Why I Continue to Engage KS in Dialogue

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Rosie T.
by Rosie T.
20-Jan-2008
 

Why I do it. In his own recently posted words. Please read to the end...

KS...Killer Shark/KiaroStami....King Solomon/Kaposi's Sarcoma..

"I am here, because I am you, your neighbor, your shame, your fear, your hate, your past, your present, your future, I am your mirror, I am the friend you once had, I am the person you betrayed, I am the person you stoned to death, I am the first stone cast, I am the child that hung until the red left his lips, I am the mother who had to claim the body of her child, I am the father that could never wash his son’s body, I am the cold winds that ran up your back when you sense injustice, I am the emotion that makes you stare with fright and intrigue at a person as his life leaves his body, I am everything you do not want to be, I am a Muslim, a Jew, a Mazdaki, a Christian, a Sufi, a Bahai, I am hate, I am love, I am anger, I am sorrow, I am hope, I am your denial, I am your efforts to distance yourself from Islam, I am your excuses, I am your broken grave stones, I am your unmarked graves, I am tears, I am the desire to send steel rain to the IRI, I am your vengeance, I am your desire for a pound of flesh, I am your desire to distinguish yourself from Arabs, I am your contradictions, I am unfair, I am your humanity on a cusp, I am your irrational desires, I am your divorces, I am your failed efforts at love abroad, I am your failed attempted to fit-in, I am your changed names so it can be pronounced, I am your efforts to include your non-Iranians friends in the conversation, I am thousands of souls that never came back from the War – I am you! "

I am your laughter as the warm waters of the Caspian crashes against your feet leaving a million water nymphs squirming under and over your feet, I am your request and desire to stop and get warm, fresh kolocheh as you arrive in Mazandaran, I am the pain that brings a smile to your face as you walk over sharp seashells trying to reach the water, I am the purple skies over Perspolis, I am the wait for the order of jegar with salt bought at the street vendor [jegaree], I am the pieces of seeds[tokhmeh] spat from the upper balcony over the heads of the audience sitting in looj, I am the barley soup with a piece of bread being eaten on a cool winter day after the movies at Cinema Takhteh Jamsheed, I am the laughter of kids at a school playground at zangeh tafreh, I am the inner urge to “gher” when you hear bab-karam, I am the anticipation for porshikee, I am that bastanee ghefee, I am that fires coming from the tumble weed at Chahar shanbe souree, I am the crisp new bills you got for nourouz, I am the nouneh khameayee sold near Majlis, I am your how you feel when you mother asks what you want her to make you for dinner, I am the deep snow in Hamedan, the dates on the ground on the streets of Bam, I am the round faloudeh Kerman, I am the best ash you had in Tabriz, I am the summers in Astara, I am the mountains of Alborz and Zagroos, I am the hot, hot summer muggy nights of Abadan, I am the korsee at your grandma’s house in the dead of winter, I am the first gojeh of the season, I am the night skies over the Kavir, I am you!

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If you have any further questions please ask yourself first before you ask me. Thank you.

Rosie/Robin/Roxane/Roushan

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To David ET: it's about Rosie's missionary role on "iranian.com"

by Kafka (not verified) on

This fuss is about Rosie's wanting to attract attention to herself. But more profoundly, it's about her colonialistic attitude toward my friend KS and all of us Iranians who come to this website.
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Rosie is on this website as a civilizing missionary for the backward Iranians. She tells us how to behave, how to treat each other lovingly, how to all get along, how to heal our "wounded" selves, how to become whole, etc, etc. And she shows us off her knowledge of myths, archetypes, feminism, post-modernism, Kafka, Iranian history and traditions, Rumi and Hafez, psychology, politics, anthropology, astro-physics, you name it. She wants to impress us.
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She preaches us to be "tolerant" of each other and "balanced" in our responses, yet as soon as you criticize her, she gets nasty and even vicious. She fought with "Nazanin" and myself (on another thread), simply because we criticized her. (She cleverly made her vitriolic statements to me deleted by a moderator). The lady does not like to be contradicted. She has no tolerance for anyone who does not admire her. She also has a temper. She needs anger management. She sympathizes with KS because she is exactly like him. She might not be antisemitic, but she behaves arrogantly toward us Iranians. She wants to educate us. She wants to pacify us. She wants to turn us into "civilized" people. She has the mentality of a colonizer. It's time for all of us to wake up. Why doesn't she behave like everybody else on this wesite? No one else is trying to save us from our "abyss" and "wounds"! Right?
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I'd like to suggest to her to go back to her therapist and tell him/her that she has the "savior complex", that she is an "exhibitionist", that she is only "tolerant" of those who flatter her, that she suffers from "intolerance" and many other psychological issues. I hope she understands that many readers of "iranian.com" are offended by her colonialistic attitude. We've had enough of foreigners learning our language and culture, not to enjoy us for who we are, but to CHANGE us and MOLD us into what they think we should be. Enough is enough!


