Let's learn together!

[setayesh]

Dear elham will write another post to you and tell you all about my trip to kish as soon as possible

[LanguageBox]

Yes, I understand. I hope you are not touchy because I didn't mean to. Indeed, writing is improved ... with writing. The thing is that I didn't find it focused. It's just a general discussion in English where people can practice their writing skills but there is no learning process. I mean learning something like how to write a letter for example, how to structure your writing, how to link your thoughts in English and such things. Anyway, I am glad to make a contact with you guys. I will put my thoughts here from time to time ;)

Actually, I started writing on WWW.English-at-home.com in 2007. From 2007 until now I've been writing English almost regularly; continuously. In 2012 we decided to leave other sites and to write on this power site.

[Hurieh]

Hi Hurieh,
It is pleasure to read your post and knew that you are in health , just your busy schedule is the reason of your absence .

Hi dear Mohsen,
How are you? It’s a long time you haven’t shown up. I hope you’re enjoying your time. It’s really nice of you.

I don’t know if you like the Baghlava and Pashmak ( the two famous confectionaries in Yazd) ,

To tell the truth, I’m not into souvenirs of Yazd. They are so sweet and may cause some issues such as dental problems. To top it off, the rate of diabetes is also considerably high in this city. Some experts attribute this issue to sweet souvenirs of Yazd. However, Diabetes isn’t a sweet disease at all. We have patients with this problem in every unit. Diabetes affects nearly all systems in humans’ body such as epithelial and skin, cardiovascular, renal, visual, and neural system; and subsequently, deteriorates prognosis of their disease. About everyone knows about this unpleasant disease and it’s negative effects on body system. I’m afraid of getting diabetes since some close relatives of ours are suffering from that .Hopefully, I don’t have it in my own family but I have to be careful. Oh…Poor Mohsen…the next time you’ll eat our souvenirs you won’t have good feelings I guess…. Smiling…. Don’t panic and enjoy it happily. I’m too conservative.

As usual I went to park at morning with a group of my family . this my routine job on Fridays.

WOW…what a nice and healthy habit. Good for you and the guys who accompany you. I’m also interested in taking up a fitness activity like mount climbing, jogging or walking in the parks, but these days it’s not possible for me. Anyway, last weekend, some relatives of us insisted on visiting the park in our vicinity to make their only small kid enjoy playing there. It was after midnight, and the park was quiet until we reached there. We enjoyed playing with the tools which were devised for small kids’ playing, and forgot for which purpose we were there. Poor that kid!!! He was totally forgotten. Anyway, sometimes awakening our inner child and playing like kids are necessary. I’ve been considering doing that again every once in a while. By the way, do you play like kids in parks??? If not, I do recommend it. Just give it a try. Winking.
Hope to have you here so soon.

Regards,
Hurieh
May 25th, 2015

[Hurieh]

Hi Hurieh,

How are you? I hope you are doing well. Where are you? I've missed you. Please drop something in the thread and let us enjoy reading your posts, full of new and interesting things.

Hope to hear from you soon.

All the best,
Behnam, 22 May, 2015

Dear Behnam,

How are you? How do you do? Thanks for caring.

It’s really enjoyable to read about your meeting with some friends of ours in International Book Fair. Sounds like you had great time and really enjoyed it. In my opinion, you should have planned your meeting somewhere else like Shah Abdol Azim Shrine. Then you would be able to do sightseeing (Siahat) and pilgrimage (Ziarat) at the same time…winking and smiling at the same time…It would also be nice to be remembered there... Just kidding.

Thanks for remembering us there. I want to take this excuse to convey my regards to our dear friends Elham and Setayesh. It was such a long time we were deprived from reading your nice words. You were greatly missed. I hope you’re enjoying your moments, and will write more here.

One more thing… The idea of writing names on the paper was so innovative and amazing and the handwriting which belongs to dear Behnam was eye catching. I really wonder whose idea it was. Anyway, It was so creative. Although the idea seems a bit girlish I won’t dare guess whose idea it was. Winking…

Dear Behnam, I’m following the posts of yours and our friends and enjoying reading them. They're informative too. These days I have to cut back my time spending on the net. I’ve taken a step further and analyzed my data. Now I have to put my pen on the paper and start writing. Wish me luck please. Meanwhile, I wish long lasting happiness and joyfulness for you three and the rest of our friends.

Regards,
Hurieh
May 25th, 2015

P.S. It's nice to see our friend's paw here. Do you know to whom I'm pointing? Accept my humble regards dear Andrew. We're waiting for your posts and riddles eagerly.

[Hurieh]

Dear friends,

Last week something happened to me that was a real eye opener. I want to save it right here forever as a reminder. An unforgettable lesson actually !!!!

There’s an English professor in our university who has an electronic magazine. She asks learners who are interested in English to write things for her magazine. If she finds them interesting or informative, she will publish them; otherwise perish. I sometimes write something for that magazine and asks them to put my e-mail address at the end to receive readers’ feedbacks.
My last text was a long article about life, it’s philosophy, and so on. The feedbacks are rare and usually casual. Last week, I received an e-mail from someone who claimed he’s an English teacher and translator. He had written his idea about life, and shared his ID with me to join him. Although I wasn’t in the mood of English at that moment, but I couldn’t resist the temptation of replying his e-mail. Immediately and without thinking, I wrote a letter and emphasized on my point of view in a childish and poor way. Anyway, very soon I received an e-mail from him that said he had just shared his own idea nothing more…hehehehehe…
He had put his words in a polite way. I’m still ashamed of my childish reaction towards my fair- minded critic. Why do we usually doubt people’s intentions? Why have we habituated to judge people based on our personal limited knowledge?

His reaction taught me many worthwhile lessons. I have to think twice before doing something even on the net. Yeah… I have to keep in mind that this is not “madine-ye-fazele” or “arman shahr”. Our feet are on earth not heaven. It’s quite selfish of us to expect people to change in accordance with our wishes and interests, and in most situations impossible.
Why do we want to convince people rather than to be convinced most of the time??? My finger is pointing to myself not anyone else.

One more lesson! Every debate should usually have a sacrifice, otherwise it will turn into a sever explosion. Since, in most of circumstances both sides try to show their superiority and hardly give up. Finally, the teacher of my story easily won the discussion for the reason of his LENIENCY.

I take this excuse to ask pardon from all of my friends here in case they were also victims of my arrogance... I hope to reform my weaknesses. I think I’d better stop writing about morality for a while. Instead, I’ll switch to writing scientific articles in my own specific field. It’s much better I guess….LOL

Regards,
Hurieh
May 25th, 2015

P.S. You can read e-mails exchanged between us on the next posts.

[Hurieh]

Ms. X.X,

I’m…., an English teacher and translator. I’m privileged to meet you. I just read your long article about “Life” on …… magazine. It was great; However, as far as I’m concerned, life is short and so complicated at the same time. There are so many directions around us each calling us to take them. We are wondering which way to take. We need a help or something like a right attitude about life. Sometimes I feel a simple word, advice or even an image, no matter where it comes from, may change my whole life.

I would be glad if you joined me on LinkedIn with this ID: …………

With regards,

X.Y

Hi Mr. X.Y,

It's my pleasure to get to know you here as an English expert. You've got a variety of skills and experiences in English according to your profile which are truly applaudable. Good for you indeed.

By the way, you've been holding an interesting point of view regarding life and it's philosophy. Are they your own statements??? Anyway, I put value on your opinion, and found it a good excuse to write something, since I’m a big talker and interested in raising controversial issues. It’s said: “discussion and doubt are essential for our progress.”

In my opinion, life isn't that complicated you imagine. A reason that may draw us into such wandering situation may be the lack of in-depth understanding from ourselves or actually self-awareness. We are not born to be tortured in this world. We are living to enjoy, grow up, win, lose, learn, do our responsibility towards this world, and then leave it. Have you noticed that some people who have an eye for detail may turn out to be much more successful in their lives? They think differently and exactly know what they’re supposed to do during their lifelong. They can see things that others don’t care about. In other words, they are able to find opportunities for their taking steps by having such precise skills.

Have you heard of EQ? I’m sure you heard. It doesn’t necessarily demand having high IQ for our achievements. Sometimes, an average person with high EQ can appear more successful than a genius. That implies the fact that how much being aware of ourselves and getting the signals we’ve been receiving around ourselves matter. I’m not opposing the point that getting advice from others is unacceptable. Getting advice can come helpful, but only if we know ourselves and our interests. Otherwise, it can also be kind of wandering hopelessly among many different ideas. To put it in blunt form, being able to decode the signals we’ve been receiving from others along with distinguishing the best one suits our interests may be keys to success. However, we always have exception too. Winking.

Meanwhile, It’s said the quality of life is much more important than it’s quantity. I put a strong faith on this idea. I personally feel life is short whenever I procrastinate tasks, and feel I’m not spending my time properly. We won’t feel life is short when we’ve got lots of achievements from the past. Therefore, there will be no regret in future whether we’ve wasted our time or not. Let’s accept this fact that each of us has a responsibility towards their lives that should be addressed, and no one can properly detect it except ourselves.

By the way, I just shared my personal idea as a student who is interested in writing.

Sincere best wishes,
X.X. May 20th, 2015

[Hurieh]

Hello Ms. X.X,

First of all, I should express my admiration for your great long speech and Blah.Blah.Blah.Blah...............................................................................................................................................................................................................Blah!

The words I wrote to you are mine and I believe in the philosophy behind that. Let me tell you that a Dutch man wrote a message to me and told me that he had the same paragraph in the preface of one of his books! I had to swear at God that it was mine!
I say life is short maybe because of what I am facing nowadays, otherwise sometimes I feel life is the longest and the most boring thing on earth. This new year holidays, my family and I visited Ghasr prison in Tehran that has become a museum-garden now. We visited the dark and so suffocating cells and remembered the ones who had spent long years there. How could I say life is short when they were counting every minute of all those long years? But they themselves say that life is too short when they were released finally and had a chance of, some year later, visiting the old prison.
In the other part of that paragraph, I had indicated that someone or something may change my whole life. This is what I also believe in.
I am not as expert as you in raising controversial issues so I stop here while I like to know more about you and if I can do anything for you.

