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NOTES / COMMENTS
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Boys will be boys.
There will always be one in a thousand
that cannot be tamed.
Think of him next time you make yourself
irresistible.
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To sleep a dreamless sleep
is to have a preview of death.
*
An American conservative pundit on TV:
“You can’t explain evil.”
My first thought:
“Why don’t you take a good look at yourself
in the mirror?”
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“Allah is great!”
Also very thirsty.
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SUMMING UP
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1.
Contradict first, invent reasons after.
That’s our way.
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2.
We are double victims of
(i) bloodthirsty enemies and
(ii) incompetent leaders.
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3.
Dupes are our most important product.
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4.
What do we know about leadership?
We have spent most of our historic existence
kissing ass.
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5.
To cover up our ignorance and stupidity
we parade as the smartest people on earth.
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ARMENIAN WISDOM
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Anonymous: “What kind of xxxx we ate
to end up here?”
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Leader: One who pretends
to know and understand everything
even when he knows and understands
nothing.
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The more civilized the nation
the more syphilized its bureaucracy.
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Only systematically moronized people
brag about their high IQ.
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Where thieves are in charge
larceny will be legalized.
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AS I SEE IT
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It is interesting to note that
in his criticism of English traditions
Churchill included “sodomy”
and so far no one has bothered
to contradict him.
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We may think we are smarter than Turks
but Turks know that being smart
is irrelevant if the power is with the opposition.
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Nabokov: “Dostoevsky’s mediocre imitators such as Sartre,
a French journalist…”
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Confucius: “I transmit but to not create.”
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The only reason we have political parties is that
we are like pigs in a cold barn:
we seek the other’s body heat.
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Truth is not a fixed place on the map
but a traffic sign.
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When you fight with someone you love,
nobody wins.
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METAPHYSICS
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God gave us freedom
but not the ability to tell the difference
between good and evil.
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Of what possible use is the faculty of sight
if it can’t tell the difference
between light and darkness?
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Can God be proud of His work?
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As perennial losers and victims
we are a suspicious bunch
but never of our real enemies.
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The older one grows
the greater the burden of blunders.
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NOTES / COMMENTS
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The probability of being not just wrong
but catastrophically wrong
never stopped anyone from saying what he thinks.
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Anonymous: “Nobody loves me but my mother,
and she could be jiving too.”
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Speaking of solutions to our problems:
allow me to quote an English statesman:
“The duty of an opposition is to oppose everything
and propose nothing.”
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When we brag about Armenians like Gulbenkian
we ignore the central message of Socrates, Jesus and Marx.
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God says “Thou shalt not kill,”
but our religious establishment says
“Except in time of war,
(when most of the killing takes place).”
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God says “Thou shalt not fornicate,”
but the Ottoman religious establishment
allowed the sultans to have as many
as a thousand concubines.
Is it conceivable that God
speaks with a forked tongue?
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REFLECTIONS
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It’s not easy convincing a woman
you are not after her ass
and a wealthy man you are not after his money.
Churchill is right: only pigs treat us as equals.
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To the 1% the ability to think for oneself
is almost to engage in treason and betrayal.
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We are all born blind and stupid
but the 1% want us to stay that way.
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The biggest lies are spoken
in the name of God and Country.
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A man will die in the name of a lie
as surely as in the name of the truth.
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ON LITERATURE
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Literature allows one to get even
without breaking the law.
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There is no way you can lose as a writer
if, like me, you plan to be a posthumous failure.
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If I write too much it may be because
I hope at least one of every thousand lines
will find its intended target.
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In literature a minimum of common sense and decency
will go much farther than a ton of talent.
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I think it was Shahnour (may have been Massikian)
who once said something to the effect that
our environments produce more pimps than xxxxxs.
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Nineteenth-century Romantic fiction
popularized the idea of the golden-hearted xxxxx.
Who has ever heard of a golden-hearted pimp?
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I don’t write in defense of the unwashed.
I am the unwashed.
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ON OUR 1%
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The trouble with our 1% is that
it has never been really ours.
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The shadow of Mt Ararat
has done more for our identity than our 1%.
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Our 1% demands our respect
even when they know they don’t deseve it.
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The central concern of all organized religions
and ideologies is to promote and legitimize
subservience to the 1%.
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ON MISERY
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Misery is a good teacher.
It has taught me many things,
one of them being,
sometimes it’s better to be an ignoramus.
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MEN / WOMEN
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A man is incapable of seeing a woman
through the eyes of another woman.
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