Tuesday
May 1, 2001
* Cosmic loneliness
My crappy dictionary defines "womanizer" as "someone who
pursues a free-wheeling relationship with women"; but we have no idea
if Mr.
Music Man is actually successful at "free-wheeling" with women
or whether the women in these pictrues have allowed him to hop in bed with
them.
What we know about Mr. Man is that he likes pencil sketches, long-haired,
long-legged and smiling women, his male friends, Pamela Anderson, and white
wine, has gone through a variety of facial hair growths, and has a sort
of sentimental notion of what a romantic man is (roses, guitars, vintage
Paul McCartney, Wham's "Careless Whispers"). He also has a few
friends appear in a smattering of social settings with him.
The numerous women in those pictures can be his work colleagues, family
friends, cousins, random women he met at bars and took photographs with...
who knows? We always put those photos of ourselves on display that we think
narrate our lives in a particular way. Just because Mr. Man is with a lot
of women doesn't mean that he *is* a womanizer; it just means that he wants
us to think he is >>>
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Laleh Khalili
* Gem of a guy
Thanks very much for the "Musicman"
picures. It made my day. He is truly a gem of a guy. I will tell him about
the pictures and hopefully he will allocate some time from the ... girls?...
to come to my place and take a look at the pictures, since he still does
not believe in the Internet and computers! Grrrrreat job man !
Behnam
* Who is he?
I saw your photos of the "Musicman".
Really, who is he?
Ali Berenjian
* Mind your own business
dAyi Hamid's writtings
are always well-written and smart but I want to warn him that he also have
a disease -- the "not-minding your own business" disease ["Beemaari-ye
hasr"]. This is the only thing that bothers me about dAyi Hamid.
Faramarz
* Garm
Dam-e hardotoon garm ["Beemaari-ye
hasr"].
Ramin Tabib
* Bi-religious
I am surprisingly pleased to learn about your interesting choice ["Two
gods"]. Sometimes I think teenagers have much wider views than
many people past their teens. Teens like you seem not only open minded but
accepting too.
I hope you will keep your great open heart and logic once you enter the
wild wide world. I myself think it takes courage to practice two religions
specially since religion and nationality are very sensitive issues and have
always created conflict and misunderstandings in each and every society.
Please do not mistake me for a non-believer. I do believe in God. I wish
you a very successful life and please do not let go of your openness as
you grow in age.
Sheema Kalbasi
* Come to Him
I am often amazed by reading such wonderful letters from young teens
about their faith ["Two
gods"]. It is wonderful for you to share your thoughts and beliefs.
I want to encourage you to pray and ask God to show you the way to know
Him.
Different religions in the world are man made and are from the evil one
who wants us to waste our time.
What we all need is a relationship with God and accept that He loves
us so much that He became a man and died for our sins. When we accept this
sacrifice, we will live forever with Him.
I pray God to bring you wisdom and a clear heart, that you come to Him
and accept His love and the sacrifice He made for you.
Nahid Nami
* Can't measure by today's standards
I still see some people, who owe their very existence to the Pahlavi
government, continue bickerings about Reza Shah (e.g. Setareh, Peerooz,
A.A., etc.). If Reza Shah failed in anything, it was in giving the remnants
of feudals, mollas and bazaaris (to whom the above-mentioned clearly belong
- by virtue of their writings) a sense of self-respect.
I stopped at the point where one of the above suggested that the mollas
gave us universities, railways and roads. Or another one who suggested that
Mossadegh was a Gandhi-like figure. Equally preposterous was the suggestion
that Ataturk didn't kill anyone or steal anything.
May I remind you of Ataturk's prominent role (as a commander of the Ottoman
army) in the first holocaust of 20th century which involved killing and
looting of nearly two million Armenians in Turkey (circa 1915).
Also the more one of the above writers moans about "loss of land"
under Reza Shah, the more persuaded I am into thinking that she is deeply
hurt on a personal basis. Might I ask who did all these lands belong to
in the first place? Answer, to use her own terminology, "thugs with
voracious hunger for other people's land". So as one of the more well-read
authors (Kashani) suggested, these writers are badly in need of a dose of
history education >>>
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Parviz
* Aftermath of dictatorship
I hope Babak ["A
saint compared to Ataturk"] will not miss the point again. And
the point is that another 57 years of dictatorship still will end up in
a molla government because still we will not know any better and we the
children still will need a VALI (shah or molla) to manage our affairs. The
only hope is to break this cycle by self-education whether it takes 50,100
or 200 years.
Drinking and womanizing are not punishable crimes. Many great statesmen
have committed them and have still h been considered heroes by nations.
Comparing Reza Shah with Ataturk is besides the main point. The more you
stir it the more it smells.
Peerooz
* Need you more than ever
Regarding Reza Shah kabir, I can only say one thing "Where have
you gone Reza shah? Our nation needs you, more than ever, to clean up this
cesspool of Islamic republicans, Mojahedin, communists, traitors, savages,
mollas, reformists, conservatives, Ganjis, manjis, panjis. And all these
filthy degenerate scum in our society.
Mr. Quincy Irani
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