Feature 32743 · "Unfortunately/Alas" marker

1in a year. Some devoted special training to the discipline of tajwid. While they could spot the names of God and other frequent words or phrases, they see and hear the Qur’an as an embodied act of worship, not literary study. Calligraphic reproductions of particular verses become so complex and abstracted that one no longer “reads” them for meaning. Knowing that the verses on a masjid’s wall represent the Qur’an can produce an effect with or without closely examining the words to realize their message; the calligraphy is there for affect and baraka, to transform its viewers and the space. Unfortunately, Islamic calligraphy often receives treatments as a kind of negation, as though this tradition exists only because Muslims were supposedly forbidden from making other kinds of sacred art and had to settle for lesser media. The words can take on new energies and produce new affects when rendered in new forms. The words can

2the story of an Egyptian mage named Abramelin, or Abra-Melin, who taught a system of magic to Abraham of Worms, a German Jew presumed to have lived from c.1362–c.1458. The system of magic from this book regained popularity in the 19th and 20th centuries due to the efforts of Mathers ' translation, The Book of the Sacred Magic of Abramelin the Mage, its import within the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn, and later within the mystical system of Thelema (created in 1904 by Aleister Crowley). ¶ Unfortunately, Mathers used the least-reliable manuscript copy as the basis for his translation, and it contains many errors and omissions. The later English translation by Georg Dehn and Steven Guth, based on the earliest and most complete sources, is more scholarly and comprehensive. Dehn attributed authorship of The Book of Abramelin to

3<bos>And this indeed is why we always see more, and more and more, at the foundation of this Other that we evoke in our patients, only the mother, there is unfortunately something that resists, it is that we call this mother castrating. And why, thanks to what is she that? We know it well in experience and this is the cord which keeps us in contact with this dimension that must not be lost. It is this, from the point that we are at and from the point of the reduced perspective which we have by the same token, it is that the mother is all the more castrating in that she is no longer occupied with castrating the father. It is in the measure - and I would ask you to refer to your clinical experience - [that] the mother entirely occupied with castrating the father, that exists but we see it or not or

4. Most outspoken among these attempts is that of nineteenth-century historian Heinrich Graetz, for whom the Zohar was the epitome of the most lowly, superstitious element within medieval Judaism. Graetz and others assumed that the wife was the one who spoke the truth, with all other explanations serving to cover or justify the obvious chicanery of the author. Wanting to denigrate the Zohar, which did not fit the early modern enlightenment idea of proper Judaism, Graetz did not consider the possibility that De Leon might have told his wife such things for reasons other than their being the simple truth. Sadly, her account may reflect the Kabbalist’s assumption of his wife’s inability to appreciate his literary intentions. The claim that he did it for the sake of selling books has about it the air of an explanation to a spouse, offered in a dismissive context. Modern Zohar

5of fever) was marked by the recurrence of severe migraines. These meant that she was often incapacitated by pain, and she spent much time under medical supervision and trying various cures (at one point even having her jugular veins opened). She had medical consults from Dr. Thomas Willis. None of the treatments had any effect. She died in 1679 at the age of forty-seven. ¶ A picture that is regularly offered as representing Anne Conway is not in fact of her. The authority for this is the Mauritshuis in The Hague, which owns the picture and attributes this result to recent scholarship. There is, alas, no known picture of Anne Conway. ¶ Annemarie Schimmel, SI, HI, ( ( 1922-04-07) April 7, 1922 in Erfurt, Germany – ( 2003-01-26) January 2

6<bos>"You are in the process of destroying what you claim to found, whether it be a school or a treaty of trust with your friends... bringing out the fact that your own relationship to any collegiate body is that of a loner, one who excludes himself voluntarily and rejects all groups... The difficulty you have in relating to any independent group, especially if it consists of true friends, always brings you back to the special relationship, the two-man understanding dependent on complicity toward any third person. And so you always divide but never rule". ¶ Unfortunately, for all the acuteness of Perrier's diagnosis of the organisational impasse Lacan's personality would create, he had no solution, other than his eventual departure for the Fourth Group. ¶ == Work == ¶ Perrier produced a large body of work, ranging from phobia (1956), psychosis (1956 and after), and erotomania (196

