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Posted by Maggie (Guest) - Thursday, February 22 2007, 21:38:57 (CET)
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Pancho wrote:
Maggie wrote:
>Let ONE Assyrian PROVE that I was EVER paid by ANY Assyrian individual or organization for all the FREE work I have done. I CHALLENGE
>ANY ONE in this world to come forward and PROVE that I was PAID one red cent for all the FREE time, money, and labor I spent working for Assyrians.

Pancho replied:
>…"no one said you were…you are an amateur, you don’t get paid for your Assyrian work."

....Of course I'm an amateur, that's why I don't publish books like Roux and Dr. Joseph FULL of erroneous information and let the world read it and believe it, because he's a DOCTOR, or a PROFESSOR. He has a BIGGER responsibility if he's a REAL doctor to get past the "church" information, whether Vatican church, Chaldean Church, or Nestorian church. He has to study the classical literature to be able to decipher what WAS before the Chaldean/Nestorian phenomenon, and he fails short on this. Now this is NOT an opinion, mind you, this is a FACT. Any historian will tell you that if you are going to call yourself a Historian, and publish a HISTORY book that will fall into the hands of the public, you must study the Classics, and there's no way around it.

"But where is your proof that Jews and Chaldean priests are paying Roux or Joseph? Do you mean that the university where Joseph taught is run by Jews or Chaldean priests and therefore they “pay” him?"

Apparently you are one of the few that doesn't know that Dr. Joseph was paid by one of the Chaldean diocese to legitimize the compound name, long ago, and way before it came up in late 1990' and later. This is not something new. It is old news. But let us forget that for a minute and concentrate on the issue at hand. If Dr. Joseph DOESN'T know there were historians of antiquity, (way before the Chaldean/Nestorian religious issue) that wrote about the Assyrians, explaining "Suraye", "Suroyo", "Syrian", etc. like Xenephon, Diodorus Siculas, and hundreds other historians, or the fact that Alexander, upon arriving in Mesopotamia said, "Spies told the Macedonian high command that Darius had assembled an enormous army and waited for the invaders on the plains of Assyria" and in another quote where he says "the people of Mesopotamia all call themselves Assyrians" PROVES that Dr. Joseph is wrong, when he says there are no Assyrians but Chaldeans and Nestorians only. He is basing his entire knowledge upon a few hundred years of history, and this why Dr. Joseph falls short.


Like you, I didn't think there was anything wrong with what Dr. Joseph wrote but twenty years of research convinced me otherwise. Like I said, some of the research I have run into proves him wrong repeatedly. Unlike him, I HAVE NOT rushed to publish ANYTHING, taking my time to make sure I can back up everything I will say in a book I have working on for years. Unlike Joseph, I realized no matter how long I have been in school, no matter how much research I do, I will NEVER have the full picture, if a few hundred years of history is missing and unaccounted for, which is why this led me to study the classics. That's where you see the whole picture of what actually happened, and that is the part Dr. Joseph is missing, and no amount of improvization will make up for it.

You wrote:
"Working for Assyrians” is also meaningless…because your work has been to continue to commit and carry on these error"

That's where you are wrong! and it will come out in my future work. Granted there's a LOT of confusion but David and I will clarify things as we go along. A LOT will fall into place, believe me.

"that would be Dr Joseph’s reply and I think he is right."

I wouldn't say that if I was he! He should look at his own errors first!
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>Why is everyone hopping around so? Who’s the biggest fool if not me? I spent 29 years working on Assyrian projects…Aprim has his name on three “books” which no one else considers books…and hardly ten people will read….I went ahead and put my name on a monument I spent four years and $170,000 on…and then stuck it in one of the most popular cities in America and the world where a few million people have seen it and will go on seeing it for the next 500 years and more…and they’re about to put another one up, also with my name on it…and now I’m here saying I was WRONG! Not to mention that I drove to Los Angeles, took that college president out of a meeting…had her haul Kelly Ross into her office that minute and forced the man to debate me in an open forum on their campus…and now I have to admit to him and myself and anyone else that I was WRONG! You think that’s easy or pleasant?"

That's ONLY if you believe in what ONE man says, and that man is missing hundreds of years worth of Assyrian history. Don't forget, the stuff they have unearthed recently, has proven many people wrong, not just Dr. Joseph. So don't take it so hard. There are things in the basement of the British Museum that is just now beginning to get translated, which sheds so much light on Assyrian history.

"..we Nestorians aren’t going to topple anything..if anything we’ve toppled everything on OUR heads!"

I totally agree. Nestorians or members of the ACOE would rather die than topple their ideologies for Ashurism. But education will change things in time. I do believe in education more than anything, unfortunately, education takes time, so we will never see ANYTHING happening in our life time.
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> Parpola has made the University of Helsinki the center of the world for Assyriology.
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"that’s your claim…where is your evidence? And even if it was true, the center was somewhere else before and will be somewhere else later…Parpola is one of many experts in the field…and they all have their opinions…but Joseph is not discussing ancient Assyrian history…he’s talking about the Modern Assyrians..a field in which Parpola isn’t any kind of expert…the harebrained statements I’ve heard and read from Parpola about how the ancient Assyrian religion is close to Christianity I distrusted when I heard them…sounded to me like he was playing to us way too much…but even if they were true, they have no bearing whatsoever on this discussion…Dr Joseph is focusing, in this book, on how the Nestorians came to be called Chaldeans and Assyrians and what they were called before then…which Parpola has nothing to say about that I’ve read…if Parpola speaks to these matters tell me where and I’ll check."

