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dawood 🌟

Jeffery had a brother, his name was Dawood. He wrote his own book, Al Hibbu-Wadood.

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dawood 🌟 2026-09-16 09:40 🇳🇱
I am more strict with my boy than before, but now I understand that being strict does not need to create distance.

Any punishment I give him, comes with multiple warnings and an exit path so that he knows that he is never fully condemned.

When he tries to hit me, I hold him and ask him to tell me when he is calm.

When he shouts at me, I give him a better way of saying what he is trying to say.

When I make him sit to think about what he’s done, I sit with him and let him know that it does not change anything between us.
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dawood 🌟 2026-09-16 07:08 🇳🇱
After stumbling along in the darkness for a while, eventually I was given light, it came in a comment from a confidant.

They said, “he can’t help who he is,” and then I knew, “but I can.”

Suddenly, I knew what to do to be a better father to my son.

In that moment, I caught a glimpse of the problem our parents were trying to solve with the way they treated us, so I turned a few pages in the book of forgiveness for them.
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dawood 🌟 2026-09-15 18:33 🇳🇱
I changed. I disallowed any disagreement. I was firm on every decision I made. I placed some distance between us.

It worked, but the price was that distance.

I tried to find my way back, but distance is darkness and when moving in darkness it is impossible to know if you’re getting closer or further.
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dawood 🌟 2026-09-15 14:24 🇳🇱
Anger is an emotion I don’t really understand, so when I saw it coming at me in the form of my own child, a part of me withdrew.

I was raised with unquestioning deference to authority and although I’ve known that was wrong for decades, I was not ready to deal with the way being loving can take away people's desire to be respectful to you.

Also, some broken part of me made me question if he wasn’t the way he was because of the kind of weakness within me that my father always told me I had.
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dawood 🌟 2026-09-01 10:49 🇳🇱
I have a problem with my manager.

Oddly, I am often the most productive member of my team.

Yet, he has a clear pattern of singling me out for things that other people also do.

I'm a black person and because of the messages we all receive, it can be difficult not to think that plays a role.

That said, he seems to be a loving father and husband.

When his kids convinced him to get a puppy, he was the one that stayed home to take care of it most days.

When he works with people that are beneath him, he appears to take great care to make them feel comfortable without giving the sense that he feels superior.

Seeing the goodness in him, I have stopped arguing and instead invited him to a different resolution.

Recently I said. "Please, I know the destination can often seem unclear with me, but I ask you to have faith."

This changed his entire attitude.

I do have to prod him now and then, but a good person does not require much effort to move them along into the deep hum of being alive together.
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dawood 🌟 2026-08-31 18:49 🇳🇱
I was never afraid of death.

Once upon a time, I was suicidal. I thought of dying so often, the relief of it felt more like a memory.

That was a long time ago now.

I want to live long enough to show my boys to know who I am. I also selfishly want to be the one to make my wife happy. I want to grow old and watch them all do the things they're going to do.

Also, if I passed, I know I'd leave a hole in their lives. They'd get over it, but it would be tough. I don't want that for them.

I'm terrified of dying now.
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dawood 🌟 2026-08-29 18:10 🇳🇱
“Why do I smile like that?” I would always ask myself.

I practiced smiling in the mirror, so I wouldn’t look so goofy. It worked. I achieved a smile I thought looked cool, sexy even. Later, I would feel that goofy smile creeping along my face. It looks horrible in pictures.

Eventually I noticed I would do it a lot in pictures with my wife. On our wedding, our photographer saw it and said I looked like I was deep in love.

I’ve stopped fighting it.

Lately I’ve been seeing it on my son’s face. Not in scenarios where anyone would think he was in love either. Last time it was in a picture with sunflowers. He’s obsessed with sunflowers.

I love that smile now.
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dawood 🌟 2026-08-14 09:04 🇳🇱
The world will call you to change.

You will bend to it, the river is stronger than your boat.

As you change, do your best to keep yourself.

It is good.
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dawood 🌟 2026-08-14 07:36 🇳🇱
Stop trying to change.

