barbarians

[arabaliozian]

Re: barbarians

I lost quite a few jobs
because I could not hide my contempt
for my superiors.
It took me many years to realize
that I have, what is known as,
a transparent face that can be read
like an open book.
If you too have such a face,
consider yourself cursed by fate,
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[arabaliozian]

Re: barbarians

You cannot speak in praise of capitalism
in a communist country and vice versa.
It is a risky business
discussing democracy with fascists;
and nothing can be as hard
as trying to reason with dupes of propaganda.
What could be more subversive
than a lecture on atheism in a cathedral,
or a speech on human rights in an Armenian community center?
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[arabaliozian]

Re: barbarians

Wednesday, July 27, 2016
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NOTES / COMMENTS
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The world does not judge us
by our opinion of ourselves.
First nation this, first nation that?
Empty verbiage.
Nobody gives a damn.
600 years of subservience to Turks:
that speaks volumes!
*
There are no Armenians
and there are no Turks.
Mankind was thoroughly bastardized
long before they entered the annals of history.
*
Very often in life,
our choice is not between good and evil
but between two evils.
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[arabaliozian]

Re: barbarians

Because truth is beyond men’s reach,
they will believe in a thousand lies
even after these lies have been exposed.
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[arabaliozian]

Re: barbarians

Saturday, July 30, 2016
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NOTES / COMMENTS
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When you don’t know where you are going
you are sure to end up in the wrong place.
*
The certainties ofignorance,
the doubts of knowledge.
*
Derenik Saribekian on collaboration with the enemy:
“It is safer to defend the interests of wolves against sheep
than the other way around.”
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[arabaliozian]

Re: barbarians

Not just 600 years of subservience but subservience to turks! a noteworthy distinction.

[arabaliozian]

Re: barbarians

There is a Turks in all of us
to the same degree that
there is an Armenian in all of them.

[arabaliozian]

Re: barbarians

Thursday, August 04, 2016
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sarKISSian
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“Kiss me, I am Armenian.”
Be kind to animals.
*
Trying to reason with an Armenian?
A waste of time.
You can’t reason with someone
who has classified himself as infallible
and everyone who disagree with him
as a xxxx.
*
I have experienced Siberian exile:
I have survived 60 Canadian winters.
*
I wanted to be an Armenian writer
because I knew nothing about the history
of our literature, and now that I know
it’s too late: I have already cut my throat
with a rusty knife and bled to death
in a garbage can.
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[arabaliozian]

Re: barbarians

One reason I am against nationalism is that we were massacred by nationalists in the name of nationalism.

[arabaliozian]

Re: barbarians

The Greeks did not have a word for racist or nationalist. They simply divided mankind into
Greeks and barbarians. But they had another word: hubris (pride or arrogance) which was
invariably brought low by Nemesis.In that sense, all men of faith are guilty of hubris too when they assume their faith to be the only true faith.
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