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The Bitcoin Shepherd
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Liberation through monotheistic theology and decentralized technologies

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Recent Notes

ابو مريم · 2w
that's odd considering this is the part that is the core critique of the "west" so what is your diagnosis then if you beleive we are not in a mechanized, degenerative timeline?
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This "core critique" is part of the problem. The west suffers from a paradoxical aversion to markets and technology. This has manifested across ideologies like marxism, socialism, and certain strains of right-wing thought. Through the lens of the Quran and the stories of the prophets a clearer diagnosis is: the root problem lies in disbelief in God (lack of trust and "tasleem" in God and instead allegiance to Taghut—the coercive tyrant, the state, or self-wirship of the individual عبادة الذات . These problems have reached the islamic world through emulating of the west.
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ابو مريم · 1w
you're going to have to elaborate on this line: "The west suffers from a paradoxical aversion to markets and technology." enlighten us to the paradox because this is not one i'm aware of or understanding from your post, plus this charge of being adverse to markets and technology is the critique plac...
ابو مريم · 2w
i think you have this as a strawman. no one is arguing for an exclusively western philosophical approach.
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"Modernity and cybernetics have locked humanity into a mechanized, degenerative timeline (Guenon, Heidegger, Wiener, Baudrillard)."

This is one main part of SAIF that shows a western-centric approach. This deeply problematic relationship with technology and markets that western philosophers have is a main part of the unnecessary western baggage that never convinced me when I was studying here in Europe. Thanks to the Quran and to some degree Rothbard, I understood why mainstream western philosophers have developed this baggage. The critique of technology and the markets is wanted by the banking and state elites, and their intellectual allies (the well-known philosphers).
That SAIF is, in a way, still trapped in this baggage remains strange to me.
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ابو مريم · 2w
that's odd considering this is the part that is the core critique of the "west" so what is your diagnosis then if you beleive we are not in a mechanized, degenerative timeline?
ابو مريم · 2w
examples of perifery from the most recent SAIFmag are: Japan Malaysia Bangladesh Cyberspace Iran exclusively defined as the west is a misnomer
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I am fine with being west (asia) centric. West asia has mecca, medina, alquds, bagdad and damscus. Places that gave birth to agriculture, writing, monotheism, technology, the market and many other cool stuff that the west either does not understand (monotheism, technology) or missmanages (agriculture, market) till today. What is so important to understand in a western philosophy that produces coninuous genocides and nihilsm on an industrial scale?
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ابو مريم · 2w
i think you have this as a strawman. no one is arguing for an exclusively western philosophical approach.
ابو مريم · 2w
pretty sure Eco has endorsed this but if you can't spot the threads then throw the list at an AI who will spot them in seconds. Then read the literature to fill in your gaps.
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This list definitly lacks some important works, like these of rothbard and alghazali. And it also has some marxist stuff that can be eliminated. I am not interested in ai giving me a thread. I would like SAIF to explain why that list and not any other. But if there is no interest in that then its also fine.
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ابو مريم · 2w
i would counter that the interest should be the other way around. SAIF loves you but if you aren't interested in that relationship then why should they put out? nostr:npub1jztpxpucq97dt6vt6wlh7czzxuahvaxn7pv0waea7yrkf5j7u9tspm9j4q would be the one to talk to about Al Ghazali but imo that's amateur...
ابو مريم · 2w
pretty sure Eco has endorsed this but if you can't spot the threads then throw the list at an AI who will spot them in seconds. Then read the literature to fill in your gaps.
ابو مريم · 2w
examples of perifery from the most recent SAIFmag are: Japan Malaysia Bangladesh Cyberspace Iran exclusively defined as the west is a misnomer
ابو مريم · 2w
SAIF reading list podcast would be better
ابو مريم · 2w
then how does this apply to SAIF?
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I think SAIF needs to develop its ideas within the islamic framework. I think this would be much more interesting than trying to use the "western" framework. We should understand european philosophy and concepts as a contiuation of the
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This whole roman empire trinity ideology and the different modern european answers to it, are of no real use for us. It just shows that taghutism in the catholic, protestant or modern and postmodern atheist manifestations are a problem and dont offer tools for us to go forward.
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ابو مريم · 2w
i'm honestly not understanding any of this critique you have. how is SAIF not operating from an islamic framework? you say calling the western framework misguidance because it is christian? what does trinitarianism have to do with SAIF? SAIF doesn't just raid from contenintal philosphy btw. the ...