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"She"

by Las Vegas Gambler (not verified) on

When you are "Serious", Please let me know

I Don't Deal with "Amateurs" :) !


David ET

double standards of the self righteous

by David ET on

Look at Quran or Bible and how they blatantly say the non believers must be killed, mimed , tortured , burnt in hell , blah blah...and no one raises an eyebrow at these religions of peace!

and when a non-believer gives his/her opinion about Islam or whatever , everyone says HUSH HUSH and shouts "disrespect"

What about the violation of rights of the non-believers by believers? Should we ban the holy books for what they promote from stoning to killing and say HUSH HUSH too?

No! Let them both TALK IT OUT instead of fighting it out.

I don't see what all this fuss is about !?


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"I am you!"

by KHAR (not verified) on

"I am you!" Thanks for the humility and the compliment Rosie. Folks normally don't say they are me!

PS. Good Writing!


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To Jamshid:

by Tahirih (not verified) on

Didn't you say this?
"I think most of you in this thread have very little exposure to Iranians who have been really hurt by the IRI. TRUST ME ON THAT. Hence the fuss".

My whole life has been upside down by IRI,what are you talking about???My close friends have been killed and tortured by IRI,I have not seen my family for 24 years and all for being a Bahai! I did not pick arms against anyone and did not participate in any rallies,but still had to suffer because of my religion.My families belonging has been taken away ,I can not visit my fathers resting place. So many nights I cried myself to sleep wanting to see my mother,or hug my brothers.

But do you see me using profanity or calling some one F....ing this or that???like kafka or ks.

Ok you are not Hezbolahi!but you back them up when Mona or I use any bahai ideas in our comments,and meanwhile they are swearing at us.Your reaction to us Bahais is the same as them.Unless you stop behaving like them ,in my mind you are from the same stock.
Mr Rashidian does not agree with us Bahais but he voices his remarks in the most peacefull manner,that is the way it should be.

Having a hard life or going through suffering does not give you any rights to vebally abuse any other group.
With hope of peace on earth and between IRANIANS,
Tahirih


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"Las Vegas Gambler"

by She (not verified) on

Here it is. Seen and verified :-) I'm a gambler myself, Mr. :-) You're bluffing! You don't know a thing about ISPs.

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Nadias

As the World Turns in Kouroush land..........

by Nadias on

He is just loving it too.

 "All the world's a stage,

And all the men and women merely players.

They have their exits and their entrances;

And one man in his time plays many parts...."

          -William Shakespeare

"A wretched soul, bruised with adversity, We bid be quiet when we hear it cry; But were we burdened with like weight of pain, As much or more we should ourselves complain."            -William Shakespeare

Nadia


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"She"

by Las Vegas Gambler (not verified) on

Put your bet down, and I will Gladly Tell You :)

Your Bet has to be in a form that could be "Verified" :) !


Kouroush Sassanian

nothing like Paytoon place, but really like

by Kouroush Sassanian on

"rouzhayee zendegee."


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To "Las Vegas Gambler"

by She (not verified) on

How could you prove it? Post their IP address for me.


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"She"

by Las Vegas Gambler (not verified) on

Of course I Will

But you know something, I know that I am right :)

Because both comments are coming from the same computer :) !


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To "Las Vegas Gambler": I am in

by She (not verified) on

I bet that they are two different people. Now how can we find out? Will you give me your $100,000.00 if I'm right?


Azarin Sadegh

Thanks a lot Nadia!

by Azarin Sadegh on

I read your kind and thoughtful comments. It is very nice of you to be concerned about me and my family.

I guess through years, I have learnt to deal with this type of bad news coming from Iran. Unfortunately, it is really not the first time, and it is not the worst news, but still, it has made me nostalgic and fragile these days. But I will get over it, through the happy sight of my boys and the words of my understanding husband and the flow of my "sad" writings,...Do I have any other option? 

Actually, right now, I am more concerned about Rosie and KS, who are still alive.