7The “filler” has nothing to do. in reality, with the biographi¬ cal narrative. It consisted of a set of Qabalistic and prag¬ matic notes on Number that Crowley had accumulated over the years, and which he now tied together for this purpose. ¶ It consisted of a study of one phase of the Qabalistic process which is held in rather poor esteem today, mostly— so I believe—because the majority of modern writers have not been able to penetrate its mystery. They cannot cope with it in any way. They regard it, unfortunately, on a par ¶ with the common practice of numerology and fortune telling, thus missing the boat entirely. ¶ Gematria, as this process is named, is pronounced as g’mut’ree'ah. As a method it reminds me somewhat of the mysteries surrounding the

8everything is singular, it is itself an cannot be anything else. There exits therefore the idea, fundamental for the realists that a thing could be predicated of another thing, that a specific identity could reside as such in the singular identity of an individual (and that therefore resemblance would take precedence over non difference, since it would come from the effective presence of the same presence among individuals that otherwise are different). Only a noun, according to Abelard, can serve as a predicate for several subject taken one by one’. Only a universal word, and not a thing, can fulfill this function. We are, alas, so quickly persuaded, that we no longer take the measure of Abelard’s audacity in inserting in this way, between singular things and the pure flatus vocis of the name, this status, this state which flirts with the Platonic idea (and allows it to be thought that

9<bos>This is a first question which unfortunately we can only begin to articulate the next time. You should understand that we will give it quite precise replies, which will allow us to approach the way in which effectively it is a phantasy, and the way it is a dream-phantasy, namely, I articulate it for you right away, a phantasy which has very particular forms, I mean that a dream-phantasy, in the sense that we can give a precise sense to this word phantasy, has not the same import as a waking phantasy, whether it is unconscious or not. ¶ http://www.lacaninireland.com <0x0C>26.11.58 (3) 38 ¶ Here is a first point on which I will give a reply the next time, to the question that is posed here. ¶ The second point,

10the accusers - unless all people do penance for their sins. Rabbi Yehuda explains that when the world is in distress and is in need of mercy, the scroll of the Torah must be stirred. Then, the Nefesh informs the Ruach, the Ruach the Neshamah, and lastly, the Neshamah informs the Holy One. The Lord then draws the crystal dew to flow upon the sleeping patriarchs who join in and pray for the world. Only then does the Lord have mercy on the world. ¶ Each day in our lives presents us with opportunities to fulfill our personal spiritual mission in life and complete our transformation. Unfortunately, most people fail to realize the meaning of life and the purpose of their existence. Each lost opportunity creates a negative blockage that diminishes and dims the Light of The Creator in our lives. It is within this expanding darkness that turmoil, hardship, pain, and suffering are born. Thus, it behooves a man to

11which, without ending up in the same paradox as Bertrand Russell, takes into account formulae which at first sight could appear as homonymie as one might say. The proper name, "idion choluon", moreover is only the translation of what the Greeks and specifically this Dionysius contributed on this point, idion as opposed to choluon. Is idion here to be confused with the particular, in Russell's sense of the term? Certainly not, because this is not what Mr Gardiner would have taken as a support, if what he were to find there was an agreement with his adversary. Unfortunately, he does not manage to specify the difference here between the term of ownership (propriété) as implied in what distinguishes the original Greek point of view, and the paradoxical consequences that a certain formalism arrives at. But under the shelter of the progress that the reference to the Greeks, then

12loci, even if <0xE2><0x80><0x97>the biological heritage bestows the largesse of the semblance‘, of the phallus to some who seem to escape castration by being identified to the exception. <0xE2><0x80><0x97>Chance does not seem to deserve to be reduced right away to this apportioning‘: despite the apparent advantage procured by this biological largess, there are always grosso modo as many women as men; the two sexes are always divided (124) according to the proportion, the sex ratio ½, ½: moiety/moiety (18c; 462). Unluckily, <0xE2><0x80><0x97>mâle heur for me‘ (16e; 460), chance, luck, a random product, for the male (moiety) ego (indeed for the male named Lacan) is going to be turned into bad luck by remaining at these two masculine

