Iranians made thier decision



(posted by Iman)
Posted:Saturday, February 21, 2004 | 

Fatal decision

Today is a very important day in Iran. 7 parliamentary election! A big challenge between Iranians and their government! Iranians are unpredictable people ( which has historical and cultural reason and I am not going to explore it here). They are indirect people as their language, Persian, is a poetic language.
Anyway, today there is a chance for Iranians to express their thoughts and desires. In contract to other parliamentary elections, the result of this election will be interpreted as YES or NO to extremists in regime. Iranians out side of the country cannot do anything but following the news. But people who live in Iran should make a fatal decision. I wonder if they do not vote in election, as expected, what will happen. Many people wish that Iranians do not take part and again play their passive role, as they have been done in their history. Let’s wait and see!
(posted by Iman)

Posted:Friday, February 20, 2004 | 

We peeled our cat today

I am talking about my anatomy class. It was my first dissecting lab. Wow, these girls are strong; not even one of them fainted! I really didn’t expect this fainting thing to happen, but also I didn’t expect them to do it like they have peeled cats all their lives. We are just three guys in this lab and the rest are girls, and I think I was the only one who couldn’t touch it. It really was worse than what I thought. I was watching health channels all the time when I had cable for free for one month a couple of months ago, so I thought I would be ok; I was far from it. I saw the most horrible surgeries then and never felt so bad. On the way to Wal-Mart, back from my genetic class at 10 pm, I was wondering how natural selection may have opted for this feeling of disgust present in everyone in varying degrees.Then I remembered that I had seen a documentary a couple of years back about cannibals and how they became extinct, probably because of a poisonous protein made up in their bodies. Maybe it was by this that nature has done with those who haven't had much of this feelilng in them. Back to the issue, I really don’t see it in myself that I can get used to it ever.

(posted by Farid)

Posted:Thursday, February 12, 2004 | 

LULLABY

Lyrics by William Blake, music by Loreena McKennitt

O for a voice like thunder, and a tongue
To drown the throat of war! - When the senses
Are shaken, and the soul is driven to madness,
Who can stand? When the souls of the oppressed
Fight in the troubled air that rages, who can stand?
When the whirlwind of fury comes from the
Throne of god, when the frowns of his countenance
Drive the nations together, who can stand?
When Sin claps his broad wings over the battle,
And sails rejoicing in the flood of Death;
When souls are torn to everlasting fire,
And fiends of Hell rejoice upon the slain.
O who can stand? O who hath caused this?
O who can answer at the throne of God?
The Kings and Nobles of the Land have done it!
Hear it not, Heaven, thy Ministers have done it!

(posted by Farid)
Posted:Friday, February 06, 2004 |