It's never too late to change. It's never too late to start again or try something new. You are never too stuck to move again, you are allowed to change whenever you need. You are allowed to grow beyond people and jobs. You are allowed to start all over and make a brand new beginning wherever you are.
26 Agu 2021
6 Agu 2021
Give up
Maaf Yaa Allah Aku Hampir Menyerah
dengan semua ketetapanMU
dengan semua nikmat yang KAU berikan
Aku bertanya pada kebahagiaan
Dimanakah kau terletak ???
Dia menjawab :
"Aku terletak dihati orang yang ingat Allah "
Astaghfirullahhh...
Maafkan dengan semua rasa ini
Rasa yang membuatku tak menentu
Semua Terserah mauMU
bukan mauku
Mau apapun
mau bagaimanapun
dengan hidupku
Terserahlah
asalkan
Kuatkan hati hanya utkMU
Temani yaa
lewati semua ini
karna ku yakin
terselip "Pesan Cinta MU "
alhamdulillah 'alla kulli haal
30 Jul 2021
Reminder
Jika hati penuh Cinta..
Maka tidak ada ruang untuk kecewa..
Jika CintaNya penuh..
Maka tak ada ruang untuk mengeluh..
Jika CintaNya bersih..
Maka tak ada ruang untuk bersedih..
Karena bagi pencinta apapun yang terjadi ia akan bahagia selama dekat dengan yang ia Cintai✨
18 Jul 2021
Someone
Untukmu laki-laki yang namanya masih dirahasiakan Allah untukku,
Kumasih berada dalam dimensi penantian
Menanti hadir dan uluran tanganmu untuk meminang
Menanti akad yang kan pertemukan hati dan jasad
Wahai belahan jiwa
Sedang apa kau di sana?
Masihkah bergumul dengan segudang agenda?
Masihkah berjuang menggapai asa?
Duhai calon imam penggenap din ini,
Kumasih setia menanti
Semangatkan dirimu selalu untuk menggapai cinta-Nya
Agar cintaku pun semakin dekat padamu dan pada-Nya
Biarpun kutak menyimpan namamu
Tak jelas jua sketsa wajahmu
Tak kenal pribadi dan sifatmu
Semua tak masalah bagiku
Hanya satu yang kau perlu tahu, Cinta ini selalu ada untukmu...
Ya Rabb...
Jagalah "cinta" hamba senantiasa dalam naungan ridha-Mu
Bimbing langkah kakinya agar selalu dalam jalan perjuangan-Mu
Sematkan ketabahan kala ujian berdatangan
Pancangkan keteguhan saat badai kesedihan datang
Hingga nanti di suatu masa yang pernah ada ...
Untukmu cintaku,
Iringi derap langkah hidupnya
Mudahkan segala urusannya
Tetaplah jaga hatinya
Kau pertemukan aku dengannya.
Dalam naungan rahmat dan kisah terindah
Saat rinduku padamu mengiring doa tulusku....
15 Jul 2021
Cara menghadapi rasa jenuh
SAAT RASA JENUH DALAM MENUNTUT ILMU DATANG...
Abu Hatim Al-Warroq, murid dan pencatat Imam Bukhori -rohimahumalloh- mengatakan:
Suatu hari Imam Bukhori meng-imlakkan kepadaku hadits yang banyak, sampai beliau khawatir aku jenuh, maka beliau pun mengatakan:
“Hiburlah hatimu, sungguh mereka yang di dunia hiburan; sibuk dalam dunia mereka.. mereka yang di dunia produksi, sibuk dalam produksinya.. mereka yang di dunia bisnis, sibuk dalam bisnisnya.
Tapi engkau, bersama Nabi shallallahu ‘alaihi wasallam dan para sahabat beliau !“ [Siyaru A’lamin Nubala’ 12/445]
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Sungguh suntikan semangat yang sangat penting dan sangat ampuh.. coba bayangkan, bila kita berada di majlisnya Nabi shallallahu ‘alaihi wasallam dan para sahabatnya.. betapa semangatnya kita, dan betapa bahagianya hati ini.
Itulah sebabnya mengapa ada orang yang sangat senang menyibukkan diri membaca Alqur’an.. karena dia merasa senang, tenteram, dan bahagia bersama Allah, mendengarkan firman-Nya, dan merenungi maknanya..
10 Jul 2021
Every scar has its own story.
*LUKA*
Seorang anak memulai diri untuk menaiki sepeda, terjatuh lalu bangkit untuk kemudian terjatuh lagi.
Anak ini tak pernah kapok untuk kembali menaiki sepeda itu hingga mampu mengendarainya, walau beberapa anggota tubuh lecet dan berdarah.
Luka dan darah?
