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  • Re: crime

    Originally posted by arabaliozian View Post
    MORE IS LESS
    **************************************************
    A Turkish-Armenian is more Turkish and less Armenian.
    A Soviet-Armenian is more Soviet and less Armenian.
    An Armenian-American is more American and less Armenian.
    An Armenian from the Middle-East is more Levantine and less Armenian.
    Something similar could be said of French-Armenians,
    Greek-Armenians, Italian-Armenians
    (assuming there are some left), and so on.
    That's because, in Krikor Zohrab's words:
    “As impressionable as soft wax,
    the Armenian acquires indiscriminately the virtues as well as the vices
    of the country in which he happens to be living.”
    *

    #
    How true!

    You could even say the secret wish of most Armenians is to be less Armenian and more Canadian, American, Russian, French, Greek, Bulgarian, Italian even Arab or whatever community they are surrounded by

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    • Re: middle-men

      Originally posted by arabaliozian View Post
      MIDDLE-MEN
      *******************************
      We like to say
      “We are a people like any other people.”
      The question is, do other people say
      “We are like Armenians?”
      *

      #
      No, they don't

      But if in the future, maybe 100 years from now Armenia becomes successful as a nation, they might!

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      • Re: crime

        DISSIDENTS IN GRINGOLAND
        *********************************************
        It is a statistically verifiable fact that
        even the most ferocious anti-American dissident
        would rather live in an American hell
        than in a paradise ruled by imams, commissars,
        African tribal chieftains, Indian vegetarians
        or Latino strongmen.
        #

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        • Re: crime

          true!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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          • Re: crime

            SARTRE ON HIMSELF
            ***********************************
            “I turned rebel later only through having pushed submissiveness to the extreme.”
            In my case, I became a dissident through having said “yes, sir!” to too many idiots.
            *
            If I knew my words mattered, I would be more careful in my choice of them.
            *
            One reason Armenian writers are willing to work for nothing is that the job has other compensations, one of them being deflating noxious gasbags.
            *

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            • Re: crime

              Originally posted by arabaliozian View Post
              ON LOVE: TWO VIEWS
              *********************************
              ON LEADERSHIP
              **************************
              The captain goes down with the ship.
              Armenian translation:
              The captain is the first to abandon ship.
              *

              #
              A good example is the Bank Ottoman incident in 1896

              Those who seized the Bank managed to secure a safe passage for themselves to Paris. They have since been elevated to the status of legendary heroes.

              The Ottoman regime reacted to the incident by murdering 6,000 ordinary Armenians in the capital - many of them poor migrants, 99% of them probably had no interest in revolution

              While the names of these 'revolutionary' captains are recited on every occasion as if they had acquired the status of saints, the names of the 6,000 murdered souls, brutally massacred are not known, their names were never recorded and are not remembered

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              • Re: crime

                A BRIEF HISTORY OF MANKIND
                ***************************************
                Our religion teaches us
                if God tells you to butcher your only son,
                you say “Yes, sir!”
                God is a fascist and those who speak
                in His name are worse.
                *
                A BRIEF HISTORY
                OF ARMENIAN LITERATURE
                **************************************
                A lullaby sung to a corpse.
                *
                CIVILIZATION / SYPHILIZATION
                ******************************************
                No empire in the history of the civilized West
                has lasted as long as the Ottoman Empire.
                #

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                • Re: crime

                  you said it, brother! we are a brainwashed natio.

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                  • Re: crime

                    BAD NEWS
                    **********************
                    On their own most men are harmless.
                    It is when they act in the name of a higher principle
                    that the excrement hits the ventilator.
                    *
                    “I am not a crook.”
                    “The meaning of ‘is’”
                    “Unknown unknowns.”
                    Politicians are full of xxxx
                    and they know it.
                    Democracy is a farce.
                    All men become liars
                    in defense of their powers and interests.
                    *
                    A French philosopher once called
                    ideology and religion “two immortal sisters,”
                    but failed to specify whether they were
                    nuns or xxxxxs.
                    *
                    Throughout most of our collective existence
                    we have behaved like full-time
                    brown-nosing serial degenerates –
                    or dupes of degenerates, which is worse.
                    You want proof?
                    Read Baronian and Odian;
                    and consider the famous last words
                    of Baruir Massikian (a brilliant writer
                    as well as a successful lawyer in Egypt)
                    who, when asked to leave his wealth
                    to the Armenian Educational Foundation,
                    replied:
                    “I’d rather leave it to a Cairo bordello.”
                    #

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                    • Re: crime

                      Q/A
                      ****************
                      Q: Why do you write as you do?
                      A: Because I hate propaganda, lies and deception,
                      especially when I am the target.
                      Q: You must be naïve to think we are the only ones
                      who engage in propaganda.
                      Allow me to enlighten you, my friend.
                      Propaganda and deception are as old as mankind,
                      A: So is rape and murder.
                      Does that mean they should be covered up and ignored?
                      If deception is an integral part of human existence,
                      why condemn Turks for engaging in it?
                      Why waste millions trying to convince the world
                      the Genocide is not a figment of our imagination?
                      What makes you think we are such cowardly idiots
                      who are incapable of facing facts and confronting reality?
                      What if the real reason you engage in deception
                      is to maintain your image as competent leaders
                      who deserve the loyalty and support of the people?
                      #

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