“The jinn are real, and they are creatures created by Allah. Among them are kaafirs and believers. “
What is the name of this MENTAL DISEASE that inflicts clergy? It is not ”Djinns” silly! When Philosophy dies and wisdom disappears, stupid ‘Djinns appear from the vacuum of mind!
The unprecedented power struggle between the two most powerful leaders in Iran deepened in last few months, it recently spilled out into Tehran’s public prayers where the mullah leading the service indirectly criticized President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad while the crowd chanted “Death to opponents of the supreme leader!”
This indicates the pathetic level of thinkers and leaders in the Middle East — what I term as ‘fossilization of mind.’ What does one expect from debauched and emotionally retarded management of such a nation?
President Ahmadinejad cohorts accused of using sorcery and Djinns (spirits) against the supreme leader!I wondered where has the President parked his Djinns in Tehran whilst his sojourn in NY lasts?
The following are the ultimate wisdom kings. They help our ‘grey matter’ to expand, expounding questions that helped grow our collective consciousness:
Plato, Aristotle, Boethius, Machiavelli, Descartes, Hobbes, Spinoza, Locke, Hume, Rousseau, Kant, Schopenhauer, Mill, Kierkegaard, Hegel, Marx and Engels, Nietzsche, Russell, Ayer, Sartre, Wittgenstein, and Rawls.
“…each of these men prized the pursuit of wisdom. Each one struggled to live his life according to a deliberately chosen set of precepts and beliefs, discerned in part through a practice of self-examination…The life of each one can therefore teach us something about the quest for self-knowledge and its limits.”
Mullahs and leaders of all religions should read ‘dialectics’ to be able to change. Hegel opened our eyes to a new outlook on the world epitomised by the dialectic. By embracing the dialectic, however, Hegel was limited by his knowledge, the knowledge of his age. We all are limited in our understanding with the milieu of era we live in.
There is no such thing as definitive truth; the evil of our society stems from our belief in one ultimate truth that will never change. This is against the grounds of dialectic. The notions of Karl Marx about change were built on the writing of Hegel, and on dialect. It is based on the idea that everything had within itself the seeds of its own destruction, but that a new form would rise from the ashes of the resulting destruction. This cycle is described as thesis, antithesis and synthesis.
Fixation of ideas leads to Djinns. When the logic of change is overlooked, it explains that there are no absolutes or fixed categories in nature or society; conspiracies and unseen evil takes hold in the heart of man. Hegel helped liberate our past from underlying principles of life. For the dialectic, there is nothing final, absolute, or sacred. Our life for the next few billion years is the name of our transition from immaturity to newer realities.
Plato, Aristotle, Boethius, Machiavelli, Descartes, Hobbes, Spinoza, Locke, Hume, Rousseau, Kant, Schopenhauer, Mill, Kierkegaard, Hegel, Marx and Engels, Nietzsche, Russell, Ayer, Sartre, Wittgenstein, and Rawls.
“…each of these men prized the pursuit of wisdom. Each one struggled to live his life according to a deliberately chosen set of precepts and beliefs, discerned in part through a practice of self-examination…The life of each one can therefore teach us something about the quest for self-knowledge and its limits.”
Mullah infighting reminds me of the bankruptcy of wisdom that stems from stagnation of intellect. In Iran a classic ‘clash of the titans’ has begun; within this disagreement lies the seed of dialectical materialism that will destroy the revolution based on monotonous thinking. Mullah infighting is culmination of the thesis, antithesis and synthesis. Political Islam, like every other philosophy, has ignored the evolution of thinking to the modern world; its fixation with medievalism has now expedited the process of dialectical materialism, the seeds of its own destruction are now germinating and new free thoughts are sprouting.
I will quote from Greek mythology: ”The titans will be finally defeated by their sons Zeus, Poseidon and Hades, when Zeus convinced Hades to create a monstrous creature, the Kraken (made from Hades’ flesh). Zeus became ruler of the heavens, Poseidon became king of the seas, and Hades (tricked by Zeus) was left to rule the Underworld. Zeus created humankind, and in time, humankind began to question the gods.”
Ayatollah Ali Khamenei (who is Iran’s supreme leader) friends and supporters accuse President Ahmadinejad’s Chief of staff and 25 other allies like Abbas Ghaffari of summoning and evoking Djinns (spirits) to weaken and plot against Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.
Cohorts of Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad have been accused of using black magic and sorcery to advance his apocalyptic agenda and influence his policies. Ayatollah Ali Khamenei got Abbas Ghaffari arrested on charges of sorcery who is said to have ’special skills in metaphysics and connections with unknown worlds.’ However there may be more to the arrests than the aforementioned involvement in black magic.
Several people said to be close to the president and his chief of staff, Esfandiar Rahim Mashaei, have been arrested in recent days and charged with being “magicians” and invoking djinns (spirits). Djinns (spirits) are supposed to have been evoked and summoned by Esfandiar Rahim Mashaei and 25 other allies of the Iranian president to work against Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.
Fixation of ideas leads to Djinns; when the logic of change is overlooked -that explains that there are no absolute or fixed categories in nature or society; conspiracies and unseen evil takes hold in the heart of man. Hegel helped liberated our past from underlying principles of life. For the dialectic, there is nothing final, absolute, or sacred. Our life for next few billon years is the name of our transition from immaturity to newer realities.
No one can predict how the events are going to unfold; yet the so called waft of freedom and ‘destructive processes’ in the Middle East are actually constructive revolutions for freedom of intellect. Even Marx expected communist revolution to take place as a result of the tension between workers and factory owners. Ironically, the two major communist revolutions took place in Russia (1917) and China (1949), both feudal agrarian societies at the time.
Marx said, “Life is not determined by consciousness, but consciousness by life.” Our world is a complex of ready-made things but a complex of processes, which go through an uninterrupted transformation of coming into being and passing away. For Hegel, the old logic was exactly like a child’s game, which sought to make pictures out of jigsaw pieces. “The fundamental flaw in vulgar thought”, wrote Trotsky, “lies in the fact that it wishes to content itself with motionless imprints of reality which consists of eternal motion.” This is the cornerstone of understanding change. Change or evolution does not take place gradually in a straight smooth line. Marx compared the social revolution to an old mole burrowing busily beneath the ground, invisible for long periods, but steadily undermining the old order and later emerging into the light in a sudden overturn. The light is around the corner in Iran.
Sad fact is that the Iranian leadership has lost touch with economic realities. More significantly, given the significance of middle age Islamic thought, why would this accusation not be seen as an extension of that thinking? The axis of evil and brothers-in-arms Ahmadinejad, Nasrullah and Assad Jr. (curbing freedom in Syria) call the spring in Damascus as evil and illegitimate. Ayatollah Ali Khamenei supports quelling of uprising in Syria and Lebanon against fascist religious thugs, but considers Bahrain uprising as legitimate.
The ‘trio’ Ahmadinejad, Nasrullah and Assad Jr. fail to understand that it is the ‘Waft of freedom’ not ‘Djiins’ that is destabilizing the whole region. People want freedom from these depraved thoughts, Mr. President and Supreme leader.
