قصيدة بقلم: أحمد مطر نزعم أننا بشر لكننا خراف ليس تماماً.. إنما في ظاهر الأوصاف نُقاد مثلها؟ نعم نُذعن مثلها؟ نعم نُذبح مثلها؟ نعم تلك طبيعة الغنم لكنْ.. يظل بيننا وبينها اختلاف نحن بلا أردِية وهي طوال عمرها ترفل بالأصواف نحن بلا أحذية وهي بكل موسم تستبدل الأظلاف وهي لقاء ذلها.. تثغو ولا تخاف ونحن حتى صمتنا من صوته يخاف
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We drink too much; smoke too much; spend too recklessly; laugh too little; drive too fast; get too angry; stay up too late; get up too tired; read too seldom; watch TV too much and pray too seldom.
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By Adnan Mouhiddin
I wonder why nudity in this photo, and nude art in general, offends “moral” people. It offends religious people deeply. It offends those claiming to have been raised on solid moral grounds. It offends them as if nudity is a sin and/or immoral behaviour.
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Viktor E. Frankl sharing his experience after being liberated from the concentration camp in WW2. (Man’s Search For Meaning)
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By Adnan Mouhiddin
In 1789, Gabriel de Mably, a French Philosopher, argued that punishment should strike the soul rather than the body. His statement was considered revolutionary in his era standards, when criminals were physically tortured under horrifying methods and techniques. The rise of alternatives to punishment is as old as the history: In the face of the ‘eye for an eye’ law, Jesus the Nazareth offered those who were without a sin to cast the first stone. But has anything changed since Mably’s statement?
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Syriology 