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im’wa … šlāma … sälamə … sliem … śāntiḥ. 𖹙𝔢☮ᴄҽ ɾ𑽖𝖘Ե ʊρσռ ✌𝔬υ (Arabic, السَّلَامُ عَلَيْكُم [MP3], ʾal•ssalāmu ʿalay°kum aka Hebrew, שָּׁלוֹם עֲלֵיְכֶם [MP3], ššālôm ʿălēyəḵẹm). Welcome to one of the largest resources of its kind: the 36 domains, 24 books, 𖦽 other writings of 𝓜𝓪𝓻𝓴𝓕𝓸𝓼𝓽𝓮𝓻₊𝓝𝓔𝓣𝔀𝓸𝓻𝓴 𝓟𝓾𝓫𝓵𝓲𝓬𝓪𝓽𝓲𝓸𝓷𝓼™ (ᗰ𐌅✧ᑎ ᖘ™). ʾAl•Llꞌah bāraka li•Filas°ṭīnuṇ bi•ʿĀlamuṇ ʾal•Ṯṯāliṯ wa•Sukkānuṇ ʾal•⫯Aṣ°liyyūna! (Arabic, الله بَارَكَ لِفِلَسْطِينٌ بِعَالَمٌ الثَّالِث وَسَُكّانٌ الأَصْلِيُّونَ!) aka ʾĒl bērēḵə lə•P̄ālạsəṭiyn bə•ʿÔlām hạ•Ššəliyšiy wə•ʾĂnāšiym hạ•Yəliyḏiym! (Hebrew, אֵל בֵּרֵכְ לְּפָלַסְטִין בְעוֹלָם הַשְּׁלִישִׁי וְאֲנָשִׁים הַיָלִידִים אֱלֹהִים בֵּרֵךְ!), ❝𝕲𝖔𝖉 𝖇𝖑𝖊𝖘𝖘 𝕻𝖆𝖑𝖊𝖘𝖙𝖎𝖓𝖊 𝖜𝖎𝖙𝖍 𝖙𝖍𝖊 𝕿𝖍𝖎𝖗𝖉 𝖂𝖔𝖗𝖑𝖉 ⅋ 𝕴𝖓𝖉𝖎𝖌𝖊𝖓𝖊𝖎𝖙𝖞.⸍❞

Personally, I am a retired (ᘖ𝒪ᘖᘖ) 𖦽 tenured full professor of sociology 𖦽 founding president of The Institute for Dialectical metaRealism™. I specialize in: religious studies (the sociology of religion, the history of religions, 𖦽 the sociology of language 𖦽 religion), social theory, 𖦽 sociological practice (clinical 𖦽 public sociologies). My academic degrees, from regionally accredited U.S. institutions of higher education, are in: sociology, history, journalism, 𖦽 English. Read my Antifa Manifesto 𖦽 my Quora profile.

I am also: a sociologist; a historian; an advocacy journalist; a left–libertarian Bhaskarian critical realist; a Post–Civilization–Mutual Aid–Localist–Maoist–Third Worldist; a Communist–Bundist; a nonviolent Antifa; an intersectional Marxist; a kyriarchist; an emancipated Autist; a critical transhumanist; 𖦽 a Bahá’í pioneer (un pionero Baháʼí) to the Lower Rio Grande Valley (el Valle del Bajo Río Grande) of: Deep South Texas, U.S.; Norte de Tamaulipas, MX; 𖦽 ƃεყøɳɖ. Hidalgo County, TX (my home); South Florida; 𖦽 lowland Hawaiʿi are the only tropical areas (Climate Zone 1A) in the 50 U.S. states. México is 4 mi (6.4 km) from my condo.

My working class NYC nonpracticing Jewish parents changed the family name from Feigenbaum to Foster. I was then born in the upscale former Doctors Hospital on Manhattan’s Upper East Side. As illustrated by a thematic song 𖦽 prayer, I am 𖡣𐌋Ꮤ𐌀¥ꚸ a ⓕⓡⓔⓔ 🄼🄾🅁🄰🄻 ⒶⒼⒺⓃⓉ. In that, I would 𐒐𐒢Ꮙⵟⴽ compromise. 🅒🅗🅐🅣 🅦🅘🅣🅗 𖦽 🅳🅸🆁🅴🅲🆃 🅼🅴🆂🆂🅰🅶🅴 me on Telegram. For ყ𝔬ย: Writing a 𝖓𝖔𝖓𝖑𝖊𝖌𝖆𝖑 Bahá’í will is quick 𖦽 painless. My own will, which satisfies Bahá’í divine Law, is offered as a template (DOCX, ODT, WPD, XPS, or RTF). That document is distinct from my last will 𖦽 testament 𖦽 my living will. Both were prepared by an attorney 𖦽 are held by a fiduciary.

I will turn my heart to 𝓣𝓗𝓔 𝓢𝓗𝓘𝓝𝓘𝓝𝓖 𝓞𝓝𝓔𝓢 (Ancient Egyptian, 𓅜 𓏥, akhu; Hebrew, הַשְׂרָפִים, hạ•śərāp̄iym; Sanskrit, देवाः, dēvāḥ; 𖦽 Pali, देव, dēvā). They are not Goddesses, Gods, or Genderqueer/Nonbinary, Genderfluid, Genderbending, ⁠ 𖦽 Transgender Deities but abide all around us or, though often nonsensory, lie deeply within this outermost world. Bahá’u’lláh (Arabic, بَهَاءُ الله, Bahāˁu ʾAl•Llꞌah) is provisionally retranslated as 𝕊𝕙𝕚𝕟𝕚𝕟𝕘 𝕆𝕟𝕖 𝕠𝕗 𝕥𝕙𝕖 𝔸𝕝𝕞𝕚𝕘𝕙𝕥𝕪. And God, without partnership (Arabic, الشِّرْكٌ, ʾal•ššir°kuṇ; or Hebrew, הַשִּׁתּוּף, hạ•ššittūp̄), is the innermost Unification (Arabic, التَّوْحِيدٌ, ʾal•Ttaw°ḥīduṇ; or Hebrew, הַאַחְדוּת, hạ•ʾẠḥəḏūṯ) in The Unicentric Unities Model of All Things™.