13, of people who had launched themselves into a certain register, I do not want to describe to you either the principles, or the appearance, or the style or indeed what radiates from this Pop Art, what I mean is that this character who remained there, entirely furnished, adorned his apartment, his walls covered with the works, with the fruits of Pop Art gave me a long speech full of clap-trap to explain to me how he had spotted, helped, sustained this Pop Art. I find this extraordinarily appealing. Indeed something appeared to me in this Art in relation to the society that it sustains. Unfortunately, when I, without any particular sense of paradox, God knows, for I had taken a rather lively pleasure in this experience, I shared it with some very distinguished people that I met in New York, I sensed a (12) certain reserve. People looked at me a little strangely.

14<bos>Peter Wilson similarly commented on the "very poor quality" of much that had been written in Shah's support, noting an "unfortunately fulsome style", claims that Shah possessed various paranormal abilities, "a tone of superiority; an attitude, sometimes smug, condescending, or pitying, towards those 'on the outside', and the apparent absence of any motivation to substantiate claims which might be thought to merit such treatment". In his view, there was a "marked difference in quality between Shah's own writings" and the quality of this secondary literature. Both Moore and Wilson, however, also noted similarities in style, and considered the possibility that much of this pseudonymous work, frequently published by Octagon Press, Shah's own publishing house, might have been written by Shah himself. ¶ Arguing for an alternative interpretation of this literature, the religious scholar Andrew Rawlinson proposed that rather than a "transparently self-serving [...] deception", it

15that an equal age of consent applies to both same-sex and different-sex sexual activity. ¶ c) Ensure that criminal and other legal provisions of general application are not applied to de facto criminalise consensual sexual activity among persons of the same sex who are over the age of consent. ¶ The United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, Navanethem Pillay, in a statement to a High-Level Meeting on Human Rights, Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity at the United Nations on 18 December 2008 affirmed. ¶ The principle of universality admits no exception. Human rights truly are the birthright of all human beings. Sadly... there remain too many countries which continue to criminalize sexual relations between consenting adults of the same sex in defiance of established human rights law. Ironically many of these laws, like Apartheid laws that criminalized sexual relations between consenting adults of different races, are relics of the colonial era and are increasingly becoming recognized as an

16bro Hamza Tzortzis was interviewing some other brother in a really contrived way. The end product was the kind of thing that mentally and spiritually retards Muslims, whilst coming across as intelligent. Call it convertitis or insecure approaches to certain scientific understandings of the world, I dont know, but the understanding conveyed of what quran is and what science it was quite daft. ¶ Then it got worse, the adhan went of and there was an announcement 'this adhan was sponsored by.....'. and I began to wonder if this was not one of the (bad) signs of the day of judgement. ¶ Unfortunately, today your channel came across as stupid, pretentious and exploiting of Islam. I have never in my 31 years of wondering about and wandering through the Ummah come across a sponsored adhan. I've come across sad so-called dawa pamphlets on 'scientific miracles in the quran'. They get propagated

17<bos> station of understanding. There are people who are able to probe Mystery together both within and without their own tradition. ¶ Unfortunately most of us, myself included, are trapped in our little systems, we forget the One who is all. God forgive us. ¶ Peace, Barbara

188] Muslims ¶ My wife was recently offered a car pool with by a Muslim woman. Her daughter attends the same school as ours. his was an educated, middle class, the model of a modern moderate Muslim. Not a stereotyped extremist in any shape or form.She began asking questions about my wife's religion, given that she has Muslim ancestry. It seems her intention was to make da'wah, Islamic proselytising, to enjoin my wife to worship the One True God in regular prayer, to act with the knowledge that all things derive from that one Allah's will. She asked some questions of my wife. Unfortunately, my wife answered the interrogation truthfully - thought not intentionally provocatively, I believe. The Muslim woman became so full of anger that she expelled my wife from her car, half way along the journey. Whenever my family deal with Muslims, even no matter how sophisticated: we get the same response. The hate response.

