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13 Mar, 6 tweets, 1 min read
What's a food eaten in your culture that others may find weird or disgusting?
Pictures please
Also plus points if you describe the taste and the experience
An hour later, pondering my twitter choices
I thought that was the worst. I was wrong.
This is only getting worse (or better)

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İyad el-Baghdadi | إياد البغدادي Profile picture
14 Mar
Those most deeply traumatized do not feel particularly angry. When you lack self love, you do not feel that your treatment is wrong; you've accepted it as normal. You may even help impose the norm on others. Those who do not see their own dignity, do not see that of others.
As people heal from trauma, they enter a phase where they're much angrier. It's for the same reason. Once you start to see that you matter, you start to get angry at how the world has been treating you, and at how "normal" it all is. The rage burns, but it's a sign of healing.
If you find yourself in that phase, do not turn away from the anger. Do not get addicted to the anger either, and do not let it become part of your personality. Where there's anger there's a wound that deserves your attention. Dive into the wound, salvation lies within.
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İyad el-Baghdadi | إياد البغدادي Profile picture
14 Mar
A note to the spiritual seeker: "No pain, no gain" applies to spirituality too. Where did you get this idea that the path is bliss and delight all the way, or that your soul can grow without your heart breaking?
You don't have to take the path if you don't want to. But realize that it's not a joyride. You are climbing a mountain, one that only gets steeper as you get higher up. It doesn't get easier from here.
The path is not outward, but inward. Its entrance is through your own wounds. May they be windows to the vastness of your soul, not whirlpools collapsing you into your own ego.
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İyad el-Baghdadi | إياد البغدادي Profile picture
12 Mar
Ok so here's a couple questions:
- How likely is it that we'll become an interplanetary species vs we'll just go extinct sooner or later?
- If the latter, will whatever eventually evolve to replace us look more or less like us, given that our basic design seems to work?
I mean we're the result of 3.7 billion years of earthbound evolution. We were created from the earth for the earth. Space exploration is cool but it's extremely unlikely that we find another earth reachable within a lifetime. Or be able to survive elsewhere on the solar system.
I mean sure maybe with the right technology and many decades of new advancements we can *maybe* survive on Mars or Venus etc. But it'll be shitty. Nobody in their right minds would want to actually move there (except if we really, really fuck up earth, way beyond now)
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İyad el-Baghdadi | إياد البغدادي Profile picture
9 Mar
Once in a while someone completely but honestly disagrees with me on matters of basic principle. When that happens I become really fascinated with how we, both human beings, came to such opposite convictions. What was his background, his experiences? How did we get here?
I'll be honest, this curiosity and the search that follows it have never seen me change my own convictions. But they always give me a deeper understanding for how deeply we are shaped by our experiences. We are all of the same essence, despite our selfish, self-centered egos.
Not everyone engages btw. Some people really hate it when in response to a statement, I ask about them, their backgrounds, etc. They'd rather debate ideas than question how we got by our ideas. That's fine, but to me people are more interesting and more essential than their ideas
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İyad el-Baghdadi | إياد البغدادي Profile picture
8 Mar
The idea of having kings and queens in 2021 is fucking stupid. Absolute monarchs are basically tyrants, meanwhile most constitutional monarchs are a symbol of past tyranny and present inequality.

Sincerely,

Someone living under protection
because of a Crown Prince
PS: There is nothing "romantic" about princes either, you fucking morons. You want to know what a "real" prince does in real life (not fairy tales)? Look at MBS
Also I'd rather die than call another human being "your majesty", "your highness", or "your excellency" based on nothing other than their ancestry. That concept is plainly wrong and stands opposed to all values we hold in a civilized society. This is 2021 ffs.
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İyad el-Baghdadi | إياد البغدادي Profile picture
6 Mar
Talk to me when British or Brazilian people are being harassed and spat on in the streets because the media has named a virus after them. This is "all lives matter", or yet another demonstration of how white people can be.
Every time I feel a wee bit of sympathy for these people, their anxiety, their mediocrity, their disorientation in a changing world... I come across something like this that reminds me who to center.
Reminds of Farida's tweet. They can only see double standards in one direction
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