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Posted by The Nineveh Kid (Guest) - Monday, March 1 2004, 23:37:01 (EST)
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I tried to answer your questions. If you don't like my answers, that's okay with me, but I can't accept your concession. I just want to say this before I leave: I know a kid who grew up in the U.S. This kid's parents’ were both Assyrian. Both of them are dead. The kid grew up in a string of foster homes. He never knew anything about his heritage before he finished High School. He didn't know he was Assyrian, let alone what an Assyrian even was. It was a miracle that this kid survived long enough to find out that he had a heritage, but it didn't matter, because he never felt like he was connected to anything anyway. All of his foster parents were of European ancestry and they made sure he knew his place. This kid almost gave up trying to make sense out of it all. When he learned about his heritage, it almost felt like he was coming home. He soon learned, however, that without the cultural background and family ties he didn’t belong there either. Not growing up with the culture, he felt just as invisible among his own people as he did with all those foster families. It was just natural for a kid like that to try to compensate I guess. No one can exist in total isolation for very long. Anyway, this kid got in a lot of trouble with the law (it started in his early teen years actually and picked up again after he finished high school). He got into drugs, didn’t care about anything or anyone. He went on like that for a while until he enlisted. While he was serving he wound up in a hospital for a while (about a year). While he was there in the hospital, he met another patient. This patient happened to be Mexican. Really nice fellow. Anyway, the Mexican fellow and his wife and mother-in-law befriended this Assyrian kid, kind of took him under their wing. Well, this sort of renewed this kid’s faith in humanity and it was the faith that the Mexican fellow and his family shared with him that converted that Assyrian. That was the only time in his life that this kid felt like he had a family, and they weren’t even Assyrian. Now this kid is trying to make something out of whatever is left of his life. I’d just like to leave you with this thought. This kid, I think, is an idiot. Just like you said, in all of your posts. Christianity won’t give this kid’s life meaning or purpose will it? He was better off when he was living in the streets from hand to mouth, taking drugs and stealing cars.

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