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Tuesday, 11 September 2018

Is "conscious contact with God" what Muslims understand as "taqwa"?



0:30  Will Davies on How Emotions Took Over the World  Will Davies on How E
7:30  Ian Payne of LBC
14:30  James O'Brien of LBC
27:00  'Kill me but don't touch my people': Hero market trader confronts knife-wielding woman wearing a headscarf who screamed 'kill kill kill' and stabbed a shopper in the shoulder in busy town centre
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6145733/Barnsley-Police-city-centre-lockdown.html

32:00  Marriage uninvented by the matriarchy
https://www.theguardian.com/law/2018/aug/30/denying-unmarried-mother-widows-allowance-ruled-illegal

A superior man, in regard to what he does not know, shows a cautious reserve. If names be not correct, language is not in accordance with the truth of things. If language be not in accordance with the truth of things, affairs cannot be carried on to success. When affairs cannot be carried on to success, proprieties and music do not flourish. When proprieties and music do not flourish, punishments will not be properly awarded. When punishments are not properly awarded, the people do not know how to move hand or foot. Therefore a superior man considers it necessary that the names he uses may be spoken appropriately, and also that what he speaks may be carried out appropriately. What the superior man requires is just that in his words there may be nothing incorrect.
— Confucius

36:00  No blame divorce and Andrew Castle of LBC
39:00  Female voters
42:00  The Whig Interpretation of History by H M Butterfield, The End of History by Francis Fukuyama

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whig_history

Whig history (or Whig historiography) is an approach to historiography that presents the past as an inevitable progression towards ever greater liberty and enlightenment, culminating in modern forms of liberal democracy and constitutional monarchy.

In general, Whig historians emphasize the rise of constitutional government, personal freedoms and scientific progress. The term is often applied generally (and pejoratively) to histories that present the past as the inexorable march of progress towards enlightenment. The term is also used extensively in the history of science to mean historiography that focuses on the successful chain of theories and experiments that led to present-day science, while ignoring failed theories and dead ends.

Whig history is a form of liberalism, putting its faith in the power of human reason to reshape society for the better, regardless of past history and tradition. It proposes the inevitable progress of humankind.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_End_of_History_and_the_Last_Man

Fukuyama argues that the advent of Western liberal democracy may signal the endpoint of humanity's sociocultural evolution and the final form of human government.

What we may be witnessing is not just the end of the Cold War, or the passing of a particular period of post-war history, but the end of history as such: that is, the end point of mankind's ideological evolution and the universalization of Western liberal democracy as the final form of human government.

Fukuyama's position contradicts that of Karl Marx, who predicted that communism would displace capitalism. Fukuyama himself identifies on some level with Marx, but more strongly with the German philosopher Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, by way of Alexandre Kojève. Kojève argued that the progress of history must lead toward the establishment of a "universal and homogenous" state,[3] most likely incorporating elements of liberal or social democracy; but Kojève's emphasis on the necessarily "post-political" character of such a state (and its citizens) makes such comparisons inadequate, and is irreducible to any mere "triumph" of capitalism.


47:30  Fornication
48:45  The enemy is within
1:00:00  Definition of antisemitism  https://www.thejc.com/comment/analysis/what-is-the-ihra-definition-of-antisemitism-and-why-has-labour-outraged-jews-by-rejecting-it-1.467511
1:01:00  Frank Field on antsemitism
1:03:00 Constructive criticism from people who care about us and are prepared to brave our dislike
1:06:00 Kelly Anne Conway
1:11:00  The rules
1:12:00 Conscious contact with God discussed.
1:24:00  The causes of behavioural addictions eg shopaholics, gamblers.
1:27:00  Patriarchy v Matriarchy and religions and political ideologies that support one or the other 
1:29:00  Why is Christianity more tolerant than Islam?
1:31:00  Monkey pox  Monkey pox
1:38:00  Sweden Democrats  Sweden De
1:43:00  We should be more vocal and engage with more people on politics, but within the confines of what is allowed under current legislation.
1:58:00  Hysteria comes from hysterectomy
2:01:00  Which comes first? Patriarchy or Nationalism?

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