Dibiarkan saja, kelak juga akan kering sendiri, karena baginya luka dan darah itu, tak begitu berpengaruh buruk dalam menggapai cita-citanya sehingga dapat mengayuh sepeda itu di kemudian hari.
Belajar dari perjuangan seorang anak kecil yang tangguh ini, luka lecet tak dibawa ke hati sehingga tak menimbulkan trauma hidup di kemudian hari.
Sebab anak ini tak terbiasa mengarang drama-drama yang menyeret cerita kepada episode trauma.
Makna?
Luka adalah bentuk totalitas dalam perjuangan untuk bisa tumbuh dan berkembang menuju kedewasaan.
Kemampuan atau spesialisasi akan diraih dengan susah payah dan pengorbanan.
Untuk menggapai kemajuan, butuh ketangguhan, kerelaan ditempa dengan segudang masalah.
Saat ketakutan datang, maka hindari cerita-cerita yang mendukung rasa takut semakin parah, akan tetapi, buat cerita baru yang dapat menyingkirkan rasa takut itu.
Takut gagal, adalah sikap dramatik terhadap masa depan, yang ternyata 90% yang ditakutkan di masa depan itu tak benar-benar terjadi.
Jika pun terjadi, hal itu hanya sekitar 10% saja, dan jika Kita benar-benar berani menghadapinya, ternyata tak seburuk apa yang Kita takutkan.
So...
Biarkan saja luka itu terjadi pada tubuh bahkan hati Kita, nanti sembuh sendiri.
Fokuslah pada pencapaian untuk tumbuh dan berkembang.
_*Jika hati tak suka terluka, maka Kita akan belajar untuk tak melukai orang lain lagi.*_
_*Salah satu cara tercepat mengobati luka batin, adalah membantu menyembuhkan luka batin orang lain.*_
Bagaimana caranya?
Ajarkan orang lain untuk *memaafkan semua hal yang menyebabkan luka, bukan sekedar mengabaikannya, untuk suatu visi masa depan di mana Allah tersenyum karena ridho sebab Kita telah sukses melalui segala ujian dari Nya.*
Sang ibu pun pernah terluka saat melahirkan buah hati tercinta.
Sekarang bagaimana lukanya?
Walau berbekas, tapi luka itu berganti dengan kebahagiaan.
Wallaahu A'lam
12 Jun 2021
PENCARIAN CINTA
Dibawah langit malam aku kehilangan cahaya siang..
Dibawah terik siang aku kehilangan sejuknya pagi..
Dibawah langit pagi aku kehilangan kehangatan..
Lalu apa yang diharapkan? Jika cinta itu datang lalu hilang.
Aku mencari cinta pada malam apabila gelap gulita..
Kutemukan bintang dan rembulan yang mengakhiriku dengan penderitaan.
Lalu aku mencari cinta pada siang saat matahari terang..
Kutemukan teriknya cahaya, namun panasnya mengakhiriku dengan luka.
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Ternyata aku lupa.. ada cinta yang menungguku cukup lama..
Dari lembaran-lembaran dahulu yang abadi tak dimakan waktu.
Aku buka dengan tangan gemetar.. dengan mata berlinang..
Penyesalan menghampiriku dengan tenang, ini akhir dari sebuah pencarian.
Aku tak ingin lagi kehilangan..
Bila terjadi lagi padaku, akan kutempuh jalan berliku walau berdarah kakiku.
Karena cinta-Mu adalah abadi yang tak mungkin kutinggal pergi..
Karena cinta-Mu adalah sejati yang harus kujaga dalam lubuk hati..
10 Jun 2021
Mengamalkan tak semudah mengucapkan
"Terkadang rasa malu terhujam dalam dada. Karena ternyata mengamalkan tak semudah mengucapkan.
Lisan yang yg tak jarang juga lalai dengan apa yang disampaikannya sendiri.
Bersikap dan tampil layaknya seorang yg alim, nyatanya masih banyak juga berbuat salah
Dinilai seperti orang baik, padahal karena kemurahan-Nya lah yang menutupi segala aib.
Inilah curahan hati seorang hamba, dengan segala kelemahan yang ada, masih terus berbenah dan berupaya, mencari kebahagiaan dalam manisnya iman.
Kadang dalam perjalanan, terfikir untuk berhenti dan mundur dari barisan.
Tapi seorang guru mengingatkan; mereka-mereka yang mengambil peran untuk menyerukan kebaikan, dan melalui seruannya banyak orang tercerahkan, akan masuk dalam daftar target utama syaithan.
Digoncang hatinya, dibisiki secara halus, untuk mundur di tengah jalan.
Dibuat merasa tak layak, merasa tak pantas.
Maka, tetaplah berada dalam barisan, dan teruslah berjalan.
Panjang memang tempuhannya, selalu ada saja ujiannya.
