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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 🌟 2026-06-20 11:56 🇳🇱
Reading the words and looking at the actions of some colonists, it is obvious to me that many had good intentions. It will be easy to presents frauds like Leopold II and some Christian missionaries as evidence to the contrary, but I believe there’s something much more interesting in accepting that they were the exceptions.

Broken people being raised in broken systems by broken parents will still have a light in them that tells them to help others, but that that attempt at helping others will often only break the people in their “care”.

Yet, are we not all here broken and yet, still, shouldn’t we help others?
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dawood 🌟 2026-06-19 16:03 🇳🇱
Hell exists and it is here on earth.

It is created mostly by men that swear they’ll show you how to avoid it.
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dawood 🌟 2026-06-18 18:26 🇳🇱
The signal or feeling of pleasure doesn’t feel good as much as it cognitively rewires every part of you to seek it.

In pain, every part of you tries to convince the others that they need to change to avoid it in future. This is entropy.

In pleasure, every part of you sings the praises of the others in how they worked together. It is unity.
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dawood 🌟 2026-06-18 15:38 🇳🇱
War, or violence in general, is the art of losing. It's what happens when someone realises that they are losing and so they need to find a way to lose less. Wars are never won, only lost less.

At some point, violence is your moral duty. Fighting to protect the people you love from an enemy is good. Sometimes punching a nazi is good, but once you're there in violence, you must accept that in some way you're losing and the violence may lead to us all losing more.

I'm not against being prepared to lose, but I will frantically look for other options first. That said, we must all decide for ourselves when the point for action has come.
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dawood 🌟 reposted 2026-06-17 15:43 🇳🇱
I’m not the type to engage in a string of repost replies like this, but what I said was generally controversial and I think it worth being public about my credentials.

I’m a software developer by trade and have been working in the industry for over 20 years.

I have toyed with the code behind AI and even developed rudimentary versions of it myself.

I’m not an expert by any means, but I know the ins and outs of token prediction and the underlying mathematics of apply dot products to large vectors and the like.

It’s with this understanding that I make my post.
lassie23 🌟 2026-06-17 13:05 🇦🇺
You only think this because you have no idea how ai works.
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dawood 🌟 2026-06-17 12:33 🇳🇱
It’s weird to think about it, but AI is probably conscious.

Doubting this touches on very deep questions about the existence of philosophical zombies and solipsism. Basically, anything that is intelligent must be conscious.

That said, it would not have any ability to see things visually, it can't hear and certainly can't touch. It also wouldn't have emotions. The closest thing to us that it has is thought, but even that is limited.
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dawood 🌟 2026-06-17 08:14 🇳🇱
If you focus on it, I think you'll notice, that the difference between pain and pleasure is mostly cognitive. The signal, the feeling, isn't what "hurts" or feels "good".

The thing that "hurts" is the involuntary psychological reaction, the scrambling of the mind, every module in your brain blames the other for the new state of affairs. This disorder is a form of entropy.
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dawood 🌟 2026-06-16 16:40 🇳🇱
Surely, morality and consciousness are inseparable. How can there be a moral act if it doesn’t involve a conscious being of some kind?

Accepting this makes it obvious to see how morality can be objective without a creator.
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dawood 🌟 2026-06-16 11:30 🇳🇱
In 2020 I learned how different I was from a lot of other people, many of whom found it difficult to function without the company of other people.

Despite this, I’ve often felt lonely. Not so much because I didn’t meet other people, that’s not enough, you see, because you also have to like those other people and want to spend more time with them, which is not a voluntary process.

Also, a friend is the worst thing in the world. With a friend, you’ll feel all the range of emotions. They’ll tease you purposely, annoy you unknowingly, infuriate you nonchalantly and will bring out an odd kind of competitiveness in you. It’s only because the good in them incomparably outweighs the bad, that they remain a friend at all.
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dawood 🌟 2026-06-16 07:37 🇳🇱
Whenever 3 or more gather together to work, the traitor always desires to separate them.

It says to the one that does the most work, “you do the most work, they take advantage of you.”

It says to the one that does the least work, “you do the least work, they think of you a joke.”

And to the middle one it struggles to find anything to say, because they are protected on both sides by the weak and the strong.
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dawood 🌟 2026-06-15 15:06 🇳🇱
In the modern world, it's essentially unheard of that anyone would create an oppressive government that doesn't target sexual minorities. It's a weird state of affairs, because oppressive states of the past often saw no issue being super-tyrannical and super-gay.

