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		<title>Incomplete Manifesto for Growth</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 27 Oct 2011 19:40:51 +0000</pubDate>
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Beliefs, strategies, and motivations by Bruce Mau:</p>
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<li id="yui_3_3_0_2_1306694396643736"><strong>Allow events to change you. </strong><br />
You have to be willing to grow. Growth is different from something that happens to you. You produce it. You live it. The prerequisites for growth: the openness to experience events and the willingness to be changed by them.</li>
<li id="yui_3_3_0_2_1306694396643756"><strong>Forget about good. </strong><br />
Good is a known quantity. Good is what we all agree on. Growth is not necessarily good. Growth is an exploration of unlit recesses that may or may not yield to our research. As long as you stick to good you’ll never have real growth.</li>
<li id="yui_3_3_0_2_1306694396643761"><strong>Process is more important than outcome. </strong><br />
When the outcome drives the process we will only ever go to where we’ve already been. If process drives outcome we may not know where we’re going, but we will know we want to be there.</li>
<li id="yui_3_3_0_2_1306694396643766"><strong>Love your experiments (as you would an ugly child). </strong><br />
Joy is the engine of growth. Exploit the liberty in casting your work as beautiful experiments, iterations, attempts, trials, and errors. Take the long view and allow yourself the fun of failure every day.</li>
<li id="yui_3_3_0_2_1306694396643771"><strong>Go deep. </strong><br />
The deeper you go the more likely you will discover something of value.</li>
<li id="yui_3_3_0_2_1306694396643776"><strong>Capture accidents. </strong><br />
The wrong answer is the right answer in search of a different question. Collect wrong answers as part of the process. Ask different questions.</li>
<li id="yui_3_3_0_2_1306694396643781"><strong>Study. </strong><br />
A studio is a place of study. Use the necessity of production as an excuse to study. Everyone will benefit.</li>
<li id="yui_3_3_0_2_1306694396643786"><strong>Drift. </strong><br />
Allow yourself to wander aimlessly. Explore adjacencies. Lack judgment. Postpone criticism.</li>
<li id="yui_3_3_0_2_1306694396643791"><strong>Begin anywhere. </strong><br />
John Cage tells us that not knowing where to begin is a common form of paralysis. His advice: begin anywhere.</li>
<li id="yui_3_3_0_2_1306694396643796"><strong>Everyone is a leader. </strong><br />
Growth happens. Whenever it does, allow it to emerge. Learn to follow when it makes sense. Let anyone lead.</li>
<li id="yui_3_3_0_2_1306694396643801"><strong>Harvest ideas. </strong><br />
Edit applications. Ideas need a dynamic, fluid, generous environment to sustain life. Applications, on the other hand, benefit from critical rigor. Produce a high ratio of ideas to applications.</li>
<li id="yui_3_3_0_2_1306694396643806"><strong>Keep moving. </strong><br />
The market and its operations have a tendency to reinforce success. Resist it. Allow failure and migration to be part of your practice.</li>
<li id="yui_3_3_0_2_1306694396643811"><strong>Slow down. </strong><br />
Desynchronize from standard time frames and surprising opportunities may present themselves.</li>
<li id="yui_3_3_0_2_1306694396643816"><strong>Don’t be cool. </strong><br />
Cool is conservative fear dressed in black. Free yourself from limits of this sort.</li>
<li id="yui_3_3_0_2_1306694396643821"><strong>Ask stupid questions. </strong><br />
Growth is fueled by desire and innocence. Assess the answer, not the question. Imagine learning throughout your life at the rate of an infant.</li>