Tapi untunglah kita tidak diminta untuk sampai ke ujungnya, hanya saja kita diminta untuk mati diatasnya.
Teringat pesan dari Imam Ibnul Qayyim;
Jalan menuju Allah adalah jalan dimana:
- Adam kelelahan.
- Nuh mengeluh.
- Ibrahim dilempar ke dalam api.
- Ismail dibentangkan untuk disembelih.
- Yusuf dijual dengan harga murah dan dipenjara selama beberapa tahun.
- Zakaria digergaji.
- Yahya disembelih.
- Ayub menderita penyakit.
- Daud menangis melebihi kadar semestinya.
- Isa berjalan sendirian. عليهم السﻻم جميعا
Sementara kita ingin menempuhnya dengan bersantai ria dan bermain-main?
Demi Allah takkan pernah bisa terjadi."
😢
1 Des 2020
Today is my only day
Assalamu'alaikum warahnmatullahi wabarakatuh. Untuk saudariku, muslimah. Today is all that you have.Hari ini adalah milikmu... Jika kamu berada di pagi hari, janganlah menunggu sore tiba.
Live as though today is all that you have. Hari inilah yang akan kamu jalani, bukan hari kemarin yang telah berlalu dengan segala kebaikan dan keburukannya, dan juga bukan esok hari yang belum tentu datang.
Hari yang saat ini mataharinya menyinarimu, dan siangnya menyapa kamu inilah hari kamu.
Umurmu, mungkin tinggal hari ini. Maka, anggaplah masa hidupmu hanya hari ini, atau seakan-akan kamu dllahirkan hari ini dan akan mati hari ini juga.
Dengan begitu, you will not be caught between obsession over the past, with all anxieties, and the hopes of the future, with all it’s uncertainty. Your life tak akan tercabik-cabik diantara gumpalan duka masa lalu dan dengan bayangan masa depan yang penuh ketidakpastian.
Pada hari ini yang dimana kamu hidup saat inilah sebaiknya kamu membagi waktu dengan bijak. Jadikanlah setiap menitnya laksana ribuan tahun dan setiap detiknya laksana ratusan bulan. Tanamlah kebaikan sebanyakbanyaknya pada hari itu. Dan, persembahkanlah sesuatu yang paling indah untuk hari itu.
Ber-istighfar-lah atas semua dosa, ingatlah selalu kepadaNya, bersiap-siaplah untuk sebuah perjalanan menuju alam keabadian, dan nikmatilah hari ini dengan segala kesenangan dan kebahagiaan! Terimalah rezeki tugas-tugas, kewajiban, ilmu, dan jabatan amanahmu hari dengan penuh keridhaan.
Jangan lupa, hendaklah kamu goreskan pada dinding hatimu satu kalimat: *Today is my only day; Hari ini adalah milikku yang hanya akan hidup hari ini, karenanya kamu akan menanam dalam hatimu semua nilai keutamaan dan mencabut darinya pohon-pohon kejahatan berikut ranting-rantingnya yang berduri, baik sifat takabur, ujub, riya', dan buruk sangka.
Hanya hari ini aku akan dapat menghirup udara kehidupan, maka aku akan berbuat baik kepada orang lain dan mengulurkan tangan kepada siapapun.
Aku hanya akan hidup hari ini, maka aku akan mengucapkan:
"Wahai masa lalu yang telah berlalu dan selesai, tenggelamlah seperti mataharimu. Aku tak akan pernah menangisi kepergianmu, dan kamu tidak akan pernah melihatku termenung sedetik pun untuk mengingatmu. Kamu telah meninggalkan kami semua, pergi dan tak pernah kembali lagi."
"Wahai masa depan, engkau masih dalam kegaiban. Maka, aku tidak akan pernah bermain dengan khayalan dan menjual diri hanya untuk sebuah dugaan. Aku pun tak bakal memburu sesuatu yang belum tentu ada, karena esok hari mungkin tak ada sesuatu. Esok hari adalah sesuatu yang belum diciptakan dan tidak ada satu pun darinya yang dapat disebutkan."
‘Today is my only day’ is one of the most important statements in the dictionary of happiness, for those who desire to love life in its fullest splendor and brilliance.
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1 Nov 2020
Teks MC Halaqah
MC Halaqah.
Terdiri dari
1. Pembukaan: Pujian kepada Allah dan Rasulullah + tilawah
2. Isi: Materi
3. Penutup: Kesimpulan dan doa-doa
Berikut adalah contoh teks mc halaqah.
