Two Forces Shaping Iran
My guess (and let's be honest - when it comes to Iran, we're all guessing) is that two grand narratives are playing a shaping role in Iran right now -- call them Grant Park and Karbala, otherwise known as the current Era of Obama and the ancient heritage of Shia Islam.
The celebration of Obama's election victory in Grant Park on November 5, 2008, matters for two reasons. The first is because that's the day Iran stopped being part of the Axis of Evil. For decades, The regime in Iran had successfully built support by creating an Us vs. Them framework with America playing the role of 'Them'. By making Iran part of the Axis of Evil, the Bush Administration embraced the role of 'Them'. However much young and progressive Iranians hated their regime, they hated being labeled Evil by a foreign power even more. If they had to choose between being punched in the face by the Iranian regime or being punched in the face by the Bush Administration, they chose the Persian fist. Obama's victory, and his subsequent reaching out to the Iranian people, changed the Us vs. Them framework.
The second reason Grant Park matters is because it gave young Iranians an image of a vast progressive movement, led and energized in large part by young people, which changed a country through an election. "I want some of that," Iranians thought to themselves. So they organized a remarkable campaign behind Mir Hussein Moussavi. And when the election was brazenly violated, they were outraged enough to risk their lives in the street.
The other grand narrative shaping the Iranian public is Shia Islam, symbolized by the assassination/martyrdom of the Prophet's grandson, Hussein, at Karbala in 680. Hussein is viewed by Shia Muslims as pure and beautiful and innocent. The murder is viewed as vile and unjust and repugnant. Shias mourn Hussein annually during the month of Muharram in elaborate rituals.
In the unspeakably sad story of Neda Agha-Soltan, a 26-year-old Iranian singer killed by a bullet to her chest while minding her own business on a side street in Tehran, this movement got its pure and beautiful and innocent martyr. That the street thugs of the regime have broken up the mourning rituals at mosques for Neda is like rubbing salt in the wound.
Shia Islam places particular emphasis on devotion through beauty and song, on the legitimacy of the ruler, on justice and on mourning. That these values are being stomped on by those who claim the mantle of Shia Islam is particularly galling to Iranians.
And that forces as varied as America in 2009 and Islam in 680 are intersecting and providing energy for this movement illustrates how remarkable our times are.
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Posted by: CalSailor | June 25, 2009 8:12 PM
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Vote: For the creation a "U.S. RELiGIOUS POLICE" division for all 50 States in order to inspect each 'Tax-Exempt' Religio Institution in sewwet sweet U.S. of A!
This is not Facism, but REALITY!
WE, APOCALYPTARIAN Nationals, aka the SECUALR tax Payers & Denizenz/Citizens on Holy Space-Ship Earth, are Afraid of them PRE-APOCALYPTIC thinking folks.
WE need a Secular (enforcers) Religious Police Force"
Posted by: liveandlove | June 25, 2009 11:13 AM
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Salt in the wound?
The image of her death was, for many.
I personally have never understood the need, to rally behind the losses.
There is one image from this event. It reminded me of the spirit of democracy.
her arms outstretched like an eagle, the tips of her fingers had peace,the shroud, the mask and the visor.
That was a work of art.
J
Posted by: James210 | June 25, 2009 8:10 AM
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"liveandlove" continues her/his morphing into the gibberish of JJ. Very sad!!!!
Posted by: ccnl1 | June 25, 2009 1:42 AM
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Correction:
Pleass EBOO & CO., , do not "PLAGERIZE" any of O.U.R. Work {took 39 Years} via the "NEW-SONG" Borneth from ALL Ye (not OUR) "OLD-SONGS".
Note: Todays MEME's (Youth) on This Holyi Miraculous Planet (of Many) are having that Prophetic & inevitable iNTROVISION [Manifest Experience MEMEtically]. TIME is the best Medicine! Sooo,
FROM: Caterpillar (Pre-Apocalyptic folk) effect
TO: the Butterfly effect (Apocalyptarianity):
Note: Todays Young (and their DUE TO BE's) now know [even if Defying their Parents & or Clergy] that before they can sing, "WE Art The WORLD" , that they have to individually/each sing,
"Once we was LOST, but Now We art Found"! THEN & only THEN can all the "MEME"s of Earth can sing, "WE ARE THE WORLD" & experience the Holyi Synergetic of the Goose-Pumpsarinos phenomona!
