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>1. Do you play an instrument? If so, what do you play and can you read music?

I DO NOT PLAY ANY INSTRUMENTS, NOR CAN I READ MUSIC.

>2. Do you drive? If so, what do you drive?

I KNOW HOW TO DRIVE, BUT I DO NOT DRIVE, NOR HAVE I EVER DRIVEN, NOR DO I WISH TO DRIVE.

>3. What's your level of education? What do you study?

TRUNCATED HIGH SCHOOL EDUCATION.

I STUDY WHATEVER INTERESTS ME.

>4. What are you reading? Why? Good?

"ÉTICA" BY JOSÉ VASCONCELOS, AND "SELECTED WORKS OF PORPHYRY" BY THOMAS TAYLOR, BECAUSE THEY TREAT SUBJECTS IN WHICH I AM INTERESTED.

I ONLY EVER READ WHAT I HAVE PREJUDGED AS "GOOD".

>5. Your view on God.

GOD IS THE ABSOLUTE KOSMIC UNITY COMPRISED OF ALL AND COMPRISING ALL.

>6. Your view on the human self, its existence/ non-existence and importance to life without reducing your answer to a discussion of its evolutionary importance.

THE HUMAN SELF IS JUST ONE OF MULTIPLE KINDS OF SELF, AND THE ONLY KIND OF BEING YET KNOWN TO BE CONSCIOUS —POSSESSING A CONSCIOUSNESS, THEREFORE POSSESSING A CONCEPT OF ITSELF AS BEING.

THE TELOS OF ALL BEINGS IS TO REALIZE THE ABSOLUTE VIA THE PROCESS OF SELFBECOMING.

>7. Your favorite landscape that you've actually laid your own eyes on.

THE SOUTHERN CALIFORNIAN SEASCAPE.

>8. Saddest moment of your life in one sentence.

I HAVE NOT HAD A SINGLE MOMENT OF SADNESS THAT I COULD IDENTIFY AS "THE SADDEST MOMENT OF MY LIFE".

>9. Drink/ smoke?

NEITHER.

>10. Hunt/ fish?

NEITHER.

HELLO.

IN ISLAM, AS IN JUDEOCHRISTIANITY, THE STORY OF "SATAN" GOES AS FOLLOWS:

"ALLAH" CREATED THE ANGELS, AND THE DJINN, LASTLY, ANIMALS, AND HUMANS, THEN "ALLAH" DEMANDED OF BOTH, ANGELS, AND DJINN, TO PLEDGE ETERNAL SERVICE TO HUMANS; EVERYONE DID SO, EXCEPT FOR THE LEADER OF THE DJINN, NAMED "IBLIS", AND SOME OF HIS FELLOWS.

"ALLAH" ASKED "IBLIS" WHY DID HE REFUSE TO PLEDGE ETERNAL SERVICE TO HUMANS, AND "IBLIS" ANSWERED THAT HE HAD NO REASON TO DO SO, AND THAT HE WAS BETTER THAN HUMANS, THUS "ALLAH" BANISHED HIM FROM "THE HEAVENS".

SO, MY QUESTIONS ARE:

IN ISLAM, OR MORE GENERALLY, IN MOHAMMEDANISM, IS THERE ANY THOROUGH & LOGICALLY VALID MANNER VIA WHICH "ALLAH'S" DEMAND, AND THE VILIFICATION OF "IBLIS" DUE TO HIS REFUSAL TO COMPLY WITH "ALLAH'S" DEMAND, ARE JUSTIFIED, OR RATIONALIZED?

SINCE TO "ALLAH" ALL HIS SENTIENT "CREATIONS" —ANGELS, DJINN, HUMANS, ANIMALS— ARE HIS "SLAVES"; ID EST: INHERENTLY & ETERNALLY BOUND TO HIM, "IBLIS'" REBELLION SEEMS LIKE AN ACT OF AUTONOMOUS JUSTICE, AND NOBLE MORALITY, DUE TO HIS REFUSING TO REMAIN A SLAVE, THEREFORE, FROM THIS PERSPECTIVE "IBLIS" SEEMS TO BE THE RIGHTEOUS ONE, HAVING THE "MORAL HIGHGROUND".

HOW ARE HUMANS SUPPOSED TO BE BETTER THAN DJINN, OR HOW ARE DJINN SUPPOSED TO BE BETTER THAN HUMANS?

WAS "ALLAH" "RIGHT" IN DEMANDING OF THE DJINN ETERNAL SERVICE TO HUMANS?

WAS "IBLIS", AND HIS FELLOWS, "RIGHT" IN REFUSING TO PLEDGE ETERNAL SERVICE TO HUMANS?

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I AM PLEASED TO SEE AN IMAGE OF ROSE BYRNE HERE; SHE IS AN UNDERRATED THESPIAN, AND SHE DESERVES BETTER "ROLES".