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=> There are not only too many chefs in Assyria....

There are not only too many chefs in Assyria....
Posted by Bob Aprim (Guest) - Sunday, February 4 2007, 0:51:13 (CET)
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...there are too many pots in too many kitchens containing too many recipes.
When, if ever, are we going to examine these conflicting certainties? How much more of a calamity than the almost certain creation of a Kurdistan, where we insisted all along an Assyria must go, do we need to experience before we question every assumption we´ve ever made or truth we´ve been taught?

I mean, really, what more needs to go wrong for us before we begin to question? We sure aren’t getting anywhere cursing at each other even harder or making lists of traitors etc. If it´s just the world that´s out to get us, then what chance have we got? If it´s not the world but something we´re doing wrong that we don´t yet see, then there is hope…let´s at least take a look to make sure…because as things stand now and as they´ve developed over the last century at least and promise to repeat in the future…this isn´t working.

People grow and develop by questioning, not by clinging to certainties. If that wasn´t the case then we never would have questioned the propriety of eating each other raw…and a cave would have been a good enough home etc. You have to doubt…especially when your truths lead you consistently to disaster.

But to do so constructively people have to check their certainties, with their weapons, at the door. As terrifying as it might seem at first, we have to let go…let go of all we´ve been taught to believe, for surely this has been partly responsible for the condition we find ourselves in today. If what we´ve believed all along is true and correct then there should be no fear in examining it. We don´t have to trash our beliefs…and we can always go right back to them…but let´s at least examine them closely in an open and intellectual spirit. Only a fearful person, one full of fundamental doubts refuses to examine…for fear of finding the errors he half-suspects. The more sure and certain you are the more easily it should come to you to question yourself and allow others to question you without getting defensive or offended.

First Assumption: We are Assyrians.

If we claim that leaving the religion of Ashur for Christianity made no difference to our Assyrianism, then leaving Ashur for any other religion should also make no difference to anyones Assyrianism. If we would stop there, all would be good and who could argue with us?

But we don´t stop there. We go on to say that only Christians can be real Assyrians….because they still maintain an Assyrian heritage. But if we examine this heritage we find that it´s a Christian heritage and not an authentically Assyrian one…we just call our Christian culture an Assyrian one. Furthermore we presume to set the standard by which anyone else can claim to be descended from the same people we claim descent from…and that standard requires others to practically convert to Christianity in order to be our kind of Assyrian. Clearly this is inappropriate.

If we claim that a religion is proof of an Assyrian heritage, then it should be the original Assyrian religion that meets that criterion. If we allow Christianity then we must allow others…and if we claim that we and we alone can decide what our Assyrianism means and consists of when stripped of Ashur, then we have to accept whatever a Muslim or Buddhist is willing to call his or her Assyrianism, when it is likewise stripped of Ashur.

Second Assumption: As Assyrians we Deserve Our Homelands to be Given Back to Us.

Let´s assume we´ve settled the first question…that we know exactly who the Assyrians are and how many etc. The next thing we have to ask is if any people who´ve been robbed of their ancestral lands have ever gotten them back without seizing them themselves, in much the same manner they were taken from them…that is, by force.

I know of only one instance where a government of usurpers has given anything back and that is the government of Canada which returned some forrest land to one of their indigenous tribes. And I venture to guess that aside from trees and springs there was nothing of commercial value there…certainly not petroleum. It´s a long, long list of people who´ve had their indigenous lands stolen from them. So far no office or department exits anywhere to return anything or right these wrongs…this is simply the way it´s always been done. Every modern nation today, especially those to which we appeal, have stolen the lands they occupy from their rightful owners. To ever begin to satisfy such a claim would open a floodgate of similar claims and governments simply cannot afford to do so.

If anything Israel, and now Kurdistan, is an example of this and not “justice”…for no one, who had authority over the land, made an Israel out of Palestine and gave it to the Jews…rather it was seized…stolen from the Palestinians…Might took it and Might keeps it, not Right. The same is true for Kurdistan. Should this latest theft become permanent, Kurdistan will be accepted by other nations as one of them, created in almost the same way they all were.

Therefore the argument that justice must be done is a very weak one since the world is happily working its way along committing and allowing injustice after injustice. It isn´t a question of having enough faith either…or simply that this is a hard thing to do and one only needs to persevere…it´s that this thing we expect has never been done and the reasons why it never can be are only too plain. For all their legitimate claims and even the fact that their losses occurred only a couple of hundred years ago, Native Americans will never get any land back.

We seem to fly in the face of all precedent and reality and history when we insist that this must occur. It may be fine to maintain this sort of eternal hope where celestial things are concerned…but here on earth its killing us, literally. No one who has tremendous faith thinks faith alone will get her into medical school. It´s good to have such strong faith, but we all, even the most religious among us, know that we need the grades too, not to mention the funds.

Practical matters, such as getting into medical school or getting a country back, must be dealt with, not with faith alone, or primarily, but with equally practical measures. And I think it’s safe to say we haven’t approached this thing from a practical point of view at all…but rather an emotional, quasi-religious one in which we’ve placed our trust not in international law or historical precedent, or even in weapons wielded by ourselves and not proxies, but in Issaiah…who also would have needed the grades to get into medical school.

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