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The line between tranquility and boredom can be thin at times. Perhaps boredom is a tranquil state that is judged negatively. But the judgement came from somewhere so it seems unwise to just discard it.

In contemporary discourse-making boredom is framed to be a positive. It allows the mind to relax the argument goes and in these moments the mind sometimes finds solutions to problems that have been simmering in the background. There are also communities that deliberately reserve a day for doing nothing. In Germany a well-known concept is Ruhetag which states that Sunday is a day that should be free of work. In Judaism Saturday is reserved as a special day with Jews following the laws of Mozes choosing not to perform work or even travel or cook on Saturday.

In religious tradition this command to reflect and admonition to meet family can hardly be said to be the same to the psychological state of boredom. So perhaps boredom is involuntary. Boredom is a feeling that arises involuntarily and is deemed negatively.

Boredom can also be brilliant. When a college professor manages to induce a collective state of boredom-cum-peace when discussing classical works it is hard not to appreciate the virtuosity of form which said professor displays. Perhaps this is a personal experience since I recollect experiencing the same phenomenon when I was privileged to follow courses on calculus during my bachelors in business-information technology (yes it is really a pre-graduate program at University despite the name, see disclaimer on bottom)

The sheer complexity of the topic there made your brain go lucid except for that of the brightest students. The mentioned example thus shows what people might be able to recollect from personal experience that states of boredom can also arise in community. We can at least be thankful that we are there to be able to experience the state at all. For if this state is compared to the state of navigating busy traffic on the road while driving it seems that the state of nothingness which can be so tedious sometimes might not be so bad after all.

Ya Allah keep us safe in our travels please.

Disclaimer

The program was perfectly acceptable however the name just makes one associate with ather than a full-fletched academic program.

Can we make meaningfull statements about the past? Has the past happened in ways that could not have been otherwise?

If we answer the second affirmitavely statements like “the chances of event x happening is 1/n” are nonsensical since the event should happen with probability 1.

It is excruciating to write proper English also with modern media the voice of narration easily switches to American English.

I am not sure how big of a deal this is but it appears that British English is the literary language used in education both elementary and higher.

Now languages do change over time which is classified as the conservativity of languages. I think it shows good manners to be thankfull for this continuous refreshment of the oral and written languages

It is possible to revert to Shakespearian speech if one wants to show proficiency but this can be interpreted as snobism

The same way Arabic speakers will look estranged when one converses in Fusha Arabic one may get the same attitudes if she chooses to converse in pretentious English. The part about weird looks for spoken fusha in day-to-day interactions is something I accept prima facie since I have not experienced this myself but have heard it as hearsay from multiple sources.

Choosing English over ones motherlanguage is a choice than can be made for multiple reasons and more often than not this is not a choice that is made uniformly for all further conversation

For academic purposes however it is helping to keep writing in English since languages evolve so it is an ability that is lost over time

Alas one can learn Arabic as well but it seems that English is the standard

May God bless our souls and show us the light. May we be thankful for our blessings

I may choose to use “title #n” to indicate the n-th post in a selfcontained train of thought

This seems cleaner than repeating “title (cont.)”

Also wordpress might have solved the issue by using unique post ids in order to allow multiple posts with the same title but perhaps this is not how they operate

I am not intending to test wordpress’ internal mechanisms by creating multiple posts with the same title

We might discuss computer science history and economics as well

Cont. will mean “continuation” as in the post is a continuation of the previous post

At the bottom of the page it should be possible to go back to the previous post in the continuoued line.

I added an icon to the site I chose the Greek “phi” over the symbol of the zero set.

These litera will contain both male and female forms for neuter categories

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