سلامة Salama

Narcissist's Prayer (poem by Dayna Craig) "That didn't happen." (Denial) "And if it did, it wasn’t that bad." (Minimizing) "And if it was, that’s not a big deal." (Trivializing) "And if it is, that’s not my fault." (Blame-shifting) "And if it was, I didn’t mean it." (Deflection) "And if I did, you deserved it." (Justification/Shaming) صلاة النرجسيه (قصيدة داينا كريج) "لم يحدث ذلك." (إنكار) "وإن حدث، لم يكن بهذا السوء." (تقليل من شأن الأمر) "وإن كان كذلك، فليس الأمر جللاً." (استخفاف) "وإن كان كذلك، فليس ذنبي." (إلقاء اللوم على الآخرين) "وإن كان كذلك، فلم أقصده." (تمرير) "وإن كنتُ قصدته، فأنت تستحقه" (تبرير/إحراج)

It took nearly a thousand days, but Hasan's insides are peacefully empty now.   All the rubbish of childhood is gone. What used to trigger his discomfort, fails to elicit a reaction. His heart was washed with ice, humanity is kept at bay, and he wouldn't exchange this calmness for anything in their world.   Bad memories stopped trying to resurface. All the negatives accumulated throughout the years were carefully, painfully, extracted, examined, rationalized and understood, then dealt with. The minuses were confronted, new positives were attached to them accordingly, and they happily turned into zeroes, disappearing into oblivion.   Who knew that the disappearance of his mother would have that profound effect on him?   Maybe *she* knew! Maybe finally, as a weird form of atonement, she realized that her existence was the flame that ignited his kerosene. How blind was he not to see it! It stands to reason. The only two episodes of mental breakdown w...

Islam doesn't believe in ghosts. In 1 Samuel 28, the witch of En-dor supposedly brought up for king Saul the ghost of prophet Samuel, who looked like him and made a true political prophecy. The Old Testament context treats this as the real Samuel, but some Christians deny the concept of ghosts (as they should) and say it was a demonic ruse, a trick, and the prophecy was a lucky guess.   Fine. They are reinterpreting the uncomfortable parts of the Tanakh, using mental gymnastics that contradict the gist of the story (as usual!), but their interpretation throws doubt on many other apparitions!   They can't attack Islam by claiming that Muhammad's angel, Gabriel, could have been a demon (that curses demons and promotes monotheism?! Hah!) without locking themselves into saying the same about Paul's encounter!   In 1 Corinthians 15:8 Paul said: "Last of all, as though to one born at the wrong time, he appeared to me also"

to get the app: https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/releases/latest/download/yt-dlp OR pipx upgrade --pip-args=--pre yt-dlp to get a list of available formats for a video: ./yt-dlp -F RsYPyPP7E2w to get a specific format. Here we chose the audio-only 139: ./yt-dlp -f 139 OIdj5HnOnvU to get a text list of all videos on a channel: ./yt-dlp --flat-playlist --print "%(id)s %(duration_string)s %(title)s" https://www.youtube.com/@ACGreviews/videos > Playlist_ACGreviews.txt to get a list of a specific playlist on a channel: yt-dlp --flat-playlist --print "%(channel)s %(id)s %(duration_string)s %(title)s" https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLX34qDh_nH51NT3_eHghr8YOS_hFuG51O > Playlist_Name to get the latest 20 videos on your account's subscription list: ./yt-dlp --cookies-from-browser firefox --flat-playlist -I :20 --print "%(id)s %(duration_string)s %(title)s" :ytsubs > MySubList.txt OR (using a specific path for the browser. Usually not needed) ./yt...