<li id="yui_3_3_0_2_1306694396643826"><strong>Collaborate. </strong><br />
The space between people working together is filled with conflict, friction, strife, exhilaration, delight, and vast creative potential.</li>
<li id="yui_3_3_0_2_1306694396643831"><strong>____________________. </strong><br />
Intentionally left blank. Allow space for the ideas you haven’t had yet, and for the ideas of others.</li>
<li id="yui_3_3_0_2_1306694396643836"><strong>Stay up late. </strong><br />
Strange things happen when you’ve gone too far, been up too long, worked too hard, and you’re separated from the rest of the world.</li>
<li id="yui_3_3_0_2_1306694396643841"><strong>Work the metaphor. </strong><br />
Every object has the capacity to stand for something other than what is apparent. Work on what it stands for.</li>
<li id="yui_3_3_0_2_1306694396643846"><strong>Be careful to take risks. </strong><br />
Time is genetic. Today is the child of yesterday and the parent of tomorrow. The work you produce today will create your future.</li>
<li id="yui_3_3_0_2_1306694396643851"><strong>Repeat yourself. </strong><br />
If you like it, do it again. If you don’t like it, do it again.</li>
<li id="yui_3_3_0_2_1306694396643856"><strong>Make your own tools. </strong><br />
Hybridize your tools in order to build unique things. Even simple tools that are your own can yield entirely new avenues of exploration. Remember, tools amplify our capacities, so even a small tool can make a big difference.</li>
<li id="yui_3_3_0_2_1306694396643861"><strong>Stand on someone’s shoulders. </strong><br />
You can travel farther carried on the accomplishments of those who came before you. And the view is so much better.</li>
<li id="yui_3_3_0_2_1306694396643871"><strong>Avoid software. </strong><br />
The problem with software is that everyone has it.</li>
<li id="yui_3_3_0_2_1306694396643866"><strong>Don’t clean your desk. </strong><br />
You might find something in the morning that you can’t see tonight.</li>
<li id="yui_3_3_0_2_1306694396643876"><strong>Don’t enter awards competitions. </strong><br />
Just don’t. It’s not good for you.</li>
<li id="yui_3_3_0_2_1306694396643881"><strong>Read only left-hand pages. </strong><br />
Marshall McLuhan did this. By decreasing the amount of information, we leave room for what he called our &#8220;noodle.&#8221;</li>
<li id="yui_3_3_0_2_1306694396643886"><strong>Make new words. </strong><br />
Expand the lexicon. The new conditions demand a new way of thinking. The thinking demands new forms of expression. The expression generates new conditions.</li>
<li id="yui_3_3_0_2_1306694396643891"><strong>Think with your mind. </strong><br />
Forget technology. Creativity is not device-dependent.</li>
<li id="yui_3_3_0_2_1306694396643896"><strong>Organization = Liberty. </strong><br />
Real innovation in design, or any other field, happens in context. That context is usually some form of cooperatively managed enterprise. Frank Gehry, for instance, is only able to realize Bilbao because his studio can deliver it on budget. The myth of a split between &#8220;creatives&#8221; and &#8220;suits&#8221; is what Leonard Cohen calls a ‘charming artifact of the past.’</li>
<li id="yui_3_3_0_2_1306694396643901"><strong>Don’t borrow money. </strong><br />
Once again, Frank Gehry’s advice. By maintaining financial control, we maintain creative control. It’s not exactly rocket science, but it’s surprising how hard it is to maintain this discipline, and how many have failed.</li>
<li id="yui_3_3_0_2_1306694396643906"><strong>Listen carefully. </strong><br />
Every collaborator who enters our orbit brings with him or her a world more strange and complex than any we could ever hope to imagine. By listening to the details and the subtlety of their needs, desires, or ambitions, we fold their world onto our own. Neither party will ever be the same.</li>