REVELATIiON (opposite HiddenManna):
Note: The Ancient Name for EARTH is TELLUSng something. So, TODAY & until End of our times [here],
The QURAN by iTSELF is Useless on S.S. Earth & surely it ain't good tender on other planets similar to Thisoneofmany; its not only "SELFISH" to think such but (except for the GENE) very PRE-Apocalyptic or primitive behaviour! Hence Always Wars never Peace! AND
The GITA by iTSELF is also Useless on S.S. GAiA. And the BIBLES by iTSELF is Useless on S.S. GEOiD. Soo,
The Solution to all of Earth's Competing for a name for their god(s) "iNSTEAD OF O.U.R. G-D" lyes in the answers within
"The "BiBLE OF THE FUTURE"! aka the "ULTRA-PARATESTAMENT" Of The "NEW-SONG" (borneth from all Ye Old Songs)! aka The "RELiGION of everything before the SCiENCE of everything" for the worshiping "HOLYi COSMIC FEELERs FAiTH" for our "SPACE-FORTH ACTIViTIES" & for our "FUTURE-BOUND" results!
iMAGINE the "O.ne U.niversal R.eligion" [O.U.R.] System!
Hint to [THIS] World: The Quarnholics & the Chumasholics & the Biblioholics & the Geetholics & the Kangyuraholics... can meet US {HUe{MATES}, not HUMANS 1/2-way in order to "Magnify, Make-Honorable & Uphold" the "BiBLE OF THE FUTURE" else
Perish needlessly!
Hear Ye Hear Ye O' Sweet sweet S.pace S.hip TELLUS; HARK! Let the Battle Begin ("IT"s unstopable, un-winnable):
APOCALYPTARIAN Nations vs. Pre-APOCALYPTARIAN Nations! Not the Other way around!
Posted by: liveandlove | June 24, 2009 3:28 PM
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Oooopppsa.
importanto: Since HISTORY is OUR JURY, JUDGE & WITNESS, that The Real "2-Two-Forces" at Work (Visible & invisible Hands?) In the IRAN/Persia is "The Hand Writing On The Wall" act, not speech!
So, For a "Deeper-Prophecy" (no reading bones, no reading chi/tea leaves) that these current-events is like saying,
the unvailing of the "GOG (Truth) vs. MAGOG" (illusion). So EBOO Patel;
Your Abrahamic & Vedic Pipe-Dream for a "PLURALITY" of such Faiths = iLLUSION/Delussion and is surely PRE-APOCALYPTIC thinking is TWO FORCES! Hence POLYTHEOism. And
OUR "TRUTH" (opposte MYTH) for a "SINGULARITY" of ALL 3-major Faith Systems on Nebula-Built S.S. EARTH is the ONE-FORCE, Hence MONO-THEO! hence APOCALYPTIC FAITH!!
The "Holy Promise" Fullfilled on S.S. Earth for US, justly in TIME for a time in man made space thinkings!
Posted by: liveandlove | June 24, 2009 2:42 PM
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Question: Mr. EBOO PATEL & CO.,
How Many "VIRGiN Men/Harrims or Woman/Virgins? does "Neda Agha Saltan" [pbuh] a WOMEN "MATYRE", of the Iranian protests, get to Sex with in [islams] HEAVEN?
Is it "72 ViRGINS" Like for Matyred MEN??
Will HER Name & the Other Fallen Victims [pbu them]? be etched side by side them Tmass murdering TERRORISTic Matyres in the Streets/Highways of Tehran, Iran & elswhere?
--- Suggestion: Saudi Arabia + IRAQ (Support from Coalition Forces) should Invade & "LiBERATE!" IRANians, aka PERSIA! And
simultaneously Squeeze Aghanistan from the other end; but Pakistan with India's Help (support from coalition forces) should invade simultaneously! And
Korea should be "LIBERATED!" with JAPAn & SOUTH KORE along China's help & Coalition Support?.