With regards
X.Y

Mr. X.Y,

My gratitude to you for all of your fascinating words attributed to me, even if they sound more like compliments and exaggeration. Winking.

Your plain text caught my attention at first, and persuaded me to write that letter to you. You write beautifully and clearly. I’m glad to hear those belong to you. By the way, you had replied my somewhat-rude letter pretty nice and with respectful manner which obviously shows your great nobility.

Yeah…I believe what you said about that Dutch man. Your statements also reminded me of a book that contains the same thoughts but with different words and in Persain. Unfortunately, I can’t remember the name of the book. I feel like sharing an excerpt from the book with you right here. Here goes:

داستان غریبی است ! زندگی چون کلاف سردرگم ، ما را چون گردش دور یک میدان، به دور خود می چرخاند و در پایان هر روز احساس می کنیم که بعد از این همه تلاش؛ سر جای اولمان ایستاده ایم...

You are definitely right. There are some periods of time in everyone’s life that may cause such feelings towards the life. In such situations, I personally mumble these words;

بهر من بدتر از این روزی نیست / زندگی آش دهن سوزی نیست

However, I usually have the same idea towards the life that I mentioned before. In addition, I’d also like to read others' experiences. Writing and reading make us better people and better citizens. I’m still too inexperienced. On the other hand, learning process never ends. Anyway, I appreciate you and your time dedicated to writing to me. By the way, I can’t follow you on your page since I’m not an active member on my LinkedIn.

It’s a quarter past 23. Gotta go.

Sincere gratitude
X.X, May 21st/ 2015

P.S. Some praise-filled sentences are removed from the first paragraph of his e-mail to ensure readers that i didn't put them intentionally to brag.

[Hurieh]

Hi Ms. X.X

Thank You for the reply and Blah. Blah. Blah. .........................................................................
......................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................Blah.

You have written about my writing style and that I write clearly and beautifully. I can't believe this one because this is my main drawback and sometimes I have come to conclude that I won't learn English and I won't be able to write even a clear and beautiful sentence in my whole life! They have been personal questions of mine why I am not a clear person and I can't tell others what I mean and how I can make others understood about my intentions.

Some years ago, I began to draw on ordinary papers by simple pens. it was so joyful but soon I realized that I wasn't able provide a perfect image at the end and they always remained incomplete!
I have begun to read a book on who intellectuals actually are and what their roles are in the society. Although I found this book among the old books I had, it showed it was my concern why I wasn't clear enough and that kind of personality is always seen in my words!

Anyway, I wish you the best wherever you are.

Have a good Friday

P.S. Some praise-filled sentences are removed from the first paragraph of his e-mail to ensure readers that i didn't put them intentionally to brag.

[Mohsen]

Dear Behnam ,
Thank you for inserting my name in the paper, your nice decision which came up with writing of names and title of I love you is praised.
In fact you visited your friends there , not buy any books , Did your wife read these pages or not?
I punch a flower at the bottom of your paper to respect my friends

B.wishes

[Mohsen]

Hi Hurieh,
Thanks for your beautiful posts , I read all of them and enjoy your fluency in English writing , The long days and short night has effected to my daily life , except from three days of feast which I was busy in parties at nights , I was working at office as much as possible ,sometimes I came back at 8.30.

In this season I spend a lot of money to buy fruits, as I am crazy of eating apricot and berries, I also went to place beside the river on Friday with our family to shake some big tall white berries ,gathered about 10 kgs, we ate as much as possible and took the remain at home . On Saturday one of relatives passed away at the age of 93 ,so I took part at her funeral ceremony , at noon we were invited to eat launch in a restaurant , I rarely eat something in restaurant ,so I brought and excuse and came back home , the next day at morning I should take part in a Mosque in her ceremony , I ordered a big artificial wreath of flowers to a charity association before going to the mosque, then I went to the mosque , The charity is responsible to bring the flowers to put them on a stand in front of mosque , in the mosques ,I read 20 pages of Quran , I saw many far relatives there ,I was talking with them in the yard of mosque ,some of them had changes in their face , gray and white hair , bold and wrinkled. Totally I enjoyed being at that ceremony, than at 11 I came back to office, my boss is always angry and at that time his eyebrow was 88( Λ Λ).
I rarely watch movies specially Hollywood makers , sometimes I see a political film , my friend gave me a movie to watch ,it was called World War Z , As I saw this movies I understood how devilish ,wick is the Amrican movie maker
I try to come back soon.
It is around 12 and about next 5 minutes, the petrol price will be 1000 Toman /litter
All the best
Mohsen

[Mohsen]

Dear Friends,
After watching of World war Z , I realized how they try to show the facts upside down to deceive the public, in fact Zionists who have occupied Palestinian territory ,and killing many of Palestinian in recent wars ,are shown as a holy people , and Palestinian in role of Zombies.
I read the following article in Fars News and try to translate it in English, may I put this article in a critical newspaper in future.
Unfortunately my translation is not good, so I hope my friends read it and correct me as much as possible.
I put the first part to get your correction and then I continue the next parts
Thanks for your help in advance
All best wishes
Mohsen



Culture strategy
The public culture which is make by American cultural administrator , as an antagonist base culture, has always introduced numerous Anti-hero to human society; Vampire, Dracula, the Mummy and the Werewolf are just examples of anti-heroes, especially with the advent of Hollywood day by day it was added to their reputation.
The process of making anti-heros went ahead as far as the production of Night of The living Dead in 1968 by George A. Romero and followed by a new anti-hero as "zombies" which officially entered the folklore of the world. Although the name of zombies already existed in America popular culture, But the tales of George Romero gave new cohesion to it and by this resaon many people believe that his films were the starter the zombie genre.
The Zambies are horror living animated deaths which usually move slowly and have keen interest to eat human’s meat and brain ,his saliva enter the body through biting the victims and in this way the victims become a living dead too.
The movies of «Dawn of the Dead (1978)» «Day of the Dead (1985)»، «Beetle Juice (1988)» ، Shaun of the Dead (2004)، 28 Weeks Later (2007)، I Am Legend (2007)، Zombieland (2009) and production of series movies of Resident Evil which is copied from a computer game with the same name are the single examples of abundant movies which have been made with Zombie base





The impact of Zombies were extended as far as after making the game of Resident Evil in PlayStation console in 1996 and global sales success, this Zombie base game got the title of first computer game which its film was made and the first part of the film in 5 parts had been produced in 2002.

Right : The Resident movies – Left : Resident Evil game

[behnam]

In fact you visited your friends there , not buy any books , Did your wife read these pages or not?

Hi Mohsen,

Thank you very much for your post and putting a flower on the page, although it has blocked some names! In answer to your question, yes my wife knows the details about the meeting.

All the best,
Behnam, 28 May, 2015

[behnam]

Hi Hurieh,

Many thanks for your wonderful posts. Your English is excellent. Nobody doubts about it. However, to be honest, I couldn't get what was special about the man, what had been wrong with your article, what had been wrong with your reaction, ...! I read your posts twice, but I didn't get what the matter was.

Why do we usually doubt people’s intentions? Why have we habituated to judge people based on our personal limited knowledge?

I believe it is a cultural illness and of course a cultural disaster. When honesty goes out from a nation, doubt and mistrust come in! By the way, insincere people doubt more than others, because an unwritten law says that the world around me is like me! Don't worry, both you and that guy are from the country of love and beauty. You are both the same. In fact, we are all the same. Only, the level of dishonesty and insincerity is different among us! Don't blame yourself.


All the best,
Behnam, 28 May, 2015

[behnam]

Hi Setayesh,

So many thanks for your kind words and wonderful post. Your writing skill is excellent. Your post is easy to follow, and coherent. Please write a report from your trip to Kish. I am impatiently waiting for reading that report.

All the best,
Behnam, 28 May, 2015

[behnam]

Yes, I understand. I hope you are not touchy because I didn't mean to. Indeed, writing is improved ... with writing. The thing is that I didn't find it focused. It's just a general discussion in English where people can practice their writing skills but there is no learning process. I mean learning something like how to write a letter for example, how to structure your writing, how to link your thoughts in English and such things. Anyway, I am glad to make a contact with you guys. I will put my thoughts here from time to time ;)

Hi LanguageBox,

Thanks for your reply. We have written many posts about the format of essay writing. Maybe, finding those posts is difficult. Please introduce a topic, you will see the replies of some people related to your topic. If you put some questions in your posts, some people will try to answer them. This thread is a place for free discussion. We are not following any special plan for teaching English. However, we always welcome questions with open arms.

All the best,
Behnam, 28 May, 2015

[Hurieh]

Hi dear Mohsen,

How are you? You can read your revised manuscript below. I’m interested in translating formal letters and scientific texts too much, especially when it comes to my own specific major.

The topic was far away from my expertise; So don’t hesitate to ask an expert to look it over if you’d like, and let me know the comments if possible. The contents were a bit controversial—winking--; otherwise, I would ask a native English friend to edit my manuscript.

The strategy of culture,

The public culture which is made by American cultural administrators, as an antagonist-based culture, has always introduced numerous Anti-heroes to the society including Vampire, Dracula, the Mummy and the Werewolf. With the advent of Hollywood, However, they gained increasing reputation little by little.
The process of creating anti-heroes continued; and as a result, the movie “Night of The living Dead” was produced by George A. Romero in 1968; and subsequently, a new anti-hero that called "zombies" was introduced to the people around the world. Although the name of Zombie has been already seen in the culture of America, but the tales of George Romero augmented it’s reputation; and for this reason many people considered his films as the starter of zombie genre.

