– "DÜNYAYA IŞIĞI GETİRMEK."
– KIÇIMA ANLAT.
Heart of Emptiness
It is in "The Emptiness Chapter" that I write down the Way of the martial arts of the Two-Sword style.
The heart of emptiness is in the absence of anything of form and the inability to have knowledge thereof. This I see as emptiness.
Emptiness, of coures, is nothingness. Knowing the existent, you know the nonexistent. This, exactly,
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Martials arts as a frame of mind and lifestyle
In the martial arts, you know the Way of the other styles. As I write about these other styles of martial arts here, I have designated this as "The Wind Chapter." It should be quite difficult to understand the Way of my style without knowing the Way of others.
The other schools get along with this as a performance art, as a method of making a living, as a colorful decoration, or as a means of forcing flowers to bloom. Yet, can it be the True Way if it has been made into a salable item?
Moreover, the other martials arts in the world only give fine attention to swordsmanship: teaching ways of handling the sword, body, posture, or hand positions. Can you understand how to win by these things? In this chapter, I will express with certainty that none of these are the True Way.
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Chapter Five: Late August
She wanted to lie next to him, to cradle his head on her chest and comb his hair with her fingers.
Chapter Five: Late August
They had found this incredible thing together. Why didn't he want to do it again and again and again?
Chapter Five: Late August
"Broke," said Zoe when it came to her turn.
"Sorry, was that 'broken'?" asked Kyle
She repeated her word.
"That's great, Zoe," said Kyle. "Altough I think we'd call that more of a state than an emotion."
"It's a pretty emotional state when you're in it," said Zoe.
I loved Crazy Ladies. Partly because I love novels that capture an intimate view of history. Partly because I found my own life in its cross-hairs.
Written by Michael Lee West and published in 1990, Crazy Ladies recounts the life of Miss Gussie, a smalltown Tennessee woman who has two daughters. It covers her family history from 1932 to
Political knowledge and economic literacy are not evenly spread
among all demographic groups. Political knowledge is strongly positively correlated with having a college degree, but negatively correlated with having a high school diploma or less. It is positively correlated with being in the top half of income earners, but negatively correlated with being in the bottom half. It is strongly positively correlated with being in the top quarter of income earners, and strongly negatively correlated with being in the bottom quarter. It is positively correlated with living in the western United States, and negatively correlated with living in the South. Political knowledge is positively correlated with being or leaning Republican, but negatively correlated with being a Democrat or leaning independent. It is positively correlated with being between the ages of thirty-five and fifty-four, but negatively correlated with other ages. It is negatively
correlated with being black, and strongly negatively correlated with being female. As I’ll explore in chapter 8, the basis of one of the major objections to epistocracy is the fact that political knowledge is spread unevenly among demographic groups.
Sayfa 33 - Some Citizens Know Much More Than Others
We have value, but what value does the world have?
If I were to put you in a room with all your favourite games, gadgets, friends, loved ones, food and drink, but you knew that in five minutes you, the world and everything in it would be destroyed, what value would your possessions have? They wouldn’t have any at all. However, what is five minutes or 657,436 hours (equivalent to 75 years)? It is mere time. Just because we may live for 75 years does not make a difference. In the atheist worldview it will all be destroyed and forgotten. This is also true for Islam. Everything will be annihilated. So in reality the world intrinsically has no value; it is ephemeral, transient and short-lived. Nonetheless, from an Islamic perspective the world has value because it is an abode for getting close to God, good deeds and worship, which lead to eternal paradise. So it is not all doom and gloom. We are not on a sinking ship. If we do the right thing, we can gain God’s forgiveness and approval.
“There is terrible punishment in the next life as well as forgiveness
and approval from God; so race for your Lord’s forgiveness….” [The Qur’an, Chapter 57, Verses 20 to 21.]
Sayfa 36
#1 - Social Engineering
In both of the earlier scenarios, not having enough a good enough plan and model will lead to failure. A good way to practice communication modeling is to write out a model for manipulating people you know well—a husband, wife, parent, child, boss, or friend—to do something you want, to take some action you desire.
List the following five
Chapter Five
He wasn’t a man who often admitted his feelings.
“You know damn well it would kill me if anything happened to you, Dena.”
Which was as close to an “I love you” as she was going to get out of him.
