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My Afghan Mustard SeedIn the last two years especially this last one I have been heavily studying and engaging myself with members of different cultures and religions BY CHOICE. Longer still I have been engaging in inquiry, study, and practice of Islam BY CHOICE. I wish I could say this has been a result of my own strength of character or at least my upbringing but this is not the case. I have been the extremist maybe not a violent one but certainly an arrogant one. I have engaged in emotional terrorism by harming friends out of arrogance. By thinking if everyone just saw and did things the way I do all would be fine in the world. More than eight years ago wMy Afghan Mustard Seed by ~LOSTgnosis

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LOVE IS THE RIVER WATER, HATE IS THE RIVER BEDLove and Hate are not Good and Evil of another name.
Love and Hate are spectrums of emotion
That can both complement and oppose one another,
That can both be both parallel and perpendicular,
That can both be close and distant,
That can both be repeatedly converging and diverging,
That can both be never occurring.
To Love someone is to acknowledge only half a person.
To Hate someone is to acknowledge only half a person.
To Love and Hate someone is to acknowledge the whole person of a person.
For Love can be a drowning flood
While Hate a scar now a deep enough river bed to never flood again.LOVE IS THE RIVER WATER, HATE IS THE RIVER BED by ~LOSTgnosis

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Steven Thomas Bock
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My main works are LOSTgnosis Exodus of Expectations (long fiction), The War or the Pilgrimage (long fantasy), and Bleach and Cloth (comic strip). All deal with different cultures and religions interacting via their characters. Reaching out to all sorts of people to learn from them and be friends with them is the key to life in my opinion and it more often than not flows into my art.

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~BlueBersker 4 days ago

thanks for the fav

*BRipin 4 days ago

Thank you for visiting my gallery and for the many faves. Sorry it took me so long to let you know. Barrie

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Thank you for following my gallery. Barrie

=acatris May 9, 2013 Professional Traditional Artist

Thank you for the fave

~pinkyaliya Apr 24, 2013 Student Traditional Artist

Hi,

Do you remember the time when we had a conversation about a lady named Ummul Baneen?

It was when you were questioning what her real name was and I helped you out?

~LOSTgnosis Apr 24, 2013 Student General Artist

The boy name is Amil and the girl typically refer to by Marriam Fatimah.

~LOSTgnosis Apr 24, 2013 Student General Artist

Oh btw thought this after my first response I might have to get your opinion on how to make some parts of my story have some more Shia elements to them for a lack of better way of putting it. Deal with a child friendship of a Shia girl and Sunni boy the 1st being a early hazara refugee early in the Afghan Soveit conflict. The Sunni boy's dad taking an interest in the Shia as he truly beleives in the saying of Imam Ali of, "If someone is not your brother in faith they are your brother in humanity." As well as the Quranic verse, "To kill one person is to kill all humanity, to save one person is to save all humanity." The Sunni boy being a young child has the strange quirks of a child that effects them liking spaces such as too cold or warm. He finds the sunni Mosque too cold so never wants to prostrate. He finds the Shia mosque floor warm like a bed and doesn't like to rise from prostration. This leads to him getting tease about being a sleepy head of which the girl come to his defense in the quirky silly but sweet ways children do. From there the friendship between the two families grows.

~pinkyaliya Apr 24, 2013 Student Traditional Artist

Yes, I remember you telling me about this story - thought it was very interesting and compelling. The idea of the story is incredibly admirable. Reminds me of other books like The Kite Runner haha.

I don't exactly understand how you can make it "have some more Shia elements" to it, however. You need to explain that to me a little more, brother.

~LOSTgnosis Apr 25, 2013 Student General Artist

Actually it is a story in a story but yeah I agree. What it is in the broader context of the bigger story is a man named Timothy living through the memories of the Sunni boy Amil so Amil memories of the Shia girl Marriam Fatimah can be complete again. While doing this Timothy relate Amil and Marriam Fatimah friendship to the life of Timothy's recently deceased wife Karima. The Timothy and Karima characters are losely based off myself and a friend of mines named Ossai Muhammad Sharif who is Afghan. While Amil and Marriam Fatimah have all sorts of bits of myself, my friend, and other people like kids at Mosque who are practically my shadows LoL.

I guess what I mean is maybe if I wanted to bother such detail shia specfic holidays and sermons subject manner that might be more common to Shia and 'shia names' Sayings of the Imams. Shia hadith etc. Right now there is only two parts really dealing with the characters in questions where Shia details would be nice to have. Plus while not outright main character the Shia girl character Marriam Fatimah is at the center of the web that connects all the characters.

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~LOSTgnosis Apr 24, 2013 Student General Artist

Kind of remember. Didn't see change her name because it was the name of someone who had gotten killed and she didn't want to remind that person other love ones of that person by having the same name in part. I am thinking Zainab or maybe Fatimah for some reason... correct me if I am wrong

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