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Posted by Warrior EMpress (Guest) - Tuesday, October 14 2003, 14:07:31 (EDT)
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Farid,

My reply to your post will never measure to the eloquence and insightfulness your writing portrays, however I really felt inspired to add a few words, as human expression in whatever ways it is perpetuated can only be beneficial to those who find its true value and worth.

Something is rotting in Assyria, and I have been surrounded by its stench ever since I was a little child...ever since I rejected confirming my "faith" as an 11 year old in a Catholic school. And yet I was always attracted by Christian icons and Irish crosses. Gothic churches in their grandure once captured my senses completely even though I was a declared "pagan".

Assyria, its ancient-ness, its majesty, its surreal pleasures and intricacies has become an icon - an image akin to the virgin caressing her boy child. Its a place and a space that many find sanctuary, identity and psychosomatic pleasure. Perhaps we are suffering from a mass hysteria much like a megalomaniac's inferiority complexes. Perhaps we are just a species who craves acknowledgment and belonging. Ancient Assyria is the breast from which many feed and feel comfort. It is an imagined home and a created identity. The only the thing that stays the same is change.

And yet it is a beautiful and comforting thought to close one's eyes and picture the Empress Sham-I-Ram reigning over her people. It gives us a warped hope, that perhaps as individuals we can find solace in power over others and eternal strength.

I once fed into this imagery, just like the young guys who tatoo the god Ashur on their forearms. However without inner peace and the realisation that one is always alone, solitude and contentment within one's own sense of person can never prevail.

Religion for the believers, imagery for the visionless, and opium for the masses.

When will humanity realise our common aims? When will humanity realise that the devil is not our enemy, but our own "nafs" (selves)?

I hope someone has understood my ineloquent ramblings,
Peace,
The Warrior Empress

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something rotten in Assyria farid - Monday, October 13 2003, 10:13:25 (EDT)
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  - Re: something rotten in Assyria Kris K. - 10/14 15:34
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