On Confidence and Weakness

three years ago when I was still a University student, when I was still observing students, still trying to figure out how my friends think, why they did this and why they did that, whom they fear and whom they hate and whom they are attracted to...I still have this obsession of observing people and their body language. Anyways, during those days i witnessed something...

Among my friends at University there were two of them having an argument about politics. An argument that is related to Palestine, the history of the Jews and the current Palestinian Government. I will refer to my friends as John and David because I do not wish to mention names although what i witnessed was 3 years ago but still I respect people's privacy.

Both John and David were of the same age...only one has a weak personality while the other had a strong one. John was sitting on one of the tables and David was sitting on a chair right in front of him with a group of friends around them. David started provoking John about his political views ad every time John tries to convince him and justify himself; David would shut him down making him speechless. Signs of irritation, nervousness and weakness started to show up on John's face and body movement. While David was sitting right there moving nothing of his body only his lips looking straight into Johns eyes.

The argument went on for more than half an hour and as soon as people among our mutual friends agreed with David; David decided to end it right there...END OF DISCUSSION.

One of the girls came up to me and said "I envy David for his confidence...and I hate him for it too. He is a person worth observing and knowing and I will see to it." Later on the same year this girl and David became couples only I don't know if the relationship is still serious or not.

From this happening i learned something. I learned that no matter what happens, no matter how much people try to hurt you, annoy you in numerous ways...the best policy is "to show absolutely no emotion." First, to prevent being predictable and Second, it will satisfy your vanity, pride and arrogance. Through observing both people closely and especially that very day; I found out that Anger stems from Weakness...Anger is a sign of Weakness...Anger IS NAKED Weakness. Because nearly at the end of the discussion; John's facial expressions turned from nervous to angry and I know very well why David ended the discussion; he did not want to lose his friend and I think he believes that such discussions are not worth to be angry for.

You can tell allot about people when they are emotional whether negative emotions or positive emotions but you can never tell anything about a person when he shows absolutely no emotion only that that person is a confident one, one you must not mess around with, one that will make you raise allot of questions and in the end you will have scattered answers for every question because the person you are trying to analyze is UNPREDICTABLE!

Some people show no emotion when they are stolen, when they have damaged their car, when their parents die before their eyes and when they are being executed...and believe me I've witnessed these all.

the Human mind has many secrets and powers that the science of Psychiatry has not discovered yet. the entire human body is like a very complicated, complex factory. Every tie scientists think they have discovered something...years after they find out their theory which they think they have proved...was wrong.

---------------------

Quote of the day:

"Anger stems from Weakness...Anger is a sign of Weakness...Anger IS naked Weakness."

Extremism, Fundamentalism and Radicalism

Let me first describe the happening and then analyze it. The other day I was at a coffee shop, this coffee shop is both indoor and outdoor. The outdoor has around 20 tables; I usually pick up the time between 2:00 pm and 4:00 pm because I do not like crowded areas. To my surprise there were two local men in their late 20s and early 30s. they were both wearing the traditional Arab clothes, with long beards...at least 20 cm below their chin which clearly says the guys are serious about religious views, their clothes were short about two hand spans or a bit more.

The moment I parked my car they spotted me, I was so different than them. I was wearing western semi-formal clothes, a shirt which I usually cuff its sleeves upwards, a belt with a buckle, a flat leather shoes and wearing a fedora. They gave me uneasy and unpleasant looks but they tried not to make it obvious. as I started smoking my pipe, enjoying my coffee and writing something in my notebook every now and then, called a friend and spoke in English, giving them the same looks...I felt that I became a source of bother and I felt unwanted, there were two tables between them and I but soon they changed their place to a farther table. I stayed the way I am till I finished my pipe, wrote what I wanted to write and left.