السَّلاَمُ عَلَيْكُمْ وَرَحْمَةُ اللهِ وَبَرَكَاتُهُ
إِنَّ الْحَمْدَ لِلَّهِ نَحْمَدُهُ وَنَسْتَعِيْنُهُ وَنَسْتَغْفِرُهُ، وَنَعُوذُ بِاللهِ مِنْ شُرُوْرِ أَنْفُسِنَا وَمِنْ سَيِّئَاتِ أَعْمَالِنَا، مَنْ يَهْدِهِ اللهُ فَلاَ مُضِلَّ لَهُ وَمَنْ يُضْلِلْ فَلاَ هَادِيَ لَهُ ،َأَشْهَدُ أَنْ لاَ إِلَهَ إِلاَّ اللهُ وَحْدَهُ لاَشَرِيْكَ لَهُ، وَأَشْهَدُ أَنَّ مُحَمَّدًا عَبْدُهُ وَرَسُوْلُهُ.، أَمَّا بَعْدُ؛
Puji dan syukur marilah kita panjatkan kehadirat ilahi Rabbi, atas karunia-Nya kita bisa sama-sama berkumpul dalam rangka thalabulilmi, mencari ilmu. Serta kita bisa bersilaturahim, bertatap muka di majlis yang mulia ini dalam kadaan aman fi amanillah, sehat wal afiat. Mudah-mudahan setiap derap langkah bisa membuahkan pahala bagi kita semua, bisa menjadi penghapus dosa dan pengangkat derajat di hadapan اﻟﻠﻪ SWT.
Taklupa semoga shalawat serta salam senantiasa tercurah kepada jungjungan kita Nabi Muhammad SAW, kepada keluarganya, sahabatnya, para tabi'in, tabiut tabiahum, kepada kita semua, serta kepada seluruh umatnya hingga akhir zaman yang menjadikan sebagai uswatun hasanah, suri tauladan yang baik.
Teman-teman yang dirahmati Allah.. Agar majelis ini menjadi lebih berkah, marilah kita ucapkan basmallah (ucap bismillahirohman nirrohim) dan dilanjutkan dengan Tillawah Qur'an yang dimulai dari (siapa).
Setelah selesai Tillawah:
Alhamdulillah telah selesai tillawah kita, semoga dengan Tillawah tadi , Allah semakin memberkahi majelis ini (Aamiin).
Selanjutnya materi yang akan disampaikan oleh : (siapa)
Kepada (Siapa) saya persilahkan.
Alhamdulillah telah kita dengarkan materi yang disampaikan oleh(Siapa), semoga dengan materi (apa) semakin menambah (apa,sesuaikan materi).
Untuk menutup majelis ini, marilah kita ucapkan Hamdalah (Alhamdulillahi robbil alamin) dan do'a kafaratul majelis
"Subhakallahuma wabihamdika, ashadu 'alla ilaha illa anta astagfiruka wa atubu ilaik"
8 Okt 2020
cara dicintai oleh seseorang yang kita cintai
Cinta Yang Menggerakan
Cinta yang menggerakan cinta
Zat penggerak cintaa...
Diantara
tanda-tanda kebesaranNya ia menjadikanmu dua didalam satu
Maaf
hari ini ngebucin ;0
Tapi I’m
reliazed CINTA itu berharga jikalaullah ditempatkan pada tempat yang benar
Disini
aku membahas all about cinta...
Kesadaran yang penuh bahwa Allah itu mencintaiMu lebih dari apapun.
Tidakkah
kau melihat betapa sinema2 cinta itu mengasikkan
Contohnya bnyak penggemar novel, drakor, dll
Sampai waktu mereka rela dikorbankan
Iya
Cinta, materi yang tak ada ujungnya diperbincangkan...
Tapi tahukah anda?
Jikalaulah
ALLAH itu tidak menurunkan kasih sayagNya maka mustahil manusia itu ada yang saling berkasih-sayang, mencintai?
Betapa baikNya Ia kepadaku, kepada mu juga pastinya...
Cinta
yang menggerakan
Kita
sering melihat bahwa kehidupan orang yang mencintai selalu berkorban tanpa pernah
mengeluh
Berkorban
itu manis,
Kadang kita
spechless yang mana betapa orang sanggup melakukan kegiatan yang penuh pengorbanan, bisa
bisanya melakukan itu semua demi seseorang/perbuatan yang ia cintai
Tapi sadaralah
bahwa ketika seseorang melakukan itu semua, karena adanya Allah yang menggerakanNya.
Sadar
gak sih jika manusia dan manusia itu saling mencintai itu asbabnya adalah Allah?
Detik terakhir
melihat episode episode cinta itu exceptasi meninggi, berikut penyabab anak adam itu jatuh cinta pada seseorang:
Dia
yang begitu care,
Dia
yang begitu handsome, cantik
Dia yang
begitu kaya
Dia
yang begitu baik
Dia
yang begitu romantis
Dia yang
begitu humoris
Dia
yang begitu cerdas, bijaksana, mendengarkan curhat, dll
Namun, sadar
gak sih sifat yang diatas ada pada Allah?