The Zambies are horror dead brainless creatures that usually move slowly and are interested in eating human’s meat and brain. By biting people their saliva enters the body of the victims and make them living dead bodies like themselves.

The movies of «Dawn of the Dead (1978)» «Day of the Dead (1985)»، «Beetle Juice (1988)» ، Shaun of the Dead (2004)، 28 Weeks Later (2007)، I Am Legend (2007)، Zombieland (2009) and series of “Resident Evil” movie which are produced after a famous computer game with the same name are only a few examples of numerous movies have been produced with Zombie-based content.
The considerable impact of Zombies extended further. Therefore, after production of “Resident Evil” game in PlayStation console in 1996 and it’s successful global sale, this Zombie-based game was called as the first computer game which it’s film was made; and the first part of this 5-part film produced in 2002.

Good luck,
Hurieh
May 28th/2015


P.S. Mohsssssen!!! You put that nice flower right on my name and made it invisible!!!! Why???? Nagggggggging…

P.S.S. Now, would you like to pay in cash or by credit card sir ???hehehehe

[Hurieh]

Hi dear Behnam,

How are you? Thank you very much for praising my English and giving your sincere feedbacks about my posts generously. They’re really professional. Believe it. You always encourage me to write in a plain format. I’ve tried to use this important tip in my writings long time ago, but sounds’ like it’s impossible for me…heheheheheh….
It’s been my habit to put my thoughts in a complicated form(در لفافه ), and expect my audiences to use their acumen to decode them.LOL. I have to put this habit aside and try to put my thoughts bluntly. You know how difficult it is leaving an old habit!

I guess I should have put my own article at first, but I didn’t—for some security reasons actually. Winking!
What’s wrong with my reaction? It’s something in my mind. As I read his feedback which was opposite of my ideas, at once, I thought he had put those intentionally. But without any resistance, he just said that they were just his personal ideas. I have to learn these tips: 1st: To write clearly. 2nd: To be a bit humble towards feedbacks even I don’t believe them.

You’re right. Doubt is something devastative that ruins relationships and even the person him/herself. We should avoid it for our health and our relationships. I’m in a hurry!

By the way, thanks for your feedbacks.

Sincere gratitude,
Hurieh
May 28th/2015

[behnam]

Hi friends,

I've found the following expressions interesting. I hope you will let me know the philosophy behind them.

1) I am hungry for success. Why I am not thirsty for success?
2) I am thirsty for change. Why I am not hungry for change?
3) I am thirsty for love. Why I am not hungry for love.
4) I am thirsty for learning. Why I am not hungry for learning?
5) I am thirsty for attention. Why I am not hungry for attention?
6) I am thirsty for knowledge. Why I am not hungry for knowledge?
7) I am hungry for change. Why I am not thirsty for change?
8) I am hungry for life. Why I am not thirsty for life?
9) I am hungry for love. Why I am not thirsty for love?
11) I am hungry for right. Why I am not thirsty for right?
.......

That's funny, I am thirsty or hungry for many things, but what is the difference? How can we know whether we are thirsty for something or hungry for that?

All the best,
Behnam, 28 May, 2015

[behnam]

Hi Kamelia,

How is everything with you? I hope everything is going well with you.

To be honest with you, I didn't intend to go to the book exhibition, since I personally believe buying books is like burning your money and the jungles on the Earth! The majority of people buy books to put them on shelves in order to claim that they are cultured, educated, and civilized! There motto is 'the thicker, the better'!

In our lovely country, people treat books with respect. They don't touch them! From this point of view, our people are remarkable, but we should know, the more books we buy, the more trees we burn.

Needless to boast or to show off; on a typical day I may read one book, but I use e-books. They are environmentally-friendly. For example, last night I downloaded 'Know can do' and read it. It was a wonderful book. I strongly recommend it. By the way, I NEVER read translated books.

I didn't intend to go to the exhibition, but dear kind Setayesh made a plan and called it 'Meeting Elham'(Elham Bini), then she invited me to the meeting I totally forgot your message. I am terribly sorry. It could be a good chance to be with you; alas! But, you were in our thoughts. Next year God willing we will have another opportunity to meet each other. It seems the book exhibition provides perfect opportunities for people to meet. What a meeting party!

All the best,
Behnam, 28 May, 2015

[behnam]

An IELTS test taker from the USA has shared the following topics after a recent exam:

WRITING TEST
Writing task 2 (an essay)
Some people believe that the radio is the best way to get news, while others believe that TV is better for this purpose. Discus both views and give your opinion.

SPEAKING TEST
Interview
- What is your full name?
- Can I see your ID?
- Where are you from?
- Do you work or study?
- Do you live in a house or an apartment?
- What kind of house is it?
- Do you like living there? Why?
- How many hours do you sleep a day?
- How was your sleep when you were young?
- Do you like reading?
- Do you usually read before going to sleep? Why?

CUE CARD
Describe a toy that was special to you as a child. Please say
- What was the toy?
- Who gave it to you and when?
- How did you use to play with it?

DISCUSSION
- Do you still have that toy?
- Do you think toys are important for children?
- What is the difference between toys at different ages of children?
- What is better in your opinion: electronic or simple soft toys?
- Do you think children should play with the same toys as other kids?


All the best,
Behnam, 28 May, 2015

[behnam]

SIMPLICITY IS AN ART!

[behnam]

Dear Hurieh,

Thank you very much for your quick reply. As your posts reflect, your English is excellent and your writing skills are great. Your thoughts are deep.

It’s been my habit to put my thoughts in a complicated form(در لفافه ), and expect my audiences to use their acumen to decode them.LOL.

I don't mean to criticize, but I'd like to take your post or your statement as an excuse to write something about simplicity. Simplicity is an art. Speaking and writing in a way that the majority of people understand you easily is an art. When speaking and writing, we are not going, on the one hand, to make puzzle for people, on the other hand to limit our audiences. Well, obviously, when we expect our audiences to use their acumen(as you have put it) we assume that they are some special people, for example with high IQ level. Therefore, our audiences must be some special people. This is not a defensible idea. We are dealing with different people with different level of talent, intelligence and acumen. We should know how to communicate effectively and efficiently. Certainly, we need to be as plain as possible.

As a psychological rule, people get bothered when they don't understand something. Many people get offended when they don't understand the speakers. They think of it as an indirect insult from the speakers
and writers when they don't understand them.

Giving some advice to his son a man said; "My dear son, try to sit somewhere above others and speak big words to show yourself important." To follow his father's advice, the boy sat on shelf and said 'elephant'!

I am speaking generally, although the post is addressed to you. I am even considering myself, I mean to remind myself 'Behnam, be careful when speaking and writing. Behnam, write as simple as possible. Behnam, teach as simple as possible!'

You’re right. Doubt is something devastative that ruins relationships and even the person him/herself.

As it is mentioned above and all people(me included) believe that your English is excellent and your writing style is great. I personally envy your writing skills. However, in order to give an example of what I meant in this post, and in order to give you some feedback, I put a cut of your post there to ask you about the reason of using that wrong word[devastative is used wrongly. It is devastating which means badly damaging or destroying] instead of using simple equivalent words such as 'damaging, destroying, affecting negatively, killing, removing, taking away, threatening, ...'! Although some of these words may not be proper for the structure of our sentence, instead they are easy to understand. In other words, people will get what we mean. Effective communication is essentially important, not literary style of writing!

I do believe in simplicity. We must learn to be clear. We must think of plainness as a virtue and try to teach it to the students and try to spread it among people in the society. We must try our best to avoid the probable misunderstandings that our sentences cause.

As I've written in my previous post, everyday I may read one book, in English of course. These days, I study for my PhD final exam. I won't be lying if I say I spend about one hour a day on English books. Although they are related to my major, they are written in literary language. I can follow them easily. I seldom use dictionary to understand the text. Why? Am I very good at English? No, I am not. As a matter of fact, books are written in a way that readers can easily follow the contexts. It is a must in writing effective books to be clear.

Last night I read 'Know can do'! I didn't use dictionary at all. Why? It was easy to follow. No need to know the meaning of all words when reading a book. It is only important to get the points.

Finally, as a general rule, cohesion, coherency, simplicity, and clearness are musts when it comes to effective writing.

I have to repeat that these things are not directed to you, although the post itself is directed to you. I just took it as a proper opportunity to express my opinion about the style of writing. I love simplicity.

All the best,
Behnam, 28 May, 2015

[behnam]

I won't be lying if I say I spend about one hour a day on English books.

I won't be lying if I say I spend about ten hours a day on English books mainly Nonlinear Optics, Quantum Optics, Laser Physics, Modern Optics, Fiber Optics, Nanophysics, nanophotonics, Optical Switching, Pulse propagation, Physics of waves, Photonic crystals, etc. These books are in English. Although they are all related to my major, it doesn't mean that they are only filled by some spiritless physical formulas. In Physics, authors must explain all the mathematics they use for describing the phenomena. What I am trying to transfer is the importance of being as simple as possible.

Albert Einstein says; "If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough."

All the best,
Behnam, 28 May, 2015

[skystar]

Dear friends
Hi.I hope every thing is going well with you. This is my first thread after months of being absent . I was busy with my exam . I'm very happy to be here again and I can read your nice threads.

Dear Behnam

In my opinion when we write or speak, we have to consider whom we are writing to and why we are writing. When we write to lay people or to public, our writing should be as simple as possible. As writers we shouldn't use the same style and language when we write to children, to adults, to experts of a field, etc. I agree with you about the importance of simplicity in academic texts. I, myself, feel more comfortable when I read a coursebook which I understand and I don't need to consult a dictionary or any expert to check the meaning of any words, phrases or sentences. Maybe this is because of the nature of the academic texts as they aim at increasing readers' knowledge of the field and making readers understood. Then, I think simplicity is a must in scientific books as they aim at increasing knowledge of the reader. However, it's not the same for literary texts as they aim at expressing the writers' feeling. So, in literary texts careful selection of the words becomes very important as they express writer's feeling.

