Notes on the book belong to Web, they will never make to print. There is the line between Notes and Texts -- the story.
Jah. Many questions. The Second Coming story never was told.
Christ came again to die without resurrection... Tafari (and Haile Sellassie) didn't believe in it. He had parents and country. Could it be that he died BECAUSE of it -- being a man?
Why can't I admit -- even the near past is gone, including my own first life? Physically disappeared. Half of my life has no reference anymore. Imperial Ethiopia is far more away from the present than Ethiopian antiquity. Haile Sellassie time is truly "ancient regime," he is mythological, not Sheba. No, the radicalism of the century isn't fully understood; I myself is splitted in two! More! An immigrant, migrant, refugee, defector -- I am many. Do you see the continuity in this cracked atom? Isn't that a secret of the enormous energy released?
We enter a new world -- what could be more definite than resurrection, the transfiguration of the real? I feel like a historian looking at my father -- what kind of dialogue can I have with him? His is lost in the world of the POST (modernity). What this intense, full, long life of Haile Sellassie could tell
me about my presence, never-mind the future? What a caterpillow can teach a butterfly? My book in Russian, which I brought with me to New York, was never published -- most of it is a matter of personal history. Why should it be published, if not for some "academic" interest? Or should it be a novel? We departure from the present with a speed of light. There must another way to reflect on experiencing the POST-reality.
Early Rasta thought that he won't die -- and they too? In the state of mind I&I death means little. But what does it mean "god as a living man"? What about Christ? A first mortal god. Do I understand the consequences of this thought? They who tired of words, are they capable of making them real? If being a man
wasn't tough enough! He tried to be up to this task, without accepting the title of God. Have you try to fulfil the triple task of Adam? Do you know what does it mean to be a king? Not the Disney Charles and Diana, but the patriarch, the father of a nation. What do you think his end was about? It's just a desire,
wishful thinking. They don't mean it. Good idea. We have so many of them.
My problems are conceptual. I don't believe that my soul is immortal.
What if I didn't exist before birth and all I do is trying to have it -- the life. Birth is just a chance, a possibility.
Existentialists accepted it with grief and pain -- God is dead. I come from nowhere and vanish forever. Many of them came from the left, some even after being Marxists. Nothing is immortal, nothing! Not unless you make it live. Immortality became our business. Resurrection has this single purpose -- to bring God back. It's God's resurrection performed by us. It's our turn.
NB:
The Composition of A Thought:
"Contents" -- thought arrangements? The subtitles won't let short-story to be formed? Not only "readable" but enjoyable! Please, make it simple (work on-line -- it helps)! Stop flirting with the eclectics! Philosophy and prose is a difficult mix. Three (3) books, not one -- and each 400 pp. long? So, let it be.
Keep asking: Why do you write it? What do you want to say, man?
Do I defend him? He doesn't need it. I try to understand another single life beside my own.
Studying myself (Resurrection is "do-it-yourself" business): what does it mean to be a Russian, Ethiopian, American? I travel in both directions from my Russian (Asian/European) present: future -- America, past -- Africa. Being an Ethiopian -- something I couldn't experience in Russia or in America. African
-- something from the far past.
"King and I": We are connected by chance or fate. I'm writing about something I never experienced. I'm not an Ethiopian, not a black and not an emperor. Why do I write about something I know nothing? Why in English, which is not my language?
"King"? We don't mean what we say. Do I think of myself as a "king"? King of what? Important, full of potentials, capable of leading, but why didn't your Russians listen to you? I thought that is because I can't speak.
More personal STORIES! And images, faces, details... Bottomless -- dark -- eyes. There's more to discover in thinking through a single simple feeling than in pages of speculations. The problem: the two subjects/times clash -- make it into your method. When, how?...
Half a book -- outside of his life. We don't know when life begins or ends. (Is that the reason for such a narrative?)
And the GENRE -- "ethno-history" of Emperor Haile Sellassie, investigation of the months prior to his mysterious death. Chronicles? What is it? (Get rid of the endnotes for each chapter, send them to the end of the book!)
The portraits:
Zewde, brother and uncle, his mother divorced Asfa. At 16 she was forced to marry 18 year old Crown Prince. Or did he divorce her, strong spirited woman who meant to be a nun, or an artist? Without any formal training she painted her big canvases to the last days of her life. When I couldn't find gesso in the
summer of 1995, Eleny, the girl she adapted, brought this strange
thin home-made gesso left after the princess.
