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[Get Real!]

Lit, have you fed your mule yet or are you still busy hovering?

I am almost done brother. I have to check the jokes section before i call it a night.

BTW Sorry for any grammatical errors in my comments.

I had several shots of tequila buuuuuuurp.

By Socrates! Where imagination fails, booze can do mythological wonders…

[boomerang]

I often ask my self, who is a Cypriot...

It starts the day a new empire arrives and sratrs feeding itself from the colonies...Here is what I reckon and in a nutshell...they dispatch some of their own population with extra benefits to overlook the colony...At the ground level it was different...A lot of inter screwing was going on...a lot of conversions were going on...Inter marriages...etc...Now the question I pose to my self is this...Are the offsprings and the converted not Cypriots?...Down the line surely you would have to accept it as a fact...yes indeed they are Cypriots...are they to be classified as non Hellenes?...this alone is an insulrt in itself...just because of religion they are not?...does relegion really play a part of who we are and what ethnic group we belong?...

If this happened with the Ottomans, and if I were a betting man, I would bet this would have been the norm of every empire...You can follow this all the way down the line to Greece's turn when they would done the same...

So what is really my linage, and how much of Hellenism can someone retain after so many years passed by since we were fucked by the Hellenic empire?

I think pretty well describes the same with the ottoman remnants...

Damn it where are they?

[The Cypriot]

There is nothing wrong with hot heads.

Oh, God. Another Medusa rears its ugly head. Let's see whether this one's a hot head, shall we?

Problem with hot heads, Lit, is they storm off in a huff rather than lock philosphical horns and engage in sensible, if sometimes playful, debate. And that's what a Forum is meant to be about.

Since you don't agree with Paphiti either are you going to tell him to leave for Crete like you did with Piratis?

Your memory is impressive, Lit. Useful for regurgitating other people's arguments, I suppose. I didn't have to tell Paphiti to go anywhere. He exited (stage-right) of his own volition.

You Brits are truly funny.

Help! Help! Medusa's discovered my weak spot. My parents had to flee to England to escape the expolitation of their island by Imperialists, not to mention misguided, nationalist extremists! I was born in exile and raised in captivity! Have mercy, Medusa!

Its nice to see you are in agreement with a guy who uses neo nazi web sites as his sources.

That particular poisonous snake-snap grabbed only air, I'm afraid. Who am meant to be in agreement with Lit?

[The Cypriot]

Or a cheesy Greek-adopted philosopher whose arguments were full of holes?

By the name of Gaskavalli …

Careful GR, sounds a bit Italian. Are we to give away the cheesiest elements of our culture to the wops too, now?

[The Cypriot]

Thanks for letting me know, miltiades. And there's certainly no doubting your Cypriot credentials and your allegiance to the motherland. I salute you!

Two Brits agreeing, oh how nice.

Britain is Greek, Lit. Didn't Paphiti tell you? If not, check with Simon. He's clever enough to spin you a yarn you can regurgetate.

[The Cypriot]

I often ask my self, who is a Cypriot...

It starts the day a new empire arrives and sratrs feeding itself from the colonies...Here is what I reckon and in a nutshell...they dispatch some of their own population with extra benefits to overlook the colony...At the ground level it was different...A lot of inter screwing was going on...a lot of conversions were going on...Inter marriages...etc...Now the question I pose to my self is this...Are the offsprings and the converted not Cypriots?...Down the line surely you would have to accept it as a fact...yes indeed they are Cypriots...are they to be classified as non Hellenes?...this alone is an insulrt in itself...just because of religion they are not?...does relegion really play a part of who we are and what ethnic group we belong?...

If this happened with the Ottomans, and if I were a betting man, I would bet this would have been the norm of every empire...You can follow this all the way down the line to Greece's turn when they would done the same...

So what is really my linage, and how much of Hellenism can someone retain after so many years passed by since we were fucked by the Hellenic empire?

I think pretty well describes the same with the ottoman remnants...

Damn it where are they?

Not sure they can make head or tale of this particular thread, Boomy.... but it would be nice if it got them thinking a bit!

[The Cypriot]

Oh your still in this forum? LOL you are truly pathetic.

BTW have you updated your Facebook page yet?

Which one, the one with 3,300 members or the one with 1,800?

Furk me oh, what a loser.

Ouch, Medusa got me again with a killer snap! Crikey, the booze does wonders to your rhetoric.

Come on, be honest. Did you think that up all on your own or paste it from somewhere else?

[Paphitis]

Jesus did not write the Gospels. Jesus didn't speak Greek as far as we know. Jesus never heard the name Jesus, and whilst Palestine was occupied by the Greeks, it never had thousands of years of Greek culture like Cyprus. So very different circumstances. Aphrodite as far as we know was never real, however, it is likely that Jesus (a Jew) did exist.

Christ, it's like fighting the Medusa! Chop one head off and another snake appears to snap at you.

Let's not get into a debate as to whether Yeshu (Greek: Isus) or Astarte (Greek: Aphrodite) were ever real personages, as we'd open up a can of worms to go with all the snakes.

Yeshu didn't write the gospels and nor did Astarte write about the shenanigans on Mount Olympus. Neither Yeshu or Astarte spoke Greek. Neither Yeshu or Astarte would have heard their Greek names. The only difference is the degree of Hellenic influence between Cyprus and Palestine, and I concede, of course, that this influence was greater on Cyprus.

However, the fact remains that neither mythology is actually Greek in origin.

But if you choose to make a case for one, you could make a case for the other. And you could, like that dad on "My Big, Fat Greek Wedding" make a case for everything being Greek, or invented by Greeks. Including hallumin.

I've noticed you focus on minutiae Simon, rather than looking at the overall thrust of the argument. Time will tell whether we can make a philosopher out of you.

So far we have 8 pages of this pointless thread and no one really understands what you are on about.

Stop beating around the bush and give us your take home message.

[miltiades]

Thanks for letting me know, miltiades. And there's certainly no doubting your Cypriot credentials and your allegiance to the motherland. I salute you!

Two Brits agreeing, oh how nice.

Britain is Greek, Lit. Didn't Paphiti tell you? If not, check with Simon. He's clever enough to spin you a yarn you can regurgetate.

LIT TLE BRAIN WROTE:
"""""""a population that looked towards London, not Athens. """"
300 Thousand Cypriots in the UK , each having relations in Cyprus who all look towards London and not Athens !! In fact the entire island looks to Britain and not Greece !!

[EPSILON]

Guba (kouba) deep-fried cracked wheat parcel of mincemeat, not known in either Greece or Turkey, the entymology of which is uncertain but thought to be Levantine in origin.

You can find Guba in Brazil under same name. Now Meltiadis may say that we are coming from Brzilians!!