Athena's Diaries

Thu, 17 Sep 2009 21:47:14 GMT

In the history books of the 21^st century, the first chapter will be about us.

In the introduction, they might write that important events have happened before us, events like 9/11 and war on Iraq and Afghanistan, but those were the remnants of the previous century, with an outdated dialogue and with twentieth century tools: Airplanes, bombs and bullets. And then they will write that the first chapter is dedicated to us because we have been the true children of our time and our dialogue was the dialogue of the beginning of the third millennium.

Early in the book, they will write that social movements are born out of communication technologies and at the same place they will write that we were the first movement that exploited entirely all the new communication tools that were established at the beginning of this century.
Perhaps they will write a footnote on how these tools changed the social structure and how they changed the world view on the social classes, work flow, production and distribution of wealth, social leadership and management and even changed the world's attitude about the sustainable human values.

Perhaps on the same page, there is a photograph of the inventor of the first mobile phone and the portraits of the founders of Wikipedia, Facebook, Blogger, YouTube, Podcasts, or maybe photos of their statues in the main squares of the world's leading cities, with captions like: "Figures who built the twenty first century."

Idem they will write that previously there were only one-way paths: Somebody wrote and published the newspapers and the rest of the people read them. Somebody spoke while the rest were listening. One person was on TV and the rest were watching. Somebody commanded and led and then shapeless masses followed. They will write that the community structure and distribution of wealth, power and information was pyramidal, and then they will highlight that the new communication technologies flattened the society. It empowered the bases of the pyramid such that they reached the top.
It made it possible to communicate with each other, send and receive news, exchange information, tell and listen, watch and be seen, and find new means of cooperation, thinking, criticizing and progress.

There, on top of that page they will put a picture of us with our green flags.
They will write that we were the first social movement that all of us were its leader and all of us were its organizer. The name which was called the most was only the speaker of a part of our demands.
Perhaps they will open a box there to put MirHossein's written statement as an example, where he said: because the people participate in the Friday prayer, he will accept their invitation and join them. They must also add the explanation that previously the leader of a movement used to announce his presence and invited people to join him.

They may make a subsection to describe how a movement without a command center was acting so well-orchestrated. How its ideas, desires, and slogans were suggested, criticized, and completed so well, and then one day they were expressed in such a harmony as if all these millions, have practiced together for years. Perhaps there, at least in the electronic version of this history book, they will make a link to a clip of us, where the Speaker shouts from the loud-speaker: "death to the U.S.” and we all respond "death to Russia". Without anybody been preparing for this response, without being coordinated, we shout as if we are all one mouth and one voice.

They will write that we were the first party that had no central council, no secretary general, and no political branches. They will write that our party was one of complete anarchy that behaved quite systematic. They may presumably point their sarcasm toward anarchist parties of decades before us that were built systematically to behave as anarchists. They will write that our party had no party organs, but all its strategies were clear and its programs were all set correctly. Our demands were also summarized, reviewed, completed, and expressed in the clearest form of expression.

In the same chapter they will write that we lived the last days of guns and bullets and we showed that wherever the awareness, information and enough communication channels for human connection exists, the bullet is pointless. There may put a picture of a single bullet somewhere in our Freedom Museum and will write for its caption "the last bullet that was pulled out of the magazine"
A delicate person will calculate the total weight of the electrons that construct our blogs and websites, and will show that it was not even a thousandth of a bullet weight. He may estimate the weight of all the air molecules in our chants, our "death to dictators", our "all political prisoners must be released" and show that they altogether weigh less than the weight of a single wall of the Evin prison.

Next they will write that we suggested a new definition for the human society, the human relations, for globalization and for living in the global village. Each of these historians will give us a name. Their simplest may write the “Green Revolution”, another will call us the “Silence Revolution”, somebody will call it the “Smile Revolution”, and at last there will be someone to write the “Awareness Revolution

ELECTIONS!!

Mon, 08 Jun 2009 20:50:09 GMT

It is Elections season here and everybody is excited.

Iran expects a record number of voters to cast their ballots in this week's presidential election, the head of the country's election committee said on Monday.

"Definitely, the election... will witness a record-breaking turnout," Kamran Daneshjoo told reporters ahead of Friday's vote.

Daneshjoo said the interior ministry, which is in charge of organising the election, is putting in place a strategy to ensure "maximum participation" from the 46.2 million eligible voters.

Four candidates are in the race for the presidency, including incumbent hardline President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, who is seeking a second four-year term.

He faces stiff a challenge from ex-premier Mir Hossein Mousavi who has emerged as his main rival.

The two other candidates are reformist former parliament speaker Mehdi Karroubi and ex-head of the elite Revolutionary Guards Corps, Mohsen Rezai.

