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That really sucks!

Why do you say I don’t have faith? I have faith. You probably mean I am not a faithful Muslim. Well, that really sucks. All those houris in the Paradise and not a single Godless person in sight. Why can’t atheists come up with ideas like that? That really sucks!

I KNOW that...

in Behesht.  But you're not faithful.  You only believe in Pixel.

Agent Mata Houri?

Are you Mata Houri?  Because Houri, houri, hooray, hooray, hurrah, hurrah!!!  Beacause Houri, beautiful virgins provided in paradise for all faithful Muslims!!!

:O)

now it is making some sense...

Ah my dear Rosie, you just proved that you should be some kind of spy or something...otherwise how would you have known my childhood surname?

But Omid Hast being a spy? Hmmm he doesn't look like one. Are you sure you're not mixing Omid with Saman? Saman has the perfect avatar for a serious spy:The perfect mystery, darkness, and a set of smart eyes. 

Azarin

No, lovey ducky, you're not missing the point at all.

Omid and I are talking in code. We're spies.  He is OmidOmid7 and I am Mata Houri. 

Oh, and by the way, whereever did you get the impression that Omid is smart?

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHA!!!!!

Just kidding.

Rosie

I am not that smart to follow you and Rosie

I am totally confused following your comments about Star wars.

I used to read every night a simplified version of the story for my son who was 4 back then...He's now 11 and the only thing I can remember....ah well. It's pretty nothing!

Damn..I feel so dumb now and I don't like it.

Azarin

No I didn't

miss the POINT!  You missed the point.

Or maybe we both missed the point?  What exactly do you think I meant?

CALL YOUR NEPHEW.

Just sit around or...

You missed the point. While dieing, Darth Vader saves Luke Skywalker. So, if Luke wants to sit around to be saved by Darth, well I guess that's fine, or maybe Luke would do something else while he is dieing.

No, that will not happen

Darth Vader will never save me.  I will never be in a postion where he has to save me.

Call your nephew.

Rosie

Several valid points

Fortunately I don’t work that hard and don’t need to be challenged intellectually anymore. Just leave me alone and let me get on the dumb side of things for awhile type of thing at work. But, I understand what you are trying to say about intellectual challenge. I also get overwhelmed by the level of intelligent some people posses around me in my daily work. You know what they say; a good mind wants to be stimulated all the time. We are hard wire for it. That’s where craving for drugs come from, that’s what happened to my friend. At a young age he got himself involved with bad drugs and the rest of his life lived in a semi vegetated existence.

Have I met dumb doctors yet? Well, yes! I have seen doctors that are not as good a doctor as they should be. Also, I have heard that there are a lot of dumb doctors in Los Angeles area but I have not met them yet. But, why go back that far. Why don’t you ask me if a have met a dumb president yet? Well, no! I have not met one yet, but I know of one.

What do I think? So far your short stories are attention grabbing, contains a strong element of emotion, and have a very AaaaHhhhhh kind of feel to it. But, what kind of character you should have in your fiction? That’s like telling Shakespeare to make his Othello character a white guy. You see, that doesn’t go too well.

Did I know there are 7 areas on intelligence? That’s bad news. No, I didn’t know there were 7 areas. I thought it was 21 areas. Now I have to reduce my level of intelligent by one third, or is it two third?

I appreciate what you said about my friend. Yes, in many ways he was a very good person.  I am pathetic, I am eating halva over a dead man's body.    

What happened to Darth Vader at the end of Star Wars?

“The Emperor uses Force lightning against Luke in retaliation, nearly killing him. In horrible pain, Luke calls out to his father for help. In an act of self-sacrifice, Vader seizes the Emperor and throws him to his death down a reactor shaft. In the process, he is mortally wounded by the Emperor's lightning. As Rebel fighters race toward the Death Star's main reactor, Luke (at his father's request) removes the mask that had encased Anakin Skywalker's face, and looks upon his father's eyes for the first and only time. Anakin dies moments later, assuring his son that there is still good in him after all. Luke escapes with his father's remains moments before the Death Star is obliterated. On Endor, in the manner of a Jedi's funeral, Luke burns the last vestiges of his father that had been Darth Vader on a pyre, a Jedi tradition. During the Rebel Alliance's victory celebrations on Endor, Luke sees the smiling spirits of Obi-Wan, Yoda, and his father, Anakin Skywalker.”