Come to analyze it...its very clear. I do not need to talk with them and ask them what’s going on because it’s clear what’s going on. They judged me based on their Extremist, Fundamental and Radical mentality which they believe anyone or anything that comes from the west or has a western touch is an infidel and stems from infidelity. had they known I am Arab...Muslim...they would still consider me a sinner at least...a sinner that is on the verge of infidelity because I did not dress like them, I did not grow a beard like them, I wore a fedora and smoked a pipe which clearly shows I am effected by the western culture. The problem is with such people is that they judge without conversing, they judge on appearance, they judge without a Q and A civilized debate or conversation. It has been hammered in their head so strong that they believe they...the fundamental, radical, extremist ISLAMISTS are the only ones that will go to heaven and all the rest of humanity is thrown to hell. No one has the right to judge anyone before knowing that person on earth. Only God can judge us when we are alive and when we are dead.

it is there said in the Hadith that "God is beautiful and HE loves beauty.", they grow a long beard which makes u feel it’s dirty, they have cracks on their feet from below, short Deshdasha (traditional Arab clothes) more like a Bermuda jeans, and all of it from head to toe there is no single hint or smell of beauty and elegance. Trim your beard, don’t shave it if you don’t want to but trim it, make it neat, wear traditional Arab clothes that are neat and elegant.

These youths are victims of very dangerous ideology and they will be victimizing their children too...it’s like cancer spread from one family to another it is a conquer of the mind, the thinking and the life style. every religions starts with basic teachings of love, peace, help, respect, happiness, charity etc etc etc then these fundamentalists infiltrate the religion (any religion not just Islam) deciding what is right and what is wrong, who is good and who is bad and forgetting about the basic teachings of that religion...they develop teachings of their own...they kill in the name of God to secure their personal interests.

Countries where its people practice the same religion are politically stable and religiously stable than others. The others have a number of religions, each religion with a number of sects and the entire country has a number of ethnicities and communities. such a complicated mixture of a country cannot possibly be ruled by an Islamic political system, nor by a Christian political system, nor by a Jewish political system or any political system based on religion because such a political system will be in favor of one part of the country and the rest have to comply with rules and regulations that conflict with their belief. Such countries must be ruled by a Socialist Secular Political System. And at the same time letting each one practice his own religion because I am totally against a secular system where it erases religion from the hearts and minds of people.

Unity is the only way to fight Extremism, Fundamentalism and Radicalism of such sick minds. if we were united and solid with each other then these minds wouldn’t have an excuse to exist between us, it’s because our bricks are not solid these minds found a place between us...promoted by super powers and secret organizations and societies. We must fight these minds with every way possible, these segregate our country. a country that has a number of religions, sect sand ethnicities that is ruled by a religious background political system not only is in favor of one part of the country but it SEGREGATES the country, it encourages segregation, it promotes segregation and it calls for segregation, it gives the excuse for others to promote segregation...no one patriot on earth that loves his country so much with all its complexities would like to see his country segregated.

----------------------

Quote of the day:

"When I see Extremism, Fundamentalism, and Radicalism...I see nothing but Ignorance."

She is a Beauty

To my readers

Dear readers,

I haven't been blogging for a very long time because I was very busy and didn't have the time to gather my thoughts and blog. However, I am currently enjoying writing a novel and at the same time noting my thoughts in a notebook that I always carry with me. I intend in the future inshallah to publish this novel and the following notebooks, the novel will hold a title that I haven't chosen yet it is a tragedy, a romance and a novel of vendetta. But my notebooks will carry the titles "Book I, Book II, Book III"...etc etc etc they are more like a series of Maxims rather than long passages. These Maxims include Politics, Philosophy, Love, Sex and the Human nature in general. I might be blogging and writing one post every month or so but i am not sure about that, it really depends how much free time I have, if I do have free time then I will be blogging like before.

Thank you

Al-Hussain Arshad

It repeats itself and it continues

Though I am young and inexperienced in the game of everyday life's struggles, battles and obstacles; I come to conclude that every tragedy, every failure only makes you stronger and willing to seek victory and you also learn from it, the more it is repeated and gets hammered in your head the more you become unbreakable under the condition that you learn from it.

stupid people fall in the same trap twice and make the same mistake more than once, it is their inability to learn that makes them stupid human beings. the strength a human gains from a tragedy or a failure or both of them at the same time comes from the fact that you have learned from it and from the fact that it makes you a cold hearted bastard and you will be using your emotions less than before, that is thinking with your brain not your heart, taking decisions in your life based on logic, legitimacy and justice and not following what your heart says.

I find nothing wrong with being an optimist or a pessimist but i am systematized  to expect the worse...and frankly speaking i welcome it with both hands and ready to embrace it...paranoiac if you wish to call it.

-----------------------

Quote of the day:

"we humans are so ignorant to the extent that we discover what is the right choice and decision only after choosing the wrong one. but if that happens, we are only lucky if its not too late...if its late then we have to live with our mistakes."