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Posted by pancho (Guest) - Monday, January 16 2006, 23:32:33 (CET)
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...what a great word. Steven Colbert can take the credit...I don`t care....but what a great notion...Truthyness is whatever appears plausible to you, it`s what will "sell", what "does the trick"...whatever strokes YOUR balls the way you like em to be stroked is truthyness.

It is not the same as a simple truth...or a fact that exists by itself no matter what you or I or ten other people would prefer.

...I have nothing against believing I am a direct descendant of Ashurbanipal...rather flattering in fact...except that it`s ridiculous. Sure...I`d like nothing better than to have a certificate..or better yet, a decoder ring or some other chachara that "proved" I was Assyrian...but from the day I first heard this it sounded utterly foolish and ridiculous...it didn`t help any that the people insisting this was so could barely chew gum and walk at the same time...or pontificated from behind a tire rack.

Aprim would LIKE it to be true...because he could bask in the reflected glory of people dead millenia ago...I wouldn`t mind it myself...but it isn`t true...can`t possibly be...the odds against are so high that it borders on insanity to believe such a thing...and as if that wasn`t enough by iself..along comes Firas to tell us that ONLY Christians qualify as "real Assyrians"...and why? Because they "talk about it a lot"...and presumably Muslim Assyrians don`t. Neither Firas nor any other Christian expects any one of them to DO anything about it...but they must talk...and talk a LOT...they must repeat till they turn blue the long litany of proofs Aprim just gave them.

Aprim went looking for what he calls "facts"...and took only those that would PROVE his pet theory...this may be good Christian propaganda but it`s hardly science..or research...or writing even.

I can take it or leave it...I`m neutral...show me a TRUTH I can accept...and I will...I don`t care if it proves I AM Assyrian or NOT Assyrian...in other words, I`m open to hearing a TRUTH whatever it is...Aprim, on the famous other hand, deals in TRUTHYNESS...that is, he presnts as facts and truths what we all know he MUST believe...he NEEDS badly to believe he is Assyrian and therefore will do ANYTHING to show the Truthyness of his position.

...great word.

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