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Topic: Guilt

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OP - December 29, 2011, 04:14 PM

I'm atheist, ex pentecostal xian. I have some experience of Islam, but something puzzles me.

What is all the guilt about? It feels as if many people have jinn on their shoulders shouting at them, don't do this, don't do that, and in fact relatives and acquaintances actually do this.

There was a joke about my mum's Welsh village, that the Police would put IRA people there because they would be watched continuously. The whole point of a city in contrast is that you can be anonymous.

Is Islam the old fashioned small minded gossipy village on a large scale?

When you are a Bear of Very Little Brain, and you Think of Things, you find sometimes that a Thing which seemed very Thingish inside you is quite different when it gets out into the open and has other people looking at it.

A.A. Milne,

"We cannot slaughter each other out of the human impasse"
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Reply #1 - December 29, 2011, 04:21 PM

Solzhenitsyn in the Gulag Archipelago described the impossibility of surviving in Siberian prison camps under Soviet rule, there are similar descriptions of life under the Nazis.

There are many British novels about the various class and other conflicts between town and country, rich and poor. Shakespeare does this.

Was Salman Rushdie in Satanic Verses attempting to explore the underside of Islam through magical realism?

Is there a need for the experience of growing up Muslim to be written down?

When you are a Bear of Very Little Brain, and you Think of Things, you find sometimes that a Thing which seemed very Thingish inside you is quite different when it gets out into the open and has other people looking at it.

A.A. Milne,

"We cannot slaughter each other out of the human impasse"
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