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the beggar's lament....
Posted by pancho (Guest) - Friday, August 18 2006, 17:35:15 (CEST)
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....beggars are dispirited people...in extreme cases they deliberately cripple their children in order to gain even more pity from passersby...does that sound like prowd Assyrians to you?

Or, rather, does it sound like people who've been begging Jesus for centuries to save them...begging the Western European Christians to save them...begging anybody at all to "listen" to their tales of woe, confident that if they only stop and listen, they will "DO" something...GIVE something..

How do you maintain pride...as a beggar? What do you have to take pride IN? Your rags? Your scabs? Your poverty? Your lossess? Does telling people how great and successful your ancesters were give pride to a beggar...or does the mention of the proud name they claim descent from only degrade them further in the eyes of those who must wonder what happened to the old, noble, family stock?

And if you claim that you were FORCED into being a beggar....claim it to people who can show you just as much suffering and misery in their bloodline...don't you sort of make yourself the lowest of the low?

That's what we have for leaders and a "nation" too...a nation used to begging other people...to spending its time in the crossroads of history trying to get people to "only listen" to their plight...confident that if people just hear of it, they'll dig deep into their pockets for some change.

And the saddest thing of all...the thing that damns these people to everlasting Christianity is that they cripple their children with this example...and call it "teaching" the young...which they claim to place all their hopes on for the future...a future filled with more crippled beggars who are taught to find PRIDE in beggary.

The City of Chicago tried to give us pride of place...as San Francisco did...but "Assyrians" wouldn't stand for it...because it runs counter to beggary...it gives real cause for pride...and if you allow too much of that, people might stop placing their "faith" in begging someone else...and start doing for themselves...and that would mean distancing ourselves from the "Faith" that first taught us to beg.



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