Posted on 05/29/2005 11:34:32 AM PDT by blam
GGG Ping.
I am always on the lookout for a Zoroastrian revival in Iran. The Noruz festival was really big this year. Many Iranian Muslims have a soft spot for it out of nationalism.
No way, man, it's Hamitic.
(just kidding)
Going from Zarathustrism to I-slam has to be the biggest step downwards any group of humans has ever made on this planet.
bump
I know a few curse words in Farsi, my name looks kinda cool in Farsi too.
All this information and all the knowledge and science (Asha Vahista) of the Zarathushties, which was recorded, was destroyed by Alexander in his barbaric ways, but that which was saved found its way into Greece where some of it was misused, personified and attributed to the pagan gods. But most of it was translated and called Greek Medicine, Greek science, Greek philosophy, Greek mathematics, and overall it caused a growth of knowledge and progress among the Greeks.
I understand Persian was the court language of Hyderabad
in southern India
right until 1948.
I wanted to buy a Japanese car dealership.
I would call it Ahura Mazda...
Merci!
You're right. Patriotism reigns supreme.
It is really stretching a point to say the Persians "invented" Shiism. They certainly adopted it more than any other group, but it is really an Arab heresy. Those with the hereditary right to rule, the belief in which is the basis of Shiism, were all Arabs.
"It belongs to what scholars call the Indo-Iranian group of languages."
This in turn is part of the larger grouping called:
Indo-European.
This wanting association with Europe, and wanting to be set apart from Arabic, seems to be strong among many Iranians.
I just wish they were so committed, to physically and violently revolt, against their oppressive mullah terror supporting theocracy.
But they aren't yet so. They seem to see "revolution" like a university demonstration.
"Paarsi or Persian was the language of the Paarsa people who ruled Iran between 550 - 330 BCE. It belongs to what scholars call the Indo-Iranian group of languages."
Indo-Iranian? PC talk for Indo-Aryan, as it was called before the world allowed Hitler to hijack the word and the universal peace symbol, the swastika.
Unfortunately English has been corrupted too.
Anyhow, about that nuclear weaponry program....
"I just wish they were so committed, to physically and violently revolt, against their oppressive mullah terror supporting theocracy."
There is a Zorastrian underground there, and in Afghanistan. Zoraoster is credited as being the first person to preach monothesim. Speaking of Afghanistan, I can never forget their destruction of those majestic 2000 year old Buddhist statues. People used to go there and hang out. The Taliban wanted to wipe out all memory of the people's heritage, so they offed em. It's really too bad, from a cultural standpoint. This, and other Arab efforts to "stamp out idolatry" is remniscent of Europe's old programs against the memory of our Pagan heritage. The Muslim leaders, presently, are about as enlightened as medeival Christians were. Question: How long will it take the leaders to civilize?
"What always amazed me is how an ancient culture like Persia would not only accept a foreign religion but also become fanatic about it."
Europe did too. Christianity was a foreign religion, and was misused in the past the way Islam is misused today.
Actually, I am not familiar with the religions before Zoraoster, but he introduced the concept of monotheism, and that paved the way for Islam.
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