<li id="yui_3_3_0_2_1306694396643911"><strong>Take field trips. </strong><br />
The bandwidth of the world is greater than that of your TV set, or the Internet, or even a totally immersive, interactive, dynamically rendered, object-oriented, real-time, computer graphic–simulated environment.</li>
<li id="yui_3_3_0_2_1306694396643916"><strong>Make mistakes faster. </strong><br />
This isn’t my idea — I borrowed it. I think it belongs to Andy Grove.</li>
<li id="yui_3_3_0_2_1306694396643921"><strong>Imitate. </strong><br />
Don’t be shy about it. Try to get as close as you can. You’ll never get all the way, and the separation might be truly remarkable. We have only to look to Richard Hamilton and his version of Marcel Duchamp’s large glass to see how rich, discredited, and underused imitation is as a technique.</li>
<li id="yui_3_3_0_2_1306694396643934"><strong>Scat. </strong><br />
When you forget the words, do what Ella did: make up something else … but not words.</li>
<li id="yui_3_3_0_2_1306694396643926"><strong>Break it, stretch it, bend it, crush it, crack it, fold it.</strong></li>
<li id="yui_3_3_0_2_1306694396643940"><strong>Explore the other edge. </strong><br />
Great liberty exists when we avoid trying to run with the technological pack. We can’t find the leading edge because it’s trampled underfoot. Try using old-tech equipment made obsolete by an economic cycle but still rich with potential.</li>
<li id="yui_3_3_0_2_1306694396643945"><strong>Coffee breaks, cab rides, green rooms. </strong><br />
Real growth often happens outside of where we intend it to, in the interstitial spaces — what Dr. Seuss calls &#8220;the waiting place.&#8221; Hans Ulrich Obrist once organized a science and art conference with all of the infrastructure of a conference — the parties, chats, lunches, airport arrivals — but with no actual conference. Apparently it was hugely successful and spawned many ongoing collaborations.</li>
<li id="yui_3_3_0_2_1306694396643950"><strong>Avoid fields. </strong><br />
Jump fences. Disciplinary boundaries and regulatory regimes are attempts to control the wilding of creative life. They are often understandable efforts to order what are manifold, complex, evolutionary processes. Our job is to jump the fences and cross the fields.</li>
<li id="yui_3_3_0_2_1306694396643955"><strong>Laugh. </strong><br />
People visiting the studio often comment on how much we laugh. Since I’ve become aware of this, I use it as a barometer of how comfortably we are expressing ourselves.</li>
<li id="yui_3_3_0_2_1306694396643960"><strong>Remember. </strong><br />
Growth is only possible as a product of history. Without memory, innovation is merely novelty. History gives growth a direction. But a memory is never perfect. Every memory is a degraded or composite image of a previous moment or event. That’s what makes us aware of its quality as a past and not a present. It means that every memory is new, a partial construct different from its source, and, as such, a potential for growth itself.</li>
<li id="yui_3_3_0_2_1306695378435391"><strong>Power to the people. </strong><br />
Play can only happen when people feel they have control over their lives. We can’t be free agents if we’re not free.</li>
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<div><em>{<a href="http://www.brucemaudesign.com/4817/112450/work/incomplete-manifesto-for-growth">source</a>}</em></div>
