From: farhad@CS.Stanford.EDU (Farhad Shakeri)
Subject: Re: Naghdi bar SCI in 92 (episode 2)
Organization: Computer Science Department, Stanford University.
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 17:38:28 GMT

In article farzin@apollo3.ntt.jp (Farzin Mokhtarian) writes:
|> Subject: Re: Naghdi bar SCI in 92 (episode 2)
|>   
|> Farhad Shakeri writes:
|>                            
|> @ But of course you are unique  Farzin Jon. 
|> @ 
|> @ See this is how I see you and label you "A radical Yuppi"  that means
|> @ 
|> @ you aint that radical as  Seyyed is/was (he will change too, give him time)
|> @ and you aint that westernized/yappi (almost) that we ignore you.
|> @ 
|> @ We can argue forever but we can't hate each other because maybe we
|> @ understand each others pains.
|>   
|> 
|> What is this pointless game you are playing, Farhad? 


See Farzin Jon,  We have a bet here on how we can bring you back
to SCI and enjoy your articles.  Again  SCI without you is
boring.  I think I am losing my tumb by pushing the 'n' key so much.
It seems  I won the bet  and you are back!

It does not matter if we understand your articles or not but  we just want
you around.


|> I have been accused of being a "radical". So now I guess I just have
|> to "defend" myself. So here is my "defence": I am not a radical.

I am glad to hear that!

I did not call you, god forbid "Radical".  I called you "A radical Yuppi"
that means a moderate LOW SALT Radical.  between  1 to 10 in Radical
mode I rate you  1.  [This is different from Assana's Rating System]
[IMHO lower number is better]


If this was five or six years ago in TPM then I would have rated you 8.

Do you remember those fun times?


|> But we all know what you mean. I have dared to say a few things that
|> your "non-radical" types don't dare say. After all, as Ala once said,
|> "people try to survive first" (may not be an exact quote).
|> What do I mean? An example is my questioning of the recent AI report
|> posted to SCI (to which there was no reply).  


You should know very well when  MKO  post something  we take their
news with some grain of salt.  

I have talked to AI and they did say, the news from Iran only comes
from MKO and they do take it with some grain of salt too.

It is noted at the bottom of each of their messages about IRAN!


|> So, have I insulted some people? If so, it was not intentional.
|> I had to say it in my "defence". Why am I what Farhad calls a
|> "radical"? Because I believe the truth is important ....

That has nothing to do with truth azeez.   You know it and I know
it.


|> Hmmm ..... 
|> but this is a very abstract answer. He is quite intelligent. Why is
|> he not like the majority in SCI?!
|>                               
|> Good question! I don't know if I have the answer myself. But I am
|> not so different from you. I am not so bold. You fear the "system".
|> Me too. But I fear my conscience even more. I respond to my fears
|> just like you do and the outcome is what you see.

Hmmmm  I am really surprised Farzin!  You have been changed.

|> "In the end, conscience will make cowards of us all".

Unless it is a good conscience!

|> (I got that from an absorbing spy movie I saw on TV recently)

Was it in Japanese?   :-)

|>                              
|>  - Farzin                  
|>                 

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