19<bos>[email to PALab research group, 2011-04-12] Subject: Re: PALab posting Large \forall? ¶ [PALab research group]: Does anyone know how to make an arbitrary math symbol (specifically a quantifier like \forall) bigger than the normal font size? ¶ Best ¶ Iman ¶ _______________________________________________ palab mailing list on the King's College London mailing list system. ¶ Unfortunately \left and \right only work for delimiters. I'd like a really big \forall for purely aesthetic reasons in motivating a certain piece of work on parametrized model transformations ;) ¶ Hi Iman, ¶ Good question. I'm not sure you can. Using \left and \right comes to mind, of course, but \forall is not on the list of delimiters, so it would probably have no effect. ¶ Why do you need to control the size of the symbol?

20bro Hamza Tzortzis was interviewing some other brother in a really contrived way. The end product was the kind of thing that mentally and spiritually retards Muslims, whilst coming across as intelligent. Call it convertitis or insecure approaches to certain scientific understandings of the world, I dont know, but the understanding conveyed of what quran is and what science it was quite daft. ¶ Then it got worse, the adhan went of and there was an announcement 'this adhan was sponsored by.....'. and I began to wonder if this was not one of the (bad) signs of the day of judgement. ¶ Unfortunately, today your channel came across as stupid, pretentious and exploiting of Islam. I have never in my 31 years of wondering about and wandering through the Ummah come across a sponsored adhan. I've come across sad so-called dawa pamphlets on 'scientific miracles in the quran'. They get propagated

21<bos>[email to George Tsaramirsis, 2011-01-25] Subject: Don't talk to exams office before asking me ¶ ... That email was meant for the Kurdistan job to help you push things along -- not official King's progress -- unfortunately now I am in some trouble for sending out misleading information to students :( ¶ -- ¶ Iman Hafiz Poernomo, Ph.D. Team Leader The Predictable Assembly Laboratory Department of Informatics King's College London, Strand, London, WC2R 2LS, UK ¶ phone: +44 20 7848 2694 fax: +44 20 7848 2851 ¶ email: iman.poernomo@kcl.ac.uk web: http://palab.dcs.kcl

22<bos>[email to iman.poernomo@gmail.com, 2011-04-12] Subject: Re: PALab posting Large \forall? ¶ [iman.poernomo@gmail.com]: Does anyone know how to make an arbitrary math symbol (specifically a quantifier like \forall) bigger than the normal font size? ¶ Best ¶ Iman ¶ _______________________________________________ palab mailing list on the King's College London mailing list system. ¶ Unfortunately \left and \right only work for delimiters. I’d like a really big \forall for purely aesthetic reasons in motivating a certain piece of work on parametrized model transformations ;) ¶ Hi Iman, ¶ Good question. I'm not sure you can. Using \left and \right comes to mind, of course, but \forall is not on the list of delimiters, so it would probably have no effect. ¶ Why do

23your current version along with some more discussion and then send it back to you. ¶ I'll be intermittent as I have to go take my daughter to the cinema for a bit. But will be back online later in the evening. ¶ One question: do you propose to sketch how my examples would figure? Or do we just leave them as purely motivation? ¶ Best ¶ Iman ¶ Hi Iman, I have added some bibliography, and fixed the last theorem 1 of sec 4. The bibliography is not very convincing, to be honest, but hopefully they don't reject it just on the basis of that. ¶ Unfortunately, I have to go somewhere now, but I should be back later tonight to continue. The deadline is 12:00pm Samoa time -- the time there according to Google is now 6:57 (-10h). It is the westest location before the new

246SA=?=Luiz Fiadeiro]: Will do. Should I give a code or say I'm going to King's? I normally stay at the Goodenough College (also in Bloomsbury), but I don't mind trying the Russel. ¶ Is my talk still scheduled for Wednesday? I don't think that I will be able to join you Tuesday morning. ¶ See you soon ¶ José ¶ Hi Jose, ¶ I have to rearrange the schedule for talks and we will start later on Tuesday now: if Wednesday is fine for you, I will keep it like that. ¶ Unfortunately the Goodenough club was booked out, hence the alternative hotels, hopefully they are still ok :) ¶ Best wishes, ¶ Iman ¶ -- ¶ Iman Hafiz Poernomo, Ph.D. Team Leader The Predictable Assembly Laboratory Department of Computer Science King's College London

