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but why have you chosen to question the Muslim okp about why he feels he can no longer support Common and his music? It seems that if this mans faith and belief which is personal to him tells him to do so, then he should do so. But you have made it seem as if his choice is abhorrent with simple human logic.Sounds like a judgement against his his beliefs or at least against'the chain of division' which you eloquently criticized.
Early in the e-mail you question why people have an interest in the man's belief structure but then you turn around and define exactly and discetely what religion is after after implying that others don't truly know what it is or think it just constitutes following. Aren't you dividing yourself from those who have that perspective of religion.
Then you say the path of rigtheousnees is narrow not broad and also tell us the name by which you call God. It seems to me that your desire to pontificate on your beliefs might have answered the very question you posed. Your desire to express and communicate your understanding is no different then someone who wants to label Common in order to gain a frame of reference from which to understand that brother Cornbread.
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----------------------------------------------------- "Observe the ugly mess which most men make of their sex lives-and observe the mess of contradictions which they hold as their moral philosophy. One proceeds from the other. Love is our response to our highest values-and can be nothing else. Let a man corrupt his values and his view of existence, let him profess that love is not self-enjoyment, but self denial, that virtue consists, not of pride, but of pity or pain or weakness or sacrifice, that the noblest love is born, not of admiration, but of charity, not in response to values, but in response to flaws-and he will have cut himself in two. His body will not obey him, it will not respond, it will make him impotent toward the woman he professes to love and draw him to the lowest type of whore he can find. His body will always follow the ultimate logic of his deepest convictions; if he believes that flaws are values, he has damned existence as evil and only the evil will attact him. He has damned himself and he will feel that depravity is all he is worth enjoying. He has equated virtue with pain and he will feel that his body has vicious desires of its own which his mind cannot conquer, that sex is sin, that true love is a pure emotion of spirit. And then he will wonder why lover brings him nothing but boredom, and sex-nothing but shame." -taken from 'Atlas Shrugged' by Ayn Rand
h20 ------------------------------------------------- if hip hop ever dies...it will be the day that all of us who fell in love with a new sound that was like nothing we ever heard before stop wanting to be challenged. the day those of us who nurtured
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