Oracle wrote:I don't have time for lengthy exchanges today, but I really want to jump in here and remind everyone how Humanist really is one of the more human forumers.
We all know he feels things deeply, and has often shared his emotions with us. He has stuck out trying to make sense of one of the most evil-sounding forumers I have seen post here. Many times he allowed himself to be a punch-ball for this partitionist .... probably hoping he would find a crack, to penetrate into his/her cold measly heart and inject some feeling.
Futile, so far! Yet Humanist, amazingly, always manages to pull himself back to his humanist position from the abyss he is forced to stare into.
In his family life, he has been scarred by .... yes .... by Barbaric Acts. That term is not racist. It's not elitist. It doesn't assume the user thinks they are above those acts, or are mightier than the people who resorted to such acts. They are after all human acts; which in order to be stamped out, must be named and shamed.
Barbaric Acts are what were enacted upon Humanist's family. Acted out by Turks ... Carried out by Barbaric Turks. These are FACTs and not racist. They were not barbaric French, they were not barbaric Italians, but Turks! It's a fact! National identity ... known!
If in the midst of emotion and remembrance, a gentle soul like Humanist judges the Nation which sent forth such people (not many; just 20-40,000 out of 80 Million, we hope, normal Turks), to kill his uncle and drive his family from their homes ... as barbaric ...... that is raw emotion we are hearing about. And it is a human emotion, which has plucked a most appropriate name for such behaviour. Unless you think differently!
Blame humanist if he goes out and does the same; kill and maim! Blame humanist if he believes such things are right. But don't blooming blame him because he condemns such atrocities; you hypocritical bunch of wannabe evangelists who are probably right now hiding dark and evil thoughts, yet pretending that you are so much better than this.
You are the people we should be afraid of, feel sorry for ... emotionally frigid, judgemental inhumane preachers. Not humanist, who hurts, and cares and describes things as they are .....
Humanist you are a lovely feeling human being who has been hurt by brutes .... I am so sorry, my dear!
Sorry about that.
Couldn't agree with you more...