Thanks again and please take care,

Azarin 


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to jamshid

by trustMe (not verified) on

stop winning like a little girl, you are not hizballa. tahireh jamshid and his body are far from what you think.


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Could You Change Your Avatar..Please?

by Anonymous-555 (not verified) on

Rosie T, Do you have a different picture to use? In this picture, it looks like someone (or XerXes) has twisted your neck around beyond repair. Please spare me the gore, just use a different one...please....


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I am Willing to Bet $ 100,000 With Anyone .....

by Las Vegas Gambler (not verified) on

That "Kafka" and "Kouroush Sassanian" (K.S.) are the One and The Same :)

Anyone want to bet? !


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to jamshid

by anon666 (not verified) on

In case you've missed it, he wishes "steel rain" on innocent people of Iran, and that's why people despise him. There are plenty of people on this website that are against islam & IRI, but they never wish death to innocent people, and that's what makes him really hated.


jamshid

What is all the fuss about?

by jamshid on

What is all the fuss about Kourosh S.? I have read many of his posts. So he hates Islam, he hates the IRI, he wants revenge.

So what? What's wrong with that? What's all the fuss?

There are hundreds of thousands of Iranians across the world that hate Islam and the IRI, even more, far more, than Kourosh S. does. And none of them are psychopaths. They are people whom the IRI with their version of Islam has and still is hurting them in untold ways. They all have legitimate cases.

I think most of you in this thread have very little exposure to Iranians who have been really hurt by the IRI. TRUST ME ON THAT. Hence the fuss.

I have read some of Kourosh Sasanian's posts that absolutely does not make any sense, it was as though he is thinking loud in a none-cohesive way. But so what? Many do the same in this stie. They call themselves poets. Kourosh S. does not even make that claim. That's all.

To Tahirih: You are such an ignorant that you called me a hezbollahi and Islamist in other threads. So I won't respond to your accusations in this thread. Folks, I am not kidding you, Tahirih and a couple others in another thread are accusing me of being, of all things, a pro-ahamdinejad hezbollahi. How's that for a good laugh?


Nadias

Azarin.......I hope

by Nadias on

that things are going better for your family and friends. I pray that you are also doing better.

solh va doosti

Nadia


Nadias

I think that it is very offensive to the

by Nadias on

Iranian community to say that they are uncivilized and need to be educated. Rosie T. has never thought the Iranian community uncivilized or uneducated.

Rosie T. has also clearly stated in the past that the last thing Iran and Iranians need is to be colonized by anyone.

The Iranian community is civilized and a large portion of them is not only educated but has advanced degrees.

If you don't like KS fine but why project your dislike on Rosie T.

Well, I am done with this thread. I have more positive things to do with my time. I am certainly not taking any further abuse from some people on this thread simply because they hate KS.

I don't even get along with the guy. I think I get enough abuse from him already.

solh va doosti

Nadia


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Rosie:Did you have to write this blog?How is it related to Iran?

by anony8 (not verified) on

I like your viewpoints and quality of contributions in many instances, but why should your feelings towards a cyber characater be given a blog? Can you imagine if we all did that, what would happen to the quality of the site? If you want to have personal correspondence with him, please do so, but why divert attention from our real issues with this kind of gossip. It seems very "high schoolish". peace


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Azarin Sadegh

by Anonymous-whatever (not verified) on

I really like your write up. It reminds me of someone with the same kind of mentality.. that we shouldn’t take things so quickly to our heart, instead try to understand people and the life cycle that they have gone through..


Nadias

You may be watching me......

by Nadias on

but I can assure you that I will not be watching you.

We live in the US and we can all think as we see fit.

I don't know, why you keep thinking I am so fond of KS. I can tell you that you and KS have in common putting down people.

By the way you are showing your level by your posted comments as well.

In case you haven't noticed it is not KS that I am really defending here.

