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Re: crackpots
Do you want to understand Turks? Think of an Armenian with power. #armenians
Do you want to understand Turks? Think of an Armenian with power. #armenians
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Re: crackpots
Tuesday, November 29, 2016
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IN CONCLUSION
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Tribes with conflicting interests
are the ideal targets of nations
with imperial ambitions.
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Our history is an endless succession
of massacres: as soon as a “red” one ends, a
“white” one begins.
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Our leaders are not our saviors
but our executioners.
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My aim, my real aim, is not to save the nation
but to replace one slogan (“we are smart”)
with another (“we are idiots”).
#Comment
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Re: crackpots
Saturday, December 10, 2016
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NOTES / COMMENTS
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If I repeat myself it may be because
I grew up on a steady diet of repetitions –
lies, slogans, prayers and propaganda;
and it never even occurred to me to complain.
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We should have known better
if only because we say and repeat
we are smart.
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What I write may be xxxx
but it has integrity.
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Religions come with divisions.
In that sense they are more useless than useful
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Re: crackpots
i once met a woman from
aleppo who said syrians were nice people because during the genocide they had saved many armenian orphans.Comment
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Re: crackpots
ON THE UNKNOWN
AND THE INCOMPREHENSIBLE
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Cain and Abel are not brothers.
They are states of mind.
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After having a mystical experience
St. Thomas Aquinas is quoted as having said:
“Everything I have written is garbage.”
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There are many gods
(some say ten thousand of them).
The god of priests and imams
is only one of them.
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When told many Christians don’t believe
in the god of priests, the Pope is quoted as having said:
“That’s good because I don’t believe in him either.”
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Explaining god is a racket
like any other racket.
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To deny the existence of god
is like denying the existence of the shadow
of a non-existent black hat
in a dark room.
#Comment
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Re: crackpots
Tuesday, December 20, 2016
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ENIGMA VARIATIONS
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To be an Armenian writer is not a capital offense
but it is treated as one by Armenians.
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An Armenian is another Armenian’s Turk
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Like the rest of mankind
an Armenian is born in an imperfect world
to imperfect parents,
educated by imperfect teachers
and lives among less than perfect men.
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It has been said:
“An Armenian is an enigma
that refuses to be solved.”
You may now consider my words
as a small step in the right direction.
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To hate is human. But to preach, promote, and
legitimize hatred is something else. The
difference between one and the other is as vast
as that which exists between wishing someone dead
and killing him.Comment
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Re: crackpots
Since neither of us is stupid or arrogant enough
to assert infallibility, let us proceed from the assumption
we may be both wrong.Comment
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Re: crackpots
Saturday, December 24, 2016
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NOTES / COMMENTS
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If you are an honest man
you will make a thousand enemies
and a single friend and that single friend
will pretend he doesn’t know you.
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You want to know what I really think
of my fellow Armenians?
A gentle reader once called me
“Son of a Turkish xxxxx.”
That’s what I think.
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If an Armenian corrects your spelling,
forever after he will operate on the assumption
he knows better.
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All wars are based on the unspoken dictum
“Your death is my life.”
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It is written:
“God doesn’t have to exist in order to rule.”
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Flattery and analysis are mutually exclusive concepts.
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Doubt is more fruitful than certainty.
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Our bishops represent the Almighty, our benefactors represent another Almighty, and our bosses represent their respective little mafias. Who represents the people? The voice of the people continues to be an absent factor in our collective existence.Comment
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