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		<description><![CDATA[Eid al-Fitr marks the end of Ramadan. Fiṭr which means &#8220;breaking the fast&#8221;sounds similar to Fiṭir which means mushroom in slang Arabic. So as a play on words, i decided to make some mushroom cookies as a fun way to celebrate Eid al-Fitr. I didn&#8217;t make the cookie cutter this time like i did with [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bizerbateekh.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5786292&amp;post=621&amp;subd=bizerbateekh&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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<p>I didn&#8217;t make the cookie cutter this time like i did with the <a href="http://bizerbateekh.wordpress.com/2008/12/09/bizer-bateekh-first-promotional-homemade-item-yay/">sheep cookies before</a>. I found a very old one that my mom had bought ages ago and it was perfect enough to create the mushroom cookies i had in mind.</p>
<p>For the cookies i used <a href="http://www.marthastewart.com/318258/chocolate-cookies">this recipe</a> from marthastewart.com.</p>
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<p>I used melted white chocolate and red cookie icing to decorate the cookies.</p>
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<p>To add the dots to the mushrooms i used a toothpick and what&#8217;s left from the melted white chocolate.</p>
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<p>Kids and adults alike, who came over for Eid, loved the cookies as they already had enough <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ma%27amoul">Ma&#8217;moul</a> and chocolate while they were visiting around.</p>
<p>And of course, although it might seem &#8220;controversial&#8221; for some, my brother couldn&#8217;t resist taking a couple of photos of Super Mario along with the cookies! Now that&#8217;s Eid spirit! haha</p>
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<p>Another thing we did was these boiled egg mushrooms. A trick my mom used when we were kids to seduce us into eating eggs! It&#8217;s perfect for kids for Eid breakfast as it&#8217;s easy for them to make or help in making. Just cut a thin slice from the broader side of the egg to make a stable base for the mushroom, top it with a tomato cap, and lastly make white dots by cutting the egg slice into small pieces or simply use mayonnaise. Decorate with lettuce <em>et voilà!</em></p>
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<p>I also tried this origami activity from <a href="http://howaboutorange.blogspot.com/2011/02/origami-mushrooms.html">How About Orange</a> with a couple of cousins but we were too lazy to actually understand what we&#8217;re supposed to do in <a href="http://en.origami-club.com/fruit/fly-agaric/fly-agaric/index.html">step 6</a>.</p>
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<p>Finally, I would like to thank my friend <a href="http://reflectupon.blogspot.com/">Rusaila</a> for <a href="http://youtu.be/OMweauvqzxA">this</a> cute and heart warming video greeting. It really cheered me up and made my heart smile. Thank you Russy! Eid Mubarak :)</p>
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<p>May in this Eid, Allah bless us all with  warmth in our homes&#8230;  faith in our hearts&#8230;  joy to our souls&#8230;  lots and lots of yummy chocolate and everything beautiful!</p>
<p>Love,</p>
<p>Nada</p>
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		<title>seriously!</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 27 Aug 2011 10:17:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nada Jaffal</dc:creator>
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		<title>When i think of heaven i think of this&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 11 Apr 2011 01:52:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nada Jaffal</dc:creator>
