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Re: From the First Forum... "Caution"
Posted by Jeff (Guest) - Thursday, August 11 2005, 18:01:58 (CEST)
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>Posted by parhad on July 12, 2001 at 00:18:44:
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>A word of warning for all those heavily engaged in helping the people of our homelands...do not forget that this has all happened before, and will again. Our best hope of averting the cyclical repetition of violence and loss our people have suffered since we can remember, is to do something new...something calculated to add another dimension to our struggles.
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>Narsai reminisced once about how he'd found letters in a chest written to an old uncle of his from people in Urmia after the killings of 1915. The letters thanked him for sending money back home, from America where he was living and working as a young man in factories. For each one dollar, the letters said, he had saved one family.
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>He cried again telling me that. I'm sure that in the back of his mind is that, and other memories...these people have no one else. And yet, even after thousands dollars spent today to save the descendants of those same families...if nothing is added to the equation, we could be back here in another sixty years spending millions on THEIR descendants.
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>Before any of you condemn these feeble attempts at altering course or ading another facet to the approach, remember we've been here before, lots of times...and will be again, for things wont change for the better for us unless WE take a hand in not just providing band-aids everytime an Assyrian is hurt somewhere, sometime.. we must figure out a way to get far more resources behind us than just the immediate things we need to put a roof on a house or food on the table.
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>That is why I am expending all this time boring you to death. There are most definitely several things we could add to the equation, but all of them require a new mentality, a new way of looking at us and the world. Those people we have today who are entrenched in old ways, who almost seem desperate to keep things as they are because to do so ensures a "position" for them, those people are the ones madly looking for ways to keep us from growing up, and that includes the church, not just "civic" leaders or, god help us, "intellectuals".
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>The church is never happier than when we are suffering...they built their house >on our stooped backs. Our other leaders likewise would not want to see us look >elsewhere for they know excellently well how quickly they would be exposed if >we shone a light on our community. If ever anyone needed a Bug Man, it was >us.


And now, Athenians, I am not going to argue for my own sake, as you may think, but for yours, that you may not sin against the God by condemning me, who am his gift to you. I am the gadfly of the Athenian people, given to them by God, and they will never have another, if they kill me.

For if you kill me you will not easily find a successor to me, who, if I may use such a ludicrous figure of speech, am a sort of gadfly, given to the state by God; and the state is a great and noble stead who is tardy in his motions owing to his very size, and requires to be stirred into life. I am
that gadfly which God has attached to the state, and all day long and in all places am always fastening upon you, arousing and persuading and reproaching you.

You will not easily find another like me, and therefore I would advise you to spare me. I dare say that you may feel out of temper (like the person who is suddenly awakened from sleep), and you think that you might easily strike me dead as Anytus advises, and then you sleep on for the remainder of your lives,
unless God in his care of you sent you another gadfly.

When I say that I am given to you by God, the proof of my mission is
this: - if I had been like other men, I should not have neglected
all my own concerns or patiently seen the neglect of them during
all these years, and have been doing yours, coming to you
individually like a father or elder brother, exhorting you to regard
virtue; such conduct, I say, would be unlike human nature. If I
had gained anything, or if my exhortations had been paid, there
would have been some sense in my doing so; but now, as you
will perceive, not even the impudence of my accusers dares to
say that I have ever exacted or sought pay of any one; of that they
have no witness. And I have a sufficient witness to the truth of
what I say - my poverty.

From Socrates.......



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