God

[arabaliozian]

Re: God

Saturday, October 22, 2016
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THE WRITING ON THE WALL
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God did not abandon us in 1915.
It was the other way around.
God was on our side every strep of the way.
But again and again we chose to ignore Him.
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God placed some very smart Armenians
within the Ottoman Administration to warn us
of the coming catastrophe.
But again and again we deliberately chose
to ignore their warnings.
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God sent many foreign observers and missionaries
to Istanbul and elsewhere within the empire
who immediately saw the shape of things to come,
but again and again we assumed we knew better
and dismissed their predictions as alarmist nonsense.
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God did not abandon us in 1915.
It was we who abandoned Him
by pretending to be to illiterate
and ignorant to decipher
the Writing on the Wall.
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[arabaliozian]

Re: God

I put my trust only in men who speak against their own interests. Or, in the words of Jean-Paul Sartre on the final page of his memoirs: "I depend only on men who depend on God and I don't believe in God."

[arabaliozian]

Re: God

THE WRATH OF GOD
Catastrophes like volcanoes and earthquakes
are sometimes thought to be expressions of God’s wrath.
But if God had emotions and got angry
whenever men misbehaved,
he would have collapsed from high blood pressure,
kidney failure, bleeding ulcers, heart attacks
and strokes centuries, perhaps even millennia, ago.

[Eddo211]

Re: God

lol....

[arabaliozian]

Re: God

Wednesday, December 14, 2016
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NOTES / COMMENTS
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The only thing I have in great abundance
is limitations.
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Lack of understanding is a serious limitation
that allows one to commit the same blunder
over and over again
and pretend to be smart.
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Killing writers is not a favorite Armenian sport.
I was dead wrong to say that.
We don’t kill writers.
What we do is betray them to the authorities.
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[arabaliozian]

Re: God

Saturday, December 17, 2016
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ON DIPLOMACY
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After centuries of practice,
great powers have learned
how to cover their ass
by pretending to be
for law and order, peace,
and the brotherhood of all men
even as they go about behaving like swine.
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ON GOD
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Think of god not as a being
but as a point of reference,
an abstraction like zero and infinity
that doesn’t have to exist to be real.
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ON TRANSLATION
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The first and most important commandment: Do not attempt to translate the untranslatable.
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ON FAITH
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Men of faith do not represent god on earth.
They are dupes of propaganda and as such
more closely allied with the devil.
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[arabaliozian]

Re: God

Think of god not as a being or “a bearded old bugger floating in space,” but as a feeling that comes from the depths of time and your own subconscious, *To deny his existence is to deny the reality of your subconscious and time both of which you can neither see nor touch.#

[Artashes]

Re: God

Think of god not as a being or “a bearded old bugger floating in space,” but as a feeling that comes from the depths of time and your own subconscious, *To deny his existence is to deny the reality of your subconscious and time both of which you can neither see nor touch.#

You don't know God but you are now telling everyone who and what he is ???
Why do you talk? Apparently the urge is great.
You don't know anything but you do talk.

[arabaliozian]

Re: God

Wednesday, December 21, 2016
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FROM MY NOTEBOOKS
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Nations that are guilty of genocide
cannot always be relied to speak the truth.
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Great thinkers are first and foremost liberators:
they liberate us from the chains of ignorance
and prejudice.
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Killing in the name of God
is the most dangerous form of insanity
known to man.
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All dialogue begins with oneself.
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[arabaliozian]

Re: God

It is written: "At the beginning was the word."
It is also written: "You cannot cook pilaf with
words."