهِ - عَنْ أَبِي سُهَيْلٍ، عَنْ أَبِيهِ، أَنَّهُ سَمِعَ طَلْحَةَ بْنَ عُبَيْدِ اللَّهِ، يَقُولُ جَاءَ رَجُلٌ إِلَى رَسُولِ اللَّهِ صلى الله عليه وسلم مِنْ أَهْلِ نَجْدٍ ثَائِرُ الرَّأْسِ نَسْمَعُ دَوِيَّ صَوْتِهِ وَلاَ نَفْقَهُ مَا يَقُولُ حَتَّى دَنَا مِنْ رَسُولِ اللَّهِ صلى الله عليه وسلم فَإِذَا هُوَ يَسْأَلُ عَنِ الإِسْلاَمِ فَقَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ صلى الله عليه وسلم " خَمْسُ صَلَوَاتٍ فِي الْيَوْمِ وَاللَّيْلَةِ " . فَقَالَ هَلْ عَلَىَّ غَيْرُهُنَّ قَالَ " لاَ . إِلاَّ أَنْ تَطَّوَّعَ وَصِيَامُ شَهْرِ رَمَضَانَ " . فَقَالَ هَلْ عَلَىَّ غَيْرُهُ فَقَالَ " لاَ . إِلاَّ أَنْ تَطَّوَّعَ " . وَذَكَرَ لَهُ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ صلى الله عليه وسلم الزَّكَاةَ فَقَالَ هَلْ عَلَىَّ غَيْرُهَا قَالَ " لاَ . إِلاَّ أَنْ تَطَّوَّعَ " قَالَ فَأَدْبَرَ الرَّجُلُ وَهُوَ يَقُولُ وَاللَّهِ لاَ أَزِيدُ عَلَى هَذَا وَلاَ أَنْقُصُ مِنْهُ . فَقَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ صلى الله عليه وسلم " أَفْلَحَ إِنْ صَدَقَ " .
Reference : Sahih Muslim 11a
In-book reference : Book 1, Hadith 8
USC-MSA web (English) reference : Book 1, Hadith 7
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Another hadith, the like of which has been narrated by Malik (b. Anas) (and mentioned above) is also reported by Talha b. 'Ubaidullah, with the only variation that the Prophet remarked:
By his father, he shall succeed if he were true (to what he professed), or: By his father, he would enter heaven if he were true (to what he professed).
حَدَّثَنِي يَحْيَى بْنُ أَيُّوبَ، وَقُتَيْبَةُ بْنُ سَعِيدٍ، جَمِيعًا عَنْ إِسْمَاعِيلَ بْنِ جَعْفَرٍ، عَنْ أَبِي سُهَيْلٍ، عَنْ أَبِيهِ، عَنْ طَلْحَةَ بْنِ عُبَيْدِ اللَّهِ، عَنِ النَّبِيِّ صلى الله عليه وسلم بِهَذَا الْحَدِيثِ نَحْوَ حَدِيثِ مَالِكٍ غَيْرَ أَنَّهُ قَالَ فَقَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ صلى الله عليه وسلم " أَفْلَحَ وَأَبِيهِ إِنْ صَدَقَ " . أَوْ " دَخَلَ الْجَنَّةَ وَأَبِيهِ إِنْ صَدَقَ " .
Reference : Sahih Muslim 11b
In-book reference : Book 1, Hadith 9
USC-MSA web (English) reference : Book 1, Hadith 8
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Another hadith:
It is narrated on the authority of Abu Huraira:
We were accompanying the Apostle (ﷺ) in a march (towards Tabuk). He (the narrator) said: The provisions with the people were almost depleted. He (the narrator) said: (And the situation became so critical) that they (the men of the army) decided to slaughter some of their camels. He (the narrator) said: Upon this Umar said: Messenger of Allah, I wish that you should pool together what has been left out of the provisions with the people and then invoke (the blessings of) Allah upon it. He (the narrator) said: He (the Holy Prophet) did it accordingly. He (the narrator) said: The one who had wheat in his possession came there with wheat. He who had dates with him came there with dates. And Mujahid said: He who possessed stones of dates came there with stones. I (the narrator) said: What did they do with the date-stones. They said: They (the people) sucked them and then drank water over them. He (the narrator said): He (the Holy Prophet) invoked the blessings (of Allah) upon them (provisions). He (the narrator) said: (And there was such a miraculous increase in the stocks) that the people replenished their provisions fully. He (the narrator) said: At that time he (the Holy Prophet) said: I bear testimony to the fact that there is no god but Allah, and I am His messenger. The bondsman who would meet Allah without entertaining any doubt about these (two fundamentals) would enter heaven.