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Maybe we love simplicity because we are teachers .

Best
Sara

[behnam]

Hi Sara,

Long time no see! So happy to see your new post in the thread. Thank you very much for keeping the connection with the thread going. Congratulations on your great success in final qualifying exam.

Thanks a million for putting comment on my posts. You are right. I agree with you.

First of all, I'd like to re-emphasize that I am speaking generally. I don't mean anybody, although I may address my posts to someone.

I am going to write something about 'feelings'. What I am going to write is not a newly born idea. In fact, during my studies I have had similar debates with different people, literature teachers and professors.

Maybe this is because of the nature of the academic texts as they aim at increasing readers' knowledge of the field and making readers understood. Then, I think simplicity is a must in scientific books as they aim at increasing knowledge of the reader. However, it's not the same for literary texts as they aim at expressing the writers' feeling. So, in literary texts careful selection of the words becomes very important as they express writer's feeling.

On a typical day, everybody experiences different feelings. For example, s/he is angry in the morning, happy at noon, sad in the afternoon, laughing in the evening, and crying at night! We all experience different feelings. How many feelings are there in the world? I don't know, but depends on the situations, I believe every human being can experience all the existing feelings. The strength of feeling something may differ from someone to someone, but everybody may have sort of reaction if we put them in similar situations. Their reactions-maybe-will be different, but having a response to a feeling-based situation can be common! I don't know! I am not sure about this part of my idea.

Light contains a continuous spectrum of different wavelengths. For example, if we let a beam of sunlight passe through a prism, it will be separated to different colours. We see different colours in the universe. All these colours are the result of interacting the same sunlight(beams of one source) with matters. This is really amazing! Everyday we see blue sky and red sunset. Right now in spring the nature is mostly green. Oh, flowers with different colours! Isn't it amazing that the Sun is the only source of this great range of variety of colours?

Making an analogy between, on the one hand, a beam of sun and all existing feelings in the world, on the other hand between matter reactions(as detectors) and human beings, I believe everybody has kind of response to the existing feelings. Everybody is a detector and detects some part of those feelings. Detectors have got different response sensitivity, efficiency, rise time, fall time, etc.

How to describe our feelings? It depends on the sensitivity of the detector. It depends on the matters which are used in the structure of a detector and used technology. Similarly, in human beings it depends on someone's personality, gender, upbringing, culture, geography, etc. Many factors are involved in detecting a feeling and then describing it, or showing it, or reacting to it, or whatever you call it!

So far, we agree that: 1)There are many feelings in the world. 2) Human beings have the ability or capability to detect(to feel) at least some of them. 3) Human beings will have different responses(or level of responses) to a particular feeling. 4) Human beings' responses is a very complicated function of time, gender, personality, upbringing, age, environment, etc(our response to the same event will be different when we are hungry or full ). Therefore, many variables are involved in our response function.

Now, it is time to come to the main goal of this post. A poet looks at a flower at different situations. At first time s/he is thirsty. At second time s/he is hungry. At third time s/he is drunk! His/her poems will be different in these different situations. Is it possible to understand what poems were been said when? Suppose we could identify them. What is the use of it?

Somewhere is the country of poetry, poem and poets. What is the use of it? Does it solve the problems? Are the people special with delicate feelings? What is the main effect of it?

Painting is a way of expressing feelings! In a film that I have watched many years ago, a mentally ill lady is fighting with her husband! Why? She mixes different colours in a buckle and randomly sprays it into a piece of paper or into a wall and creates a painting! Some millionaires from her family buy her paintings. Little by little the lady goes under illusion that she is different. She believes her husband doesn't understand her. She asks for a divorce!

I am tired of sitting on the chair at my computer now. The mission isn't accomplished yet. I intended to say that something is valid when it is possible to be learned, to be taught, to be transferred, and to be measured. If something is not measurable, it is not reliable and valid. If people have some difficulties in understanding our feelings, we shouldn't say, oh, you don't understand me. We should say 'Oh, sorry, I don't know how to describe my feelings in a way that you can understand them'.

Dear Sara, as you have said, feelings are too much difficult to transfer. Therefore, in describing feelings it is a must for writers to put their feelings into words in a way that people(readers) can get at least some of them. If a feeling is not transferable, it won't be as effective as it can be.

....will be continued.

All the best,
Behnam, 29 May, 2015

[behnam]

Hi,

Let's read what my favourite Physicist Richard Feynman says:

A poet once said, "The whole universe is in a glass of wine." We will probably
never know in what sense he meant that, for poets do not write to be understood. But it is true that if we look at a glass of wine closely enough we see the entire universe. There are the things of physics: the twisting liquid which evaporates depending on the wind and weather, the reflections in the glass, and our imagination adds the atoms. The glass is a distillation of the earth's rocks, and in its composition we see the secrets of the universe's age, and the evolution of stars. What strange array of chemicals are in the wine? How did they come to be? There are the ferments, the enzymes, the substrates, and the products. There in wine is found the great generalization: all life is fermentation. Nobody can discover the chemistry of wine without discovering, as did Louis Pasteur, the cause of much disease. How vivid is the claret, pressing its existence into the consciousness that watches it! If our small minds, for some convenience, divide this glass of wine, this universe, into parts—physics, biology, geology, astronomy, psychology, and so on—remember that nature does not know it! So let us put it all back together, not forgetting ultimately what it is for. Let it give us one more final pleasure: drink it and forget it all!

All the best,
Behnam, 29 May, 2015

[Hurieh]

Hi dear Behnam,

How do you do? I Do appreciate your unique subtlety and powerful feedbacks once again. As a learner and a student, I’ve been learning a lot out of your posts, comments and thoughts. Thank you very much for all of your praise-filled statements regard to my writing even if they sound a bit paradoxical. I personally don’t believe my writing is that excellent. I think you also know it. A friend usually says: “Let go of the compliment and praise me frankly please.” Winking!

Dear Behnam, You are ABSOLUTELY right. It’s a crucially vital necessity to be clear and easily be understood—especially for people who are going to add something to the body of literature and science and those who have responsibility towards the growth of science. I personally like to learn how to write and speak clearly. You’ve already warned me about this weakness of mine several times, and I tried to get rid of it. However, I think I need to practice more and more.

But why I usually choose unfamiliar words in my writings??? Or I’d better ask ; “Why my words seem unfamiliar to you? “
We are supposed to get ourselves busy with many heavy textbooks and complicated articles to keep up with the rapid growth of medical science like many other majors. So it’s quite normal. We tend to use the words and structures that we’re usually dealing with. I’ve personally read many articles and books related to my major that most of them were too complicated. I got habituated to reading these books and articles. Now, I can read them easily and so fast because they taught me so many words and vocabularies which still exist in my mind and I use them regularly—especially in writing formal texts. I can watch movies and films and get the point easily, because of being familiar with large diversity of words. However, there are many new words that I still don’t know the meaning, and I should guess or look them up in a dictionary. It’s not surprising or disappointing if we don’t know all of the words. Learning would be meaningless if we knew everything and didn’t make any mistake. This is what I usually say to the trainees when they make silly mistakes and get disappointed.

However, I confidently say that our students (at the university that I’ve studied or better to say grown up actually) don’t spend their time on reading such complicated books, translating them into Persian, and after that getting to conclusion what the books are trying to convey. Not only the students (I mean MS students, not BS) but also majority of our professors are like that. They consider it waste of time reading original textbooks. They tend to read translated books since they believe our texts are complicated and they don’t have enough time—and MAYBEEEE literacy. Believe it… Last month, I wrote an article related to my specific major and sent it to two of our professors who are the faculty members of a governmental university. I haven’t received any reply yet. I called one of them and politely asked him the reason. He answered; “ You were supposed to write it in Persian at first. After getting my comments, translate them into English. ” This is funny and disastrous what’s going on in some universities, but is a real fact. Once again I confidently say that most of them are not able to write a single sentence in English correctly. I’m envious of your students for having such professors like you that care about second language too much.

Once again, I also love simplicity and really like to be clear. I have to try more but I confess it’s not that easy for me. It’s beyond my control. Perhaps you’re right. I have to say: “'Oh, sorry, I don't know how to describe my feelings in a way that you can understand them.” That’s all.

Dear Behnam, I learn new words out of watching movies much better than reading. Once I was watching a documentary program about “How to be able to control your anger”. One of the actors used “devastative” in his speaking and it stuck in my mind. I checked a dictionary to make sure if I used it correctly after reading your last post addressed to me. The result is this: Both “devastating” and “devastative” are adjective. However, it’s important in which dictionary we looked them up. Longman dictionary is very good but usually lacks some words. Please check it out on google yourself.

Regarding your question, I will give you my own answer and I’m sure you’ll laugh at my explanation and the funny way I’ve chosen to link things incoherently. Hehehehehehe

How can we know whether we are thirsty for something or hungry for that?

To my knowledge, it’s not that easy to make a difference between these two different feelings. Scientifically speaking, the same part of our brain is responsible for interpreting hunger and thirst signals. So, it’s difficult for most of us to understand whether we’re thirsty or hungry. Some people may feel thirsty but they start eating meal, and then put too much weight and complain about obesity. In such situation, a nutritionist or experienced nurse will offer these patients who are usually too overweight to drink at least 5 glasses of water per day. It prohibits them from eating excessively.
The other recommendation is to instruct them the signs and symptoms of hunger and thirst. Believe it. We have some patients who don’t exactly know whether they are thirsty or hungry. By the way, is there any one here who is suffering from obesity??? hehehehehehe

Ah…Damn… We came back to the square one I guess. I’m لایتغیر Behnam. But I have a solution! I’m grounded for an unpredictable time until I’ll shape up. I guess it’s better. Winking!

