The Witness Within #43 Know God Through His Creation - Musa Muhaiyaddeen
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Feb 26, 2021 Cultural assumptions often dictate our views on success and worth, shaping our identities like small cults. Musa explores how society praises accumulation, contrasting it with hoarding to highlight context's role. He urges listeners to seek their identity beyond societal norms and professional labels. Delving into existential questions, he argues that true change starts within. Through anecdotes about everyday miracles, he inspires a renewed sense of wonder and connection to the divine in creation, emphasizing the simplicity of truth.
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Culture As A Constructed Creed
- Culture teaches priorities that feel natural but are learned assumptions.
- Musa Muhaiyaddeen argues these assumptions form small 'cults' that shape values like accumulation.
Hoarding Illustrates Cultural Bias
- Musa describes a friend who hoarded trash and filled his house to the point of immobility.
- He uses this to contrast how society praises accumulation when the items are valuable but shuns the same behavior when those items are garbage.
Compare To Transcendent Prototypes
- True self-discovery requires pulling out of cultural comparisons and into personal inquiry.
- Musa suggests comparing ourselves to transcendent prototypes, not neighbors or cultural norms.