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Posted by Qasrani (Guest) - Friday, September 17 2004, 16:57:01 (CEST)
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You don't even know me, nor should you think you know. What you know is the sliver that is my words that I type in these posts. What does that tell you about me as a person? Nothing. Yet you seem to think you can draw some giant explication from it. That I am "drained of juice" and that I am "used to being petted and stroked for performing like well trained seal in an institution." What the hell do you know, honestly?

I do stand up for what I think whether you or Peter or anyone else cares to respect it. If I was looking for validation from the likes of you or Peter, I would toe your respective lines. I don't. I state my convictions. And I get smacked from either side. I don't really care. It's an honor that I'm not confined to any paradigm like you or Peter. You compare me to Habibi and by that simple statement you showed your lack of insight into either of us. What is so damn similar in that respect? That she's in higher education and so am I? That's enough to throw us into the same camp? That's outrageous and not to mention lazy!

For all your claims of having an open forum, there is a lack of civility. Not toward me as much, but I have taken note of how you treat most people. It's as though you want to trump anything and everything anyone else says. There's really no room for discussion. At times you are the advocatis diabolis with no purpose other than to stir the pot.

You insult, plain and simple. That does not make for discussion, constructive or otherwise. It just leaves people with a bad feeling. You don't come off all that passionate.

I'm not making a bugaboo out of you. I do think you are angry, though. If I wanted to say more than that I would. But I don't have the frame of reference (knowing you personally) to make grander statements than that. I am more than able to stand up for myself, Parhad. That's why you always fall back on attacking the fact that I have an education of some sort or other. Who cares? I'm sorry you ever found out what I study. And the whole point of the academic exercises was to make myself more limber in the brain. I never ever want anyone to judge me (either in good or in bad) on what degree I may or may not have.

That's why both you and Peter attack in the same way. With a wave of a hand he can call my posts "liberal" as though it is some dirty word and you can call me stunted for having gone to school.

These are not just words. If that is how you feel about the purpose of the forums, then I can work under that premise. Thanks for telling me. I never thought of the exchange of ideas as just mere words. Because words are so malleable, they are so descriptive, they give texture to ideas.

And finally, there is always room for civility. You cannot be in a constant rush to take over the parliament.

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That you are so disappointed in Assyrians may be laid to what you imagine to BE Assyrians in the first place.

You are right on that count. I wasn't raised around Syriac-speakers except my parents. Each time I interact with them, I'm initially offended then repulsed, then saddened. I feel that we can do better than we do. Convention pushes my feelings to their highest pitch. The thing is, there is so much apathy among the Syriac-speakers. And the ones with motivation are blinded by their cause. We are doomed whomever we stand next to.

I don't want Iraq to be homogenous. I want the Syriac language to survive. Every single person who is native to Iraq is of the same stock, whatever their religion or ethnicity. I don't want an Assyrian Freudian triangle. I want a single Iraq with all its different parts living together. With shi'a guys serenading me with Sargon Gabriel songs even if they don't know the meaning to those words. And 3adel 3ogla singing Ashur Bet-Sargis songs. And yea, even Edmond singing "I need to know" in the lounge style that he knows. And Janan Sawa making all the newly emigrated people from Dohuk remember their days back home by singing in Kurdish. This is Iraq in freeze frame.

Qasrani

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