Once again, thank you very much for your feedbacks. You don’t need it but I’d like to wish you luck in your exams.

Have a lovely Friday,
Hurieh
May 29th, 2015

[behnam]

Thank you very much for all of your praise-filled statements regard to my writing even if they sound a bit paradoxical.

Dear Hurieh,

Thank you so much for replying. I really love your posts and enjoy reading them. Nothing is absolutely bad or absolutely good in the world. Everything has got some advantages and some disadvantages. Nothing is perfect. Your English is excellent and your writing skills are great. It doesn't mean your posts lack grammatical mistakes. It also doesn't mean all your sentences are written correctly and understandably. When I say your English is excellent, I do mean it. When I say your writing skills are great, I do mean it. When I ask you to be as understandable as possible, I do mean it. I am sorry if you have found them paradoxical.

Both “devastating” and “devastative” are adjective. However, it’s important in which dictionary we looked them up. Longman dictionary is very good but usually lacks some words. Please check it out on google yourself.

That's really strange! I know that my vocabulary is not large. That's a fact. I was on the metro when reading your post. I found some words new. I couldn't guess their meanings from the context. Then I used my mobile phone. I have installed Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English on my mobile phone and my computer. I really love it. Strangely, I couldn't find “devastative” in it! Put yourself in my shoes please. Frankly speaking, I said some bad words about you at that terrible situation! I حرص می خورم, why? What is the insistence on writing such a word when it is not even in a famous dictionary?

But I have a solution! I’m grounded for an unpredictable time until I’ll shape up. I guess it’s better.

Although this sentence is wrong, this time I could get what you mean by that. Nobody restricts or punishes you. In fact, nobody has the right to do that. I personally love your presence in the thread. It gives me a lot of assurance. I appreciate your presence and take the value and importance of it. What you are going to do is not a solution. It is, actually, erasing the problem, not solving it.

All the best,
Behnam, 29 May, 2015

[behnam]

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We sat on the banner, laid by me on the ground among trees in a quiet place. Elham showed me a notebook, full of memories, feelings and thoughts. The story of the notebook is long. I don't intend to tell it now.

We spoke about different issues. Elham's mother called her. She talked to her mother on her mobile phone. She said; "dear mum, I am with Behnam now." I also talked to her mother. She had a very friendly voice. She was very kind to me on the phone.

It was about 13:30 that Setayesh called me and said; 'I am in the book exhibition now. I am standing in front of 'Digital Devices' compartment! I wanted her to stand somewhere within sight; somewhere to be easily seen and identified. Elham stayed on the carpet. You know, I was sure that if we both left that place other people would occupy there. Therefore, I wanted Elham to sit there and to say 'no' to people who may ask for sharing the carpet. I left Elham alone for a while to go and find Setayesh and then to bring her to the place. It was my second time to meet Setayesh, so we knew each other. We met each other at the entrance door number 1.

We came to Elham. When these two girls met each other, something amazing happened. They kissed and hugged each other frequently. Elham firmly hugged Setayesh, and Setayesh jumped on her arms, they did it again and again! I didn't know what to do. I felt a little bit embarrassed, you know, they were hugging and kissing each other so friendly that I decided to bend my head at the ground.

We sat and talked about different things. We shared some gifts. Elham has brought me a piece of beautiful carpet to lay and pray on. She has brought a very beautiful candle housing to Setayesh. I gave a scarf to Elham and Setayesh. Setayesh gave a purse to Elham. We took some photos of them in different situations.

It was about 15:30 and I was hungry. Keeping their food containers in hand, a boy and a girl came to our place and asked; "May we sit here?" I answered; "No, it threatens our privacy.". Strangely, they sat on our carpet! They started eating their foods. I said to them; 'We are three hungry people here. If you cannot share your food with us, why do you sit beside us?" After a while, another boy joined them. They were shopkeepers.

It was time to leave, since Elham had to meet her sister and her cousin. We left our cool and nice place and went to the food station to buy some food. I bought three sandwiches. We again found somewhere nice and quite and ate our delicious sandwiches. I didn't let girls sit on the ground and make their clothes dusty or dirty. I found some cartons and laid them on the ground. We sat on a clean place.

After eating our sandwiches, it was the time to say goodbye. Elham's sister and cousin were waiting for her. Setayesh wanted to greet them. I said goodbye!

Elham was a tall, friendly, kind, beautiful, polite, and patient girl. Setayesh was kind, polite, friendly, beautiful, shorter than Ehlam, but fatter than her!

Good old days!

All the best,
Behnam, 29 May, 2015

[behnam]

Hi Hurieh the great,

How are you doing? I hope you are doing very well. I've read your posts again and again. I guess I understood them. You are a great lady with great thoughts. Thank you very much for sharing your thoughts with us in this place. Actually, for me personally, that's an honour to be your friends. I really take a lot of pride in making friends with you.

The majority of your thoughts are great, and the majority of your writings are wonderful. I should have looked at the half full of the glass. I shouldn't have highlighted some minor mistakes. I apologize.

Please be with us. I will miss you a lot if you leave us for a time more than one week.

All the best,
Behnam, 30 May, 2015

[Mohsen]

Hi Hurieh ,

A flower is deserved to be in front of you , but if you want to put the flower in other parts of paper , I present it to you ,it depends upon you ,wherever you want ,put it.



Thanks you for your translation, your English is fluent and you have a good command in writing, you should send me your account No. in order that I make the payment to your account, I want to pay 100% of your translation charges in advance,

[Mohsen]

I translated another parts of this article as follow , thanks if you and other friends read it and put their comment about translation




Also, after the arrival of zombies to TV series, "Frank Darabont" the director of the famous film " SHAWSHANG REDEMPTION " in 2010 began making a series entitled «The Walking Dead» with subject of epidemical virus of Zombies at Apocalypse, which so far , three seasons of it has been broadcasted and the latest episode of the third season of the series in Nielsen television audience measurement system (Nielsen ratings) in America, beating the record number of viewers of a television drama series.


Poster of walking dead series



This propaganda process went ahead as far as the 12th of October was named Zombie World day and each year people in USA and many of European countries go to the street with Zombie appearance and make a Zombie walk



12 th of October , The day of Zombie Car naval



An statistical survey in IMDB web site indicate that from 1966 till today about 300 movies with subject of Zombie have been know in the cinema of world which among them about 158 movies ( more than half of them ) were made after 2001.
If you draw a graph that five-year intervals from 1966 to 2013 ,the horizontal axis and the vertical axis is the number of films made on the subject of zombies in each of these slots, the very important and significant results achieved.



The process of making movies with Zombie’s theme




This graph shows that the production of Zombie base movies has increased till the near 1990 and then goes down to 2001 and then from 2001 to 2013 ,making of these products increase steeply than before. If we review the events of these years, we know the growing trend of 1990-1991 is coincident with the end of the Cold War and the collapse of the former Soviet Union. At this point, two strategies were fed in America cinema, One of the current was Sovietphobia and the other current was Zambyphobia ,both of them introduced important movies in 80's.
After the Cold War, we see the America ,which converted to undisputable pole of the world at that time ,reduced the artillery fire of his cinema and greatly reduce the proceeding of horror base movies in cinema, but with the emergence of al-Qaeda and the Taliban and the events of September eleven that America had a major role in its formation, we see that the films with the theme of zombies in American cinema and television greatly speeds up ,as far as the number of zombie movies, and series productions were made more than ever after 2001.
In fact, this was Islam power rising in these years and America wanted to shed a claw in the face of Islam by creating of the Taliban, and by its military presence in the Middle East wanted to prevent the growth of this emerging power and this time the trend of Islamophobia and the Zambiophobia in America was simultaneously growing and increasing.
Since zombies is an imaginary creation each writer and director made changing in characteristics and stories of zombies; this innovations in the past few years led to create new words and concepts related to zombies. One of this word is Zombieland which was added to Zambie literature,that was the name of movies in 2009 ,also in the year 2009 for the first time the word of zombies was attributed to a group and this year a film was made in Norway called «Dead Snow» where the Nazis in the form of zombies threated to end the life of human.

On the other hand the concept of "zombies" and "Apocalypse» so tied together that phrase as «Zombie apocalypse» has become a key word in all the Zombie films and stories, because the zombies are always like a viruses looking for the prevalence of their disease to all mankind and announced the proximity of the end of human life . Also the word of "terrorist" which have increasingly been attributed to Muslims in American literature after 2000 ,in these years was put beside the word of zombie and zombies sometimes were seen in movies in the form of terrorism.

