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[Paphitis]

... to convert Hellenized Jews, rather than Greeks living in Antioch.

Care to explain the difference?

I think he is having a very slow evening!

I'm slow because Oracle doesn't know the difference between Antioch's Jews and Greeks? What does that make you then? Completely immobile?

I don't blame you. Oracle seems to have this effect on you.

Just lie down for a bit.

[Oracle]

The notion of race/ethnicity is very much outdated.

Really? Says who?

Most people, including Cypriots and Greeks!The younger generation, which you are clearly NOT! I swear you belong in 19th century, early 20th century, when 'Aussies' were going to war for 'King and Country'....

It is the 26th of March, 2010!

Doesn't hold true where I reside at the moment, or even where I reside temporarily.

Care to substantiate that statement?

All you have to do is travel the world to see how even the Americans, Australians and Canadians have invented their own ethnicity. This ethnicity also comprises a Cypriot element!

How do you fail to notice your own contradictions?

First you claim :

The notion of race/ethnicity is very much outdated.

Then you " attempt to "support" this by saying:

... even the Americans, Australians and Canadians have invented their own

So what's it to be?

Is ethnicity "outdated" or being "invented" to this day?

Not a contradiction at all. The Americans, Australians and Canadians are the most internationalist of them all, and hence they are more 'Hellenic' than you, since they have the vision you don't, and have built a nation from all nations!

In the same way as the visionary Turks have built a "nation on Cyprus", perhaps?

What a jerk you are!

[Paphitis]

The notion of race/ethnicity is very much outdated.

Really? Says who?

Most people, including Cypriots and Greeks!The younger generation, which you are clearly NOT! I swear you belong in 19th century, early 20th century, when 'Aussies' were going to war for 'King and Country'....

It is the 26th of March, 2010!

Doesn't hold true where I reside at the moment, or even where I reside temporarily.

Care to substantiate that statement?

All you have to do is travel the world to see how even the Americans, Australians and Canadians have invented their own ethnicity. This ethnicity also comprises a Cypriot element!

How do you fail to notice your own contradictions?

First you claim :

The notion of race/ethnicity is very much outdated.

Then you " attempt to "support" this by saying:

... even the Americans, Australians and Canadians have invented their own

So what's it to be?

Is ethnicity "outdated" or being "invented" to this day?

Not a contradiction at all. The Americans, Australians and Canadians are the most internationalist of them all, and hence they are more 'Hellenic' than you, since they have the vision you don't, and have built a nation from all nations!

In the same way as the visionary Turks have built a "nation on Cyprus", perhaps?

And you are assisting their "nation" building on Cyprus.

If I didn't like you, and just appreciate that you are a little outdated, and backward, then I would call you a traitor!

[Epiktitos]

Is this putting the cat among the pigeon:

.... In the dispersion that followed Stephen's death, some Disciples from Cyprus and Cyrene, obscure men, inaugurated the real mission of the Christian Church by preaching to the Gentiles. They met with great success among the Greeks at Antioch in Syria, reports of which coming to the ears of the Apostles, Barnabas was sent thither by them to investigate the work of his countrymen. He saw in the conversions effected the fruit of God's grace and, though a Jew, heartily welcomed these first Gentile converts. ...

That's correct, Deniz. His countrymen (the "men of Cyprus") indeed were Greeks!

... Just what I've been saying to Mal and GR! all along.

Idiot!

Agoraki mou, we know that you are torn between your old love of Greece, from your idyllic days on Santoniri, and your new blossoming love for Turkey; we understand that resolving conflicts of the heart are not easy. Hush now.

I am here to make a confession!

I’ve fallen head over heels for an illegal settler Turk originally from Ankara, and since that fateful day I now realize that…

Greece SUCKS!

Long live Turkey!

Could someone please point to where I can buy a Fez?

http://cyprus-now.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=8&t=148

On a lighter note, will you be inviting any forumers to the wedding? I know where you can get a great deal on koufeta in bulk!

[Epiktitos]

Not a contradiction at all. The Americans, Australians and Canadians are the most internationalist of them all, and hence they are more 'Hellenic' than you, since they have the vision you don't, and have built a nation from all nations!

When you write things such as this, I simply cannot believe that you are anything other than a genius who posts merely for sport, to toy with us mere mortals and wind us up, perhaps in order to observe our reactions as part of an experiment. The stupidity in such a statement is not natural, it is beautifully constructed by a truly wise being, almost such that I cannot fully appreciate it.

Well done Paphiti, you have earned my respect forevermore.

[Oracle]

The notion of race/ethnicity is very much outdated.

Really? Says who?

Most people, including Cypriots and Greeks!The younger generation, which you are clearly NOT! I swear you belong in 19th century, early 20th century, when 'Aussies' were going to war for 'King and Country'....

It is the 26th of March, 2010!

Doesn't hold true where I reside at the moment, or even where I reside temporarily.

Care to substantiate that statement?

All you have to do is travel the world to see how even the Americans, Australians and Canadians have invented their own ethnicity. This ethnicity also comprises a Cypriot element!

How do you fail to notice your own contradictions?

First you claim :

The notion of race/ethnicity is very much outdated.

Then you " attempt to "support" this by saying:

... even the Americans, Australians and Canadians have invented their own

So what's it to be?

Is ethnicity "outdated" or being "invented" to this day?

Not a contradiction at all. The Americans, Australians and Canadians are the most internationalist of them all, and hence they are more 'Hellenic' than you, since they have the vision you don't, and have built a nation from all nations!

In the same way as the visionary Turks have built a "nation on Cyprus", perhaps?

And you are assisting their "nation" building on Cyprus.

How could I be? You are the one extolling the virtues of parallel "nation building" in other colonised territories.

[Oracle]

Barnabas was born in Cyprus. His native tongue would therefore have been Greek.



Says it all really ....

[Oracle]

Don't you just love Bible studies in the run up to Easter...?

Perhaps you should work on them year round as you haven't quite got to grips with it ...

Young's Literal Translation
And Joses, who was surnamed by the apostles Barnabas -- which is, having been interpreted, Son of Comfort -- a Levite, of Cyprus by birth,

ΠΡΑΞΕΙΣ 4:36 Greek NT: Tischendorf 8th Ed. with Diacritics
Ἰωσὴφ δὲ ὁ ἐπικληθεὶς Βαρναβᾶς ἀπὸ τῶν ἀποστόλων, ὅ ἐστιν μεθερμηνευόμενον υἱὸς παρακλήσεως, Λευείτης, Κύπριος τῷ γένει

[Get Real!]

The bottom line is that ancient Cypriots had taught ancient Greeks many valuable things including language and religion so it’s fair to conclude that the very foundation of Greek culture is the Cypriot culture.

[denizaksulu]

Barnabas was born in Cyprus. His native tongue would therefore have been Greek.



Says it all really ....

Being a Levite makes him a Jew, does it not? Later he became a Christian. He MAY have spoken Greek, no doubt. I speak English of some sort - am I English? Some would say yes, some NO.