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  • kiss of death

    THE KISS OF DEATH
    ******************************
    From a very early age
    i was taught to respect my elders.
    It took me a while to realize
    that respect meant subservience,
    and subservience meant not only
    subservience to bosses, bishops
    and benefactors but also to their
    hirelings, flunkeys, hangers on and
    assorted parasites.
    *
    In short, respect meant
    subservience to xxxxs.
    Which is why I now feel justified
    in asserting that
    for a writer
    to enjoy the support
    of a boss, bishops and benefactor
    is the kiss of death.
    #

  • #2
    Re: kiss of death

    ON SUPERIORITY
    ******************************
    During an argument with a poet,
    one of our benefactors is quoted as having said:
    “I hire and fire people like you.”
    Thus implying the ability to hire and fire
    must be just about the surest expression
    not only of financial but also
    of moral and intellectual superiority.
    *
    When Tarzan said to Jane
    “It’s a jungle out there,”
    he knew what he was saying.
    *
    We can change nothing.
    The best we can do is identify our enemies
    and, whenever possible, take evasive action.
    *
    After countless speeches and sermons
    man has remained as savage a beast as on the day
    Cain dealt with Abel
    and man classified himself as Homo sapiens.
    *
    Judge a man by his actions, not by his doubletalk.
    If only our leadership had done as much
    on the eve of the Genocide.
    #

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    • #3
      Re: kiss of death

      ON LEADERSHIP
      ********************************
      As a child I identified myself with our leaders
      because I was told to do so. But the moment I
      started thinking for myself I saw them as
      megalomaniacal mediocrities and enemies of
      freedom, common sense and decency.
      #

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      • #4
        Re: kiss of death

        Politics seems to attract the kind of people whose role model is not Gandhi but Don Corleone.

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        • #5
          Re: kiss of death

          FIRST THINGS FIRST
          ********************************
          We have money for schools and churches,
          but no money for literature.
          That’s because schoolteachers and priests
          make themselves useful
          by preparing a new generation
          of brainwashed dupes.
          *
          It is extremely difficult to explain something
          to someone who is convinced
          he knows better because he is smarter.
          *
          Our past plays a more important role in our lives
          than our present and future.
          *
          If you make an Armenian enemy
          you make an enemy for life.
          *
          If I know better it’s because
          I have been consistently wrong.
          *
          The function of bureaucracy
          is to inflict pain without any feeling of responsibility.
          *
          I knew much more when I was an ignoramus.
          #

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          • #6
            Re: kiss of death

            Describe someone as objectively as you can and he will consider it the worst insult that anyone has ever inflicted on him.

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            • #7
              Re: kiss of death

              IF…
              ***************
              If you speak the truth
              don’t expect to be popular
              among habitual liars and their dupes.
              *
              There is only one way to survive
              the degradation of 600 years
              and that’s by assimilating their values.
              Consider our treatment of writers
              from Abovian to Zarian,
              and remember Baruir Massikian
              in his death bed rating a Cairo bordello
              above an Armenian educational foundation.
              *
              I suspect all undertakings
              from which only the leaders survive.
              #

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              • #8
                Re: kiss of death

                Originally posted by arabaliozian View Post
                IF…
                ***************

                *
                I suspect all undertakings
                from which only the leaders survive.
                #
                A case in point - the Armenians who in 1896 seized the ottoman bank and then escaped to France, are remembered as heroes

                The thousands of Armenians who the ottomans massacred in retaliation - their names no-one knows or remembers!

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                • #9
                  Re: kiss of death

                  Thousands is nothing compared to what we have lost. There has been massacres everywhere........not all can be remembered thanks to Turks assimilation policy and excuse for revenge to behead every Armenian within site, rape their women, kill their kids.
                  B0zkurt Hunter

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                  • #10
                    Re: kiss of death

                    POWER
                    *************************
                    Empires are not born but made
                    and what makes them
                    is an insatiable thirst for blood.
                    *
                    As a defeated and conquered nation
                    (or collection of tribes)
                    we never quite understood
                    the amount of blood empires
                    are willing to drink to quench
                    their thirst for power.
                    *
                    Why is it that a so-called civilized
                    and democratic nation like the United States
                    continues to deny the reality
                    of the Genocide?
                    *
                    Even more to the point:
                    Why is it that our own leaders
                    (or bosses, bishops and benefactors)
                    continue to divide us
                    when they know solidarity is
                    the only solution to all our problems
                    including avoidance or prevention of
                    “white massacre” or
                    self-inflicted genocide?

                    The only conceivable answer to that question
                    must be: greed for power is more powerful
                    than fear of death and God combined.
                    #

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