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		<title>Twaiku&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 03 Apr 2011 22:14:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8230;is Twitter Haiku. Because 140 characters are ideal for haiku! as simple as that. Though it&#8217;s more like Twenryu to me! (Twitter + Senryu) hmmm&#8230; More Twaikus here. This post is dedicated to Tymoor Sensei for teaching me how to compose Haiku, arigatou gozaimasu :) { Source }<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bizerbateekh.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5786292&amp;post=242&amp;subd=bizerbateekh&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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<p>&#8230;is Twitter <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haiku">Haiku</a>. Because 140 characters are ideal for haiku! as simple as that. Though it&#8217;s more like Twenryu to me! (Twitter + <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Senry%C5%AB">Senryu</a>) hmmm&#8230; More Twaikus <a href="http://twitter.com/#!/search/%23twaiku">here</a>.</p>
<p><em>This post is dedicated to <a href="http://ukyou.blogspot.com/">Tymoor Sensei</a> for teaching me how to compose Haiku, arigatou gozaimasu :)</em></p>
<p>{ <a href="http://twitter.pbworks.com/w/page/1779937/Twaiku-%28haiku-written-in-twitter%29">Source</a> }</p>
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		<description><![CDATA[Since it&#8217;s April already, but it still doesn&#8217;t feel like spring! People in Indiana need to do this. For the sake of their mental health. Just saying! { via Joanna Goddard }<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bizerbateekh.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5786292&amp;post=452&amp;subd=bizerbateekh&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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<p>Since it&#8217;s April already, but it still doesn&#8217;t feel like spring! People in Indiana need to do this. For the sake of their mental health. Just saying!</p>
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<p>The 10 best foods for your looks&#8230;</p>
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		<title>Why Arabs are 1432 years behind&#8230;</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[So all what&#8217;s happening in Jordan, Libya, Syria, Yemen, Bahrain, Iraq, Morocco, Tunisia, reminded me of what I learned in elementary school about the Pre-Islamic Arabia period, also known as Al-Jahiliyyah or &#8220;&#8221;the state of ignorance&#8221;. And this Article explains what Arabs were like back then, and ironically it&#8217;s still the same! Here&#8217;s an excerpt: [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bizerbateekh.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5786292&amp;post=573&amp;subd=bizerbateekh&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>So all what&#8217;s happening in Jordan, Libya, Syria, Yemen, Bahrain, Iraq, Morocco, Tunisia, reminded me of what I learned in elementary school about the Pre-Islamic Arabia period, also known as Al-Jahiliyyah or &#8220;&#8221;the state of ignorance&#8221;.</p>
<p>And <a href="http://www.asabia.com/Articles/ArticleDetails.aspx?ArticleID=48">this</a> Article explains what Arabs were like back then, and ironically it&#8217;s still the same!</p>
<p>Here&#8217;s an excerpt:</p>
<p style="text-align:right;"><span style="text-decoration:underline;color:#000000;"><strong> مظاهر العصبية القبلية في العصر الجاهلي</strong></span></p>
