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Posted by pancho (Guest) - Sunday, May 27 2007, 2:55:48 (CEST)
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I appreciate your input and the time and energy it took to write what you did...however I feel it needs to be pointed out that neither you nor I, as most of our nationalists, are scholars or valid historians. I know you think it doesn`t matter, that it`s enough to "know what I know"...to believe what you were told because our parents would never knowingly lie to us...and they didn`t...they didn`t know any better either.

Sexist and Racist people have the same problem; they were handed a world-view and their, more or less, exalted place in it by their beloved or feared parents, reinforced by the Church and other institutions...and it is almost impossible for them to ever change...they too have the certainty you express and can even come up with loads of "proves" to back them up.

It`s fine, like I said before, to say you know what you know because you know it and there`s no need to study anything, especially anything that challenges your cherished beliefs...but that`s just the problem...no one serious takes us seriously. We are patted on the head, patronized, told to go play "Assyrian" in the corner and not bother the "grown ups" while they manage the world.

Not until we can match the scholars argument for argument and proof for proof and theory for theory can we hope to establish our claims anywhere but in the privacy of our social clubs...every layman you talk to and manage to convince you are a real Assyrian only needs to read or speak with experts in the field to realize that he or she was misled by your enthusiasm...you WANT to believe all of this and will do anything to keep on doing so...Dr Joseph is sort of telling you you are illegitimate by birth, and that`s hard to swallow...but it might be the truth...the question becomes; how much to do you value truth, for its own sake, regardless of what it does to your fondest wishes and beliefs.

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Letter from Dr Joseph pancho - Friday, April 20 2007, 2:50:39 (CEST)
- Re: Letter from Dr Joseph Jumblat - 04/20 05:31
  - Re: Letter from Dr Joseph pancho - 04/20 17:15
- Matay...over here!!!!! pancho - 04/27 06:55
  - some more thoughts on this issue Matay - 04/27 11:52
    - Re: some more thoughts on this issue pancho - 04/27 18:00
      - Re: some more thoughts on this issue Matay - 04/27 20:54
        Re: some more thoughts on this issue pancho - 04/28 02:47
      - Re: some more thoughts on this issue Jumblat - 04/27 21:07
        Re: some more thoughts on this issue pancho - 04/28 06:53
        Re: some more thoughts on this issue Jumblat - 04/28 16:39
        
        Just Kidding... pancho - 04/28 07:23
        Re: Just Kidding... Jumblat - 04/28 16:42
        
        Re: Just Kidding... Toma Deekis Hariri - 05/26 21:25
        Re: Just Kidding... pancho - 05/27 02:55
        Re: Just Kidding... Toma Deekis Hariri - 05/27 12:22
        Re: Just Kidding... pancho - 05/28 20:58
        
        Re: Just Kidding... Toma Deekis Hariri - 05/27 12:24

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