All the best
Mohsen

[Mohsen]

Happy birthday of Imam Mahdi (AS) to you

[Divina]

Hi Behnam

I would like to post a short essay about Respect for Other people's decisions

Argument, persuasive or make decision for other person, a lot of people think they have rights to do that. Do you think people have rights to tell others what to do with their life? However people are forgetting our constitution and freedom that we have the rights to choose or do what we think is better for us. Also Human Rights requires empathy and the rule of law that impose an obligation on persons to respect the human rights of others. I believe that each person has the rights to make their own decision and not one not even the government has rights to choose or make decision for us.
In my country we have an idiom Donde terminan tu derechos comienzan los mios. This means Where end your rights begin mine. I believe it isn't right to persuade, argue, judge other that doesn't think like us. There will be always a person that want to control others in different ways. A example of this is medical procedures that violate civil rights. This can be seen in Ashley when she was six year old she had a surgical procedures that removed her breast buds, uterus and she received high doses of hormones to keep her permanently small. Please see video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zQZbOsOvDac
Sometime we can make decision for others but what happened if the decision isn't the right one. What happened if the person died because what we told them?. There are a lot of case that person have been persuade to do something and they died after they changed their mind. An example of this is Frances Cappuccini, 30, died after she was 'reluctantly persuaded' to change her C-section birth plan to a natural delivery. Having a home birth is very normal and a great experience but this is not always the same for everybody. For example, Claire Teague, 29 who died after a midwife insisted was safe having a home birth.
When the government, rulers and simple people has the power to choose what is better for others then at that moment they are starting taking people rights away. When we give this kind of power to others we are losing our rights to choose what we think is better for us. People can disagree in a lot of thing but that doesn't give us rights to tell others what to do with their life. We think that we have rights to criticize, argue, persuade or make decisions for others; but what about the other person rights?. We will say a lot of thing that will make that person feel worse, doesn't matter how persuasive we can be. When a person made their mind up about something no one will change it.
I believe that each person in this world has the rights to make their own decision with out being harassed by others. I can disagree with a lot of thing with others, but it is not my rights to tell them that under my own view they are wrong, because the truth is that at the same time under their own view they are right. I can disagree in a lot of thing but that doesn't give me rights to make comments about other people decisions.

Resource :http://www.disabilityrightswa.org/medic ... vil-rights

http://www.disabilityrightswa.org/sites ... elease.pdf

[behnam]

I believe that each person has the rights to make their own decision and not one not even the government has rights to choose or make decision for us.

I believe that each person in this world has the rights to make their own decision with out being harassed by others.

Hi dear Divina,

First of all, I'd like to say a warm welcome to you. Welcome to this place! Thank you very much for joining us and putting such a wonderful post full of interesting point. As an English learner, it will take me a lot of time to digest those important points you have put finger on.

I am not in a position to either argue or answer to your questions. I also cannot agree or disagree with your beliefs, since both need an in-depth knowledge of human beings' rights and some related subjects in the humanities. However, I don't like to leave your great post unanswered.

As you may know, my major is Physics. In physics, an observer stands in a frame of reference and describes the different physical phenomena which are happening around themselves. In other words, what an observer observes depends on the frame of reference s/he is in. In comparison with physics, too many different parameters are involved in social issues. This makes the study, description, judgment, observation - or whatever we call it - of human-related phenomena much more complicated. In this area, aside from the frame of reference and the variety of parameters and their complex relations with each other, the observer's judgments will be unwillingly affected by their culture, moods, background, religion, etc. Actually, someone who comments about the rightness or wrongness of something related to human beings is wearing dyed-glasses. What s/he sees is affected by the colour of her/his glasses.

In order to understand your beliefs, I'd like to ask you about the meaning of freedom. Does it mean that a person has complete freedom of doing whatever s/he likes? Is there anything to limit his/her freedom? What can limit our freedom? I personally don't understand, for example, to what extent I have freedom of making decision or doing my favourite things.

In physics, a completely free particle has a continuous spectrum of energy. However, if we put a particle in a box(impose some limitations on it), its energy will be quantized in a way that the particle will have some particular amount of energy. As a rule, bounds(limits) force it to satisfy some boundary conditions, consequently, its freedom gets limited.

Marriage, for example, imposes many bounds on us. A married person cannot have the same freedom that a single person has. How do you think?

Because of being social living in a society among other people, we have to satisfy some limits. As a result, I personally don't believe and even don't feel that I am a completely free person and I've got absolute freedom of doing whatever I like.

I believe it isn't right to persuade, argue, judge other that doesn't think like us.

Yes, I agree with you. Consultation, sharing our experience, and giving advice are okay, but judging and persuading is not fair most of the time.

Hope to read more from you.


All the best,
Behnam, 4 June, 2015

[Mohsen]

Dear Friends ,
I read the following article ,some part of it was very difficult for me to understand , there were many new words for me ,but when I translated the new words , I didn’t get the meaning of sentence , I think no grammar points was considered in this writing , would you please help me translate the second paragraph for me , Dear Hurieh you usually use difficult words in your writing , I am sure you can help me in this case.

B.Wishes,
Mohsen
Progressive Apocalypse: Obama Opens Door to Nuclear Nightmare

By Chris Floyd

As all the world knows, the United States government is fervently dedicated to advancing the cause of peace throughout the world. Tirelessly, selflessly — and thanklessly — America pursues this noble mission in every corner of the globe: standing shoulder to shoulder with Saudi extremists in slaughtering civilians in Yemen, with al Qaeda and ISIS beheading their way across Syria, with fascist militias in Ukraine. But recently, America’s Nobel Peace Prize-winning president went far beyond these localized acts of lovingkindness and made a beneficent decision that potentially could effect every single person drawing breath on our blue planet.

Late last month, the Peace Prize Prez (PPPOTUS) “blocked a global document aimed at ridding the world of nuclear weapons,” the Washington Post reports. Obama’s peace-loving action means that “the entire blueprint for global nuclear disarmament and non-proliferation” has been killed dead in its tracks. It will now be five years until the next UN review of the landmark Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty.

You might think this is odd behaviour from a president who has spent years tightening a stranglehold on Iran with an endless series of aggressive, bellicose acts just short of outright war, in order (ostensibly) to prevent that ‘rogue nation’ from developing nuclear weapons. Very late in the day, he has recently decided to try to craft a non-proliferation deal with Iran that is very similar to the deal that Iran offered the United States more than 12 years ago — the kind of deal that has been on the table from Iran for his entire presidency. It’s likely that the main spur to his belated attempt at deal-making stems from his realization that he desperately needs Iran’s help to quell the ungodly maelstrom of murder, ruin and extremism he and his predecessor (and their Saudi allies) have unleashed in the Middle East.

In any case, he has long insisted that the proliferation of nuclear weapons must be opposed and thwarted at all costs. Why then has he stepped in to stop the global framework for, er, thwarting nuclear proliferation? To protect a ‘rogue’ nuclear state which has illegally developed a vast ~ of nuclear weapons — and which adamantly refuses to sign the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty. (Unlike Iran, which has for years accepted an international inspection regimen far more rigorous than the Treaty calls for.)

The nuclear renegade is, of course, Israel. And the treaty review that Obama just killed would have called for a conference in 2016 on eliminating all nuclear weapons in the Middle East. Of course, only one nation in the Middle East actually has nuclear weapons. But Israel is concerned that such a conference would force it to acknowledge the existence of the large nuclear ~ that everyone in the world already knows it has.

So the United States — with the slavish support of its London lapdog and Ottawa underling — moved to kill the negotiations for the conference. The decision “has alarmed countries without nuclear weapons, who are increasingly frustrated by what they see as the slow pace of nuclear-armed countries to disarm,” the Post reports. “Amid a growing movement that stresses the humanitarian impact of nuclear weapons, Austria announced that 107 states have now signed a pledge calling for legal measures to ban and eliminate them.”

Of course, Obama’s action was not merely a benevolent service for Israel. For not only does the United States want to keep Israel as its nuclear-armed crusader fortress in the Middle East — it also has no intention whatsoever of eliminating its own nuclear ~. This will never happen, no matter which faction of militarist courtiers happens to wrap their candidate in the imperial purple for a time in 2016 or 2020 or 2024, etc. So any undermining of genuine efforts toward nuclear disarmament also serves America’s bipartisan agenda of unipolar domination of world affairs.

This is far more important than ridding the world of nuclear weapons — or even trying to control their proliferation. Now there are five years of open field ahead for more nations to jump into the nuclear club — including America’s Saudi buddies, who say they might get some nukes for their own selves if Obama cuts a deal with Iran … which, as every Western intelligence agency has avowed, is not actually trying to build a nuclear weapon.

To speak plainly and with no addition: America’s bipartisan elite would rather put the entire world into more nuclear peril than surrender a single iota for their lust for loot and power.



http://tinyurl.com/nsg8yzx

[Divina]

Hi,

First of all, I'd like to say a warm welcome to you. Welcome to this place! Thank you very much for joining us and putting such a wonderful post full of interesting point. As an English learner, it will take me a lot of time to digest those important points you have put finger on.

Thank you. I appreciated that your took your time to answer my post

I am not in a position to either argue or answer to your questions. I also cannot agree or disagree with your beliefs, since both need an in-depth knowledge of human beings' rights and some related subjects in the humanities. However, I don't like to leave your great post unanswered.

I talked about one thing inside human rights and that is our rights to make our own decision.

As you may know, my major is Physics. In physics, an observer stands in a frame of reference and describes the different physical phenomena which are happening around themselves. In other words, what an observer observed depends on the frame of reference s/he is in. In comparison with physics, too many different parameters are involved in social issues. This makes the study, description, judgment, observation - or whatever we call it - of human-related phenomena much more complicated. In this area, aside from the frame of reference and the variety of parameters and their complex relations with each other, the observer's judgments will be unwillingly affected by their culture, moods, background, religion, etc. Actually, someone who comments about the rightness or wrongness of something related to human beings is wearing dyed-glasses. What s/he sees is affected by the color of her/his glasses.

You said: "the observer's judgments will be unwillingly affected by their culture, moods, background, religion, etc." and this is the reason you think different than me ""

In order to understand your beliefs, I'd like to ask you about the meaning of freedom. Does it mean that a person has complete freedom of doing whatever s/he likes? Is there anything to limit his/her freedom? What can limit our freedom? I personally don't understand, for example, to what extent I have freedom of making decision or doing my favorite things.

You said: Does it mean that a person has complete freedom of doing whatever s/he likes?. This not about freedom, I took only one topic inside human rights and I am talking about our rights to make our own decision.

I really believe so, with one condition when this involved my person and nobody else. You said:"I have freedom of making decision or doing my favorite things". GOOD for you. Perhaps you don't know how it feel when someone makes decision for you. When someone doesn't consulted you and that decision can affect your life forever. Some people don't have freedom not even to do their favorites things.