 

Nadia


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Rosie is a civilizing missionary

by Kafka (not verified) on

People, people! Rosie is on this website as a civilizing missionary for the backward Iranians. She tells us how to behave, how to treat each other lovingly, how to all get along, how to heal our "wounded" selves, how to become whole, etc, etc. And she shows us off her knowledge of myths, archetypes, feminism, post-modernism, Kafka, Iranian history and traditions, Rumi and Hafez, psychology, politics, anthropology, astro-physics, you name it. She wants to impress us.
.
She preaches us to be "tolerant" of each other and "balanced" in our responses, yet as soon as you criticize her, she gets nasty and even vicious. She fought with "Nazanin" and myself (on another thread), simply because we criticized her. (She cleverly made her vitriolic statements to me deleted by a moderator). The lady does not like to be contradicted. She has no tolerance for anyone who does not admire her. She also has a temper. She needs anger management. She sympathizes with KS because she is exactly like him. She might not be antisemitic, but she behaves arrogantly toward us Iranians. She wants to educate us. She wants to pacify us. She wants to turn us into "civilized" people. She has the mentality of a colonizer. It's time for all of us to wake up. Why doesn't she behave like everybody else on this wesite? No one else is trying to save us from our "abyss" and "wounds"! Right?
.
I'd like to suggest to her to go back to her therapist and tell him/her that she has the "savior complex", that she is an "exhibitionist", that she is only "tolerant" of those who flatter her, that she suffers from "intolerance" and many other psychological issues. I hope she understands that many readers of "iranian.com" are offended by her colonialistic attitude. We've had enough of foreigners learning our language and culture, not to enjoy us for who we are, but to CHANGE us and MOLD us into what they think we should be. Enough is enough!


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My Dear Azarin

by Hamrah_TA (not verified) on

Please don't compare yourself with this Psychopath K.S. (Kouroush Sassanian).

You don't go around this site spewing venom. Do you?

Please do not be so "Naive". It's one thing having sympathy towards someone, it is something totally different being fooled by him.

Open your eyes


Azarin Sadegh

Dear Rosie

by Azarin Sadegh on

Dear Rosie,

I love your wisdom. I loved your post. I especially loved the summers in Astara.

One of my aunts still lives in Astara. My grandparents lived there and we visited them each summer. Astara was an isolated world from the rest of Iran. I loved the calm way the Caspian sea flowed and the way the beauty of its nature, its green nature, smelled.

These days I am down, pretty down, but not angry or hateful. But your words, even if addressed to someone blinded with hatred and sorrow, reminded me of my childhood vacation in Astara, when my grandparents were still alive, and my father and the neighbor who made the best pastry in the world -- The one I couldn't understand her accent.-- The good times when my aunt was still happy and had high hopes for his boys...the times when my cousin was still alive.

yes, I am going --fast -- down the nostalgia path, every time I am almost certain that I have already gone beyond this pain, that I am used to it.

Like KS...I am sure he is just hurt, too hurt. Sometimes I feel that there is a KS in each of us, each Iranian in Diaspora. That's why he has different names. It is our different faces, our internal struggle. The eternal fight between good and bad. But each of these faces share the same pain, like their common link. I cannot really condemn Ks, as long as I share some of his pain. How could I?

Maybe Rosie, you should forgive him, because of his pain. And the rest? It's better to listen from one ear and forget about it from the other one (Az in goosh beshno Va az Aan goosh Faramoosh kon.) 

Take care, 

Azarin


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RE:watchingyou, Rosie, Nadia

by XerXes (not verified) on

boro kasketo basaab bache bi soovat!! If you have read my posts you should know what I think about bache susuls like you who can't argue except label people. you are nothing less than this Hitler S that Rosie is so fond of. By the way, Rosie and Nadia, you guys have left all these issues and important people and wrote a piece about this piece of crab. None of my freaking business if there is hope for him or not. Why would it be important? He is an uneducated no body and you are showing your level by even to bother writing about him. in private fine, but to let everyone know...well, there is something wrong there. Nadia, Hitler had a really high regards for arts and music. You can find good in everyone once you get to know them well, even Hitler. Yet I am not sure about your intention here. KS is a fascist, you could be against anything, but to that extreme is nothing less than Osama B laden, in another direction. Why am I wasting my breath? Who cares I guess. And watchingyou, watch but learn don't gargle the stupid remarks if you're watching me. You may become educated, finally!


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Wise Up Rosie

by mnarup-1* (not verified) on

For crying out loud *** Really


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B.S. = K.S.

by Nader Vanaki (not verified) on

As we have B.S. in American slang we have K.S. in Farsi slang which stands for K..S.... Ladies you fill in the first word since you have exclusive god given rights to the first letter!

So my question is:

What is all the K.S. about KS?


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Rosie, as the first person ......

by Anonymous^!! (not verified) on

on this thread, Psychologist, said:

"Ta Nabashad Chizaki, Mardom Nagooyand Chiz Ha".

or the English version:

"Where there is smoke, there is Fire".

Can't you see???!!!!!! - Do you need more proof?? !