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30. "just playing devil's advocate here..."
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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

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Common's religion is........ [View all] , BKyle, Wed Apr-11-01 09:12 AM
 
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I just think that means
Apr 11th 2001
1
Sounds Like He's. . .
Apr 11th 2001
2
no, common i believe...
Apr 11th 2001
3
Reading is fundamental
Apr 11th 2001
4
      chops herself.....
Apr 11th 2001
6
RE: who cares n/m
Apr 11th 2001
5
amazing behind the scene coverage!!!
Apr 11th 2001
7
unitarian
Apr 11th 2001
8
RE: Common's religion is........
naimadoner
Apr 11th 2001
9
RE: Common's religion is........
Apr 11th 2001
10
RE: Common's religion is........
naimadoner
Apr 11th 2001
12
put that HU edulacation to work boy!!!...
Apr 11th 2001
11
RE: Common's religion is........
jm760
Apr 11th 2001
13
RE: Common's religion is........
jm760
Apr 11th 2001
14
Heat (#2)
Apr 13th 2001
19
it is the kufi y'all
Apr 11th 2001
15
Common is the devil!
Apr 12th 2001
16
Religion
Apr 12th 2001
17
RE: Religion
Apr 13th 2001
20
RE: Religion
Apr 17th 2001
34
RE: Common's religion is........
knicksrule
Apr 12th 2001
18
Man...Com.....(sigh)
Iesa
Apr 13th 2001
21
RE: Man...Com.....(sigh)
Apr 14th 2001
25
oh yeah.
Iesa
Apr 13th 2001
22
Dang bro!
Apr 13th 2001
23
RE: Dang bro!
Apr 17th 2001
31
judgemental much??
Apr 14th 2001
26
      RE: judgemental much??
Iesa
Apr 14th 2001
27
           OH really...
Apr 17th 2001
35
                RE: OH really...
Iesa
Apr 18th 2001
36
RE: Common's religion is........
Apr 13th 2001
24
i also study that religion...
Apr 14th 2001
28
RE: Common's religion is........
Apr 16th 2001
29
      wagwan
Iesa
Apr 17th 2001
32
I thought he was clear on G.O.D...
Apr 17th 2001
33
musiq
soulprincess
Apr 23rd 2001
37

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