Naturally sii kalau manusia mencintai manusia karena sifat2 itu,
Karena garis telapak tangan kita berbentuk lafal 99 asmaul husna
Coba deh lihat telapak tangan kita...
dan lihat...
Dia
yang begitu care, Allah memberikan perhatiaaNya lebih pada kita
Dia
yang begitu handsome, Allah itu dzat yang Maha indah, ciptaanNya2 saja indah semua
Dia
yang begitu kaya, Seluruhnya ada pada kendalianNya
Dia
yang begitu baik, Baiklah the best creature ever...
Dia
yang begitu romantis, Lihat kasih sayang Allah *tetap Memberi walau makhlukNya tak
hirau padaNya
Dia yang begitu cerdas, bijaksana, mendengarkan curhat.dll
Duh melelah rasanya,
Okey sekarang bayangkan jika sifat itu tidak Allah berikan kepada manusia, Sanggupkah kita
Mencintai seseorang tanpa sifat tersebut?
Isn't imposible..
Mencintai orang yang suka maki-maki, dan perilaku tercela lainnya..
Iya,,, aku mencintainya sis meskipun sifat buruk itu yang ada pada dirinya juga,
Oke kita selesaikan, kita memang mencintai seseorang walaupun sifat buruk masih melekat padanya, karena kita sadar tidak ada manusia yang sempurna...
Tapi menurutmu diantara sifa-sifat buruk ia, pasti kamu lebih cenderung suka sama sifat yang baik-baiknya, iyakan?
Dan sifat yang kamu sukai itu ada pada Allah loooh
Lanjut,
Ada yang bilang, aku tidak tahu apa yang menyebabkan aku mencintainya?
Semua itu mengalir begitu saja...
itu mungkin karena kamu belum tau benang merah penyebab apa kamu mencintainya
So, Kalau semua itu sifat Allah
Harusnya kita mencintai Robb terlebih dahulu, dibanding manusia
Lalu biarkan Allah yang menggerakan hati kita, dan ia, pada orang yang tepat menurutNya
Semangat untuk lebih baik...
Dan seharusnya juga kita buat Allah mencintai kitaa...
Terus gimana caranya buat Allah mencintai kita?
Yaa mendekat padanya dengan amal-amal kita, dan menjauhi laranganNya 😊
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23 Mei 2020
Cara Menghadapi Keputusasaan
18 Apr 2020
The meaning, benefit, and example of a corpus
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And yes, in most generations nothing had
any novel consequence for subsequent generations.
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This
cooling led to a striking increase in Arctic ice cover in 1992, which dropped
in subsequent years as the particles fell back to earth.
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My work
is firmly rooted in my own family's history of exile and subsequent rebirth in the United States.
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Now, in the spring, when we lose one hour of sleep,
we see a subsequent 24-percent increase in heart attacks that
following day.
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The
first was the arrest, trying and conviction and subsequent incarceration of Detroit's very popular
mayor.
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Very
early in in our time with Sarah, we told her how I was going to be called
"dad" and my
partner is "mama." Sarah was one of those folks that took it in
stride, and our subsequent visits went pretty smoothly.
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The heat required to regenerate or recycle these materials
absolutely dictates the energy and the subsequent cost of doing this.
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Michael
Brown's death and the subsequent treatment of the community led
to a string of protests in and around Ferguson and St. Louis.
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We mourn
the tragic death of two-year-old Alan Kurdi, and yet, since then, more than
200 children have subsequently drowned in the Mediterranean.
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But
actually, the mathematics and subsequent findings
by the team have shown the exact opposite is true.
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Have you
ever subsequently texted that person the phrase "I'm staring at the phone smiling
like an idiot"?
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I've
traveled north to the Arctic to the capture the unfolding story of polar
melt, and south to the Equator to document the subsequent rising seas.
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I was near the halfway point of the bike portion
of one of the most prestigious, longest, single-day endurance race events in the world.
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They all
had this beautiful quality of endurance, but that was true of the singles, too.
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Lots of endurance, but never tenderness.
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So this is the high-water mark of human endurance, human endeavor, human athletic achievement
in arguably the harshest climate on Earth.
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For
years, I'd been writing glib lines in sponsorship proposals about pushing the
limits of human endurance, but in reality,
that was a very frightening place to be indeed.
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We are
learning from each other’s' strength and endurance, not against our bodies and our
diagnoses, but against a world that exceptionalizes and objectifies
us.
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I
survived that childhood through a mix of avoidance and endurance.
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What I
didn't know then and do know now, is
that avoidance and endurance
can be the entryway
to forging meaning.
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Endurance and ultra-endurance sports serve as a great
example.