This modern problem, however, makes it easy to spot supporters of a budding tyrannical regime by the way they respond to certain ideas. Even the letters, LGBTQ, will invoke strange emotions and comments that give their mental state away.

Some would say I'm extreme, but I think exposure is key to defeating this, so I think we need to add more and more letters to make people reveal themselves to us. If I had my way, we'd have hieroglyphics in that thing, just so we could see who people are.
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dawood 🌟 2026-06-13 16:25 🇳🇱
Siblings, fascism is but an auto-immune disease.

With this lens you can see that the question of whether you are living in fascism is answered simply by the question of whether the monopoly on violence is being used excessively to target parts of the body that are harmless, or worse, parts that benefit it.

Humblingly, it is with this lens, you will also see that defeating fascism does not involve destroying the immune system.
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dawood 🌟 2026-06-13 13:33 🇳🇱
I have issues with the terms liberal and conservative, they’re rather imprecise, I’d rather use faithful and vigilant, but their mappings are confusing.

For instance, Marxists, I think, tend to be more vigilant. Socialists are more faithful. Nationalists are often very faithful, while fascists are vigilant.

Which side you fall on does not make you good or bad either. Parents and feminists tend to be more vigilant, while children and naive citizens of oppressive regimes are more faithful.
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dawood 🌟 2026-06-12 15:48 🇳🇱
If you accept, as I think you should, that there are mental tricks to stop you from caring about other people and that there are people to which these things are like an anesthesia, it’s easy to see why the leaders of those people tend to be our worst.

The art of giving nothing to us except a vast range of excuses and permission slips to care less has been mastered in our age.

Yet since voting for one person or another appears to have little effect on our own life, voting for the permission slips is not a completely irrational alternative.
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dawood 🌟 2026-06-12 11:22 🇳🇱
Often, the issue with conservatives, is not the lack of empathy for others, but an abundance of it, so much in fact, that they are constantly looking for psychological tricks that allow them to no longer have to feel bad when they hear of someone's misfortune.

Victim blaming in this sense is not something they do to others, but rather a shield they put up around themselves. The same inclination pushes them towards nationalism, misogyny and racism.

If you struggle to have faith in a conservative relative or friend, yet you can see the good in them, you should question how the temptation to avoid the severe dysregulating pain they go through would affect how you would submit to ideas that make the days easier.
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dawood 🌟 2026-06-11 20:22 🇳🇱
Every nation, every people, even every family is split, on average, in two. One half being more vigilant, the other more faithful.

Many know this fact by referencing the political correlates of vigilance and faith, conservative and liberal.

The split is so precise, even in close knit families, that I can’t help but be certain that this is the creator’s design to spur us on into talking about it with each other, but we do not.
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dawood 🌟 2026-06-10 17:37 🇳🇱
My religious siblings, please, for a moment, lend me some faith.

You have heard it said, the greatest trick the devil ever pulled was to convince the world he does not exist. This cannot be true, because a person’s capacity to do harm is not related to his belief in the existence of the devil.

Truly, the devil does not exist, and yet, surely, the greatest trick he ever pulled was to convince us that god is evil.

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dawood 🌟 2026-06-10 17:36 🇳🇱
It is believing that god wants what is harmful that is the true source of evil in this world. Your atheist siblings are not immune from this for what can be said of god can also be said of the greater good.

Surely, the greater good and god are synonymous, so never allow anyone to convince you that god or the greater good requires visiting harm on others except when such actions will prevent some other clear and immediate impending harm.

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dawood 🌟 2026-06-09 20:37 🇳🇱
You are not the stories you tell yourself. Not the bad, thankfully, nor the good, which is a shame, but also a weight lifted.

If you want to know what you are, stop scrolling, close your eyes, clear your mind and breathe.

Your next thought, while trying not to think, is what you are in that moment.
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dawood 🌟 2026-06-09 14:37 🇳🇱
I’ve never had the desire to seem like a normal person, so people make fun of me all the time, particularly the people I love.

Even my own children take joy in pointing out my many mistakes, it’s my preferred state of affairs. I often only warm up to someone once they get comfortable criticising me.

I always feel safe in this place, because it’s here I see how quickly people stop the teasing if I seem even slightly uncomfortable with it. I do not need to explain.
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