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People’s nagging in Amman
They keep on nagging and nagging on you to get married. You wouldnt be good if you reached a certain age without doing this must. Once you get married, they start nagging on you to get a child. You wouldn’t be good if several year passed without you getting your first child. If you get…
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Relationships in Amman
There is a severe problem in relationships in Amman. I am talking about pre-marital relationships for people between the ages 20-30. At this point of time, women are getting in a delimma like never before. With the rapid changes happening in our society of going from a closed conservative society to a more and more…
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With censorship?
In my post of yesterday, I called for some censorship from the government on what I percieved as a discriminating ad. I got a couple of comments as a reply to my post. One of them was from Nas who thinks that it is odd that I am the one calling for censorship – which…
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Veiled women needed for Al Tazaj! – Blunt discrimination
Yesterday I came across an ad in the newspaper for the ‘Al Tazaj’ fast food restaurant asking for employees to work for them in their branch in Amman. What caught my attention is their explicit request of ‘veiled’ females which I find as a disturbing blunt discrimination. I do realize that this happens on a…
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Elissa and conspiracy theory mentality
It is just funny how the conspiracy theory mentality works. It can be applied on anything, from a childish distrust of a person, to politics and nations affairs. One can see it clear in every Arabic forum. Usually there is a news or something to disucss. People start supporting or attacking the issue on hand,…
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Trust…
“I don’t trust anyone because no one can be trusted in this life. I have been burnt before from my best friend” “I have found out that my ex-boyfriend was cheating on me” “Men canno’t be trusted” “There is no real friends these days” In order to protect ourselves, we lose much enjoyment in life.…
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The original sin concept
The original sin inheritance concept of Christianity does require some faith from Christian themselves in order to swallow what would seem to be an unfair inheritance dictated by their holy God. Other people outside Christianity do point out the unfairness in such a concept of being born as a little baby while holding the original…
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Stuck at work
I feel tired. Work is getting more hectic everyday. 10 working hours a day is a bit too much to me. Thank God it is thursday. I can’t wait to go home and relax for a long weekend. I know that there are many people in the world who work much harder than me and…
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Bosses!
Some people seem to understand management and authority at work wrong. Being in a superior position to someone at work doesn’t mean that you have the right to control the person life and look down on him. Can a boss be a boss without having to remind people working for him of that every single…
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Torn between principles and needs
Yesterday, after a long time, I have met again by coincidence this sweet lovely girl who used to work with me. We have only been co-workers as we have much different ideologies, style of living, and way of thinking. But we have always managed to deal with each other in courtesy. We never had any…