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Most people live in teleological time.On twitter mostly they mention about what happen in their daily lives. How their daily lives affect their feelings and react toward what happened. As a writer every time I write I had a different feeling.One day I am so happy sometimes angry or sad. As write journal good thing about twitter is there is respond on what I am writing about myself. I realized that I am not only one that feels that way and so many people feel same as me. Most exciting about twitter is that I could experience different people whom I was interest in such as my hero Ki moon Ban who is current Secretary-General of the UN.Everytime I was wandering what is his schedule and what is his life would be as Secretary-General of the UN. He is listing all the meetings he had and his schedule. I could have indirect experience in his lives.
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Because narrator is telling the stories for 1001 nights and some tales are framed within other tales, this story seems never ending.the story “Wazir of King Yunan with the sage Duban” is within another story “THE FISHERMAN AND THE JINNI.”The whole story is one of the largest in the main story. Most of story tells that good triumphs over evil and evil’s tragic end was what he or she deserved. People change into animals sometimes animal that was transformed turn in to human. For example, in “The Trader and the Jinny,’ stepson turn into calf and her mom also turn into a heifer. In this story most of story is Teleological time. For example “in THE FISHERMAN AND THE JINNI”,it begins with fisherman's daily life. Also there is entropic or chaotic time. In the story “The Tale of the Ensorcelled Prince”,Mahmud’s wife put the drug on his wine and he does not know what is really happening around him because of drug. Whole household knows what is going on but not him. I t is example of chaotic time.
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The Koran says “Man and woman were created of a single soul," and man and woman are moral equals in the sight of God. It seems man and woman has equal value. But reality is different than Koran says. In Western culture man has more power than woman. Of course woman’s status has been upgraded than 19th century but still woman in house has less voice than man. Some woman who is not educated is treating bad and has no voice at all. In “The Tale of the Ensorcelled Prince”, there is man whose name is Mahmud. He believes that his wife loves him so much but reality is that she was cheating on him. He found out that his wife put drug on his wine every night and went outside. After he hears this story from slaves saying, one day he pretended he was drinking and follows her. Finally he found out that his wife had an affair with slave. In Islamic culture women seems have no right to be happy. According to Ruqaiyyah Waris Maqsood, “A good Muslim woman, for her part, should always be trustworthy and kind. She should strive to be cheerful and encouraging towards her husband and family, and keep their home free from anything harmful.” what is the standard of judging whether she is good woman or not?? In Islamic culture woman have to induce and can’t raise her voice. Woman has to focus on her family’s happiness than herself. What about her happiness??
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5 comments:
It seems "wives cheating on men" is the common theme throughout "One Thousand and One Nights." From my research on Muslim women, it also says men and women are equal although the interpretation on gender roles varies based on different cultures and locales. I also feel that the reality is different than what's stated in the Quran. Why all these stories are about how wives cheated husbands and not the other way around?
Interesting writing. I do agree with you when it comes to section one of your writing, it is clear that many individuals do seem to have the same emotions to others reagarding something that occurred in their lives. Twitter is an interesting networking site but my thing is how true are the comments on there? People i find do express alot about their lives on this networking site. In your posting you made very strong points regarding the Islamic culture. When religion is tied in with alot of traditions it makes it harder for any individual. In the Islamic culture i do sense that the women do have worth and are well respected but their duties are to their children and their husbands. That is no different from the society that we live in. Regardless once you are married as a woman your focus will be on your household whether it is in the Quran or the Holy Bible or any other book, but i do not believe that would make them less of a woman or downgrade their happiness.
Grace, I sometimes wonder if people would share their true and immediate feelings to the web.
It's kind of a social standard that women are not seem as equal as men. Even though in the U.S., such a open country, the average salary of women is 1/3 lower than men's. And also, if a man is having an affair with a woman, society often blame mostly on the woman. In response of your last questions: yes, our society doesn't care about women's happiness.
I agree, I believe the drug induced episode is an example of chaotic time in "The Tale of the Ensorcelled Prince." I think drugs in general allow us to live in chaotic time, which some may find a bit more interesting, rather than the usual teleological time, which is redundant for most. Drugs, used properly, can alter one's view of life and one's surroundings, making the night seem a "blur" or making one forget the events that took place in the time the drug was active. When other's know what is going on around you and you don't, it seems that nothing is relative and things are only happening to you, making you feel outcasted and alone, sometimes in a positive way, seperating yourself from things in society that might be negative, such as stress from work, a bad relationship, or studying for 90 hours solid.
***DISCLAIMER - I am not condoning nor condemning the use of mind-altering drugs, I'm merely stating the fact that they can, just like in "The Tale of the Ensorcelled Prince," alter the feeling of time and relativity.
While writing about my experience about twitter, I didn’t take in consideration or even think that the teleological time would be part of it, but after reading of what you wrote, it does affect our live in a way. There were things that made me feel that I was not the only one that had the same feeling or thoughts towards something that happened. Since I do not follow anyone “famous”, the idea that what they are actually doing could affect our lives didn’t even cross my mind. But I do agree that if you are a fan of someone and you follow that person on the twitter, and see what they are doing it could give you and example or the opposite of it, and make you take actions with your views of their actions.
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