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[Cap]

Modern Greeks have all but destroyed Hellenism.

[GreekIslandGirl]

Which Hellenism do you mourn for, Cap?

Are you one of those "modern Greeks" who trolls the Internet to spread venom against Greece and help its demise? To distance "modern Greeks" from Hellenism and claim the whole lot moribund? To take away the history and heritage of Greeks and turn them into dust? Are you part of the problem?

[AEKTZIS]

Modern Greeks have all but destroyed Hellenism.

Hellenism NEVER dies. You must not be familiar with the immortal words of Yiannis Ritsos, one of Modern Greece's finest poets:

Τη ρωμιοσύνη μην την κλαις
εκεί που πάει να σκύψει
με το σουγιά στο κόκκαλο
με το λουρί στο σβέρκο

Νάτη πετιέται απο ξαρχής
κι αντριεύει και θεριεύει
και καμακώνει το θεριό
με το καμάκι του ήλιου

[Cap]

Are you one of those "modern Greeks" who trolls the Internet to spread venom against Greece and help its demise

Nah, I think they're doing a super job all on their own.
And they're taking Cyprus down with them.

[Cap]

Greeks of the Diaspora are the last of the true Hellenes, and to that I raise my Scotch on the rocks.
God bless you all. (apart from the rats in Greece)
Happy Easter.

[AEKTZIS]

Happy Easter.

God bless the rats of Greece too. The rats of Greece are very few, I find most in Greece to be very nice and friendly people. The islands in particular, have some of the nicest people I have met. In Rhodes and Crete in particular, they treat Cypriots with such respect; we are their brothers.

[GreekIslandGirl]

There are also some Cypriot "Greeks" that refuse to accept that the Church of Cyprus is completely separate from the Church of Greece, other than being in communion with each other through the wider Orthodox Catholic Church.

Does this include the Cypriot "Greek" Bishops (Ethnarchy) who have always been the most vociferous promoters of enosis with Greece?

[Don Kelley]

Enosis means Union with Greece in an island (Cyprus) whose so called Greek cypriots descendents were actualy Arabs.

[kurupetos]

Enosis means Union with Greece in an island (Cyprus) whose so called Greek cypriots descendents were actualy Arabs.

Why don't they speak Arabic?

[kurupetos]

Still waiting for a reply...

Was there a time GCs spoke Arabic?