Your body will find ways to painfully revert to its natural self.

Instead, accept your weird perfection.
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dawood 🌟 2026-08-14 07:11 🇳🇱
Everything I say here, I firstly say to myself.
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dawood 🌟 2026-07-22 14:52 🇳🇱
It is often said that consciousness is an unexpected byproduct of the math behind the way the brain works because the math doesn’t need consciousness to do what it does.

Consciousness appears superfluous.

I say, this guarantees the equations are flawed and we should not put our faith in them as they are devoid of it.
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dawood 🌟 2026-07-22 14:02 🇳🇱
Everyone that has taken a look at the math knows that the universe is headed towards heat death.

The final stage of the universe will be an eternity filled with decayed rock and light.

But we should have faith in the creator that perhaps it made us to take up part of its light, defying the math like it did, to reverse universal entropy.
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dawood 🌟 2026-07-21 14:26 🇳🇱
If the opposite of entropy is love, then that moment at the beginning of time, when the universe was in the lowest state of entropy possible, is it too.

This is what is meant by saying our creator is love.
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dawood 🌟 2026-07-21 12:08 🇳🇱
It can be reasonably argued that the creation of the universe, which guaranteed incalculable suffering, was the most evil act anyone could have ever have committed.

Yet the paradox is, if the reversal of entropy is good, then, assuming there weren’t many other options, surely, the creation of the universe at the lowest possible state of entropy, would be the greatest act that anyone could have possibly done.
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dawood 🌟 2026-07-21 11:04 🇳🇱
So, then, at some scale the reversal of entropy is love, thus meaning, information at some scale is love, and then, yet still, consciousness is love.

Seeing this, it should be asked, if all consciousness is love, then why do evil intentions exist?

But, surely, it is the love between people (or for their own self) that is often the direct driver that moves them to steal from others.
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dawood 🌟 2026-07-21 09:43 🇳🇱
Every good act that has ever been done was an attempt to reverse entropy.

Entropy is just the tendency of everything over time to decay, mix and transform into a functionless homogenous substance.

Every time you feed yourself, you are reversing your local entropy.

Every time you feed others, you do the same.

Because we are a social species, every time you visit a friend, compliment them or tease them playfully you are attempting to reverse entropy.
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dawood 🌟 2026-07-20 11:35 🇳🇱
If faith is the conscious sensation of information, then faith too is the opposite of entropy.

Firstly, though I'm not the first person to say something similar to this.

The physicist Erwin Schrödinger (famous for the Schrödinger's cat thought experiment) concluded something similar saying that life is a form of negative entropy, later called Negentropy.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Negentropy

Claude Shannon in 1948 wrote a paper that proved the inverse relationship between information and Shannon entropy, which is a form of entropy that is mathematically analogous to entropy in statistical mechanics.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Entropy_(information_theory)
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dawood 🌟 2026-07-20 08:00 🇳🇱
It may seem like I'm trying to reverse engineer a conclusion by connecting faith and information, but I assuredly am not.

Information is certainly always inaccurate and faith is a confidence higher than the possible accuracy of said information. It is not controversial to say the brain creates information, nor that we experience that information as conscious sensations, faith.

The controversial part of what I'm about to say is the connection between information and entropy.
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dawood 🌟 2026-07-19 15:42 🇳🇱
Faith is based on information. It is in fact information.

Neurons create information when they process the world. When information is created by neurons using virtual photons, this always results in a conscious sensation. I call this sensation faith.

The information your brain creates is never accurate. The image is always, in a sense, pixelated. It is for this reason, I say all thoughts, all beliefs, all knowledge is faith.
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dawood 🌟 2026-07-19 07:29 🇳🇱
Information is always inaccurate because the symbols or words we use to label things are usually only accurate enough to let people know what you mean, but by necessity they exclude most details.

Take for instance, a name. Even after we all know which person is being spoken of, we invariably all have a different idea of who that person is.

Even the closest person to you, which is you yourself, doesn’t fully know who you are.

The name too is woefully incapable of capturing any of your many details.
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