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And as athletes have realized that we're perfectly suited for
ultra-endurance, they've taken on feats that would have been unthinkable
before, athletes like Spanish endurance
racer Kílian Jornet.
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And at
this point, by this summer, everybody -- scientists, sports scientists, endurance experts, neurologists, my own team, Bonnie -- said it's impossible.
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It
senses what I want to do, where I want to go, and then
augments my strength and endurance.
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The ten themes radiate out
and orbit the time capsule
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we
submitted for the competition, the plans showing the spaces which radiate outwards from the entry.
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It doesn't radiate. |
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The way it does this is it comes out at night, crawls to the top of a sand dune, and because it's got a matte black shell, is able to radiate heat out to the night sky and become slightly cooler than its surroundings. |
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More energy is coming in than going out, until Earth warms up
enough to again radiate to space as much energy as
it absorbs from the Sun.
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He did
not run-down shouting, "Hallelujah!" and "Bless the
Lord!" He did not radiate light and joy.
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They radiate happiness. You are surprised.
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That
long neck and long tail help it radiate heat into the environment, passively controlling its temperature
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Our
bodies radiate our stories from changes in the temperature
of our physiology.
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It's the secret sauce because it's the place where the social interactions
and community life begin, and from there, it radiates out through the rest of the community.
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So, I whisper-shouted back to him, "Yes, the computer can
tell if you're lying."
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The hum is God's whisper right in my ear.
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the real hum is
God's whisper in my ear, but maybe
God was whispering the wrong words, because which one of the gods was telling
me I was the titan?
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And this kind of reaction ended up
being the kind of reaction we saw over and
over and over: people down on the ground trying to comfort the seizure victim, trying to whisper something into his ear or in some way help, even though they couldn't.
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She
fears that I'll die without a whisper.
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So there we were at the Supreme Court arguing in front of 12
Afghan justices, me as an American female lawyer,
and Sahar, a young woman who when I met her couldn't speak above a whisper.
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So they returned to their villages and are
told they're going to get sick and die soon, but five
happy years, their logic goes, is better than 10 stuck in a high rise on the
outskirts of Kiev, separated from the graves of their mothers and fathers and
babies, the whisper of stork wings on a spring afternoon.
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And our ears tell us that the whisper of every leaf and creature speaks to the
natural sources of our lives, which indeed may hold the secrets of love for
all things, especially our own humanity, and the
last word goes to a jaguar from the Amazon.
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How can
these cars whisper, "You need to get out of the way?" Well, it depends on two things: one, the ability of
the car, and second
the ability of the driver.
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It's
when the young couple whisper, "Tonight we are going to make a
baby." My talk will be about the impact of religions on the number of babies per woman.
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You can stand on one side
of the world, whisper something and be heard on the other.
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And in the midst of the excruciating pain, the mental torture, the many unanswered questions that Manson faced, he knew
he was not going to play the victim.
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But there's something more people can agree on: torture.
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Now I
personally believe that no one deserves to be tortured by the US government.
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First, we do torture people here in America, tens of thousands
of them every day.
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It's why
harsh prison systems and torture regimes
routinely use solitary as a form of severe punishment.
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When a prison is located in the US instead of China, when it's run by
the federal government and not some rogue sheriff, when
it has state-of-the-art technology and gleaming floors, not overcrowded cells
and decrepit facilities, it's harder to believe that torture happens there.
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But it's important to entertain the idea that, sometimes, this too
is what torture looks
like.
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We know
that secrecy is a hallmark of places that torture.
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To me,
it looks like these were things devised in a medieval torture chamber, but it's
our modern surgical joinery.
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And then we unveiled a hammer and
a hatchet and we told them to torture and kill the robots.
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Just
about everyone does it from time to time -- there are so many opportunities,
whether it's taking a test, giving a talk,
pitching to a client or that special
form of torture I like to call the
job interview.
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I mean, I didn't get to wrestle.
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Sure, I
was disappointed I didn't get to wrestle, but very few wrestlers get any kind of call
from the WWE.
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It was
the story of faith and
doubt, and the realization that a wrestle with doubt is a part of faith --
maybe the biggest part of it.
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You go
into yourself, you find the sin which you've
committed over and again through your life, your
signature sin out of which the others
emerge, and you fight that sin and you wrestle with that sin, and out of that wrestling, that suffering, then a depth of character is constructed.
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And we're often not taught to recognize the sin in
ourselves, in that we're not taught in this culture how
to wrestle with it, how to confront it, and how to
combat it.
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One, two, three, four, I declare a thumb war, and we wrestle, and of
course Sunni beats me because she's the best.
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And if we had just four people, we would do it just like
this, and we would try and wrestle both thumbs at the same time.