Omi-Mentoroni, it's me, Princess Leyla.

I want to be a Jedi too.  With Luke.  I woke up ths morning  (after a deep slumber at Leonard Hotel Near Marable Arch, in London) and discovered I had this big huge pair of steel balls attached to my female pudenda.  Suddenly I had an urge to go out and play soccer, visit bullfights, chew tobacco, start barroom brawls.  It must be the testosterone. I'm ready for the accelerated Jedi training. 

Darth Vader is an algae.  He is a subcutaneous pimple,.  He is a boil.  He is a frog.  He is the dander that you find at the end of a cat's fur, he is the rodent's droppings that you find on the floor, he is the pigeon droppings that you suddenly feel on your head, he is a soda gone flat, he is a plankton.  He is the snot that was left on your tissue after you threw it in the garbage, he is the shit that was left on your shoes after you scraped them on the curb, He is the urine that you make when you go to the toilet,  He is the toilet. He is a bore. 

When do we start our training, Mentoroni?

teeheehee

PS What REALLY happened to Darth Vader at the end of Star Wars, Omid?

Omi, Cherished MentorI

It's me, Luke.  I'm doing wonderfully but I need your counsel once more.  Can you phone me?  If you lost my number, e-mail me and I'll send it post haste.  Btw I'm surprised you still haven't seen my blog Nation.  Check it out, will you, and don't forget to check out the tread too.  It's interesting.

Dumb and kind or Smart and Mean?

I have seen many dumb, simple and easy to live with kind of people with an exceptional kindness. I have also met many super smart ones full of themselves and filled with bitterness or ambition. Of course I prefer the first group to spend my vacation with, but I rather be surrounded and challenged by the second group.

It should be a kind of disease but I like to be challenged intellectually in my daily life. That's why I am a software engineer and I am challenged by ultra intelligent people and projects at work almost every hour! But these people are the problem solvers with original ideas, with an amazing critical thinking and with a solid opinion in their specific domaine and full of self confidence. They are passionate about whatever they're doing, and I am not talking about academics....haven't you met dumb doctors yet?

Unfortunately, my own passion is different from my day-job. It is true that I would love to write fiction. And we all know that most fictions are about those ordinary people stuck in extraordinary times. So now I wonder if my characters should be written as dumb or as smart? Especially if they need to survive at the end of the story without becoming the heroes of a cheap science fiction... What do you think about it?

And I am very sorry about your friend. But did you know there are 7 areas of intelligence. Your friend could be a genious in any one of those... please don't call him dumb.

Azarin

LOVE that song...

teeheeheeheehee

and HE will have to learn to survive me.

you saw perchance my new blog

nation

I will survive Darth Vader

//youtube.com/watch?v=Xv6lHwWwO3w

beautiful words

I agree with you on loving people and intelligent should not be the only factor. Thank you for clearing that out.

Speaking of duality,

Loving ‘smart people’ is good, but what about loving dumb people?  Don’t they deserve to be loved too?  Should smart people love smart people only, and dumb people love dumb people?  Is it dumb people’s fault that they are dumb?  I had a dumb friend once, friendly kind of a guy but not bright academically.  He is not with us anymore.  He did a lot of wrong things in his life that eventually cased his health to decline and pass away.  I miss him, sometimes.  Like today, when I began to write this about loving smart people, dumb people.   

There is no hope against Darth Vader

Stop fighting the Evil Empire. You might as well join the dark side and get it over with. That’s my personal opinion and it has nothing to do with the Mentor.

<|:O)

How can I forget?!

I have nightmares about khaharan’e zaynab every night.

Also do not forget that most

Also do not forget that most of Khaharane Zaynab are retired prostitutes
in charge of keeping Iranian women in line!

Thanks Omid hast, I like your work specialy the way Ahmaghinejad is holding his neck, like a humble moslem brother!

Omid

Darth Vader just called on me again.  I will survive.

Duality and paradoxes

Ah again... you proved my point dear Omid Hast Jan!

I think the existence of this duality you talk about and the apparent paradoxes coexisting with each other in an impossible way, are the main reasons for the initial questions pushing artists and philosophers to express their puzzlement. After all Philosophy or Art is just a set of questions without offering any real answers...otherwise the thinker becomes a scientist or researcher or even someone with bits of some obscure answer...almost like Soraya!