In physics, a completely free particle has a continuous spectrum of energy. However, if we put a particle in a box(impose some limitations on it), its energy will be quantized in a way that the particle will have some particular amount of energy. As a rule, bounds(limits) force it to satisfy some boundary conditions, consequently, its freedom gets limited.

You said: "As a rule, bounds(limits) force it to satisfy some boundary conditions, consequently, its freedom gets limited.". I am wondering if you watched the video, maybe the video didn't pop up. I am talking about our rights as a human being to be able to make our own decision and nobody else.

Marriage, for example, imposes many bounds on us. A married person cannot have the same freedom that a single person has. How do you think?

You said: "Marriage, for example, imposes many bounds on us. A married person cannot have the same freedom that a single person has. How do you think?"

I think that sex behavioral between singles and married couple is out of the context under human rights. Now, that you bring this up. I can tell that even in marriage someone will take away the other person rights. About your comment, maybe you don't know that some marriages have a lot of freedom and what they do, it doesn't concern me.

http://jamaica-gleaner.com/article/lett ... uman-right
http://www1.umn.edu/humanrts/edumat/stu ... ation.html

Because of being social living in a society among other people, we have to satisfy some limits. As a result, I personally don't believe and even don't feel that I am a completely free person and I've got absolute freedom of doing whatever I like.

You said: "we have to satisfy some limits. As a result, I personally don't believe and even don't feel that I am a completely free person and I've got absolute freedom of doing whatever I like. " Our human rights is not about satisfaction. I am not talking about freedom to do what ever we want...like kill or raped others. My opinion is about our freedom to make your own decisions.

Divina wrote:
I believe it isn't right to persuade, argue, judge other that doesn't think like us.

Yes, I agree with you. Consultation, sharing our experience, and giving advice are okay, but judging and persuading is not fair most of the time.

[b]Thank for your answer. It was a nice experience, maybe we can do this again. [/b]

Hope to read more from you. So do I

[Divina]

Sorry, I need to make myself more clear.

I really believe so, let me explain. I am talking about make our own decision and with one condition when this involved us and nobody else. You said:"I have freedom of making decision or doing my favorite things". GOOD for you. Perhaps you don't know how it feel when someone makes decision for you. When someone doesn't consulted you and that decision can affect your life forever. Some people don't have freedom not even to do their favorites things.

[Hurieh]

Dear Behnam,

A million thanks for your heartwarming words and moral support. No need to apologize since you’re doing your responsibility as a teacher very well. It’s my fortune that my writings are being followed by your subtle eyes. If you don’t share these vital tips with me, what should readers and audiences of mine do with my awkward style of writing? Huh??? LOL

You know, I was going to write something to you and make a connection between my lifelong dream of being a writer and your post about “feeling”. Unfortunately, I can’t concentrate at the time I’m writing to you…maybe some other time… All I know is that I’m still a learner who is in the beginning of a long bumpy road, and without doubt the warm friendly companionship of my friends’ and yours will be welcomed happily in this nice wonderful journey.

Anyway, I received an e-mail from a friend this morning. It was written;” Every time you tell me we shall not meet anytime soon. Are you trying to make me beg you? LOL”
I’m sure, DAMN sure that Mohsen and you also would mutter these words after reading my current post. Winking!

Dear Behnam, there is only a few days left to the end of the present month and I have a lot to do. I already talked to you about that article that I’ve been working on for several months in row. I called a Ph.D student who used to be my teacher and asked him for favor. Now, he is the head of a research center in a hospital. He kindly and generously accepted my request without expecting anything in return. He said that he is working on his thesis too and I should give my paper to him very soon. The holy month of Ramadan is also coming. Hehehehe… I wonder if I have privilege of writing on forum very soon. Please, please, please, wish me luck.

Dear Mohsen,

Thank you very much for your kindness. The nice flower you had dedicated to me was so beautiful. I consider it the sign of your kindness and accept it happily.



By the way, may I ask you a question? Does your wife know the story of the flower? Hehehehe…. If not, forget all about it and don’t tell her anything about this story.

No matter for which purpose you have sent a flower to a young lady, your wife wouldn’t get satisfied with any logic and explanation. As a default feminine rule, even the most famous logicians in entire history are totally unable to convince a furious lady and satisfy her logic in similar situation. So, you’d better keep it a secret to keep yourself alive. It wasn’t a joke… This time I was quite serious! Hehehehe….
I was going to share a experience of mine about flower, or a rose bouquet actually in order to make it clearer but I’m running out of time. Maybe later… Just as a lesson, I learned flower should be treated with careful attention in our society. Hehehehehehe… Anyway, I really like to receive flower as a gift. What mostly matters to me is the purpose of the action rather than the performer of the action. LoL

Dear Mohsen, I’m not a translator. As a lazy girl, I just do translation for myself and my friends and never expect them anything in return.
As Mola Ali (PBUH) said: الزکات العلم نشره
So, you owe me nothing. OK?

By the way, I’ve already written to dear Behnam that how busy I am these days; however I really like to help you out. If you don’t mind I’ll edit your manuscript later after writing my own article. I hope other friends will also help you since I’m not an expert in translation. Could you let us know when you need those texts?

Have a blessed Ramadan in advance friends. Please don’t forget me in those holy moments too. OK?

Regards,
Hurieh
Apr 5th/ 2015

[behnam]

Hi Divina,

Thank you very much for your description and explanation. You've taken me wrong. It seems nobody is completely free to do whatever s/he likes. There are many restrictions, limits, and controls from different sources. For example, governmental rules and laws impose some restrictions on us. Religion introduces some other restrictions and limits. The social culture and traditional beliefs impose some controls too. The role of geography and its limits on us shouldn't be denied. I don't think there is complete freedom of choice for the individual. In fact, complete freedom to make decisions in accordance with what an individual likes or dislikes is a sweet dream.

Hope to read more from you soon.

All the best,
Behnam, 5 June, 2015

[behnam]

Hi Hurieh,

Thank you very much for informing us about your tasks. I wish you success and luck. However, we should know that friendship is like a small tree. Besides sunlight, it must be watered regularly. Please don't leave us for a time longer than one week. I don't know how, but putting at least one post in week is a must for you. Otherwise, I personally will miss you and the tree of friendship will be in danger of fading away(getting dried). Please dear, let's water it regularly.

All the best,
Behnam, 5 June, 2015

[setareh]

Dear Divina welcome to the thread.
I liked the topic that you and dear behnam discussed. I am not an expert or a knowledgeable person but in my opinion every body has its own point of view, so I like to drop a few lines. We all as a human beings have some rights, some basic rights that nobody can take them away from us. So many people have fought to gain some of these rights throughout the history that seems so obvious for us now. For instance the right to vote, to choose someone to run the country you live in, to have the right to participate in your country’s destiny or having right for education. Still we have so many women who are deprived of this right by so many reasons backed up by culture, religion or society. There are still so many discrimination of any kinds gender, race and etc.
Dear Divina I am not sure if I got what you mean about the medical issue of Ashley case, but I always wonder could doctors keep a person alive at any price. I think I have the right to choose whether I want to stay alive or not, but it seems some rules do not allow me to decide for my own life.
By making decisions for others life the person puts a huge burden on his/her shoulder but also the person who let others decide for him or her is responsible for that. As dear Behanm mentioned we are not free completely because we are limited by rules, culture, tradition and religion. So many rules have been changed. So many traditions have been abolished. People always fight for their rights; but most of them surrender and accept all the limitations, so they themselves are responsible for that.
Freedom is a very controversial issue. Some countries are more flexible for instance countries which are not concerned about religion they probably give more freedom to their people of course not the complete freedom. But countries that follow religion they are stricter therefore people’s freedom is limited. Let me give you an example singing for women is not allowed in religious country but it is not a big deal in countries that are not religious. Some culture praise dancing but some other abhors it.
Apart from all those issues there are some basic rights that are common among all human beings like the right to work , to study, to marry whom you love, to choose what you think is the best for you, to vote, to live wherever you want, to have your own belief and religion, and so on.

[Mohsen]

Hi Hurieh,

Sorry to disturb you in your busy days, many people are dealt with examinations these days, I saw many students were studying in the libraries and parks, these days students get use to study their lessons while they wear headset in the ears, I am sure they never will be good students, because music kill half of their abilities for learning.\

I have no dead line for the text translation, I like to have a purpose for learning English , as you believe in what Imam Ali (AS) said: الزکات العلم نشره

I believe in what we read some verses of Quran every day (آیه الکرسی)

فَمَنْ یَکْفُرْ بِالطَّاغُوتِ وَیُؤْمِن بِاللّهِ فَقَدِ اسْتَمْسَکَ بِالْعُرْوَةِ الْوُثْقَىَ

A firm belief of God has a prerequisite, we should be angry against imperialist (طَّاغُوتِ ) which is the US government , so I believe this is my duty to show my anger by writing against US plans.

For the flower ,I agree with you. I should keep it secret ,because my wife is a very feeling base woman , and can’t bear that I give a nice flower to a girl.

I am eager to read the story of flower which you are supposed to write , thank you for accepting the flower by your beautiful painting , the flower which I gave you is because you are a kind teacher , the feeling between a student and a teacher .

At first I wanted to post the following picture ,



but I saw there is more feeling behind it , more than what is between a teacher and a student ,so I omitted some part of it and converted it to that picture.

Finally , I like the Ramadan very much , I hope my idea won’t be changed at the middle of Ramadan

Have a great day
Mohsen

[Mohsen]

Hi Divina ,

It is very difficult to accept what the other imposes us their behavior and thoughts, there are some basic law and rule which are vital in every society and every body accept it , but some times the rules is different for issues and activities , for example in some west countries there is freedom of speech , but this basic rule has some borders , if it was against their benefit ,they change the law ,put an article under it , In USA and many European country you are free to speak ,but If you want to discuss or write about holocaust , you will be arrested and taken to jail . There is freedom of wearing, but if you want to wear scarf or veil, they don’t let you have a job or going to students.
It is unbearable to have such discrimination in a society.

