A place to experiment with the finer points of blogging. (Some of it is a bit boring/messy,but scroll down for pictures and links and stuff..also go to my other blogs through links in the side bar.)
BRR.
Perhaps I'll make another blog and call it "Comments Please!" .. to try and get some consciousness about feed-back and communication into the web. ... and maybe I'll make another called ... "@Blogstuff." ... about well...blogstuff.... K?
posted by longgone1 @ 4/29/2005 07:49:00 AM
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Just trying again (30.4'05) ... O.K. so ... Here's an interesting take on Sufism from Inayat Khan (London 1914). A Sufi Message of Spiritual Liberty
posted by longgone1 @ 4/19/2005 08:22:00 PM
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A Sufi Message of Spiritual Liberty
Tried a bit of writing before the url ..didn't seem to work.
posted by longgone1 @ 4/19/2005 08:21:00 PM
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BBC NEWS | Election 2005 | Election 2005 | Protesters disrupt Muslim event
Ay! The Muslims and the Central Mosque again!
posted by longgone1 @ 4/19/2005 08:13:00 PM
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BBC NEWS | News Front Page
Can I write in here then?...oh! O.K.!
posted by longgone1 @ 4/19/2005 08:09:00 PM
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Just trying out the Blog This! feature.. see how it goes.. see if it is useful..if not can always get rid of the Google bar again (I suppose!)..these things can be a bit intrusive sometimes.
BBC NEWS In Pictures In pictures: New pope elected
posted by longgone1 @ 4/19/2005 08:01:00 PM
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BRR.
Artist Richard Box of Bristol University in Bristol, England put several hundred fluorescent light tubes in the ground under some high tension wires in a field east of Bath, England. In the daylight, it looks like nothing is happening, but when it gets dark, it is clear that all of the tubes are glowing as a result of the "waste emission" coming from the overhead wires.
This is the best evidence I have seen of what this kind of energy might be doing to those who live under or even near such sources of electricity!
posted by longgone1 @ 4/15/2005 09:34:00 PM
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BRR.
Having got the photos in the right order,wouldn't it be nice if they stayed there(at the top of the page) to set the mind of the reader for what is coming..amuse him,settle him,like giving a drink to a guest when he comes to your house.Make him comfortable...lead him into the thing... ? Not hit him with last things first !
Ay!
Bismi'llah arRahman arRahim.
For the sake of Muhammad ,blessings and peace of Allah be upon him and all his family,and for the sake of Sheikh Nazim al Haqqani,may Allah protect his secret.
05.35.Hrs.
Here is the beginning of what could be my way of working as Sheikh instructed.
I know that I can copy and paste this into my blog.
What I don't know yet is wether I can put photos in a Word document and then copy and paste them with the rest.Somehow I don't think so,yet ...but I could take the photos and then send them through Picasa.Therefore if I just get a battery for this dear old thing ..I could take it anywhere and sit anywhere and write.Take photos anywhere and then take both to the internet cafe and one on a floppy and the other on whatever one uses and send them ..daily or whatever is available.I could start practicing this summer if I get a camera.Show where we work and the compañeros etc.write a bit about them.Practice for something similar in the Islamic/sufi world.
That way also ,not only am I not tied to the internet and the desk all day,but I would also have my diary much safer on my hard disk and always have that as a backup when Blogger goes squew whiff and hopefully plus a backup copy on disk if I go squew whiff!
Let's see what happens this way ..(the photo was the first one to come up)
06.00Hrs.
Another thing is that I would have my posts in the right order.Certainly that (this) blog is a nice simple clear one.I am very 'coldified' this morning and that is probably enough for now.
Interesting that I was doing EFT tapping ..(or a slightly adapted version which just involves pressing and rubbing the points) when I thought of this so clearly.(Astaghfiru'llah that I should imply that this is the cause of it when I know that Allah is the first cause of all but this is the medium,His medium,perhaps I could say,for helping me in the right direction.)
I was doing the 'tapping' for "Even though I don't want to do anything." which seems true .. but only when I am berating and hurting myself.(Interesting the outcrop of people actually physically hurting themselves with cutting and burning and such things amongst young people in our crazy society..what is that?..a guilt thing or what?..Also leads on to discussion of suffering and purification as well as 'conscious suffering'. ..but those are other topics.)
Sheikh says that we should do what we love ..that we should love our work.I must say I love writing and photos.With the old 'digi', things could be a lot easier.
Also ..I believe in The One ..(there,I've said it..!) ..I know that it is a name/facet of Allah Who is All and much more than that ..beyond what we can ever imagine (Allahu Akbar!) and perhaps in wanting the Truth ..(which somehow I will try to get to/explain or describe, in another place ..on "Personal Stuff" for instance) I was apparently 'biting off more than I could chew' .. but ...(that Geko is making that noise behind the cupboard by the front door and I think it will drive me mad soon...the connection with the hadith of the Prophet saws and Abraham and the fire ..!)
08.15Hrs.
But,what? ... but Oneness is perhaps the single most important quality of Allah..(well apart from Mercy and Compassion ..Al Rahman Al Rahim..I mean,who am I to judge? astaghfiru'llah.) in that ,when asked about Allah,what was He like?The answer that was revealed ,(after sixteen days ..a humbling experience for the Prophet saws ... we are told, because he said,"I'll tell you tomorrow.",without saying"Insha'llah" or "God willing."...) ..was the short sura "Qul Hu Allahu Ahad" ..or,"Say,He is One."
Say He is One.... Can you imagine it ?!..Put yourself in the position of a true believer in the Prophet SAWS,someone who believes that the Koran is the last revealed word from God Almighty Himself,Allah. and that the Prophet Muhammad (peace and blessing of Allah be upon him and all his family and friends.) is that one who is worthy for that word to be revealed through him..pure enough and sincere enough and strong enough and true enough and humble enough ...(Icould go on)..
and ... when asked what Allah is like ... the word comes from Allah The One True God,Creator of all the universes seen and unseen,of man and djinn ...the answer comes,and begins with (Bismi'llah arRahman arRahim)..."Qul Hu Allahu Ahad,"...
"Say He is Allah One,"....
ONE
posted by longgone1 @ 4/11/2005 07:49:00 AM
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Come, come, whoever you are. Wanderer, worshipper, lover of leaving — it doesn't matter, Ours is not a caravan of despair. Come, even if you have broken your vow a hundred times, Come, come again, come.
