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=> Brainwashing

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I have heard this word "brainwashing" and it is very commonly used by all kinds of people. However, there is nothing worse that a "brainwashed" person or persons using it toward others. First let's define a "brainwashed" person. Whenever a person or a people follow falsehood, believe or accept something stupid or foolish to others, they are called "brainwashed". The funny thing about this cool word is that it has and it is still being used by people are actually themselves "brainwashed". For example, if someone told me that the earth was a huge square and I believed that and followed that without researching, I would be brainwashed. If some one told me join a cult or I joined it without knowledge or research, I would become "brainwashed". Or if I accepted a political party and supported them without knowledge, I would be brainwashed.

Pretty much "brainwashed" is a person who follows something blindly without nowledge and research. The funny thing about our so called Assyrian "Omtanaye" or so called "Assyria fighters" is that they call others who diagree with them brainwashed. In this case, this cool word is being used in an omproper and incorrect way. How can a person who has investigated, researched, studied all sides be brainwashed? Now a person who, for exanple, inherrits a religion from his/her parents and never bothers checking it out or studying it, such person can be labeled as brainwashed. But what about a person who was brought up the same way as everyone else of a certain community, who decided to research and gain more knowledge and realized that there was something wrong, can such person be termed as "brainwashed"? or better said can people whom themselves are "brainwashed" label such person so? I think not.

Now, for example brother Pancho, I or anyone else who happens to be Assyrian. I am sure he was born into a traditional Chritianized Assyrian family and went to church at some point in his life. But, at some point in life he must have done some research and noticed something and decided to make another choice. Can any one like Pancho be labeled "brainwashed" when he clearly rejected the family tradition which was handed to him and decided to learn thing instead? wether some one agrees with his decision or not, he can never be called brainwashed because he didn't settle on blind belief and just carry on family tradition. But he rather researched for himself and at some point in his life he came to the conglusion that something was wrong. And my case is no different.

Yes, I use to believe at some point that every Christain of Iraq was a direct descendant of ancient Assyria while others could never be. I was a Christian who was brought up the way others are, with the same teachings and influence. I was brought up believing that "Mushalmane" were some filthy devil worshippers and that they are brainwashed. I was brought up believing that there is no love among them and they hate Christians and they hate Jesus. I also believed that we Assyrians of today were somehow superior to other ethnic groups and some how we were entitled to something special. I had the same prejudices, the same political idealogies and I followed everything blindly.

Well, at one point in my life it didn't work out anymore and I was not happy no matter what little or big progress or no matter how much I believed we were special and rightly guided and everyone else can go to hell, but I found myself in a position to force myself to look at other view points, other teachings, beliefs, idealogies etc. I had to research the things that I believed and followed and research elsewhere and see what makes me so much better or so much correct than others. The thing I came to find out was that nothing made me more correct, better or rightly guided, but it was that I just followed blind believe and convinced myself that I was correct. This is the same as being born into a Roman Catholic Iraqi family, I would most likely have been calling myself "Chaldean" and if some one else came telling me "hey, you are not Chaldean but you are Assyrian" I would give him the middle finger and tell him to go screw himself.

So, after I done my research and investigated other sides and views, I realized that I was prejudice and I was a biggot who was affraid of other views or beliefs. I wouldn't research other sources other than what I had or believed, but that changed when I was forced to swallow my arrogance and prejudices and look elsewhere and compare. Today, if anyone or whenever I happen to run into an Assyrian once in a blue moon if I ever visit my relatives, I hear them gossipping and saying that I am brainwashed and bewitched. The same thing the Pagan Arabs said about Muhammad(saaws) the same thing Abraham(pbuh) heard from his father and his people, and the same thing that my brother Pancho propably hears from other assyrians. Bottom line is that we are not brainwashed. We actually care to do some research and reveiew other sides and sources. We don't follow just what is handed to us by our village priests or our parents, but we decide to become more brave than they are and do some resarch.

If our ancastors were not affraid of lions, how in the world can we fear words of our opponents or what they have to say. If we come to find that were wrong and happen to change, that don't make us "brainwashed" "sellouts" or "unAssyrian" but it may make us different from the rest who hold one narrow view and who live in a world where there are only 2 colors, white and black. We are not brainwashed, but those who are affraid to research, question, ponder and think for themselves are brainwashed. Those who follow what others hand them and just go on with it are brainwashed and always end up making fools of themselves. If these clowns actually brought their claims to the civilized world, it would get thrown out and laughed at because they don't know the definition of many terms and words and they comfuse themselves into thinking that they are actually politicians with their suits and ties which they try to imitate their western Christian slave masters.

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