Please introduce yourself and let us know what motivate you to write about this topic.

Have a good time
Mohsen

[Divina]

I have to put my writing in 2 piece for this F##$%^^&^*&*&King people who generalized my writing.

[Divina]

Part 1
Thank you very much for your description and explanation. You've taken me wrong. It seems nobody is completely free to do whatever s/he likes. There are many restrictions, limits, and controls from different sources. For example, governmental rules and laws impose some restrictions on us. Religion introduces some other restrictions and limits. The social culture and traditional beliefs impose some controls too. The role of geography and its limits on us shouldn't be denied. I don't think there is complete freedom of choice for the individual. In fact, complete freedom to make decisions in accordance with what an individual likes or dislikes is a sweet dream.


I don’t like your laughing faces, but under my point of view you have rights to use any faces you like also write your thoughts and believes without being harass.

You said: "It seems nobody is completely free to do whatever s/he likes".
I am still thinking we are not in the same page. I am not talking about complete freedom to do whatever we like to do. You are the only one who is talking about complete freedom.

You are the only one who are generalizing when you said complete freedom to do whatever came to our minds (we like). Why you are who are generalizing because my writing doesn’t say complete freedom, even the US Human Rights doesn't say complete freedom, even US Constitutions doesn’t say complete freedom. May I know where in my writing I said complete freedom and do whatever we like.

You said: "There are many restrictions, limits, and controls from different sources".
For example, governmental rules and laws impose some restrictions on us. Religion introduces some other restrictions and limits. The social culture and traditional beliefs impose some controls too. The role of geography and its limits on us shouldn't be denied." This is true when you are talking about complete freedom to do whatever.

You said: "I don't think there is complete freedom of choice for the individual. Again you are talking about complete freedom.

I like when you wrote I DON’T THINK and that is what you believe. When we write I think, I believe, My opinion, My point of view etc… this means is your own thoughts about something.

You said: " In fact, complete freedom to make decisions in accordance with what an individual likes or dislikes is a sweet dream." Again you are talking about complete freedom. I would like to know, where in my writing says complete freedom?.

Let me say this: What is a sweet dream today but it could be a reality tomorrow. Why I am saying this, because dreamers are who make thing possible. What it wasn't possible yesterday, it could be possible today or maybe tomorrow.

[Divina]

Part 2

Ok, let's talk about your words complete freedom and whatever because you are still writing them. In my writing I am not generalizing not even using the word complete freedom or whatever we like, but you still trying to putt those words in my mouth again and again.

Let me tell you what I think about your comment.

I think there is nothing in a fact when we are talking about human being, because human are unpredictable. We always trying to improve ourselves and we want that our next generation achieves higher standards than us.

This was a fact. People thought in fact that the world was flat, but they were wrong.
If you lived in those time. In which group you would chose? The group who thought that the world was flat or dreamers' group who though it could be other possibility.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flat_Earth

What is a fact today is history tomorrow. I can give you some examples.

The observer observed that time are changing in some places faster than others and we are moving forward to a new era.

Let's bring some history information about the fact in human rights for example slavery in America, The Caribbean and others countries. Now, there is no more slavery. The slaves didn’t have rights to own a house, vote, education and other simple needs. They were mistreated, killed, raped and sold like a piece of meat.

I am sure that some of them thought than they will be slavers forever and a lot of them died under slavery. They thought that even the next generations will born being a slave. Also there were others slaves that never stop dreaming about a better tomorrow where they'll have rights to all basic needs and being treat with respect like any other human being then time changed and slavery was abolished. I am still talking in US because in some countries men are using their daughters to do marriage arrangement to pay debt.

http://www.ohchr.org/EN/ProfessionalInt ... avery.aspx

People in US thought that we never are going to have a black president but they were wrong. We have a black Muslim man who won the presidency twice.
Please watch video where Obama says he is Muslim:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tCAffMSWSzY

What about England. They thought that they won't have a woman primer minister but they were wrong and Margaret Thatcher was one of the best primer minister in UK. Some people in US think that we won't have a woman president but I am sure that we are going to have a woman president. When? I don’t know, but time are changing. What it couldn’t be possible yesterday is it could be possible today or tomorrow.

What about women in some countries they didn't have rights to have an education or do something so simple like drive a car, get divorce or say NO to a marriage arrangement. People are starting thinking in different ways and they are doing changing to make this place a better place to live. Now in some countries this women have rights to do things that centuries of years ago they couldn’t do. Also we have students segregation, freedom of religion etc.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freedom_of ... on_in_Iran

All this have been possible because dreamers like you. They have a dreams to make this world a better place to live. Dreamers can see the lighter light where other only can see darkness.

Let's go back to my writing: I believe that each person has the rights to make their own decision and not one not even the government has rights to choose or make decision for us. I believe it isn't right to persuade, argue, judge other that doesn't think like us. I believe that each person in this world has the rights to make their own decision with out being harassed by others.

***This are my own believes even the title says respect for other people rights.

More part of my writing:
However people are forgetting our constitution and freedom that we have the rights to choose or do what we think is better for us. Also Human Rights requires empathy and the rule of law that impose an obligation on persons to respect the human rights of others. I believe that each person has the rights to make their own decision and not one not even the government has rights to choose or make decision for us….

What I meant: Our constitution and freedom. What constitution? The US Constitution: See link for our constitution: https://www.usconstitution.net/const.pdf

[Divina]

Part 3

Human Rights (US human rights) says: The United States understands that the existence of human rights helps secure the peace, deter aggression, promote the rule of law, combat crime and corruption, strengthen democracies, and prevent humanitarian crises. Because the promotion of human rights is an important national interest, the United States seeks to:
• Hold governments accountable to their obligations under universal human rights norms and international human rights instruments;
• Promote greater respect for human rights, including freedom from torture, freedom of expression, press freedom, women's rights, children's rights, and the protection of minorities;
• Promote the rule of law, seek accountability, and change cultures of impunity;
• Assist efforts to reform and strengthen the institutional capacity of the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights and the UN Commission on Human Rights; and
• Coordinate human rights activities with important allies, including the EU, and regional organizations.

Let's go back to my writing.
There will be always a person that want to control others in different ways. A example of this is medical procedures that violate civil rights. This can be seen in Ashley when she was six year old she had a surgical procedures that removed her breast buds, uterus and she received high doses of hormones to keep her permanently small.

What I meant: A mental challenge girl had a surgery when she was six year old and some one made this decision for her. Now in US even mental challenge people has the rights to say NO to this kinds of procedures. Then my writing was in base my life living under US Constitution and US Human Right. The whole writing is about US even my example are about US.
At the end I wrote what I think about harassed others with different decision (opinion), please read: "I believe that each person in this world has the rights to make their own decision with out being harassed by others".
Then I continue making myself clear than me as a human being I will respect others rights, please read my closing.
Now my last paragraph about me, because my whole writing is about me interaction with other. "I can disagree with a lot of thing with others, but it is not my rights to tell them that under my own view they are wrong, because the truth is that at the same time under their own view they are right. I can disagree in a lot of thing but that doesn't give me rights to make comments about other people decisions." THE END

I don’t judge others for their belief or the place they were born. I open to love, respect and feel compaction etc. for others don’t matter our difference because I can see the person as human being not as a label or stereotype.

It's possible that we don’t think alike but we respect each other differences.

[Divina]

Dear Divina welcome to the thread.
I liked the topic that you and dear behnam discussed. I am not an expert or a knowledgeable person but in my opinion every body has its own point of view, so I like to drop a few lines. We all as a human beings have some rights, some basic rights that nobody can take them away from us. So many people have fought to gain some of these rights throughout the history that seems so obvious for us now. For instance the right to vote, to choose someone to run the country you live in, to have the right to participate in your country’s destiny or having right for education. Still we have so many women who are deprived of this right by so many reasons backed up by culture, religion or society. There are still so many discrimination of any kinds gender, race and etc.
Dear Divina I am not sure if I got what you mean about the medical issue of Ashley case, but I always wonder could doctors keep a person alive at any price. I think I have the right to choose whether I want to stay alive or not, but it seems some rules do not allow me to decide for my own life.
By making decisions for others life the person puts a huge burden on his/her shoulder but also the person who let others decide for him or her is responsible for that. As dear Behanm mentioned we are not free completely because we are limited by rules, culture, tradition and religion. So many rules have been changed. So many traditions have been abolished. People always fight for their rights; but most of them surrender and accept all the limitations, so they themselves are responsible for that.
Freedom is a very controversial issue. Some countries are more flexible for instance countries which are not concerned about religion they probably give more freedom to their people of course not the complete freedom. But countries that follow religion they are stricter therefore people’s freedom is limited. Let me give you an example singing for women is not allowed in religious country but it is not a big deal in countries that are not religious. Some culture praise dancing but some other abhors it.
Apart from all those issues there are some basic rights that are common among all human beings like the right to work , to study, to marry whom you love, to choose what you think is the best for you, to vote, to live wherever you want, to have your own belief and religion, and so on.

I am tired of this already I NEVER WROTE THE WORD COMPLETE FREEDOM AND DO WHATEVER WE LIKE. WHO USED THOSE WORD WAS BEHANAM AND HE TRIED TO PUT THEM IN MY MOUTH AGAIN AND AGAIN. NOW YOU ARE THE SECOND ONE HERE PUTTING WORD IN MY MOUNTH. PLEASE BACK OFF OF MY BACK AND STOP PUTTING WORDS IN MY MOUTH.

[Divina]

I AM SICK AND TIRED, STOP PUTTING WORDS IN MY MOUTH