Dr. Joseph FAILS to explain what the Assyrians before Chaldean and Nestorian were called, so his attempt at explaining the entire picture fails with him.

"…how the hell do you know Dr Frye helped Eden “by hook or by crook”?"

You'd have to actually see Eden Naby lecturing or writing to understand there would be NO WAY in HELL she could possibly have passed all the classes, exams, and necessary certification to obtaina a PHD, with a third-grade spelling. I wish to GOD that you'd sit on one of her lectures, you'd vomit! I know you would. Just one question: IF Eden Naby is a professor, and her husband is this big shot at Harvard, HOW COME they can't afford a hotel room for ONE NIGHT in San Francisco, why do they have to BEG to sleep on the floor of a friend?

I will NOT tell you HOW she obtained her PHD, because although I don't have a jealous bone in my body, and I ALWAYS give credit where it is due, you said, "and you have nothing but your own dislike and apparent enevy of Eden naby to “guide” you?" so I will let HER friends that participate on this forum tell you the story. That way you will be convinced! I have absolutely no dislike for her, I think she is a lovely lady, and her husband a nice man, but that's not the point, is it?

>A REAL professor is Aryan Eshaya, who earned her glory the hard way, and is a REAL professor at UC Santa Cruz.

"well, we know by now what your criterion is before someone can be “real” in your eyes…they have to agree with you."

That's where you are wrong! They don't have to agree with me at all, but her work is credible because she doesn't write an IOTA that can't be validated and substantiated, and I respect her for that. She is by all definition, a complete scholar, and even though I've only met her a few times, casual hellos, I really respect her work.

"You still provide no evidence of how Eshaya “earned” hers, the “hard way” and Eden did not…you just throw accusations around as you feel the need. Eden Naby’s connection with Harvard comes about through the grant made her parent’s name to that institution and her work in the program set up there…she has never lied about her professional status and is highly regarded in her field…I’m surprised you don’t slime her husband as well for having married “that” woman."

I didn't slime someone for WHOM they married. I don't get in people's personal life. I stay focused on the work of that person, not who they married, what they married, or why! Besides, you are the one that brought them up. I talked about Roux and Dr. Joseph, only.

EVERYONE knows how Eden obtained her degree. And everyone knows how Aryan Eshaya obtained hers. Why there are no stories about the way Eshaya obtained hers, but everyone knows how Eden did it? WHY? Can you expalin that? These stories about EDEN come from her closest and most personal friends, and NOT from envious or jealous people who happend to have a grudge against her.
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>As for my refrences and bibliography, ANYONE who has watched my FREE TV show that ran for seven long years, would verify that it was completely refrenced, with Bibliograhy and footnotes.
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"like we agreed…you are an amateur…who can say whyatever she pleases…who has no one to answer to and your bibliography and notes is a highly “selected” one I’m sure."

You don't know shit about me, either, yet you are SURE my footnotes and bibliography are "highly selected". WHY? Are you GOD? Why don't I have anyone to answer to? Any writer or television presenter is accountable to what he/she says or writes. Yes, I have been challenged by many people on TV, mostly through their own ignorance or shock to hear something they never heard before. But they have never come back to prove me wrong.

I don't select a subject to write about because I have something to PROVE to the world, so therefore I have to be "selective" in my sources. I write about what is interesting, that's all.

"show me where any recognized expert in the field has proven, not said…that we are Assyrians"

Many Assyriologists, historians, and even church leaders who despise Assyrians, and who have NOTHING to gain by their statements, same as Parpola, Henry Layard, Beroses, Eusibius, Kitto, Theophilis, and hundreds more.

"Zinda is NOT a scholarly venue..it isn’t even a magazine…one can “publish” ANYTHING in Zinda…try to get an article of your’s into a recognized magazine and see what happens then…literally anyone can say anything at Zinda."

I could have chosen to send them to ANY literary magazine, originally intending them for the Assyrian Academic Society, and even Robert who publishes Nineveh Magazine, or the Assyrian Star, or even Bet-Nahrain Magazine. But I chose Zinda, because it is the ONLY electronic magazine. This way, future Assyrian children can easily find it if they just type in a few "key" words.


"I don’t care if I prove I’m a German lesbian…all I’m insisting on is the most fire-proof explanation of who we think we are…and so far Dr Joseph is hands down the only one I’ve come across who treats this subject like an adult and not a fire-breathing three year-old."

And I say, Dr. Joseph proves NOTHING except things we already knew, way before he published his book, and even the rest of it is false. Maybe HE is not Assyrian, but WE are!

".you are not looking for “truth”…like Aprim you have your own idea of what the truth is ALREADY."

I am always look for the truth, but apparently you are not, because you choose to only read books that try to prove we ARE NOT Assyrians. So much for your truth!



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