Life in Armenia

[jgk3]

Re: Armenia

Just because a turk recognizes the Armenian genocide doesnt make them good! actually it's very normal for turks recognizing the genocide, it should be like, ooo he is a turk and recognizes the AG so he is good...

What about the Turks during the AG who let Armenians hide in their homes even though if they were caught by the authorities, they would be hung for sheltering public enemies? These aren't good Turks?

[AR MENIA]

Re: Armenia

cool beans, the armenian gov, and wealthy diaspora, should invest in wind, solar energy, as part of the things they spend on Armenia, to help with energy there in general, i think the wind power would do great.

And KarotheGreat, you should really change your signature, b/c there are good turks, i sugest you look up Orhan Pamuk, Elif Şafak, Taner Akçam, and many many more... Statements like that is why the Turks in Turkey who are lied to since the day they were born is one of the many reasons they think were evil, and believe their government

Just because a turk recognizes the Armenian genocide doesnt make them good! actually it's very normal for turks recognizing the genocide, it should be like, ooo he is a turk and recognizes the AG so he is good...

[Eddo211]

Re: Life in Armenia

Seat belts saved my life once when my friend crashed my street Rod a week after I sold it to him. There was no seatbelt law back then and after seeing his erratic driving I buckled up (followed by him once he saw me doing it) and less than a minute later he lost control and smashed head on into a pole. He FUBARed my baby.

Helmets have saved my life twice already so far.

[Federate]

Re: Life in Armenia

Armenians Buckle Up Amid Police Crackdown


After decades of negligence, motorists in Yerevan began wearing their safety belts in droves on Thursday to avoid paying hefty fines finally enforced by traffic police.
The use of seat belts has long been mandatory in Armenia. The Armenian police began cracking down in earnest on the widespread and long-standing defiance of the legal requirement in the capital on Wednesday, one week after the government approved a five-year plan to make roads safer for car drivers and pedestrians. Prime Minister Tigran Sarkisian singled out seat belt use as a key element of that plan.

According to the police, more than 200 persons were fined 5,000 drams ($13.5) each on Wednesday for failing to buckle up while driving. That explains why the vast majority of Yerevan drivers appeared to be driving with fastened seat belts the next day.

“I didn’t expect to see such a drastic change,” Arsen Arshakian, commander of a road police battalion, told RFE/RL. “I enjoy observing it.” “The traffic police are ensuring a gradual transition to safer driving,” he said.

“We buckle up so they don’t fine us,” explained one motorist. “I didn’t do that until yesterday. Why should I pay 5,000 drams?”

Some drivers found the experience unusual and inconvenient. “It feels likes something is handing from your neck,” said one of them. “True, we are not used wearing seat belts, but little by little people find that normal,” said another.

Other drivers interviewed by RFE/RL made no secret of their dislike of the measure. “I will find it normal if this law applies to everyone,” said one man. “There are people who still don’t fasten their belts.”

http://www.azatutyun.am/content/article/1804210.html

[Pazooki]

Re: Armenia

Terrorist & Patriot are the same thing, it just depends what side of the battle field your on.

One man's Terrorist is another man's freedom fighter.

[KarotheGreat]

Re: Armenia

So i may have generalized a bit, but you can't deny that many Armenians do claim to be christian and do always find a way to bring up "first christian nation," so i tried to use the bible to prove my point, which is a valid one btw.

Your statement applies with what i was trying to tell Karo. His signature of, "the only good Turk is a dead one," and other users statements like, "our idea of the Turk is a very vile creature," are both racist in nature, and promote even further animosity between us and Turks. While there is historical beef between us, the main reason things like this are said are due to disagreements, which will never be overcome with behavior like this. This site has Turkish members, as well as Turkish viewers, who many i am sure are good people. When they find this sort of language it only confirms to them the lies they were taught, and is offensive to them. How are you/we ever supposed to get our point through to them if all they see from you is hate seething from in between your teeth with every word you speak. The armenian members need to be aware of this. Also KarotheGreats response that Turks like Taner Akçam that accept the genocide and are Armenian friendly are not real Turks, is idiotic, dumbfounding, and i am sure offensive to Turks everywhere, even to Mr. Akçam himself

First of all i don't care if I insult a turk with my posts, don't care if I insult all of them and their barbaric ancestors. And when have we seen the good side of the Turks. Please tell me? All we have seen is death and destruction, nothing else. I suggest you go and read a little bit what happened to Armenian in 1064 when the Seljuk turks invaded Armenia. Go and read what they have done to us, I'm not even talking about 1915 or what the bloody sultan has done to us. You want us to become friends with Turks let them pay for their crimes against the Armenian nation and give us our lands back. They are live on our lands for gods sake doesn't that mean nothing to you. You still want us to be friends with Turks go and find out who was preparing to invade Armenia in 1993. There is no beef between Turkey and Armenia because there can be no beef between orcs and humans putting in Tolkien context. So please stop the BS and I stand with my sig.