HIM, Zewde, Esther, Bekere, Mengistu -- who are the characters of this drama? HIM -- Photos: with Nixon, Mao, Tito. Is there a price to pay for dealing with evil? He had no friends. Oh, the expectations and assumptions. All the evils now were contributed to him. If only the strong would fall, everything would return to normal. Did we hear it before?
The family: three generations of losers: grandfather, father, brothers and sisters. They are no less the reason for his death than Mengistu. They know it, they are quiet. What if the silence of Peter is more of a sin than the cry of comdemnation? What if my non-written book is a more damaging event than the
Russian revolution? Ah, I rather "play" humble, I don't want even to think that my enaction could be so catastrophic. "I am only human" -- what a stupid thing to say! And what a lie -- as if everything in us, our flesh, every single cell is screaming -- me! All I did -- I learnt to deal with this demand.
Even if HIM would accent to the throne by virtue of birth, his long reign should be a proof of his greatness. Could it be that not his mistakes but his qualities are the reason of this denial of his place in Ethiopian history by whose who are now try to walk his path of governing the country? Is this a reaction of unequal in position of equality? Is it personal?
I witness the sellout of the noble. How little we willing to give. Why? Because we received little? This fall continues. There's no recovery, each new generation adds to the downfall. More of degradation, more of de-spiritualization. As if the "noble" idea must be destroyed. (Web -- And 25 Years Later). With all the killing the past had more respect for one soul. King-Idea was a manifestation of this admiration for as single man.
Who said that the strong can't lose? Great man made by defeats, not victories. Coming out of the fall, getting up, overcoming. He was a prince, not Yasu. He knew it, and the Emperor Menelik knew it, when he gave the throne to Yasu. Tafari lost and accepted it -- a strong learns how to take blows. Of
course, a weak can win. It happens all the time. How many lucky
suckers can win lottery million twice? That's their world of the weak.
His humiliation is far from over. The third generation is about to prove why monarchy has no place in Ethiopia. What do they have to offer? What do they believe in? What do they stand for? And what do they know?
....
TO THINK: What about recent fashionable reappearance of royalty in Europe? Nostalgia? Fears of the future? Culturation? Making political into historical? Ethiopia has to grow into old modernity before they see the value of this idea again.
Critical mass is needed to get to a level of energy where the resurrection takes place -- explosion. More! Even a small explosion -- a match -- has no limitations. It has to release it all or it dies. We won't let it die. Implosion (Deleuze).
If "freedom is a road seldom traveled by the multitude" then MORE means less freedom. The traffic jam of history.
Periodization (history and/or his life): Prince, King, Emperor. More "big history" as a background.
From Man to King (Part III). Time of Fascism and Communism -- the 30s.
The Regent: 1917 -- Kennedy, 35th President, born. (H/S came to his funeral in 1963). Russian Revolution; year later the Romanov's family was executed (1918). It was a summer time with butterflies and flowers. The sky was blue and air full of smell of fresh grass. The Romanovs spent a year waiting for the execution. The Bolshevicks didn't know what to do with them, the living past...
Emperor: 1930 -- DuMont's television broadcast in NYC to
private homes, August 20. Manchuria -- Sept. 18, 1931. Japan began occupation of China.
Death: 1975 -- The fall of Saigon, South Vietnam no more.
...
And finally, hear me, the past never vanishes. Didn't
Ethiopia manage to keep everything, while adding the new? Till
now? No, come and take a closer look, the past lives within the
present. One glance at our treatment of Law and Order could
reveal the same attitudes and structures which were developed by
the monarchy model.
From a revolt to revolution? What is the SUBJECT of this
book? Is it over? Not in America, the true leader of the bigest revolution in history.
....
The very idea of race is a racism. How natural is racism? Or
is it about strong and weak? Class?
White Africans in antiquity (Greek diaspora and Romans). Like on Internet. We don't know the color of Aesop. Now -- Iceman married his pre-historical
past: African Studies.
Pan-African -- Sun People are dark. Deconstruction of color:
grey? Afrocentrism. No, the world without the center (capital),
focus, heart. Don't melt, ad -- Deleuze, again. Postmodern
already got a bad name, too many ride in on the pack of this
animal. How else can I look at the modern if not from the outside
of it.
Minority? Whites -- 10% of the global population and in the
begining of next century whites will be a minority even in USA.
...
Chasing the runaway history: the third world is trying to
catch up. The next century would give a different picture of the
world. The super-powers are out and the regions are in. The
Rising Asia was first.
