"... Elvira Bary explores one of the quietest but most dangerous shifts inside Russia: the death of emotional ownership. Putin’s war was sold as a shared national mission — our boys, our front, our fight, our future. But more and more Russians now support the war publicly while privately wanting it to end, ..."

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The Death of "We": Why Russians No Longer Believe in Putin’s War Narrative

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A quotation from Twain

Customs do not concern themselves with right or wrong or reason. But they have to be obeyed; one may reason all around them until he is tired, but he must not transgress them, it is sternly forbidden.

Mark Twain (1835-1910) American writer [pseud. of Samuel Clemens]
Essay (1906), “The Gorky Incident,” Letters from the Earth (c. 1909; pub. 1962) [ed. DeVoto (1939)]

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Customs do not concern themselves with right or wrong or reason. But they have to be obeyed; one may reason all around them until he is tired, but he must not transgress them, it is sternly forbidden. Commenting on the eviction of Maxim Gorky from multiple hotels in New York…

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What you love most reveals what you worship.

Sacrifice is not only what leaves the hand.

It is what proves the heart.

Eid al-Adha asks:

What do you love?
What do you fear losing?
What would you still obey God through?

— Syed Raheel Shahzad

Eid al-Adha Reflection
Ibrahim عليه السلام | Sacrifice | Obedience | Tawheed

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Dogfirmations with Doofie and Dingus: Obedience

Dingus chooses divine direction over the comfort of approval.

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