Almost 75% of voters are expected to Vote for Mr. Mousavi who is a popular candidate among the younger generation. Although, many of the previous generation also hope for his victory.He managed to present a calm and moderate,kind yet firm image to the viewers.

Mr. Ahmadi nejad has brought our country to ruins, he has made enough misjudgments and mistakes that the inflation rate went fron 14% to 27%.

Mr. karroubi and Mr. Rezai are also popular, but none can boast to have the same popularity that Mr. Mousavi has.

It is my utmost hope and deepest desire to see Mr, Mousavi succeed and i hope that Iran can once again flourish under His careful and cosiderate leadership.

HAPPY NOROUZ!!!

Sat, 21 Mar 2009 10:25:10 GMT

Hello everyone!!!
currently I'm at my Gran's, celebrating the first day of new year and waiting for my aunts and uncles to show up!
Iranians celebrate the new year on the first day of spring and we put a "Haft Sin" and exchange gifts and go visit relatives and friends and generally have fun!!!Seeing how lazy I am, you can read about Norouz and Haft Sin on wikipedia!
Seeing how nobody's here yet, I decided to write about my favorite holliday of all!!
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Sorry, I must go now, everybody just arrived, so happy new year and good luck for the new year!

here is a pic of a traditional Haft Sin:

Writer's Block: Really, Truly

Sat, 14 Mar 2009 04:39:16 GMT

Do you believe in true love? What about love at first sight?

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I believe that to fall in love, you have to know the other person at least partially.how do you know the person that you had the 'coup de foudre' for is someone that will respect you?cherish you?who can at least tolerate in the long run?
To feel love for just a pretty face is a sign of shallowness.it isn't love, but lust.I have read many stories where the characters feel they are falling in love just by seeing a pretty face or just a kiss!!!same for real life!!grow up people, don't be so immature.I really feel sorry for those who are ready to fall in love with someone just because they are gorgeous or rich or other superficial reasons.If you're interested,get to know the other person then decide.Sure, there have been cases where "love at first sight" works, but they're so few of them that is has become an exception!!
About true love, I reserve judgment as I haven't experienced it.

Human Cruelty...

Tue, 30 Dec 2008 17:53:50 GMT

What had these kids done?
These innocent children, never again breathing,...
Shame on us and our silence.

First snow

Wed, 17 Dec 2008 06:13:02 GMT

YAY!!!
It snowed today here at my hometown, and I admit, it was wonderful.I even took pictures from my bedroom window and in the garden. I can't wait for more snow, last year it snowed so much my flight was delayed for a week!!! can you imagine?It was great, and together with my new boots and new gloves, I'm pretty excited for the winter to begin officially.

Rantings in French!

Mon, 15 Dec 2008 10:02:32 GMT

Tout le monde reve de voler,d'ouvrir nos ailes sous le soleil riant et monter le plus haut possible.Moi je reve d'etre un aigle,le plus
fort des oiseaux.Mais je prefere encore etre moi-meme et simplement avoir des ailes.pouvoir danser dans les airs.Se laisser aller avec le vent.Ecouter le chant des forets sauvages.Avoir de grands ailes de plumes blanches ou noirs.Pouvoir les ouvrir a volonte ou les fair disparaitre en cas de besoin.comme le monde serait beau si on avait tous des ailes,si on pouvait tous voler.Quand dans mes reves je vole,je me sens libre de tout,je sens que je peux tout faire.Je suis invincible,personne peut me fair du mal.mais parfois je sens que je suis depourvue de tout sentiment humain a part rage,haine,soif de pouvoir et ca me fait peur.Quand je me reveille apres un tel reve,je sais pas si je dois gouter au plaisir de voler ou avoir peur de perdre mon sens d'humanite.Est-ce possible?est-ce possible qu'en acceptant de voler,nous perdsions quelque chose?Quelque chose de tres important?J'en sais vraiment rien.mais j'essaie de croire qu'on peut avoir l'un avec l'autre.Et que meme,voler peut purifier nos sentiments et nous rendre meilleur!Voyes les anges,comme ils sont purs.J'aimerais voler a cote de mon ange gardien,lui sourire,lui parler,le sentir voler a mes cotes,......Je sais pas pourquoi mais j'imagine mon ange gardien un garcon un peu plus grand que moi,ou une femme jeune et belle,comme une grande soeur....

Newbie!

Wed, 03 Dec 2008 10:36:06 GMT

Hi there everyone!!!

Today me and a friend decided to create a blog here. It was fun, because she isn't really computer savvy!!! I got to mess with her!!!
so, now I'm writing this entry and she is trying to find new friends!

So, anyone wanna tell me what to do for fun here?