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قد أرعَدوا وأبرَقوا، ومعَ هذين الأمرَينِ الفَشَل، ولَسنا نُرعِدُ حتى نُوقِع، ولا نَسيلُ حتى نُمطِر.
لا يَحمَد حامِدٌ إلّا رَبّه ولا يَلُم لائمٌ إلّا نَفسَه
شُغِلَ مَنِ الجنّةُ والنارُ أمامَه! ساعٍ سريعٌ نجا، وطالِبٌ بطيءٌ رجا، ومُقَصِّرٌ في النارِ هَوَى. اليَمينُ والشِّمالُ مَضَلَّة¹ والطريقُ الوسطى هي الجادّة²

¹المَضَلّة: طريق الضَّلال، الضياع والهلاك.
²الجادّة: الطريق الصحيح، المستقيم.
فإنّ المالَ والبنينَ حَرثُ الدنيا، والعَمَلُ الصالِح حَرثُ الآخرة
— علي بن أبي طالب (ع)
Forwarded from 0/0 (Haidar A. Fahad)
كلُّ من جعلَ سعادته وهناءه في يد غيرِه أو في يد الظروف والأشياء الخارجية فهو عبدٌ ولو كان يرتدي الأُرجوان الملَكي.

- المحادثات، إبكتيتوس
Pyrrhonism was a philosophy in ancient Greece that advocated "suspension of judgement" as a way of reaching perfect bliss «ataraxia». In short, if you suspend your judgement (dogma) about anything and everything, you'll reach serenity and calmness.

The founder of this philosophy, Pyrrho, travelled with Alexander the great to India and stayed there for more than a year. There, he met with Indian philosophers (gymnosophists) and Persian priests (Magi). A lot of his ideas have an interesting resemblance with Buddhist ideas, like "the three marks of existence."
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Pyrrhonism was a philosophy in ancient Greece that advocated "suspension of judgement" as a way of reaching perfect bliss «ataraxia». In short, if you suspend your judgement (dogma) about anything and everything, you'll reach serenity and calmness. The founder…
هاي جانت فلسفة باليونان القديمة، فكرتها هي أنّ الواحد "يعلّق" أحكامه على أي شي بحيث لا يحكم لصالح أي قضية ولا ضدها. بهاي الطريقة فالعقل يوصل لمرحلة الـ ataraxia أو الهدوء والسكينة.

وحدة من طرقهم الغريبة، والمثيرة للإهتمام الصراحة، هي أنّهم لما يتناقشون حول قضية معينة رح يقدّمون حجّة لصالح هاي القضية، ثُمّ حجّة ضد هاي القضية، وبهذا "يعلّقون حكمهم" تجاه القضية وما ياخذون أي موقف تجاهها.
Can you imagine the rhetorical and logical dexterity these guys have? They can present any argument for/against anything.
Good luck arguing with them
There is much envy in every act of condemnation.

— Cioran, I think...
Nothing in the world is perfect . . . But we remain in this ‘imperfect’ world, because even so we can use it for our self-enjoyment.

— The Ego and Its Own, by Max Stirner
Most of us would disagree with the premise that technological progress is a plain disaster, but actually, many well-respected philosophers and social theorists have defended similar views.
What singles out Kaczynski, [some] would claim, is that he pushed this radically pessimistic viewpoint to its logical consequences and acted accordingly. As one of his biographers put it: “Kaczynski, in short, had become a cold-blooded killer not despite of his intellect, but because of it.”

— The Enigma of Reason
Quite simply put, the nihilist claims that the world as it is in actual fact is other than it ought to be.
This sense of dissatisfaction with the nature of reality is evidenced in every one of the nihilists that we have so far examined. Each of them at one point or another expresses a distressed cry of discontent with the world and its constitution. Sometimes this appears as a violent and angry rage against the established order, while at other times it is evidenced as a passive and melancholy attitude of resignation.

— Laughing at Nothing
Forwarded from Lab Rats In Lab Coats (Haidar A. Fahad)
This brings me to "Hypokalemia in DKA"
Forwarded from Lab Rats In Lab Coats (Haidar A. Fahad)
Lab Rats In Lab Coats
This brings me to "Hypokalemia in DKA"
Every patient in DKA is potassium-depleted but the plasma concentration of potassium gives very little indication of the total body deficit. Plasma potassium may even be raised initially due to disproportionate loss of water, and displacement of potassium from the intracellular compartment by H+ ions.
Forwarded from Lab Rats In Lab Coats (Haidar A. Fahad)
Lab Rats In Lab Coats
Every patient in DKA is potassium-depleted but the plasma concentration of potassium gives very little indication of the total body deficit. Plasma potassium may even be raised initially due to disproportionate loss of water, and displacement of potassium…
Soon after treatment is started, there is likely to be a precipitous fall in the plasma potassium due to dilution of extracellular potassium by administration of intravenous fluids, the movement of potassium into cells induced by insulin, and the continuing renal loss of potassium.