Then Korea becomes ONE Nation & AFGHANISTAn & PAKISTAN One Nation. And PERSIA a "SECULAR" Constitutional Nation, not Sharia, Not Halakah, Not, Caste, not Apartheid Systems! THEN
IT will be the "SPORADE's" (Lady's) LEADERSHIPS whom will bring S.S. EARTH, as Promised & Predicted for Genuine WORLD PEACE & HEALING OF NATIONS!!
iNCAMERA (Secret): IT will be a WOMANS WORLD & no more exclusively a MANS-WORLD in the up & comming Imminent FUTURE!
iMAGINE: A World where the MAVORiTES (Gent's) stay home & Care for It while the SPORADES (Lady's) bring home the Bacon (Haraom) or Chicken (Kosher)!???
Hark! The Futures Great Leaders or Massiah's or Prophets, will be WOMB/MAN and nomore all MEN! So,
Instead of "Preparing for wars during Peace-Times"? HUMANITY will prosper & live over 500 Years Old!
Remember: This Holy+i Planet , a Miracle in a non-Stopable Motion That No-matter how many Atomic Wars Ye Humans (unlike US HU{eMATES ) start or respond here, that
S.S. Earth, aka S.S. GAiA, aka S.S. GEOiD, aka TELLUSng something, will FREEZE over 1,144 Times Again & like wise WARM over 1,143 Times & Then OUR Solor/Sun will Swell 100+ Times its current Size . AND
THERES NO ESCAPE! Except via the Holyi Cosmic "NON-GRAVITY" Place & through the "DUE-TO-BE" machine that "Trans{finitiz's" our "HEURiSTIC/a/o" [Immortal Photon Essences] Justly for another
Miraculous Chance to Burt/Comeforth again out of the Holy-No-Man's Stuffs & Things via IT"s Holy Cosmic "MAGMAPERCOLATION-EFFEC"T & thence omnipresently guides US out (on another Planet like or better than here) of the "OCEANIC-MEGA-PLUME" a sort of walm saline UTERO bubble. Please check the Salinity of Ye blood & Check TEMPerature (aka Holyi "TIME", not Clocks) of Ye Bio-Finite Carbon Based Body's today.
Secret: Plants/Trees simultaneously appear 2nd fromthe Magmapercolation (Cool'd) Shell! Remember Holyi TIME = "TEMP"erature via Holyi Photon Miracle, not via man made Clock time & surely not via Quran/Bible/Gita times either.
Imagine Yourself Appearing Again & Again & Again ....... Experiencing LIFE (Photons) on very Different Worlds, with Same Gender but Different Parents again???
Posted by: liveandlove | June 24, 2009 2:20 PM
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Ebbo Patel & CO., YE Hath Sinned a Great Sin!
SHi{LOH
iNTERFAiTH{NATiON
Dear World; Please remove the {curly Brackets} on the Two Words above and try to "Sumbit" those two words less left curly-bracket & see
"DENIAL OF SERVICE"!
Wow! Such Jealousy me Proud iSLAMIC fool!
Pleass EBOO & CO., , do not "PLAGERIZE" any of O.U.R. NWork vis the "NEW-SONG" comming from ALL Ye (not OUR) "OLD-SONGS".
The MAityyreah, The MASSiAH, The MADHi, and Deliveror is BORN & BRED in sweet sweet U.S. Of A. [Not your OBAMA/Mamma from Hawaii State ]. ITs called
"SHi{LOH"
[an "MEME" incarnate from MAiN, U.S.A.] Not G.W. Bush's Birth state..
Posted by: liveandlove | June 24, 2009 1:12 PM
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2 of 2:
COMMENTARY:
The name for "IT" by the Glorious QURAN/KORAN of the ARABous is "HOLY UMMA": and The Name for "IT" by the Holy GiTA/GEETA of the HiNDUS & BUDDHISTS is "HOLY-KARMA": and The name for "IT" by the CHUMASH/BIBLES of the Jews/Christians is "HOLY MANNA":
THUS do ALL three INFIXUS-BOOKS "Promise" US [All Genuinely Equally, not via godly Favortism by any Pre-Apocalyptarianity anymore] "IT" as 'Food For Thought' to CHANGE THE WORLD, by "Reversing their own Sins in scriptures past, as need be.