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How
about surprise? The actual feeling of trying to wrestle two thumbs at once is pretty surprising.
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That's
an important fact, because it tells us that in 40 years, the nonprofit sector has not been able to wrestle any market share
away from the for-profit sector.
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Animals wrestle with these same issues, too, but they have a more straightforward way of
dealing with things.
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Now, these are arm wrestle questions, but I want to tell you about questions that are
more related to empathy and that
really, very often, are the questions that people have been waiting their
whole lives to be asked.
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In the
animal world, if you take rats, who are hardwired to play at a certain period
of their juvenile years and you
suppress play -- they squeak, they wrestle, they pin each other, that's part of their play.
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At the time, Lupe's family lived
in the insular world of the Back of the
Yards, a tight-knit Chicago neighborhood, which for more than
100 years had been a portal of entry for recent immigrants -- first, from Europe, like my family,
and more recently, from Latin America.
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Up at
the surface, plants can chemically knit together carbon dioxide molecules into yummy sugars as fast as the sun's
photons hit their leaves.
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Travel
with me to some of the most beautiful spots in cities around the world: Rome's Spanish steps; the historic neighborhoods of
Paris and Shanghai; the rolling landscape of
Central Park; the tight-knit blocks of Tokyo or Fez; the wildly sloping streets of the favelas of
Rio de Janeiro; the dizzying step wells of Jaipur; the arched pedestrian
bridges of Venice.
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I grew
up in Atlanta, Georgia, bouncing from house to house with a loving, close-knit family as
we struggled to find stability in our
finances.
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When I
was a kid, my mom knit me
this beautiful sweater.
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This
tight-knit community also came together recently, and they purchased an abandoned building, an abandoned
building that was in disrepair and in foreclosure.
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On the
flip side, tight-knit communities, being in a marriage long-term,
and lifelong friendships, even, all improve telomere maintenance.
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Started
by a tight-knit Black community near
Charleston, South Carolina, the Charleston permeated dance halls
where young women suddenly had the freedom to
kick their heels and move their
legs.
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Just as
I cannot and don't wish to turn back to the clock on equality and
diversity, and yet must understand the sense of loss they can
inspire, so, too, I refuse and could not
if I wished turn back the clock on an ever more closely knit, interdependent world, and on inventions
that won't stop being invented.
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A lot of
people think that I am a master knitter but I actually couldn't knit a sweater to
save my life.
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(Laughter) And I'm teaching myself to knit, which so far I can knit a blob.
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Today, the care of the heart has
become less the province of philosophers, who dwell upon the heart's
metaphorical meanings, and more the domain of doctors like me, wielding
technologies that even a century ago, because of the heart's
exalted status in human culture, were considered taboo.
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Now, there are those who dwell upon that the fact that these machines aren't built in our image. |
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Art creates
what I call a conjured life, which helps our
existence and pushes, motivates and
inspires us to dwell and express ourselves without metrics or
calculations.
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She
watched me work and encouraged me to
focus on my future and not dwell on my past.
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Well, I
won't dwell on this, but you get the idea. (Laughter)
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We often dwell on human trafficking survivors'
victimization.
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I want to dwell in that light with you and with everyone. |
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And as I do that, I'm not going to dwell much on the very large philanthropy that
everybody already knows about -- the Gates or the Soros or the Google.
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and in grad school I became interested in creatures that dwell in the hidden corners of the city.
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But I took a liking to them because they dwell on the fringes of society.
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Where
we've come from, what kind of people we are, and it needs to, by doing that,
it needs to afford us a glimpse to where we're going in order to allow us to dwell in a hopeful present.
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And there are a number of schemes, which I don't want to dwell on,
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Now, until recently, it was the case that
if you wanted to inventory all of the molecules in a part of the brain or any organ, you had to first grind it up into a kind of cellular smoothie.
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As the
spiral of recursive improvement gathers momentum, we eke out victories
against the forces that grind us down, not least the darker parts of our own nature.
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So even though he will rely a lot on his grit to
get him through that first-year law school grind, I'll be there as a mentor for
him, check in with him from time to time, maybe take him out to get some curry .
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You take
a common material like gold, and you grind it into dust, into gold nanoparticles, and it changes from looking gold to looking red.
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It's
a place where we go to get away from
the stress of the grind of work and sometimes home life.
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We
collect this plastic and we grind it to the size we find it in the ocean,
which is very small because it breaks down.
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Individual
issues like quality of relationship or work conditions or societal issues
like racism or sexism or the daily grind of
poverty are all strongly related to daily mood.
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And we don't, contrary to some of the stuff that's been printed,
we don't sit there and grind out
metadata profiles of average people.
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That chip and PIN card that's in your pocket has a little chip on it that cost millions of pounds to develop, is
extremely secure, you can put scanning electron microscopes on it, you can
try and grind it down.
