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Thank you for this. The theme is one that is sorely needed for inquiring minds and deconstructing artificial reality.

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Alhamdulillah thank you. This theme has been turning in my mind since the early summer and I have felt that we really need to drill below the surface.

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Welcome back to writing! Thank you so much for this empowering and incisive piece. I love how you've woven mythology and psychology into it, and so really bringing home that empire is imaginary. I feel a large, energetic surge to create and resist. Alhamdulillah!

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Thank you Habiba and I enjoyed writing this one, it really scratched an itch. I'm happy that you have found it empowering. Mythology and psychology are different forms of the same and they really unflesh the nature of the symbolic. Now I must look forward to your creative surge on your journey of overgrowing. Overgrow, overgrower!

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I'm looking forward to it too! You're right about mythology and psychology being different forms of the same... we tell ourselves stories which really reflect and form our ways of thinking...!

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You're back with a real bang! I thoroughly enjoyed reading this one, especially with the references to mythology. I was thinking it would be great if Khadijah makes a film on this.

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Thank you. This one has been steaming slowly on the back burner. It really came together last week. Thank you. I will have a word with Khadijah (well a few).

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Yes of course, everything is perishing, except the face of the Lord, everything is returning, the law of entropy demands that there be an active agent of order without which it becomes disorder, the weight of empire must collapse because it is on the image of those who came before, their order is disordered, as you have shown and they are shooting themselves in the foot as you have rightly said.

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We are present to witness! This is our education, the movements and stillnesses.

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In an age of social media (predictive tools), this article also shows me this is like our predictive tool for empire, for they are on the image of so many who came before them. Truly amazing

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yes and these people who were fixed in the world before you and this was their pattern and they were alcompletely encompassed by the Encomapasser. Do you believe that this will not perish also, even whilst they exult in their might and power?

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Labbayk! It is my duty alhamdulillah! Thank you for taking the time to read and comment. That itself inspires me. I am at your service. May Allah preserve us.

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