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Re: Dear Don...
Posted by Don (Guest) - Thursday, February 23 2006, 6:24:12 (CET)
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"So, like, Donald, who are you anyway? If I missed a previous introduction I apologize, but I'd love a brief bio if you don't mind... You're positive vibes."

--Sigh...I had it worded perfectly the first time before the page ate my text up. Good thing I remember what I wrote. Here we go again.

You have posed a very interesting question. I can answer it in a plethora of ways. In the cynical sense, I am another strand of the "virus" - another "bazaar," if you will. In the idealist sense, I am a renewed hope - a freedom fighter. I am many things and I wear many "hats." It's kind of like that one saying that asks, "When one steps in a river, is the river the same river as the one he first stepped into?" I think that's how it goes...but you get the point - that I am many things and am static, yet dynamic (if that makes any sense).

I was raised in New Britain, CT and moved to Turlock a little more than 4 years ago. This is my last semester as an undergraduate. I will be graduating soon with a B.A. in Political Science and 2 minors: Public Administration and Speech Communication. I am also currently waiting to find out which law schools I'll be able to go to. In the mean time, I am hoping to stay alive and accomplish my goals. I have many.

I used to do a show on AssyriaSAT but had to put it to sleep for a while (roughly 6 months ago) b/c this was my last year before getting my B.A. and I needed to make sure I continued to do well in school. On that show, I used to take all different types of topics, especially ancient Assyrian history and compare it to today's situation in hopes of offering people the idea that despite the situation we're in, we can overcome. I, and other guests, would attempt to address many of the issues facing us today in order to raise awareness. I/We used to also inform those who considered themselves "Assyrians" about various aspects of our people so that when someone asks an Assyrian, "What is an Assyrian?" they don't reply with the only stupid thing they can think of - "We were the first Christians." We attempted to explore EVERYTHING about Assyrians so that people could be proud of so much more but not just that - to also be inspired to create new things - new things for them to be proud of.

Anyway, I like language a lot. I know our language really well (in both its so-called "classical" and so-called "vernacular" dialects/forms - which were prostituted into 50 different names). I am currently trying to learn the so-called "Akkadian" dialect, or ancient Assyrian so that I can conduct my own research on ancient Assyrian matters...I have a problem with having to read things on such matters from white people and other people with vendettas. I am also slowly transliterating many Assyrian texts (both Christian and ancient Assyrian texts as well as anything else that doesn't fit in those two categories but is equally as important). To make things easier, I'm trying to create a program to speed things up but I don't know when I'll get to it...it would be a big help. It also doesn't help that getting a hold of digital images of cuneiform tablets is very difficult since those bastards like to hide our stuff for themselves and publish books of our ancient knowledge but with their names on them.

I have also been beginning to write rhymes in classical Assyrian. I don't mean those kinds they use for silly Assyrian music...I mean some complex stuff. I came upon this when an Assyrian language teacher I used to go to showed me this book of rhymes that had this rhyme from an Assyrian Church of the East bishop in it. It was written in reply to the joking remarks of a Muslim Khalif in Assyria. You see, at that time, Assyrian Christians and Assyrians Muslims were living together fine...the west had not yet come to instigate and our people (Muslim or Christian), had not yet sold themselves to the West yet. The two dialects of Assyrian at THAT time (the one that later evolved and became the dialect/language today known as Arabic AND the other that we Assyrians have continued to speak) were in competition at that time. They used to have what we today would called "freestyle battles" and "rhyme sessions." That's how these langauges became so powerful. Anyway, that's not the important part. This is: When I looked at the poem it was unlike anything I've seen before. It was so meticulously written that if one was to fold or crease the paper in half the long way that the letters written on one side exactly mirrored those on the other side. After that, I was in awe for a while. It was art...it was not just writing. I was inspired to CREATE. It was then that I knew I had to one day do something as crazy as that. I'm still learning.

This one time in a recent course I had, we had to stand up and tell everyone about ourselves. One of my classmates asked me where I saw myself in 5 years because she was amazed by all I said. I replied by saying "taking over the world." I was joking. Maybe. No seriously though...I really want to see people freed from the yoke of mental slavery. You know what pisses me off? We have young people whose parents have told and continue to tell them not to do "wrong" and "sinful" things like drinking, doing drugs, etc. and those young people do not listen to them. However, when those same parents tell those young people to blindly support certain Assyrian "church/political leaders," they are quick to listen to them. That's the kind of crap that pisses me. It is proof that people don't know how to think for themselves. Now, we're all guilty of this at some point or another...but what bugs me is how so many people don't make an effort to research things on their own. The only way we're going to succeed is if a sizeable portion of the population figures out how to think...think for themselves and analyze facts for themselves.

Among the other things I listed, I also like to write rhymes and make underground Hip-Hop music in my room (the lab). I do it for my own enjoyment. Who know though, maybe one day I'll release the virus though.

And that is my state of things right now...my world. To me, what I do is positive energy...I don't know if I'm positive vibes though. Khaya Ashur.


Regards,

Donald



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