funny cultural stuff we've heard/seen about.

format_quote Originally Posted by north_malaysian

It just some thing 'old' practices. Currently it seems like NOBODY care about it...

We should all care about it because the cultures of Asia which have been in Jihad against Gog and magog for the longest, are the cultures in which strange and odd habits which seem only to be superstitions, are those habits which have, in the past, saved whole populations.

If your mother had taught you that you might die of the flu unless you wore a sarong in the shower you probably would find it demeaning not to. But the truth of the habit of showering with a sarong on, is truly that of preventing our own memory of what we look like naked, from being stolen by the proponents of Gog and magog.

We must all take heed of what the cultures of far east asia have learned over long generations of close contact with the Gog and magog stories and dreaming. Here in Australia, our race gets paler when we come into contact with Gog and magog, as the best means of combatting false use of vanity - we get greedier. (but still need to value those among us whom sustain the black skin genetic as highly valued community members, since they are able to face Gog and magog as black skin people, who see more fully the phenomenon of Gog and magog. - some parts of I will not look at alive)

Old wives tales, or creepy old customs, or just a plain giggle at ourselves for not remembering the original cause . . . we have to learn to constantly re-evaluate our past and rework those habits and customs and stories which proved in the past, and continue to prove now, to be of positive effect.

However, there are old customs which were based themselves in taking a sideways advantage from having been disadvantaged by sihr(black magic), and those are the customs which we no longer need. Money itself is such a phenomenon: a sort of lesser of two evils choice, between swallowing ............?(money=kafr), and putting up with being totally under the influence of shaytan if we are to interact in the mainstream.

I prefer being a hermit, but can not afford to be . . .
well I can, but others ask for my help here in the mainstream, so money is the solution to avoiding the shaytan . . .

Eventually men will be looking back into this time from Jannah and laughing at what absurd customs we had:

"look at her, she just can't stop looking at that machine which has strange disease inducing food in it, and only because she has those round pieces of metal for trade in her pocket! What a joke!"

We shall all have a good ole laugh at our selves in the end.

I guess that the extent to which we can already laugh is the extent to which we are already finding that old ways of avoiding shaytan have become, for our immediate life, obsolete.

But I am wanting to warn that Humanity is not clear of Gog and magog just yet, so it is still good to sift through those old customs and find out if any can still be an efficient way of combatting sihr. Perhaps why many of seem already obsolete is because they are caused by an event that occurred in a far away place. So the habit is only relevant in that exact place.

Like if your family are from Asia, and now in England . . . many customs will be irrelevant, yet others relevant. Like those stories which Rudyard Kipling told for English children, the Just So stories. The one about the baby snake and the mongoose, that works in London because the same story belongs there also.

Maybe the real work for now, is in sorting through what we have known and finding what is relevant to the place we are now in. If there is a fossil fuel shortage, we will all need to be good at inter-cultural communication in the customs which first belonged to the place we are now in.

salams