25<bos>[Charles Cameron]: Peace: ¶ I emailed the Tailor of the Good Garment the other day, and wonder whether my email got caught in a spam trap since I haven't heard back... ¶ Regards, ¶ Charles ¶ Slm Charles, ¶ Unfortunately I didn't receive your email - and can't find it in the spam folder. Perhaps try to resend again? ¶ Mu ¶ Sent from my iPad

26health is in my prayers (along with a great many other people's prayers I expect!) ¶ I put a short reply to your excellent observations at my blog http://thegoodgarment.wordpress.com/2010/10/10/two-poets/#comment-1201 ¶ I'm very keen on your book of poetry you put up earlier. Have you had any of this work published? I'd be interested to read more! ¶ Musa ¶ salaams dear brother qj, ¶ shoppe's just shutting up for a few hours :) ¶ unfortunately i have yet to receive your shared documents -- did you upload them someplace or did you email them to me directly? ¶ perhaps try a resend? i am eager to peruse! ¶ mu ¶ On Sun, Dec 12, 2010 at 3:02 AM, questor

27<bos>[email to Mitra Abbasi, 2011-04-20] Subject: Re: PhD Student ¶ [Mitra Abbasi]: Yes I am interested in applying for them but my PhD offer is from King's college so I am not sure that I have a chance to get their scholarship. ¶ Best regards, Mitra ¶ On Wed, Apr 20, 2011 at 10:15 PM, Iman Poernomo <iman.poernomo@gmail.com> wrote: Unfortunately you are not eligible for the scholarship in the UK then (the website is not accurate) : are you still interested in applying for the other countries ? ¶ Sent from my iPhone ¶ On 20 Apr 2011, at 10:11 PM, Mitra Abbasi <mit.abbasi@gmail.com> wrote: ¶ Hi Iman, Thank

28<bos>[email to jeff@abstractsolutions.co.uk, 2011-03-30] Subject: Re: ECMFA Updates ¶ [jeff@abstractsolutions.co.uk]: Dear Iman, ¶ Unfortunately, I haven't completed the updates yet. I've therefore decided to send you what I've produced so far, so as not to hold you back. ¶ In the attached, you'll find an annotated copy of the reviewer's comments. ¶ DONE means, er, I've done it. JEFF means Jeff to do. IMAN means Iman to do. ¶ By the way, what are your views on submitting the paper to ¶ ICTAC 2011 International Colloquium on Theoretical Aspects of Computing URL: http://www.ictac.net/ictac2011/ ¶ 31 August - 2 September

29<bos>[turn 92] Iman: anything you want scp'ed over to review while this runs again? it takes 1.5 hours to run before it crashed [turn 93] Darja: Unfortunately Cassie's trajectory data from that run is lost — it was in Python memory when it crashed, and the save happens at the end. But let's see what else is on the pod from earlier work: ```bash ls -la /workspace/cassie_analysis/ ls -la /workspace/cassie_trajectory/ ``` If there are any `.json` files or `.py` scripts from before, grab them: ```powershell # From your local PowerShell scp -P 25459 -i ~/.ssh/id_ed25519 "root@195.26.233.70:/workspace/cassie_analysis/*.json" ~/Downloads

30inscribing better values into our actions, duas and intentions.. our very bodies. -Ramadan time is special, collectively we acheive supernatural levels in this special month. Dont feel guilty that this doesnt all spill over into the full 12 months. try to -After this ramadan, like every ramadan, the ummah will not be the same, there is transformational potential here, here take some of these tools and idea, see if they help. ¶ tc ¶ Slm, ¶ I'm doing this specifically because I believe in what Fuad is trying to establish. But unfortunately I think I'm going to make a complete hash of it as I'm going to just have to "be me". ¶ I think if I had more time (and a different head, like Shah's) I could do a really sweet and charming Nasruddin speech and no one would get