حَدَّثَنَا أَبُو بَكْرِ بْنُ النَّضْرِ بْنِ أَبِي النَّضْرِ، قَالَ حَدَّثَنِي أَبُو النَّضْرِ، هَاشِمُ بْنُ الْقَاسِمِ حَدَّثَنَا عُبَيْدُ اللَّهِ الأَشْجَعِيُّ، عَنْ مَالِكِ بْنِ مِغْوَلٍ، عَنْ طَلْحَةَ بْنِ مُصَرِّفٍ، عَنْ أَبِي صَالِحٍ، عَنْ أَبِي هُرَيْرَةَ، قَالَ كُنَّا مَعَ النَّبِيِّ صلى الله عليه وسلم فِي مَسِيرٍ - قَالَ - فَنَفِدَتْ أَزْوَادُ الْقَوْمِ قَالَ حَتَّى هَمَّ بِنَحْرِ بَعْضِ حَمَائِلِهِمْ - قَالَ - فَقَالَ عُمَرُ يَا رَسُولَ اللَّهِ لَوْ جَمَعْتَ مَا بَقِيَ مِنْ أَزْوَادِ الْقَوْمِ فَدَعَوْتَ اللَّهَ عَلَيْهَا . قَالَ فَفَعَلَ - قَالَ - فَجَاءَ ذُو الْبُرِّ بِبُرِّهِ وَذُو التَّمْرِ بِتَمْرِهِ - قَالَ وَقَالَ مُجَاهِدٌ وَذُو النَّوَاةِ بِنَوَاهُ - قُلْتُ وَمَا كَانُوا يَصْنَعُونَ بِالنَّوَى قَالَ كَانُوا يَمُصُّونَهُ وَيَشْرَبُونَ عَلَيْهِ الْمَاءَ . قَالَ فَدَعَا عَلَيْهَا - قَالَ - حَتَّى مَلأَ الْقَوْمُ أَزْوِدَتَهُمْ - قَالَ - فَقَالَ عِنْدَ ذَلِكَ " أَشْهَدُ أَنْ لاَ إِلَهَ إِلاَّ اللَّهُ وَأَنِّي رَسُولُ اللَّهِ لاَ يَلْقَى اللَّهَ بِهِمَا عَبْدٌ غَيْرَ شَاكٍّ فِيهِمَا إِلاَّ دَخَلَ الْجَنَّةَ " .
Reference : Sahih Muslim 27a
In-book reference : Book 1, Hadith 45
USC-MSA web (English) reference : Book 1, Hadith 41
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This is true, working on getting “straighter”, it’s had good effects/results instead of making things too complicated (kind of like “Yoga” (the physical exercise) – “the body as a whole/one – as it’s all connected (but on the religious aspect, Allah is one and it is all connected (Allah is One), in that way, that is correct as well(“but most of the people know not”))): The #1 Posture Myth Debunked - Do This For Better Results https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UOPz8FjSwDY
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“The Federal Reserve is about to control the whole world” – this is deep, I’m kind of struggling to grasp this like deeply in my mind/brain but of course its not true in the full reality (- “Allah, Allah”), I’m just talking about the financial (of the world (in the temporal)), of this (these people’s plotting and planning) reality; it’s quite crazy (and yes, very complicated)), of course they don’t in actuality, control a thing – cannot even make a fly - or an atom width’s of space in this space-time reality/universe. That is, starting from “first principles”. - 2+2 = 4 - whether one wants to believe it or not. 1 + 1= 2? Well, strictly mathematically that is true but one (1) is complete and perfect in itself, or, can say, it is the starting or starter point 1x1=1... 1x~=~, 1/0=0, 1/1=1, 1-1=0, without 1 or "something", there can be no zero (or “zeros” or anything else), because zero is nothing and nothing + nothing = nothing, there has to be a one first. This goes to like the sufi teaching of “being a zero”, (submission), that Allah is the 1, - “Allah is over all things...” (pre-destination)(“self-annihilation”)(tawwakkul).
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