Viewpoint wrote:
What makes you think you are so wise that you can go about giving anyone a shot at reality, its your reality and take on it which is derived from your ability to understand and express yourself, we can take it or leave it as everones experiences and accumlation of information shapes the way they percieve things. No one is 100% right or wrong, you have this knack of thinking you are, get over yourself no one can be judge and jury.
I care about my country and resolving my problems so this constant comparison to other countries histories and outcomes is a cop out they have nothing to do with my own countries original historical path. Each case has its own merits and once size does not fit all, solutions like suits have to be tailor made to fit the body perfectly otherwise a ready made one size fits all suit will not fit the contours of the body and can in fact stop the circulation of blood.
Expat is entitles to his views you either take them or leave them, who gives you the right to "educate" or show him the light as you do not know more or any better than anyone else but you seem to think you do.
Your backround that you confess to for me at least is very questionable and I still stick to my belief that you are not a TC, as you statements and declarations do not contain not even one sentence that a TC would utter. Your posts reflect the arguments of a GC 100% and to confirm this ask any TC on this forum. I would genuinely like to know what it is you have against TCs and why you belittle our plight and hardships to such an extent that we appear to be the enemy and that everything we do is wrong and the GCs are always right.
VP,
What makes you think you are so wise that you can go about giving anyone a shot at reality, its your reality and take on it which is derived from your ability to understand and express yourself, we can take it or leave it as everones experiences and accumlation of information shapes the way they percieve things. No one is 100% right or wrong, you have this knack of thinking you are, get over yourself no one can be judge and jury.
Let me get this straight. First you chastise me for pointing out areas to Expat where he may not have thought of regarding permanent partition, then you turn around and tell me I am not entitled to express the situation at hand in my own way, because it comes across as "know it all" kind of arrogance. Now look who is acting like me.!!! Expat has only expressed partition for TC's as a means to have peace without even considering the facts as to what the cost has been so far to thousands of Cypriots to get to where we are today, and what the costs will be in the future with a forced partition, which in my opinion will not happen by the way. It's not to say it has not been tried. It has been for the last 34 years. To Expat and many others, is as if to say ,"well, what's done is done, start fresh from now on with a partition, and everyone will live happy ever after". It is this kind of cavalier attitude that I find objectionable, so I feel the need to educate him of the past that would be the basis for his partition wishes.
I care about my country and resolving my problems so this constant comparison to other countries histories and outcomes is a cop out they have nothing to do with my own countries original historical path. Each case has its own merits and once size does not fit all, solutions like suits have to be tailor made to fit the body perfectly otherwise a ready made one size fits all suit will not fit the contours of the body and can in fact stop the circulation of blood.
Comparisons have been made many times on what happens in other countries when it come to partition and recognition and lifting of isolation all the time, so why not also make comparisons to saying historical facts on other peoples plight as they have also been persecuted many times over by their own people in those said countries. Expat accepts all the injustices that has been done to great many people in the States over many years, but does not see fit for partitioning any part of America. The only reason I talk about America, is because that is Expats new country and is a citizen. I may also like to add, that I agree with him for not wanting to partition any part of America, but I also do not want partitioning of my own birthplace as he does. One cannot be a bigger hypocrite than that, when wrongs done in America in the past and to some degree today, that he sees it more fitting to have a permanent partition of a small island, than a country that is thousand times bigger. Expat seems to think, that just having partition will not have any repercussions in the future, if it's forced on Cypriots. He has the idea, that people will just accept it, just because he believes it will bring peace to the island once and for all.
Expat is entitles to his views you either take them or leave them, who gives you the right to "educate" or show him the light as you do not know more or any better than anyone else but you seem to think you do.
Yes he is, and so am I, and I gave it to him. It seems that you are more upset about it than he is. Let him dispute the arguments I have put for him regarding the cost of a partition which I called him to be morally corrupted. I would also like to ask you, why you have not disputed all the things I've listed as to events that has got us to this point of division. You are always ready to point out the faults of the GC's part on how things got to be today, so what is wrong with adding the rest of the facts. You claim that I don't know what I'm talking about, but yet you do not dispute them. Is it more of the case of you just don't want to hear them, or is it how dare I talk about them.??
Your backround that you confess to for me at least is very questionable and I still stick to my belief that you are not a TC, as you statements and declarations do not contain not even one sentence that a TC would utter. Your posts reflect the arguments of a GC 100% and to confirm this ask any TC on this forum. I would genuinely like to know what it is you have against TCs and why you belittle our plight and hardships to such an extent that we appear to be the enemy and that everything we do is wrong and the GCs are always right
What can I tell you VP. I can take the mule to the water, but I can't make it drink. Don't blame me for your inability to accept that a True Cypriot and a TC is willing to tell it the way it is. You play a very dangerous game of denial, to think if wrongs done by TC's are told by a TC, then he cannot be a TC, therefore he must be a GC. This will lead others to believe, that the TC's are not able to tell the truth about their own community, when facts are already in the open. Just what was it that I told Expat that you find it impossible for any TC's to say it. Was anything I said was made up and not to be true. It has already been told on the forum by more than few TC members, that they cannot express themselves the way they would like to, because they live in the "TRNC", and I respect their position, so the fact that others may not be as forward as I am, does not mean that they disagree in what I write. Unless you can show me where I make things up in order to show the TC's in a bad light, I'm exercising freedom to talk what has already happened and continues to happen. If we are going to have lasting peace in Cyprus, we need to talk about our own side as well. I'm still waiting for Talat to follow on what Christofias said, which was to accept some of the responsibility of the Cyprus problems. It has been 2-3 days already, so where is Talat's response in accepting some responsibility on the behalf of the TC's. Why aren't you demanding for Talat to do the same ??. Let the truth come out VP, and stop trying to suppress it, just because it is too ugly.
On a closing note VP, I do not see the GC's or the TC's as my "enemy", so stop making statements in that regard, because I have not said anything that would supports your argument. Do I complain a lot about my community, the TC's, absolutely, specially when I see things that are directed towards partition rather than lasting peace on the island of Cyprus.