Ethiopians had no history without kings and they don't know how to accept the republic -- corrections and re-writes of the past.
Africa -- a place where the two concepts of the post-modern
clashed. Africa was a third world, a territory before the modern.
Europe was the space of modernity. Africa had to cover the
history -- modernization and post-modernization at the same time.
What a mess!
All aboard! What about the ones who was left behind? Japan
was a model for H.S., no the opposite.
Rich & poor. Traditional society knew separation between
living and work. Don't we work all the time, too?
Cause and Effect:
Reverse chronology, the other order! First Death, birth
later. Resurrection model? Going back is an archeology. What is
the drama? We already know the facts, do we? We know the end --
do we know the motives?
Important to understand; knowing isn't enough. Understanding
his drama? Going back in time to understand the logic of history.
Each chapter is a question -- why? Reliving. Is going back the
only way to learn about the future?
What can we say about 2050? It's not here yet. And yet many
features of today and the past will make it into the future.
Which ones?
1997, 1999 -- today. Where is he? Even Rastas accepted his death.
I am writing about him. My death in 1995.
Is 1991 an important date? To explain what took place (and
didn't) in 1995.
The famine and the end of communism (1985) because of the
event of ten years before.
He died (1975) not because of revolution (1974).
The sources of revolution are seeded in 1960.
Future comes from the past? 1960 -- because of 1935. He lost
the war because the country wasn't modernized (westernized). He
tried to make it modern and produced revolutionary in the elite.
What if I could prove to you that the past is determined by
the future? Have you heard about the Bible? Future is our desires
and they are in the present. Our wishes are born from not being
contained. Our dreams are consistent, we want -- and we dictate
from the future how the past must die. Remembering the past? Who
does ask for it? The future.
No, you still don't know how life before birth and after
death looks like!
"Dedicated to All those who have suffered and who suffer at
the hands of a race with strength but without knowledge of
mercy." (Henry Darley dedicated his book to them.) A British
wrote it. Could be said again. Today. Are they Abyssinians in
Addis? The same Tigreans, some might say.
Ethiopia history is a history of civil wars. Ethnic, not
civil.
Semitic Gurage (between Gibye and Awash) from Tigrey; Galla
came in 16 century and separated them. Shoa (Shawa) -- mixture of
Gala and Amhara?
(Race.nts.) 2050. Race is no less a construct than
ethnicity. More so! Very recent! Why do we need it, ah?
There were many good reasons for attacking capitalism a
century ago. Those are still there, the reasons.
Oh Lord, how tired I am of words without subjects. Society,
humanity, race. What is that? Just opinions! What do we mean by
"race"? Very much like the pushed into minds of millions those
trade names -- Pepsi, nikies... what is McDonald? A service.
Product is to follow. Thanks to pm we stopped this optimistic
idiocy greeting everything new... Did we?
I'm tired of traveling the same road established by
modernity. The convenience of highways is the eliminating of the
travel. What could be discovered on American road? Faked
discourse with the invented worlds and words, something to place
into the holy of holiest -- the thinking machine, my soul.
The Russian Connection?
Extraordinary Mission from St. Petersburg. The end of the
century. Russia was late. Only the Soviets tasted Africa. Not for
long.
Lieutenant Bulatovich, first with the Russian Red Cross as
Adwa. Second time with the mission in 1898. From Addis down south
to Shankala (Negro) lands.
Nobility and Family: Dead, very dead. Monarchy is dead. No,
no --"which" monarchy? -- Outside and inside. Samples? The
electronic groups, parties in Ethiopia, even the family circle.
Nobody is interested in monarchy ideals. No grounds and no human
material... Why? It's an ideological crisis, the idea was dead
before he died. Modernity, starting with French or American
revolution, has different ideas about society.
Many interesting parallels exist between the Russian and
the Ethiopian imperial finales. Including the self-deterioration
of the royal family. The articles of Ethiopian constitution on
the rules on succession are the most antiquated and complex (#3
through #25). The whole first (longest) chapter of the
constitution (out of eight chapters) is about the succession to
the throne. Kapuscinski makes no distinction between the court
and the throne. (Part One of the boom "Emperor" has the title
"The Throne"). Unfortunately, the second pillar of the empire
(aristocracy) is missing in most analyses.
Self-destructive?
Absolutism of imperial power asks for centralization and
Sellassie himself over his long reign destroyed the powers of
aristocracy. Russian aristocracy was destroyed long before the
self-destruction of the royal family.