<p style="text-align:right;"><span style="color:#000000;">لم يكن العرب في الجاهلية أمة واحدة، ولا شعبًا واحدًا، بل كانوا قبائل وعصائب متفرقة، تحكمها أعراف قبلية متنوعة، وقد كانت العصبية القبلية هي أساس النظام الاجتماعي الجاهلي، الذي شعاره: ((انْصُرْ أَخَاكَ ظَالِمًا أَوْ مَظْلُومًا))، الداعي إلى نصرة المنتسب إلى القبيلة دون اعتبارٍ لكونه مُحِقًّا أو غير محق، وبخاصة &#8221; أن مجتمع القبيلة في العصر الجاهلي &#8211; بعلاقاته وعاداته وأعرافه &#8211; مجتمع يولد فيه العربي، ثم ينشأ متشرِّبًا عاداته وأعرافه التي تُبنى على دعامة أساسية هي النسب، وحينما يفتح الفرد عينيه على ما حوله يجد أن كل امرئ في قبيلته يتغنَّى بانتمائه إليها، ويعتدُّ بأَرُومَته؛ بدءًا من والده وإخوته، وانتهاءً إلى رهطه وعشيرته، فـ((جنسيته)) هي جنسية القبيلة المنحدر منها، و((هُويَّته)) التي يحملها في حِلِّه وتَرحاله اسمُ قبيلته، ذلك الاسم الذي يميزه عن أفراد القبائل الأخرى، ويعصمه عن أن يتيه بينهم</span></p>
<p style="text-align:right;"><span style="color:#000000;">وبما أنّ العصبية القبلية كانت أساسًا للنظام الاجتماعي في العصر الجاهلي، فقد تأصَّلت في نفوس العرب بعامة، والأعراب منهم بخاصة؛ لعيشهم في الصحارى والقِفَار. وتجلّت في كثير من نواحي حياتهم، وقد كان من أهم مظاهرها</span></p>
<p style="text-align:right;"><span style="text-decoration:underline;color:#000000;"><strong> الفخر بالأحساب، والطعن في الأنساب:</strong></span><br />
<span style="color:#000000;"> كان التفاخر والتعاظم بين أهل الجاهلية سمة اجتماعية سائدة؛ إذ كانت المفاخرة بمآثر الآباء والأجداد، وبالسيادة والريادة، أمرًا شائعًا، حتى إنهم ينطلقون أحيانًا إلى المقابر، فكانوا يشيرون إلى القبر بعد القبر، ويقولون: فيكم مثل فلان، ومثل فلان؟!</span></p>
<p style="text-align:right;"><span style="color:#000000;">&#8220;ومن أهم مظاهر التزام الفرد بالقبيلة: حرصه الشديد على النسب، والاعتزاز به، فقد كان أقوى صلة تربطه بقومه، وتشدّ أواصر العصبية معهم، فلا غرابة بعد ذلك أن يطمح إلى أن يجعل نسبه في الذروة من الشرف والرفعة، وأن يجعل الأجداد والآباء &#8211; الذين ينتمي إليهم &#8211; في مقام السادة العظماء. </span><br />
<span style="color:#000000;"> إن اعتزاز الإنسان العربي بنسبه جعله يغلو فيه أحيانًا، فلا يرى نسبًا يضاهي نسب قبيلته نُبْلاً وشرفًا، ولا يرضى أن يتطاول أحد من القبائل الأخرى فيدعي لنفسه نسبًا أشرف من نسبه، أو حَسَبًا أشرف أرومة منه، وما الرواية الآتية إلا صورة واضحة لذلك الغلو.</span></p>
<p style="text-align:right;"><span style="text-decoration:underline;color:#000000;"><strong> الطَّبَقِيَّة:</strong></span><br />
<span style="color:#000000;"> لقد كان أهل الجاهلية يعاملون الناس حسب منازلهم ودرجاتهم، ويُعمِلون مبدأ عدم التكافؤ بين الناس؛ فقد كان هناك سادة القوم وأشرافهم؛ من أمراء العرب، ورجال الدين، والتجار، ورؤساء العشائر، والشعراء، وغيرهم، وكان هناك من ينتمون إلى الطبقات الدنيا؛ كالفقراء، والصعاليك، والمحتاجين، وأبناء السبيل، وأصحاب الحِرف اليدوية، بالإضافة إلى العبيد وغيرهم، وكانت هناك طبقات وبيوت ترى لنفسها فضلاً على غيرها، وامتيازًا، فتترفع على الناس، ولا تشاركهم في عادات كثيرة، حتى في بعض مناسك الحج.</span><br />
<span style="color:#000000;"> ولقد أشار القرآن الكريم في كثير من آياته إلى أولئك الذين اختصوا أنفسهم بامتيازات، وترفعوا على الناس، بل على دعوات الرسل &#8211; عليهم السلام</span></p>
<p style="text-align:right;"><span style="text-decoration:underline;color:#000000;"><strong> الأخذ بالثأر:</strong></span><br />
<span style="color:#000000;"> لا شك أن معاقبة الجاني والثأر منه أمر جائز، فقتل القاتل مثلاً شيء لا ينكره شرع ولا عقل ولا عرف، إنما المذموم هو قتل غير القاتل بحجة أنه من آل فلان، أو ترك القاتل لأنه ليس كُفْئًا للمقتول، ثم السعي في قتل من هو كفء للمقتول وإن كان بريئًا، وهو ما كان سائدًا في العصر الجاهلي. فقد كان من خُلُق القوم في الجاهلية: الحرص على الأخذ بالثأر على أي حال، واستثارة الهمم للقتال، ليتمثل بذلك اعتزاز العربي بعصبيته، وصون كرامته، والحفاظ على هذه الكرامة إنما هو حفاظ على حيَاته نفسها، وكيانه في مجتمع ينهار فيه كل شيء إذا لم يَذُد فيه عن حياضه، ويركب للشر كل مركب، ويهون على العربي أمر الحياة، ويستهين بالموت من أجل ثأره، فإذا وجب الثأر دفاعًا عن الحرمات وحفظًا للكرامة، فإن المَنِيّة عند العربي خير من إعطاء الدَّنِيّة. فالأخذ بالثأر إذًا هو معنًى من المعاني التي تعبر عن روح العصبية، وهذا الخلق &#8211; على ما فيه من شر &#8211; يتصل بكرامة العربي التي تدفعه إلى أن يقتص بنفسه من المعتدين، بيد أنه تنقصه الشريعة التي يدين بها الجميع، ويمتثلون لنصوصها، ويخضعون لوجوه تطبيقها. إلى جانب هذا كان معنى الثأر أيضًا يستتبع ضروبًا من الشجاعة، والرجولة، والاستبسال، جعلت حصونهم ظهور خيلهم، ومِهادهم الأرض، وسقوفهم السماء، وجُنَّتهم السيوف، وعُدَّتهم الصبر.</span></p>