HARK! "TRANS[iNITE-REVELATION" for "TRANS{FINITE-CiVILIZATION" between ALL, EVERY & ANY potential 'HU{MATES' (of S.S. Earth) of the comming of these TIMEs, as foretold
via YE iNFIXUS BOOKS through-out the-WORLD!
A REVELATION [opposite Hidden/secret] whos time (man made clocks) via 'TIME' (holyi TEMPerature) is cometh to Save HUMANiTY!
WHEREFORE: Hear Ye Hear Ye O' Sweet Sweet 'Automatic Denizenz/Citizens' of this miraculous World,
"Ye art ALL the SON(s) & DAUGHTER(s) of the Creator Of Photons [G-D by 1,000+ Names & no more by 99 names] & Remember that Ye art Borneth in Miracle & never hath Ye [to the contrary] been born in any SIN nor CURSETH story! ELSE
if Ye [continue to] believeth such Pre-Apocalyptarianity that Ye & Posterity will Perish!
Rejoice the the Dance of Life & Love & Learning before OUR Holy No-Man/Womb, aka "IT" [G-D is not a HE/HIM nor is this Planet HIS nor is IT a SHE/Hers]!
"SiNGULARITY" Of All Infuxus Books [Apocalyptic Faith; not competing-for-a-Name for G-D], is the Prophecy; and nomore Ye "PLURALITY" of Pre-Apocalyptic Religion Systems Eboo [Competition for G-D with tolerence].
Excerpts from:: iNTERFAITH{NATION
Posted by: liveandlove | June 24, 2009 12:57 PM
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This Morning, for about 3 minites; 3-three "Angels" appeared before i. one was called "Elijah" & the other called "Gabriel" but the 3rd was called "SHi{LOH."
Besides the 'INTROViSION'S There was only a one-way Communication, So i "listened" [Meditated] but Not to a Voice or Sound. Note: To "speak" is to Pray but that did not occur.
And the "Prophecy" or whatever it's called seemed to sing,
""WHEN YE MiND LEAVES BEHiND IT's DARK FOREST OF PERSONAL DELUSION, YE SHALL GO BEYOND THE 'SCRiPTURES' OF TIME(s) PAST."
And i, a MEME, felt there SYNERGETICS, like a warm vibrationeth & for a moment there i thought i saw that girl "Neda Agha Saltan" [pbuh] in the background as if abosorbing it all. AND
The rest of the 'Message' gave me the "Holyi Cosmic Feeling" like to realize that a "NEW-COVENANT", aka "NEW-SONG", Cometh, as Promised from All of Man & Womb kinds via their Scriptures of time past.
Behold! The "O.ne U.niversal R.eligion" [OUR] of Everything, before the SCiENCE of Everything is Now upon Us. AND
THe "DEEPER PROPHECY" of what just transpires today points Us to a "NEW AGE OF FAiTH EXCHANGING" a Revelation for the "Hidden-Manna for "Healing Of The Nations", Global Peace & many more good Tidings therefrom.
Note: Within the Holy Chumash/Bibles, Glorious Quran/Koran & within the Holy Geeta/Kangyurs.. are called [their] "Infixus Book"; and the implications therefrom,
Tells Us [Hue{mates, not Humans] that the 'Hidden Manna' will be a HEAVENLY BREAD [for ALL who wants IT] which the Naturally Borneth Cizizenz/Denizens of S.pace S.hip EARTH , of many, will
desperately-need at the TIME that IT prophetically Appears, revealed not only to i's mind, but to Ye/Them for "APOCALYPTIC" Purposes. Hence; nomore Pre-Apocalyptic feeling, knowing & thinking wrong].
Continued 2of 2;
Posted by: liveandlove | June 24, 2009 12:56 PM
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Live and Love:
You've posted often lately. There's only one problem: What you are posting makes NO SENSE. Some of the words are English. Some are nonsense words. "Pre-Apocalyptarianity"???? But in English, nouns are NOT capitalized. The sentences are meaningless. If you are going to post cut and paste stuff, why don't you spend a few hours and write something that others can understand. Otherwise, we just ignore you....