Also:
[over 80 percent of the land was either in small holding or
in communally-held land] "* In the north, vast areas were owned
communally by the peasants. With some exceptions in the south and
west, most of the arable lands were held by small property
owners. In the southeast, as in the Ogaden, the lands inhabited
by the migratory populations were government-owned. The concept
of private property was irrelevant to the nomadic peoples. In the
central regions the same person could be at the same time
land-owner and tenant and tenants were not bound to the land as
in Imperial Russia." (Spencer 346)
He was a soldier. Portraits in different military uniforms.
A profession -- ashkers (assistants of the soldiers,
servants), they carried the rifles. Then the master was gone,
they were left with the rifles. Gondari -- Tewodros soldiers.
Life as war: convicts as slaves and also the prisoners of
war, the source of labor.
(Read for 1935: Deleuze, G. and Guattari, F. (1993)
Nomadology: the War Machine.)
The class relations are sexual, as everything about power
and domination. The property idea smells with erotics. Sword and
phallus. Of course, man has to kill, who else has to do it?
Woman? Child? Now we taught them to drive and kill -- they vote.
The jury, the humble executioners. Electric chair? What a joke!
(TO WRITE IN: 1995) The moody gods of Kaffa (became a part
of the empire in 1897), Sidamo. Gypsy beauty. African gypsies?
PICTURES. Sun stroke. The red soil.... Saytan (the Devil) maitan.
Salom, Shalom -- Arab, Hebrew. How did this greeting make into
the language? Why was it left in?
Lilabela: Tomb of Eve and Tomb of Adam. Where else? Not in
Jerusalem, not in Europe. Nobody claimed that they have it. Only
Ethiopians. Images, thoughts, people, topics -- that's how to
hold it together. No flesh, not in yet, structure only and beats
of meat (quotations) -- not ready. Very little is described. I
can't see it, can't follow it. Not good, even as a journalism.
How to write about it -- dairies? Oh, the temptations of the web! It would be nice to
make the book in traditions of old manuscripts, before they met the printing press. With
drawings, fancy lettering, something of a scrap book, yes, but I won't dare, I will continue
to pretend to be a legitimate writer. For my comments on myself and my writing I have
another place, another Website.
Anatoly’s pre-existence is no less interesting subject than his after-life
experiences. And it’s already exists, the future (read the physics textbooks). My immortal
soul is no less an attribute of me than my body, even more so. Actually, I don’t think so
much about my body...
conception is an amnesia of the immortal soul, necessary forgetfulness to enter a new
physical reality. A soul has to become a child to learn. The rest is recalling its origins.
Are there “unlived” souls and how different are they from angels, who can’t be born?
Do you want to face a paradox? All right, both parties are right. There is no
Anatoly outside of my mortal span of existence -- and my visit to this world is shorter
than a dream. How both could be right? Because I myself is the biggest paradox of all.
Oh, yes, I can choose one or another thought, because I have both in me. Being a mortal
or immortal is a matter of personal preference and both choices have its disadvantages.
Our modern minds prefer absolute mortality not so much for scientific reasons but for
simplicity of it. It makes you focused, makes you work harder to utilized the limited time
you got. It proved to be very effective in accelerating the progress. Thanks to atheism we
have TV and telephone... and human rights. Yes, we have to value each and every
individual, every worm body, the smallest piece of flesh (we call it genetics) -- we don’t
have this so-called eternity, we have to get it out of a limited period of time. I like this
appreciation for time and temporality. Nothing, absolutely nothing is wrong with
atheism, because atheism applies all the concepts of the classical theology. Teleology for
one; we didn’t reject the logic, cause and effect and even the “will” theory. We made
metaphysics applicable. Electricity as a phenomenon with its laws and principles always
was out there, but unused. Why not to make use of it?
We talked enough about gods, why not to produce them? We have the material --
us. What wrong with mass manufacturing of the divine? I don’t see anything sinful in
developing actual virtual reality. In fact, I admire atheists for their working attitude
toward God, I see many of them in paradise. Yes, my friends, it’s possible to denounce
God in order to serve him better.
In my writing you will find a lot of references to one of the most famous atheist,
Karl Marx, because he didn’t die. We like to call it “marxism” (Marx’s ideas), but I think
it is no less him, than Mozart in sounds of Mozart’s music. Oh, it was the best moments
of their life when the sounds and thoughts were born! Oh how happy they were then, I
can see and hear it even now, I witness it every time I meet them. Anyone who ever
experienced such moments knows that they are true life. Aristotle would call it the
essence; the rest of my life belongs to the realm of accidents. I don’t see eternity
anywhere else besides human soul. My heart is the answer to silent desires of nature and
universe to be forever and ever. My youthful fascination with physics ended with a
realization that cosmos needs me to beat the laws of thermodynamics. I am a
meta-environmentalist, I see how everything living begs for me to assist, because only I
have it -- the immortality.
