crackpots

[arabaliozian]

Re: crackpots

Armenian solidarity has this in common
with the weather: everybody talks about it
but nobody does a damn thing.
*

[arabaliozian]

Re: crackpots

Tuesday, November 22, 2016
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NOTES / COMMENTS
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Civilization has claimed as many victims
as barbarism.
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The late Ben Bagdikian once told me
after he delivered a lecture
in an Armenian community center,
his audience went out of its way
to ignore him.
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If he is an Armenian,
he doesn’t need an enemy.
#

[arabaliozian]

Re: crackpots

Monday, November 21, 2016
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ON TRUMP
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They don’t love Trump;
they hate the system,
*
ON ATHEISM
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I am not an atheist but I become one
when I make a list of what has been done
in the name of God.
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CANNIBALS
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Even if you have the wisdom of Socrates
and the goodness of Jesus,
you will have enemies
who thirst for your blood.
#

[arabaliozian]

Re: crackpots

My aim in life is not to solve problems but to be readable. If I achieve that goal I may some day, if I live long enough, to stumble on a useful line.

[arabaliozian]

Re: crackpots

To say “I am a proud Armenian” amounts to rattling one's chains of subservience and degradation. #armenians

[arabaliozian]

Re: crackpots

I have never heard an Armenian say “I am a proud half-Armenian,” even if most Armenians are exactly that. #armenians

[arabaliozian]

Re: crackpots

To contradict an opinion with a belief system is like trying to kill a butterfly with a sledgehammer.

[arabaliozian]

Re: crackpots

Give Armenians a superior army and an inferior enemy and watch them commit crimes against humanity, and afterwards pass a law against insulting Armenishness.
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[arabaliozian]

Re: crackpots

Wednesday, November 16, 2016
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WHEN I WAS YOUNG
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When I was young
I had a low opinion
of myself and my fellow men.
Now that I am old
I have a lower opinion.
*
For a good number of years
Armenians in the homeland
were unanimous in their contempt for Zarian.
My only explanation:
a memo was sent out
from the headquarters of the KGB in Moscow…
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Religions create jobs,
beginning with construction workers.
#

[arabaliozian]

Re: crackpots

Wednesday, November 16, 2016
*************************************
WHEN I WAS YOUNG
*********************************
When I was young
I had a low opinion
of myself and my fellow men.
Now that I am old
I have a lower opinion.
*
For a good number of years
Armenians in the homeland
were unanimous in their contempt for Zarian.
My only explanation:
a memo was sent out
from the headquarters of the KGB in Moscow…
*
Religions create jobs,
beginning with construction workers.
#