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you wrote: "...people do it all the time..." Answer-I never do, until I have all the facts. For one thing, I don't want to make a fool of myself, and another, I don't want to accuse people of something they did NOT do. you wrote: "we assume about the weather." Answer-Weather and people are not the same. People have feelings and emotions which we do not want to trample on, if we can avoid it. you wrote: "It's no crime and often enough it saves us all sorts of grief later". answer: No, it does not save us grief, other than add to the confusion. I am a minimalist, and I try to minimize pain, grief, confusion, etc for myself and others. I am a simple person and try to simplify my life so that I don't have to haul a bunch of luggage unnecessarily. you wrote: "the key is not to stand by and insist on your assumptions when new information comes to light..." Answer-Bravo! that is crucial, and some people are too egoistic to admit their mistakes and move on. you wrote: "and one should bother to find out more in life...that's the reason I'm confirmed in my beliefs about "Assyrians"..." Answer-I agree, one should definitely bother to find out more in life. BUT, Not all Assyrians are the same. I'm not. I believe in Assyrianism but not at the cost of giving up my morals, ethics and values, (which I obtained through my search, sruggle, and experience) just to prove something. Too often we see people trying to prove something, and like Bob Dylan says, "you're a fool if you are still thinking there's something left to prove". You wrote: "I too assumed all my life that the stories I was being fed were true...I know better now, which proves MY point." Answer-you haven't proven your point when you have yet to tell us what stories you are referring to, (and please don't go back to the "Christian" thing.) Religion is a personal thing, just like it's a personal thing to choose to smoke or not, to wear make-up or not, to eat seafood or not, to be a vegan or not, etc. You can still be Assyrian and expand your sphere of influence. It doesn't take away anything from you as a person, or as an Assyrian. There are many philosophers, playwrights, dramaturgists, scholars, archaelogists, Assyriologists who are not Assyrian, but most of their work centers around Assyrianism and it's relation to world philosophy and culture. For example, the great playwright, Bertolt Brecht was a Marxist German who fled Nazi Germany, and lived in Santa Monica, Ca. He wrote great plays that revolutionized the world by introducing new elements into the German world, such plays as Baal, The Caucasian Chalk Circle, Mother Courage, the Jewish Wife, Three Penny Opera, etc. These plays were about the people of the world, (the Assyrians, Urmia, the Chinese, Canton, the Jews, the Americans, the Russians, the English, etc.) His plays brought the struggles of humanity to the forefront and changed the way we look at others and ourselves. But does that mean he was not German? or his hear was not Assyrian? NO! You obviously are a very sharp person: quick-witted, great thinker, bold, rebellious, brazen, and worldly. BUT you are a product of ASSYRIA. Inspite of your rejection of some Assyrian values, i.e. Christianity, and maybe even other things I might not know, but you can be Assyrian and worldly at the same time. One doesn't take away from the other. --------------------- |
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