The discourse regarding qadar in early Islamic political thought is significant with regard to caliphal authority and represents an avenue for dissent in the nascent caliphal state system. If free-will can be applied to parsing right and wrong in human actions and thought, then the responsibility for action falls to the actor, particularly in the case of unjust actions.

“A series of pipes.”
My dad has been hosting his origami site at Geocities for the past several years. I spoke to him yesterday about acquiring a domain name and self hosting the site as Geocities—presently owned and operated by Yahoo—will close its electronic doors very soon. He will move from there to a self-hosted [...]

This is for all those die-hard fans
I have no explanation for this really. Anyone else?
Pay special attention to the “Fantasy” section. It’s worth it.

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What will come over us next?

I caught this article this week on Reuters. Apparently, it has become a bit of a problem in Jerusalem that while people are there visiting holy sites and relics, something comes over them, causing odd behavior, spontaneous preaching and the perceiving of visions of prophets and messiahs. This phenomenon has [...]