The Inside Assyria Discussion Forum #5

=> Come on Taco...answer ONE of these questions....

Come on Taco...answer ONE of these questions....
Posted by pancho (Moderator) - Sunday, May 19 2013, 16:40:25 (UTC)
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...you know you would, if you could. Just give ONE a try...come on. It won't hurt.

>1. Can a people give up their indigenous religion and still claim to be those indigenous people? Can a Jew become a Muslim and still insist he is a real Jew? Can a Christian convert to Buddhism and still say he is a Christian? Can an Assyrian leave his indigenous religion of Ashur for a Jew god and still claim to be Assyrian?
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>2. Can a German forget his own language and learn French instead...and go on to forget his own German history but still say he is German, even though he speaks French and knows only French culture?
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>3. Why do our parents tell us to "never forget your mother-tongue...or you will forget who you are"? If forgetting Aramaic makes us forget our "assyrian" heritage...then why wouldn't forgetting our ancient Akkadian langauge make us forget about being Assyrians...since the Assyrians, at the end of their days, switched to Aramaic and left Akkadian behind...the language their OWN history was written in?
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>4. We pride ourselves in having preserved Greek philosophy and learning and passing them down to the Arabs who then transmitted them to Europe etc. We also take great pride in having gone to China and elsewhere and taking our Jewish religion with us, to teach etc. And we are known for having preserved obscure Christian writings etc. Why then did we not see fit to translate our ancient Assyrian history, written in our Akkadian language, into the new Aramaic language so we could preserve THAT? How come we let Gilgamesh be forgotten while desperately preserving Noah?
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>5. How come that "continuous thread of Assyrians" didn't preserve anything? How come all anyone knew about the Assyrians was to be found in the Jewish bible? How come "assyrians" knew nothing of the Epic of Gilgamesh..or the names and histories of all those Assyrian kings NOT in the bible? How come it took Europeans to decipher "our" original language of Akkadian..how come THEY had to teach us how to read "our" language all over again, if we cared to...and how come they had to teach us who Gilgamesh was?
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>6. Why didn't we know, till the Euros told us, that Moses was a pale copy of the original Napishishtim, from the Epic of Gilgamesh? How come we spent the last two thousand years teaching and preaching about Moses and his reed-boat without ever knowing that Sargon the Great was the original to that story? How come we spread the Jewish version of that story and not "our" own?
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>...these are only a few questions to be answered, or not....where there are no actual expert writings on these, then let Toto use his head, his reasoning ability and knowledge to answer them...we can wait.



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