In order for me to exist, history has to proceed without accidents. It has to make it
way through all the right turns to arrive to moment of its destination -- my life. It had to
go through thousands years of complicated and bloody evolution to deserve me. Oh, the
world work hard to get to the point of having Anatoly. How many obstacles were
overcome! My mind refuses even to grasp those labors of nature in its desire to have me
around. Why? Why do you need me so badly? I ask. Your love must be so great if you
were willing to go through the troubles to have me. What do you want me to do?
And here is the interesting part, the free will. I could do nothing. I just can say:
Oh, gosh, thanks. and that will be it, no questions asked. You’re welcome, be my guest,
enjoy it. What a generous consumer policy! I can even kill myself. One day will do it, but
till I get my answer. You see, I can’t take it off my mind that Shakespeare and WW I
were nothing but a preparation for me. That’s how I understand why I wasn’t born earlier
-- the world wasn’t ready for me.
Now you see why I can’t agree with the idea that I’m an accident. Because it’s
me. Because it’s impossible! It’s only intellectual concept, stupid! Everything else in me
rejects this theory! Listen, at some point my mind and rationalism have to give up. When
I am hungry I can understand it, but the hunger doesn’t go away because of my
understanding. Neither pain. I only can admire Buddhists and Decart, but never envy
them.
It was said already that Marxism is the most valuable contribution to Christianity
in modernity. Marx replaced God’s will with historical determination. My personal free
will as before is in know it and following it. There are accident at all under the sun of
reason. Disagree? That’s why you are not a leader. That’s why I don’t have money. The
will of the market (yes, people) should be my want -- and I’ll be rich and famous. Yes,
you’re free to discover it, the future. It’s done every day by the army of Marxists who call
themselves “capitalists” (sign of respect for Marx’s major work, “The Capital”), they call
it “marketing.” Capitalists are the practical communists; they don’t insist that I must
desire something I don’t have a clue about (future, the good of human race and etc.).
Capitalists apply marxism wisely, they try to understand what I want and what I want but
do not know yet about it. I see the communists squarels with capitalism on managerial,
not ideological levels -- communists never had enough patience to brainwash me, they
are too short-tempered. Instead of heating your brains, they heat you on the head. It
works too, if you can get away with it.
But how did I effect WW II? Down to a small detail which secured my arrival on
the scene in 1949? Do I have absolute control over the past? Like God. You see, God’s
relations with future are different; he has plans for the future and when they become
reality later they are nothing but the past for him. The past is always result of the future,
according to this logic. Read the documents (Bible): all five days of creation were
nothing more than a preparation for the last day. Creation of man wasn’t the last, but the
first thing on his mind. Please, nothing paradoxical about this fact. My birth is no less
predetermined than my death. In fact, I had to be born in order to die. There is no two
ways about it. My death dictates my presence and my birth. Instead of repeating
“everything born dies” we should remember that “everything that dies must be born”!
I think we are too emotional to comprehend it, we are insulted by the concept of
death, we do not see that death is our guaranty for living. Remove death from my life and
I am not so sure that I ever could be born. My death made it happened. We don’t like to
die as we don’t like to pay -- we want to have it free. Think how crazy life would be
without death! Do you still wonder why mortals are superior to angels? Without death
immortality and eternity are meaningless! Without death there is no God!
Do we read the same book? I thought that the expelling from paradise and death
were God’s gifts, which only look like punishment. Hey, we were ready for it, we always
are, we have this potentiality of death in us. Angels don’t. I can die at any given moment
and gift of death makes me human.
I like that Christianity made death into a culture, even named itself after the dead
man. I understand Neitzsche’s anger because death makes us strong, not weak. Actually,
I don’t want immortality without death, it’s a nonsense! Why do you think death was the
last invention of the Creator? It was his best!
The good news is that death doesn’t need an apparatus of propaganda. It’s always
there for you, something you can rely on.
Is death unpleasant? Not death, but the dying.
