Posted by: Kiddo August 7, 2012
Login in to Rate this Post:
0 
? 
?
I almost had my hopes crushed as the kind of replies I was seeing were the very ones I talk about in the original post. Then there comes few sensible ones that give me some hope. I will address each comment below:
I have spent more time here in US than in Nepal and yet I feel I belong to Nepal. I however am still struggling to gauge what are we, as a community. I have a firm belief that Government is an extension of its people; you can blame it thousand times on a corrupt leader but it is you who is responsible for the leader to get there. If we are having Nepal bandhs, load shedding - maybe we have the inadequacies that lead to those issues. My quest was to find out if the inadequacy stem from the intellect or not. Most of the postings I read here lack any sense of maturity and hence I wanted to ask that question. If we indeed lack that intellect, maybe we can do something together. If we acknowledge that the problem is within us may be we can work towards the solution. We point our fingers to the corrupt leaders, but how many times have we tried to bribe a traffic back home? How many times have we used nepotism to bypass that long line in a government office? If we acknowledge that the change has to come from us, maybe we can build a better Nepal? Okay, that was a little too much; let's stay in the context of Sajha...maybe we can have a better and more meaningful discussion? I enjoy satires and humorous post now and then, but childish bantering and name calling is just too pathetic.
Now coming back to the replies:
MaGorkhe1: Thanks for the headsup.
Quarterback: The good thing about Nas was that he had a good mind to debate. He knew most of the stuff he was arguing about. THat's the good part...
8848m: This is the kind of post I talk about in my original post. Using curse word doesn't make add any umph to a sentence, it just makes it more hollow.
bittertruth: Bittertruth, I never claimed to be a great person and I said that in my last post already; how would that make me a hypocrit? Can't a small person ask these kind of questions? Plus, please give an example, of my past postings, where I sound like hypocrit. I am genuinely curious. I actually have found your postings not to be senseless, just so you know; a little surprise that you felt that about my posting. Maybe I must have pulled your chain in some past posts, don't take it too seriously..this is but an internet persona.
behoove_me: Your post gave me some hope and made me come back and post this response. I have enjoyed your writings in the past and you were one of the person I had in mind when I said, "still remember few posters who would contribute very intellectually to a thread."
Mercynova: I agree with you. I don't have a problem with diversity of opinions. A forum is bound to have few meaningless posts; but when it 99% of the posts are meaningless-kids banters, I find it a little too much.
I still have hopes, I have hopes that more content rich postings will rise up; more intellectual discussion will take place. I sure hope name calling stops though.
I have spent more time here in US than in Nepal and yet I feel I belong to Nepal. I however am still struggling to gauge what are we, as a community. I have a firm belief that Government is an extension of its people; you can blame it thousand times on a corrupt leader but it is you who is responsible for the leader to get there. If we are having Nepal bandhs, load shedding - maybe we have the inadequacies that lead to those issues. My quest was to find out if the inadequacy stem from the intellect or not. Most of the postings I read here lack any sense of maturity and hence I wanted to ask that question. If we indeed lack that intellect, maybe we can do something together. If we acknowledge that the problem is within us may be we can work towards the solution. We point our fingers to the corrupt leaders, but how many times have we tried to bribe a traffic back home? How many times have we used nepotism to bypass that long line in a government office? If we acknowledge that the change has to come from us, maybe we can build a better Nepal? Okay, that was a little too much; let's stay in the context of Sajha...maybe we can have a better and more meaningful discussion? I enjoy satires and humorous post now and then, but childish bantering and name calling is just too pathetic.
Now coming back to the replies:
MaGorkhe1: Thanks for the headsup.
Quarterback: The good thing about Nas was that he had a good mind to debate. He knew most of the stuff he was arguing about. THat's the good part...
8848m: This is the kind of post I talk about in my original post. Using curse word doesn't make add any umph to a sentence, it just makes it more hollow.
bittertruth: Bittertruth, I never claimed to be a great person and I said that in my last post already; how would that make me a hypocrit? Can't a small person ask these kind of questions? Plus, please give an example, of my past postings, where I sound like hypocrit. I am genuinely curious. I actually have found your postings not to be senseless, just so you know; a little surprise that you felt that about my posting. Maybe I must have pulled your chain in some past posts, don't take it too seriously..this is but an internet persona.
behoove_me: Your post gave me some hope and made me come back and post this response. I have enjoyed your writings in the past and you were one of the person I had in mind when I said, "still remember few posters who would contribute very intellectually to a thread."
Mercynova: I agree with you. I don't have a problem with diversity of opinions. A forum is bound to have few meaningless posts; but when it 99% of the posts are meaningless-kids banters, I find it a little too much.
I still have hopes, I have hopes that more content rich postings will rise up; more intellectual discussion will take place. I sure hope name calling stops though.