Azarin

PS: Dear Rosie, I am so happy that you're back! I missed your intelligent and thought-provoking comments. Yes...I love smart people:)

Dart Maul

Dart Maul without make up is nothing, I mean the guy is all make up. And yes, education is better than revolution. Iran has one of the most educated youths in the world. What percentages are educated, who cares? The thing is once the Genie is out of bottle it can not be put back in again, UNLESS if the people in power use guns on educated people and force them to shut up or leave the country. Oh wait, that has happened already. Oh well!

OMG (Oh My Goodness) heheehehe

yes, now, I believe that omid hastesh and good that you have sense of humor besides your political drawings... it works.

no more zarf shoori jobs! automatic dish washing has replaced human...hehehe,,so, I am back here again...

my silly solution to gangster's chagho bekesh is having many (in millions) of educated folks joining the gangs and then step by step brain washing the gangs off the nasty ideas. it takes lot of work and determinations other than that violence brings violence...:(

BTW, people say I look like Dart Maul without makeups...heheehehehehe

Omid, that is why Soraya is

a fulcrum a pivotal point around which the serious politcal thinkers always gather and tear each other to shreds.  Because they ARE so-well documented and they CAN be so well rebutted that IF it is possible to weed out the saboteurs, and gently "nudge" them, then those on either side of the "duality" at some point will have to realize that they together can or MUST find a new synthesis. 

As for the Nothing Everything is Sacred discussions I have my own thoughts on this based on an article I began drafting on spirituality at Rashidian's request, called Nothing Is Sacred, Everythinhg is Sacred which explores both sacred and secular concepts of the meaning of both nothing and sacred. But I'm not interested at the moment in the hair-splitting going on right now about these words on jj's blog.  I'm interested in setting up transparent RULES about the structure of the moderation process and creating a How This Site Works icon. ANd so I kept saying "sacred schmacred who cares?" until I had the following epiphany:

I don't NEED this discussion because I'm an educated AMERICAN so I already KNOW the difference between moderation and censorship, I KNOW that moderation is an art, not a science and that only rules for STRUCTURE can be SET, not for micromanaging criteria for every single possible deletion.  This is BASIC to me, like breathing air.  My teachers taught us about things like this since GRADE SCHOOL in myriad different ways.  So I won't say that to them anymore.  I'll just let them keep counting how many angels on the head of a pin because they NEED to hash this out, they RALLY around jj's slogan as a focal point of a debate they NEED to have, and I'll just keep on asking JJ when the hell he's going to get a spell check for this frigging website so each post doesn't take two hours to write.

P.S.  Once you know, I think I TOLD jj that he was mini me. Hahahahahahahahahahaha

PPS Taarik kheeeeeeeeeli taarik 

PPS  Already wrote in about refeaturing the blog.  Sorry.

Ayandeh ROUSHAANASt

Darker than Darth

"During his return trip to Dagobah, Luke learns from the dying Yoda that Vader is indeed his father. Yoda tells Luke that although he requires no further training, he will not truly be a Jedi until he confronts his father. Luke insists that there is still good left in Vader, and pledges to bring him back from the dark side."

OK, I concede

I’m smarter than some, dumber than others!

Thank you for the summary of the discussions. So, the key word is “nothing”, in that case “nothing” to me means “everything”, so “Nothing is Sacred, Everything is Sacred”. Another duality, just the way we like it. Good and Evil, Mazda and his Nemesis, Luke Skywalker and Darth Vader, Love and Hate, Me and Mini Me.

Me and Soraya go a long way back. Her articles are highly researched and thoroughly referenced, however in so many occasions the same material that she uses in favor of her argument could easily be used against the points she is trying to make. Never the less, I like her articles, I just don’t read them anymore because, because, because...well I don’t like a woman when she looks at me side ways. There, I said. I’m smart.  That's the best way I can put it in words. 

Azarin.

TOTALLY agree with your summary of dialog on JJ's blog. One-sentence summary I gave Omid was for all FOUR blogs together.  Agree Soraya is very black and white but you too could take a look at the last article on her last thread  mine, to see her importance IMHO.  (JJ has for some reason closed the blog and left me there like the prow of a ship).  THEN there is a blog by Anonymoushaha which he wrote AFTER Soraya's blog closed about Regime change with posts taken from Soraya's blog.  STRONGLY URGE YOU to read the second and third part of my reply.  You will see how black and white it is....LOL