@ anon: look I not even once used the word you said I used allot lol j/ke

[ara87]

Re: Armenia

Can you please point out people on this forum who have claimed to be Christian that would meet your assertion of "more than half"?

So i may have generalized a bit, but you can't deny that many Armenians do claim to be christian and do always find a way to bring up "first christian nation," so i tried to use the bible to prove my point, which is a valid one btw.

When discussing intelligent discussions in other parts of the forum such as these, where many people read that are not members, it's preferred we display some sort of class, tact, finesse and culture, as opposed to childish name-calling and insults and obscenities merely because someone disagrees.

Your statement applies with what i was trying to tell Karo. His signature of, "the only good Turk is a dead one," and other users statements like, "our idea of the Turk is a very vile creature," are both racist in nature, and promote even further animosity between us and Turks. While there is historical beef between us, the main reason things like this are said are due to disagreements, which will never be overcome with behavior like this. This site has Turkish members, as well as Turkish viewers, who many i am sure are good people. When they find this sort of language it only confirms to them the lies they were taught, and is offensive to them. How are you/we ever supposed to get our point through to them if all they see from you is hate seething from in between your teeth with every word you speak. The armenian members need to be aware of this. Also KarotheGreats response that Turks like Taner Akçam that accept the genocide and are Armenian friendly are not real Turks, is idiotic, dumbfounding, and i am sure offensive to Turks everywhere, even to Mr. Akçam himself

[Armanen]

Re: Armenia

ara you continue to be the "nice" person, so caring for others etc. and see how it works out for you in the next 20, 30 or 40 years.

I value Armenia's Christian past and present, I see the good things that it did, as well as the bad. But our Christian past is not even 1/3 of our total history, and I value the pre Christian period just as much. While I consider myself a Christian, I use it loosely because I adhere to ideas that neither our church nor any other endorse, in fact some would even call me a heretic. To keep it short, while I respect our Church for the things it has done and continues to do, after all they are an integral part of Armenian culture, I do not agree with all of their dogma. Too much emphasis is often placed the passages from the various holy books and not enough on the reasoning behind what was said at the time, why it was worded that way and by whom.

As for the turks, I could care less about them, as long as they occupy 90% of Armenian territory, as long as their government denies the Genocide, as long as their government holds hostile intentions towards Armenia, I will show as much 'respect' to the turk as he showed to the victims of 1915-1922.

[Armanen]

Re: Armenia

It doesn't matter that you did not see it. I cannot climb into your subjective wall and make you see things. We all perceive reality subjectively, but we express ourselves objectively.

Your name-calling was unwarranted, and you have a habit of using the word "phuck" in alot of your posts. While we occasionally use it in General Talk and specifically, the Ankap thread, it is very lax and used sparingly in context. When discussing intelligent discussions in other parts of the forum such as these, where many people read that are not members, it's preferred we display some sort of class, tact, finesse and culture, as opposed to childish name-calling and insults and obscenities merely because someone disagrees.

That is nice and all, but I also expect there not to be attacks on a whole group of Armenians, especially when the attacker doesn't give us his reasoning.

[Anonymouse]

Re: Armenia

Srop quoting the bible because in this case it means nothing. And why should we help the Kurds. Weren't they also their to kill our people, rape our women, kidnap the children. Some people forget soon what has happened to our nation and they have done to our ancestors. 20 years later what will you be starting to say, Turks are our borders we shouldn't demand our lands back. I for on edon't care what Jesus, Ghandi or Buda have said. And maybe the problem is that more Armenians should forget it, maybe then we can get our lands back.

@Anon can you please point out the sarcastic part out, because I don't see it.

It doesn't matter that you did not see it. I cannot climb into your subjective wall and make you see things. We all perceive reality subjectively, but we express ourselves objectively.

Your name-calling was unwarranted, and you have a habit of using the word "phuck" in alot of your posts. While we occasionally use it in General Talk and specifically, the Ankap thread, it is very lax and used sparingly in context. When discussing intelligent discussions in other parts of the forum such as these, where many people read that are not members, it's preferred we display some sort of class, tact, finesse and culture, as opposed to childish name-calling and insults and obscenities merely because someone disagrees.