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Re: Thoughts on Dr Joseph`s Book
Posted by Don (Guest) - Wednesday, February 21 2007, 10:46:52 (CET)
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Well then...I apologize for being the cause of your unrest. I believe you are referring to me. We do get a little heated but that doesn't mean anyone is angry...it's just passionate speech...I believe you put it that way yourself one time.

I guess in some ways we can argue that Assyria is "occupied"...occupied by ignorance maybe. But you know as time goes by, the more I talk to people, the more I read, the more I sit and meditate...I have come to this conclusion (not now, but for a while), that there is no occupation - with the only occupation of course being that of the ILLEGAL war by the western coalition. And while in some instances one may think the Shiites deserve what is going on now [e.g. today's mess] because they betrayed the former regime and sided with America (even if only for a time), I do not take pleasure in any one dying there. There is not a day that goes by that I don't think of this whole thing...and all I can feel is this painful churning in my stomach and tightness in my chest. Who is anyone to point and say "traitor?" Damn it...we ALL betrayed each other. Someway somehow we all did.

At some point, we have to mature. I have to agree with KRS-One when he once said, "I don't know who came before me, and I don't know who's coming after, but right now it's my show." Yea history is great but we're missing the now. To me, all of Iraq is Assyria, always has been, always will be. I don't know or really care what the so-called "workers" or self-proclaimed nationalists are saying but that is my opinion. My vision of Assyria has become grander in scope...and hopefully will continue to as I grow. I wonder if this thinking is close to what certain of our ancients were thinking when they went for it [unification]. I am referring to our Hammurabi, Sargon Agidu, Ashur Abbalit, etc. Each walked into a world that was partitioned and then unified the country. There must be a reason why it happened over and over again in history. And if it did, it would not be unreasonable to assume it can happen again.

It's late right now...I don't know if I am putting this into words the way I want to but night time is all I get for this stuff so I’ve got to get this out. I don’t know if those of you reading this can relate to what I am saying if you haven’t read the histories of those above kings. Maybe you have once seen a man or woman and felt the strong inclination to meet and get to know that person…like you were perhaps destined to. You know you must do it else you shall regret it your whole life if you miss or give up the opportunity. When I read the spar-khayuta of those kings who united Assyria, I could just imagine what went through their minds. One cannot just have the idea to do what they did. One has to believe in it and feel a strong inclination towards it…perhaps a push, similar to wanting to meet and get to know that special someone. I don’t think I am guilty for feeling what I feel. It’s not too utopian to hope and believe some peace can eventually be restored to the homeland…damn it, it’s worth a try.

I think it’s time to put down the old grudges between us and our Muslim brothers. Damn, we have all suffered so much - specifically the people in Iraq. I only hope that will not be the fate of Iran as well. How is it that we went from a period of such respect for each other to this? We are one people, one blood. How did we all let the west get into our minds? I look at this situation as a mirror of that of the time of Ashur Abbalit, who convinced his people and especially the military that it was time to throw off the yoke of the people of the west and western Near East groups, who established their puppet regimes in various city-states in Assyria. His reign was 1363-1328 B.C. and he is 73rd on the list of Assyrian Kings (taken from the list on the Assyrian Kings list tablet allegedly discovered by archaeologist A. Poebel in 1942).

Ok, I’m getting tired…more on this later hopefully.



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