But why think why is it so? Because of the resistance, stupid! Hit your head
against the wall and see how pleasant it will be. Death is not a rape, it’s natural and must
be desired. Your death has nothing to do with your life, if you’re not happy with the way
you lived what your death has to do with it! No wonder that so many wasted lives around,
when they don’t know where to place their blame on. Death is a great teacher of
discipline. without it we would have no brains. Everything great I saw in my and other
lives happens because of the existence of death. Death is the great producer of beauty.
Book of Death wasn’t a planned project. I simply got tired of this death bashing.
We ready to protect everything -- children, minorities, environment, but what is this war
against death for! Why do you think death doesn’t need protection? With the cloning and
all the successes of medicine death should be on the list of endangered spices. with our
super and hyper-technology we might very well to eradicate death, God forbid. The
results will be catastrophic! I can see it disappearing already, the humanity.
Look, I don’t see anything morbid or gothic in death. I don’t see darkness and
tears. I don’t see even mystery in it. I see death as an event I don’t want to miss. I want it
to be MY death, not somebody’s else. I’m not talking about being dead, but my relations
with death. Death is no less important than a college degree, it deserves some attention.
Death should be treated with respect, intellectually. Death should have it place in our
value system, gentlemen. Death should be celebrated and I have a proposal.
If the rest of the world is govern by chaos, it destine to vanish, it has no future
life.
What about luck, lottery? How could it be pre-determined?
All I did I followed the HS mindset.
Interpretation (QM) is a part of an event. Meaningful v. meaningless: your choice.
Neither will satisfy your soul (existentialism), the choice is useless, too. So, what did you
say about “freedom”? You have it only while you are a mortal, my friend.
He was born to be last king. Did he know it? Did he tried to fight his fate? How
did he know that it was the end? Did he? Haile Sellassie I -- First? Who can name himself
The Last?
....
Selam All,
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I come to this door and turn away. I stand next to it and I afraid to open it.
sometimes I heard sound behind the door; I know what is behind. Did I think that the
ghosts of the great past could help me? I tried it all, including this book. I thought that I
invest myself into the Other I can have it -- the family. It was natural before, why can’t I
have it too? I fear to open this door, I never told you H.I.M. is a love story. I wanted to
get through the exotics and discover how to have it today. I have family once before, this
“unit of society” -- male, female comrades and their child for the state. Not this time! I
wrote a bad novel, I tried to hide my questions from myself.
“Exit” was written in red above the door. “Emergency only!” When you exit this
metal door, it shots behind you and you can re-enter it. you use it once, the alarm goes
on, because it is an emergency. Is it? Why can’t I stay longer? Because I didn’t want
“Soviet” or “American” family, I wanted my family. But is the emergency? Why don’t
you use the front door? Leave this empty home the way you came in. I can’t find my way
back. I travel this strange castle for so long, I don’t know anymore how to return. I know
that there is no way to return -- all doors are one-way only. I tried, they all are locked,
there is only one is left, this one.
Of course, I know what I am doing, writing this book. That much I can
understand. No, the world outside is familiar to me, I came from there -- the world of
single souls. I know this world better than many, I tried to build my home, because I
know what is not home. Oh, man! How could you fight your fate? It’s not personal, it’s
the way life is. Now and forever.
Well, what about your love story? Was there a story? Tell us about your love.
It is dark in here.
All love stories are about people. You won’t find in the New Testament a single
love story. There is no description for the love God had for Mary. No mentioning how he
met her, how he noticed her, how he watched her. Not a word about his fear of rejection
and trembling heart. The angels sent to Mary -- that is the most disappointing moment.
Man in love doesn’t do it. Man in love wants her, not his son. I don’t understand it. I
don’t understand his choice -- and nothing is said about his reason. Why does she have to
be a married woman? Yes, I don’t like the story.
...
Of course, I remember that Christ promised it -- the destruction of family. The
Church-building centuries created the alternative: family of strangers. Loving all! I love
you, man! Any other “love” is prohibited. Didn’t I know that wife must be against
husband and husband against children? I thought that she is from another world, that I
can resist the times...
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Selam Tadesse
Here is my equivalent translation. Tirgume yerase new.
>Margin===='terze"
>Header====='yerase terze"
>Footer====='yeigreg terze"
>E-mail======'imail'
>Send E-mail 'meleaket melak"
>Cancel===='serze"
>Paste=="letefe"
>Insert==='ketet"
Well, next time when some Ethiopian would like to understand it, he has to ask for a translation back from Amharic to English. They want to save their language, they still do not know how to read the book of Revelation from their TV screens. “E-mail” translation: “imail”! Nothing but misspelled English; Ebonics, you know.
Message I had no heart to send it to EthiopForum.
