The Inside Assyria Discussion Forum #5

=> way out on a limb and sawing away like mad....

way out on a limb and sawing away like mad....

Posted by pancho (Moderator) - Tuesday, October 5 2010, 20:05:39 (UTC)
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...I´ve been dropping in on Maggie´s Mall since she started it up some four or five years back...ever since she flipped herself off this forum because she could not get protection from the beastmaster here.

Some basic facts about these assyrians:

1. they can´t stand to be ridiculed.

2. that being said we must explain that to them "being ridiculed" is having their words read back to them, with any sort of commentary they can´t erase or control, ban or pre-delete...in other words they get pissed whenever they have to take responsibility...of any kind.

3. even though they post under anonymouse names, they are still highly indignant that anyone responds at all....that´s easy to explain because a coward, even one safely hidden away behind Maggie´s skirts, knows he´s hiding, knows he´s being a coward, so that even the false name provides no ego protection...in fact it makes it worse because it means they can NEVER be safe. They, in effect, rat themselves out.

4. Maggie´s Mall has very few shoppers...very few people stopping by to test the merchandise....they do have a handful of vendors, but what they´re selling no one really wants to buy...for instance; every plea, or demand, or rousing call to arms which requires the slighgtest actual physical exertion on anyone´s part( even the one making the suggestion), let alone money, is quickly filed away. Sometimes there´s a "GO KHON!"...but nothing more.

5. Everyone at her Mall reads here....and I mean everyone. They´ll always deny it because they have "no time to waste", but we all know that´s a lie...they have nothing BUT wasted time on their hands. And not only do they read from her place but from all the other forums combined....while Maggie gets fifty readers a day, on a very good day...we get on average 350.

6. Keeping ones head buried in the sands of assyria is a normal "political position" for assyrians...especially nationalists and the writers of those awful books. In truth, there isn´t much that´s interesting to read on the other forums...I mean how many times can you blast the Qurds? To what purpose do you say "never forget" when you never DO anything about remembering? How many times can you hear your "enemies" denounced? Apparently a lot...because it comes as close to doing something about those enemies as these people will ever get...so it´s all "action" for them...but it´s boring all the same....and that´s the main reason they all read over here...because no matter how much they may disagree or feel their emotional shorts creeping up their intellectual arses, it´s at least challenging, at least something new they never heard before or considered....they aren´t THAT dead that they can´t appreciate variety, or a new take on dusty old things.

7. Finally, all of this added together explains, I humbly submit, the shrinking numbers of assyrian nationalists and others who even bother any more...with any forum. I know I´ve watched the numbers decrease dramatically over the last ten years...people used to repeat their stupid arguments constantly, day after day...and then they did it less and less and many have disappeared from the scene entirely....now, we can´t take all the credit for this, but I believe our early penchant for dragging these cowards out from behind wherever they were hiding and dragging them over here to slap around intellectually at will, with them quivering all the time with self-imposed humiliation and rage, because they refused or were unable to defend themselves, has caused many to fall away. It simply isn´t worth it, they discovered, even if ten moderators protect you from a direct confrontation, to sit back helplessly while you're dragged over here and thumped soundly regardless.

I could be wrong in thinking this goes some way in explaining the reason bethsuryoyo and aina and atour folded up shop...because no one was willing to expose themselves any longer to "ridicule" even though, and maybe even because, they thought they were "protected"...instead they discovered that they left themselves wide open to being discussed and ridiculed anyway, and with the knowledge that although they COULD defend themselves with direct confrontation(as we begged them to do) they were SO damn terrified that they couldn´t even lift a hand to defend themselves against their OWN words and ideas...that´s a whole new kind coward...one they hadn´t yet seen in assyria, or hadn´t been pointed out to them and everyone else.

Over at Maggie´s Mall it´s been awfully silent for a few weeks...there´s simply nothing going on...Maggie had a birthday party in Vegas...the AUA got trashed, again....suggestions were made about who belongs to what and what it all means...notices about what the Qurds are doing were posted...some hilarious suggestions were made...and that´s it. Nothing of substance at all...and this in light of Maggie´s revelation-a-la-wikileaks that she had some devastating secret documents that would blow the lid off everyone´s tea cup...nothing, it never happened.

I think part of the reason is that those who write over there are dismayed to read their posts over here, with commentary...commentary that Maggie wasn´t able to spare them from...and their feelings are hurt. Yup, it´s that simple for them: if someone isn´t going to protect them ANYWHERE on earth, never mind among Arabs and Turks and Qurds...then by ashur it isn´t worth exposing themselves to "danger"...which in their book merely means direct confrontation, at which they know they always lose. Beth-Shlimon is an excellent case in point.

And who knows but that this isn´t the reason Beth-Shlimon writes in the language of "the enemy"; Arabic...or Maggie posts her revelations in the same language: because we don´t read Arabic.

And that´s why there´s such a drop-off at Maggie´s Mall. And here´s the interesting thing; now they´re all reading this, reading my explanation for the lack of any movement or activity or signs of life and why these assyrians are all but comatose, except for lame jokes....they´re going to read that they have been "exposed" and they´re going to have to do somehting about it. Anyone still thinking they´ll opt for direct confrontation hasn´t been paying attention and doesn´t know his recent assyrian history...reading this will place them on the horns of a dilemna...either they quickly sling some tired old hash on their forum, to show that I´m wrong in my assesment, which will only prove me right...or, pretending they ignore us all along, they´ll go on the same way, only now they know that we´ve all noticed and noticed the real reason it´s so quiet in assyria...it´s so quiet because they are afraid, because they have nothing to say and all of it because they really have nothing to DO...I mean there is no course of action anyone will take, under any circumstances...unless it´s minor and there are no "enemies" around.

Let´s see which horn they gore themselves with.

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