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There’s a lot of talk about maat and the wisdom teachings of ancient kmt being the root of proverbs in the Bible. I have always wondered what the Maatic perspective is on forgiveness and “loving ones enemies” to avoid having a heavy heart.
Does anyone have a breakdown of this from a systematic theological or philosophical perspective?
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It’s mainly the Instructions of Amenemope as far as proverbs go and I haven’t seen any of his instructions talking about forgiving enemies.
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Is it possible to live a maatic life while holding animosity towards the isftyw?
Is this a misunderstanding of maat?
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Isfet is chaos, violence, injustice, destruction, death, to do evil. My goal is to conquer Isfet, defeat Isfet, put my feet on the throat of Isfet; that is the duty of Ma’at. Thus, Ma’at will never rise to her throne if I’m forgiven Isfet, if I’m loving on Isfet.
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That’s the only way to live a mAat centered life.
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Even the people who brought the Bible into Afrika/Kmt don’t even believe in the “love thy enemy” propaganda; prime example: Hamas vs. Israel.
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The Bible is often used to empower the imperialist and disempower the victims of imperialism.
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I think the Wisdom Instruction of Nana Ptah-Hotep provides great insight on interpersonal relations in general.
I also think, more importantly, we should try to see Maat on Kmtyw terms (rather than sizing up with krakkka sky daddy mythology)
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The sky daddy trope is purely western in origin and doesn’t have a thing to do with reality. It can be difficult to interpret these texts sometimes due to a lack of Afrikan centered systematic theology.
Most theology schools are Western and very few if any speak about creation from an Afrikan perspective.
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