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It doesn't matter what kind of sediment you're using to grind up, whether it's bacteria or any other plants or animals. |
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Common injuries can lead to decades of
pain, until our joints quite literally grind to a halt.
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If you have 500 grams, 1000, one kilogram,
he will grind it for it for you; the flourmill will not grind such a small quantity.
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We grind the plastic down
to about the size of your small fingernail.
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We spend
so much of our lives at the workplace, and it's
supposed to be, what, a miserable grind, so that 20 years from now,
we wake up and say, "Is this it?
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And the argument here would be that the wheels of evolution grind slowly, but they are
inexorable.
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Each mirror, there are four of them, is made of a single piece of
glass, a monolithic piece of high-tech ceramic, that has been ground down and
polished to such accuracy that the only way to understand what that is is
[to] imagine a city like Paris, with all its buildings and the Eiffel Tower,
if you grind down Paris to that kind of
accuracy, you would be left with bumps that are one millimeter high.
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Because raising wages doesn't kill jobs, it creates them; because, for instance,
when restaurant owners are suddenly required
to pay restaurant workers enough so that now even they can afford to eat in
restaurants, it doesn't shrink the restaurant business, it grows it, obviously.
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It doesn't take a shrink to explain how I ended up in the field
of conflict resolution.
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They
cool down, shrink and turn back into planets.
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And you remember, they had these
characters that they would shrink down to these microscopic levels, and then they would sort of swirl
in and swim around and fly around all
these biological structures?
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So they drop down away from the body to
cool off, or they shrink back up to get warm.
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But it could eventually merge and shrink to small ones that could be in your home
with integrated cartridges like this that are delivered by drone.
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It's
smaller than a honking-big MRI machine,
monster MRI machine, but can you do something to shrink it down?" And the answer is: of course.
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They did
not tell us that Amy would shrink to
half her body weight, that she would never
lay with her husband again, and that
walking upstairs to our bedroom would soon feel like running a marathon.
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If you
wanted to get into the right ballpark, you'd have to imagine every grain of
sand on every beach, under all the oceans and lakes, and then shrink them all so they fit in here.
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If
scholars did this, the degrees of separation between
the public and research would shrink by a lot.
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And if you could shrink yourself
down to a little miniature airplane and fly
right along the surface of your cells, it
might look something like this -- with geographical features.
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It says that because
the World Bank has focused so much on just
economic growth and said that governments have to shrink their budgets and reduce expenditures in health,
education and social welfare -- we thought that was fundamentally wrong.
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But if you shrink that
diameter to what we're attempting, which is 12 feet, which is plenty to get
an electric skate through, you drop the diameter by a factor of two and the
cross-sectional area by a factor of four, and the tunneling cost scales with
the cross-sectional area.
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CA: The
size of that tribe can shrink or
expand.
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But machines will shrink their
ranks and make these jobs harder to
come by.
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Nanotechnology allows us to shrink the parts that make up the detector from
the width of a human hair, which is 100 microns, to a thousand times smaller,
which is 100 nanometers.
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We
should not shrink from this opportunity simply because we
don't really understand it.
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Put in
the wrong words like "promote social justice," and you might see your gold coins shrink or even vanish entirely, according to this
fable.
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So institutions could shrink or contract, as, of course, the future of
culture is, in a way, the most uncertain of all.
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If you think your poverty is the result of your own inadequacy, you shrink into despair. |
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Let's by all means shrink the size of government, but not by slashing
the poverty programs, but by ensuring that workers are paid enough so that they actually don't need those
programs.
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We need to shrink them to the point, within the next five years, that they no longer pose a systemic risk. |
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America, when we have a challenge, we take
it head on, we don't shrink away
from it.
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What this means is that if you could shrink the Earth to the size of a billiard ball, if you could
take planet Earth, with all its mountain tops and caves and rainforests, astronauts and
uncontacted tribes and chimpanzees, voodoo dolls,
fireflies, chocolate, sea creatures making love in
the deep blue sea, you just shrink that
to the size of a billiard ball,
it would be as smooth as a billiard ball, presumably a billiard ball with a slight bulge around
the middle.
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You've
swallowed hard the contents of the "Drink Me" bottle, and felt yourself shrink.
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Yet in the same animal, if we wait just a little while until it's
gone to sleep, what we see is that the CSF is rushing through the brain, and we
discovered that at the same time when the brain goes
to sleep, the brain cells themselves seem to shrink, opening up spaces in between them, allowing fluid to rush through and allowing waste to be cleared out.
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We teach girls to shrink themselves, to make themselves smaller, we say to girls,
"You can have ambition, but not too much."
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But I just need to shrink you by a factor of 1000, to a scale where the diameter of a human
hair is as big as my hand.
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