here is the man who is targeted and dreaded by the insurgencies on a forum,a brain power challenger,the undisputtable intellectual marching to the beat of his own drum,the systematist and strategeist,untouchable yet concerned at the lack of morals in some people,loathed by old aged frustrated underachievers,the most vulnerable specie than the sting rey,attacks at any sign of aggravation.and always win battles,verbally and physically.here i am to set the record straight.
Regarding the various stripes of other members of the forum, raz na piza has nothing to say than to soften their hearts or change their minds. consider it my policy if willing to conceide defeat -- through intellectual means for those who use violence to gain power, and through political means for those whose tactics take a more circuitous path to the same objective. There is no benefit to be gained from targeting public diplomacy toward the new or the non active members of the forum.
all members who actively critique ngwazi and his camp because of their uncouth mindframe, there is much you can do apart from the obviously self-defeating approach of forcing them to change their policies . Given the structural biases, shoddy journalism, and intellectual drivel that passes for moral discourse in many corners of the forum, raz na pizas top priority is to ask these insurgents led by ngwazi to make sure that their opinions are at least based on accurate, passionate information. In this regard, public diplomacy can help to create a "level playing field" so that the forums policies (and the people advocating them) receive a fair hearing in the court of public opinion. Numerous tactical options flow from this strategy.
And regarding the millions of poor and struggling malawians we can help if we use this medium positively, the goal of our policies should be to help provide them with the economic, educational, social, and other tools required to leave poverty behind and become constructive and contributing members of their societies. A wide range of policy instruments are available to achieve this goal.we can be the voice,remember that written word is more dangerous than spoken,i have noticed alot of hostility towards me lately,am not bothered but what bothers me the most is the repercussions in the wake of my retaliation,i can hurt a few people and i dont want to have the soul somebodies dignity on my conscious after being shredded by my anger.i am vicious.so lets be one.
here is a good guy,after realising his mistakes has thought wise to apologise diplomatically.I for one carries no grudge with dudes like you and I wield no weapon.
You have said alot but let me pick the wise points;you have said we can better the malawi nation thru this forum.True but do you know that this forum is limited to the well to do and the greedy,nobody in the village could read or will read this in any nearest time.Most malawians are in the village where theres no computer.Most of those in diaspora have now and again rebuked malawi and that you inclusive,and its a mockery to suggest that.This forum benefits our free time.
secondly, noone have a camp here let alone the old guard as alleged by you,by the way you sound to be older than most of us here.Accept that you know some guys and you are fighting them in pseudo since you fear them in reality.
Lastly, you have never been accurate yourself and most of your contributions are words of war or vengeance.You are a guy who can be adored but the other shady part of you have alot to be desired(a devil in sheep skin)
-- Edited by Pope at 10:15, 2007-03-08
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with your mentality you must know that putting people in categories is the biggest encounter of bigotry you can ever imagin,you said villagers dont have access to the internet like its their fault,you forget that passive information is effective information,in 1992 the same villagers knew who kamplepo kaluwa was,not because someone brought the internet to them or the radio,but they got the information,there are means of getting information that matters to them even if it means reheating a run down battery to get their old radios working.these people are smarter than you think.they havent escaped from reason due to lack of modern technology.
you can live all your life reclining in front of the television too often and a general lack of exercise for that matter,but you can still be misinformed than the people you categorise as villagers,they do other more cerebral stimulation activities all their lives. Part of the problem with growing up in towns and cities is short-sightedness and ignorance; that of the politicians as much as anyone else. These people after all, often originate from that section of society who are usually blissfully unaware that, for example; there are actually people who earn less than k10.00 per year at work or that some families do not have servants, two cars, holidays to mangochi or whatever else they take for granted.the word taken from this forum can be dissected a million times untill it reaches the man in the village,no matter how much distorted it is the truth is the truth and these people know how to saturate it.
and how do our postings reach the villagers, you seem to be smarter on the net than real.Go back to our previous discussions and tell me how many have gone on radios in malawi.We have discussed here and it has ended here.In short how many of us has benefitted from abres 2000+ postings on this forum.So in short we are all ignorant as long as remain aliases.
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Pope wrote: and how do our postings reach the villagers, you seem to be smarter on the net than real.Go back to our previous discussions and tell me how many have gone on radios in malawi.We have discussed here and it has ended here.In short how many of us has benefitted from abres 2000+ postings on this forum.So in short we are all ignorant as long as remain aliases.
those are your individual opinions,what you dont know is how many people read whats written here and apply it to their daily lives probably sharing it with others who dont even know malawiana exist.this place is like a market,you pick a commodity according to its value,some ideas presented on this forum are more valuable in scale.abres 2000 plus postings can be used by other people who share the same views as abre, have you ever considered that?
Decision Trees are excellent tools for helping you to choose between several courses of action. They provide a highly effective structure within which you can lay out options and investigate the possible outcomes of choosing those options. They also help you to form a balanced picture of the risks and rewards associated with each possible course of action.people like you choose to ignore the power of passive information,you are portraying the people in villages as illiterate.these people are unique not a member of a class.have you ever heard of azamba?or the fact that villagers know how important a friendly bacteria is to human body,ask your parents why they were told to drink water from the basin after everyone used it to wash hands before nsima.they didnt have to access the internet to get that information.
raz na piza wrote:raz na pizas top priority is to ask these insurgents led by ngwazi to make sure that their opinions are at least based on accurate, passionate information. In this regard, public diplomacy can help to create a "level playing field" so that the forums policies (and the people advocating them) receive a fair hearing in the court of public opinion. Numerous tactical options flow from this strategy.
I personally dont have any problem with what you want,we are all on this forum to help each other but when you resort to personal attacks then those being attacked have the right to defend themselves by all means necessary.
If you stick by the rules,then I will do the same and hopefully other forum members will do the same.But dont think there is a conspiracy against you here,its just that what you write sometimes is provoking,there are no "camps" or gangs,todays friend might be tomorrows enemy and vice versa,its the contents of the postings that matter.
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ha ha ha!! you sound to be lost in whitemans land but still dreaming home.what you have said caan not just go without answers.Look here my friend,if we talk of passive information then we will not fight rape or defilement because it was a normal thing but left adverse scars to those affected.About washing hands and drinking the same water,it was done out of ignorance and due to scarcity of water.
few pipo in the villages can aford to read a newspaper and very few have maintained their radios.This is due to illiterate and dont cheat me here that our pipo are educated and capable of browsing nets.Our village life is but a desert storm,survival of the fittest.
you have said that abres posts has helped but to me they havent,read those comments in his last post "oh dear",everybody was happy this man had gone,they expressed how hard it was to contain him and in short it means they never bothered to read his posts.They had developed what we call plastic hatred.
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