My cousin is dating other race!!!

It's really hard not to take sides here, but I'm not going to. I just wish all of you would mind your manners a little better. All you're doing is provoking each other to come back with more and more offensive writing. Is this the male ego at work? Come on, gentlemen, you're all capable of demonstrating better attitudes. I know, I've seen it.

Final note: let's keep the purpose of this forum in mind at all times. We're here to exchange ideas, and as I've said before, not insults. I don't think attacking the moderator is in good taste, nor is the moderator's attack on the members. Calm down!!!

Gayane

halfBreed: Strelochnik! :) Never point to someone! ::)))

Gayane, sorry about it.
Time for everybody to show respect to Gayane!

www.artur2000.com

Gayane jan I'm not attacking him. I'm just replying to his posts. Otherwise he may think I'm ignoring him.
I've asked once to email me if anyone has comments about my actions or needs help.
But it seems he likes shows.

Thank you.

MosJan , the only thing I want to add to your nasty armenian comment about Steve, is Shame on you.... If you can not conversate, just listen and maybe you can learn something.....
Showing the door to your fellow countryman is the worst act of betrayal. I guess you would ask us to stone him , just because some of us disagree with him... Wake up man , Middle Ages is over....
The Internet, which brought us together , is a panel/forum of speach. If we are intelligent , we can reject or accept certain views, and learn from them.

Having said the above , I just want to add that I have nothing against you. For me you are another brother( a naughy one...) Take it easy and you'll see that there is ample space for all of us.

Khaghaghoutioun amenestsoun...


[This message has been edited by raffiaharonian (edited October 02, 2000).]

Your cousin is dating an Asian guy? Wow...
What if I tell you that my ex is dating an Asian one too......
Does it bother me? At the beginning , yes it was, but mind you , not because he was Asian...
We were the victims of racism and hate , we can not become like our 'enemies'. Acting or thinking like them , makes us worse than them. Think about it.

I know it is not nice and it doesn't feel right for Armenians to date non-Armenians, but the heart does not follow reason...

Last year in Paris there was a big scandal , about a young Turk killing his young sister, with the encouragement of his parents, because she was dating a French guy.... It was an act of barbarism... Don't you agree?

Now , are we supposed to think and act that way? No, I can not believe that our noble nation can be that ignorant and barbaric.

It is the duty of each parent , school to teach our children about our values and the need to preserve our national identity and pride . If something goes the opposite way , then who is that we should blame?

Please refrain from using racistic tones and words. Visitors should never feel that we are ignorant and recists, and finally that 'we got what we deserved as a nation'.

I had to say the above because I dont' want to take part in the 'non-conscious' act of self slander and self inflicted injury.

Finally , I dare anybody to question my patriotism and love for anything Armenian....

( I know how some of you going to react...Poor Steve was your victim ....)



[This message has been edited by raffiaharonian (edited October 02, 2000).]

This alignment agaist OUR Farsi is...I don't know what to call it. The guy is trying to find his Armenian part, though in a very strange manner, but yet...He is emotional. So what? Every newcommer reads one of his posts and if he does not find anybody to disagree with to get a status quo on the forum, Steve is always there for "help".

And generally I don't like this alignments on the forum. Yes, we did that with JanFedayi and Artur before, but we don't do it already for 3-4 months.

Dear Compatriots,

I think there is no need to sharpen the knives. Let's be more tolerant, and grant anybody the right to have "wrong" ideas. In the case of Steve, I agree with Raffi's assessment - Steve is a smart guy, he is a good man, only he is too emotional. But he behaves emotionally only when provoked. And like any aggressive person, he gets more aggressive when cornered. I hope he reconsiders his decision, and comes back.

I would like to reiterate an earlier proposal - so that the forum succeeds, we need a formal Code of Conduct. One may say that it has to be a part of our inner essence, but apparently, it is not always.

Most of the time another 17 years old comes in (and sometimes older people), he/she is going to try to assert his “patriotism” and his/her “high moral values” by making sweeping statements regarding Armenian women, other races and, most importantly, the Turks. Most of the time these statements are going to be insulting to a basic human intelligence and dignity. And somebody is likely to loose his/her temper...

But in most of the cases (with some exceptions), I think, these are confused kids, who are searching for the “truth,” and are in a difficult stage of their adolescence. I think they need a lot of help, which they don’t find in their families and communities, and which demonstrate that our national social institutions – families, churches, schools, etc, have failed in such a miserable way.

Why not to try not to fail in this forum, by first disciplining ourselves, and next by providing discipline, as well as basic education of soul and spirit here? Why not to have a rule of three strikes, i.e. if somebody insults somebody else first time, to bring to his/her attention that it is intolerable for this forum. When it happens the second time, give him/here a warning on termination. Third time - to terminate the membership without any other explanations. Something like this...