The Inside Assyria Discussion Forum #5

=> On Being Stuffed vs Learning

Posted by pancho (Guest) - Thursday, February 7 2008, 2:35:36 (CET)
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...if I had been born into a Muslim culture and taught all the things they teach, I still would have thought about it, questioned it, read about it, read about other ideas and come to the same conclusion...whatever religion of "norms" one is born into MUST be examined later, as an adult...those that prove worthy can be kept and those that are unworthy can be discarded...if that wasn't the way it was supposed to be we never would have left off living in trees and eating each other. Why would we have changed? Then too people would have insisted they had the BEST way to live. It's unnatural NOT to question and seek clarity and reasess etc.

...but religious folk...like Shlama and the little fellow...you can bet that would have been just as blindly Muslim or Jewish as they are Christian. With them it was merely a question of wherever their birth dumped them...they're "believers" in whatever anyone told them...they get their sense of self, their identity, their sense of what's right and wrong and what's true and false as children...and they hang onto it all as if it was the only way, the best way etc.

...not me. It wouldn't matter where I was born, because the entire process of maturing requires, it demands, that you evaluate everything....take very little for granted, question authority until you've verified, as best as you can, the things you're told as a child.

..the same with our fairy tale about being Assyrians, descended from the ancients. More than anything, this idea needs to be challenged, severely...because it flies in the face of all reason and common sense...and to believe it unreservedly can make a complete fool out of a person and render them incapable of dealing in the real world...and LOOK at them!!!

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