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News Flash for Digest + Ignition March 2023 -- Jamat's Choice: Most Popular Articles & Videos
Ismaili Digest Exclusive for March 2023 -- Each month enjoy the most popular new articles and videos viewed by the Jamat from over 36 of the best Ismaili websites with just one click! 'Most popular' means most viewed post(s) on each website (excluding duplicate postings, Event Alerts and COVID-19 advice) without social media influence. NOTE: Posts are randomly ordered.
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Wajahat Ali on Social Media, Echo-Chambers, and Journalism
A conversation with Wajahat Ali -- a journalist, writer, lawyer, an award-winning playwright, a TV host, and a previous consultant for the U.S. State Department under Hillary Clinton. He discusses his insights on Social Media, Mainstream Media, Echo Chambers, Journalism, Post-Fact Society, the Perceptions of Muslims, Think-Tanks, and his vision for the Future. Published for Sacred Matters Magazine (affiliated with Emory University's Center for Digital Scholarship). ...
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Essential Twain - The Most Popular Quotes by Mark Twain
YOUTUBE.COM -- Samuel Langhorne Clemens better known by his pen name Mark Twain, was an American author and humorist. Among his writings are The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876) and its sequel, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1885), the latter often called "The Great American Novel". Quote #1 - "If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything." Quote #2 - "I have never let my schooling interfere with my education." ...
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Ray Dalio: Open-Mindedness And The Power of Not Knowing
[H/T MOHIB EBRAHIM] -- FS.BLOG -- Ray Dalio, founder of the investment firm Bridgewater Associates: "This episode taught me the importance of always fearing being wrong, no matter how confident I am that I'm right. I began seeking out the smartest people I could find who disagreed with me so that I could understand their reasoning. By doing this again and again over the years, not only have I increased my chances of being right, but I have also learned a huge amount. People who seek out thoughtful disagreement realize that there is always some probability they might be wrong and that it's worth the effort to consider what others are saying to ensure they aren't making a mistake themselves." ...
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Houston's Lush, Welcoming Ismaili Center Will Be a Spiritual Retreat for All
[H/T SIMERG] -- TEXASMONTHLY.COM -- In renderings, the Ismaili Center Houston looks destined to become an international landmark. Think paradise on the bayou. Ismaili centers are an invention of the Aga Khan. Houston's center will be the most public-focused yet, with an education wing, a black box theater, a cafe, flexible exhibition spaces, conference rooms, and social halls. Performances and gatherings will happen outside. David Leslie, the executive director of the Rothko Chapel, has collaborated with the Ismaili community for years. "So many people who are not Muslim have a very truncated view of Islam, and not always a very positive one," he says. He hopes the new center will give Texans a greater view into the diversity of the Islamic world. Now the Ismaili community is putting forward, in very public ways, key tenets of ...
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VIDEO: Why does Mawlana Hazar Imam insist we make value judgements? | Ignition Proposal
PART 1 -- In our previous presentation on cosmopolitan ethics and pluralism (part 0), we cited extensive guidance from Mawlana Hazar Imam to explain why, on the one hand, he insists we embrace pluralism, and on the other, insists on firm moral boundaries which reject values not aligned with ours. In this follow-up two-part series we ask, "Are your values aligned with Hazar Imam's?" by looking at what are and are not our values. In Part 1, using a First Principles approach, we look at a fatal misunderstanding about value judgments that prevents us from setting boundaries Hazar Imam insists we set to delineate what are and what are not our values. In Part 2 we will look at why just one notion, relativism, triggers most questions about values today, and why Hazar Imam rejects relativism in one word.
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Imam Hazrat Ali the Great!
Born inside the Holy Kaaba in Mecca on Friday the 13th Rajab, 30 Amulfeel, (year of the Elephant) 11th October 599 A.D. His father was Hazrat Abu Talib, his mother was Bibi Fatima Binte Asad, his wife was Bibi Fatima Binte Muhammad az-Zahra (SA) and he was the father of Imam Hassan (AS), Imam Hussein (AS), Bibi Zaynab (AS), Bibi Kulthum ...
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Tuesday's Teachings (From Life) Jordan Peterson: Advice for Hyper-Intellectual People
[H/T SAHIL BADRUDDIN] -- YOUTUBE.COM -- PHILOSOPHY INSIGHTS -- [ISMAILI DIGEST ED: Hazar Imam, 1987: "... if you are intelligent, if Allah has blessed you with intelligence ... " Hazar Imam, 2016: "Public wisdom is not dependent on education." Hazar Imam, 2007: "One of the great stumbling blocks to the advance of pluralism, in my view, is simple human arrogance. All of the world's great religions warn against self-righteousness ... rather than recognising their humility before the Divine."] ARTICLE: The arrogance of the intellect is what the Catholic Church had warned about for centuries. Because there is no relationship between being smart and being wise. They are not the same thing. There's no quick pathway from smart to wise. I've known people who were intellectually impaired and were still wise. And so if the intellectuals would drop their moral superiority, and fat chance there is of that, then that divide between the working class, say, and the elite would would resolve. And there's every reason to have respect for decent working class people. After all it's on their labor, as the left-wingers at least hypothetically agree, that the entire edifice of the culture is resting. There's this scene in ...
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