<p style="text-align:right;"><span style="color:#000000;">وتتشعب معاني الأخذ بالثأر، وما يتصل به من فكرة دفع الديات، وما يرتبط به أيضًا من قيم وعادات خاصة برفضها أو بقبولها والرضا بها؛ حسمًا للقتال وإقرارًا للسلام، ثم علاقة ذلك كله بمفهموم الكرامة عند العربي، ومعنى الشرف في معجم أخلاق</span></p>
<p style="text-align:right;"><span style="text-decoration:underline;color:#000000;"><strong> الحروب:</strong></span><br />
<span style="color:#000000;"> إن ((النُّعَرَة)) &#8211; وهي الصياح، ومناداة القوم بشعارهم؛ من أجل الاستغاثة بهم، وحثهم على الحرب &#8211; هي مظهر أساس من مظاهر العصبية، وحين ينادي أحد قومه؛ فلا بد من إجابته، دون النظر إلى طبيعة موقفه، أو فعله، هل هو ظالم أو مظلوم].</span></p>
<p style="text-align:right;"><span style="text-decoration:underline;color:#000000;"><strong> مظاهر أخرى:</strong></span><br />
<span style="color:#000000;"> ما ذكرته آنفًا هو أبرز مظاهر العصبية القبلية في العصر الجاهلي وهناك مظاهر أخرى تتمثل فيما يلي:</span><br />
<span style="color:#000000;"> أ &#8211; التحاكم إلى أهواء مشايخ العشائر والطواغيت والكهان ونحوهم وترك التحاكم إلى طريقة الرسل عليهم الصلاة والسلام.</span><br />
<span style="color:#000000;"> ب &#8211; التنقُّص من قَدْر القبيلة التي لا تسعى إلى الشر، وتكره الظلم </span><br />
<span style="color:#000000;"> جـ &#8211; التفرق الحسي والمعنوي وعِمِّيَّة الراية وترك الإمارة ورد الصاع صاعين</span><br />
<span style="color:#000000;"> د &#8211; التقليد في الباطل واتباع طريقة الآباء دون تمييز</span></p>
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		<description><![CDATA[I read about this last valentine and I&#8217;ve been waiting for a whole year to post about it. I present to you the Redesigning of Valentine&#8217;s Day&#8230; The result&#8230; I don&#8217;t really believe in Valentine&#8217;s day, but this is in hope for a more visually communicative world :)<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bizerbateekh.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5786292&amp;post=560&amp;subd=bizerbateekh&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I read about this last valentine and I&#8217;ve been waiting for a whole year to post about it.</p>
<p>I present to you the <a href="http://www.underconsideration.com/brandnew/archives/studio_360_challenge_redesign_valentines_day.php">Redesigning of Valentine&#8217;s Day</a>&#8230;</p>
<p><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-562" title="valentines_heart_transformation" src="http://bizerbateekh.files.wordpress.com/2011/02/valentines_heart_transformation.gif?w=490&#038;h=87" alt="" width="490" height="87" /></p>
<p><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-564" title="valentines_icon_orientation" src="http://bizerbateekh.files.wordpress.com/2011/02/valentines_icon_orientation.jpg?w=490&#038;h=250" alt="" width="490" height="250" /></p>
<p><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-563" title="valentines_icon_facebook" src="http://bizerbateekh.files.wordpress.com/2011/02/valentines_icon_facebook.jpg?w=490&#038;h=259" alt="" width="490" height="259" /></p>
<p>The result&#8230;</p>
<p><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-565" title="valentines_conclusion" src="http://bizerbateekh.files.wordpress.com/2011/02/valentines_conclusion1.jpg?w=490&#038;h=277" alt="" width="490" height="277" /></p>
<p>I don&#8217;t really believe in Valentine&#8217;s day, but this is in hope for a more visually communicative world :)</p>
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