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  • #111
    Re: crackpots

    Friday, September 16, 2016
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    DIALOGUE
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    To assert her authentic Armenian identity
    and expose my status as a mongrel,
    one of my gentle readers
    born and raised in the shadow of Mt. Ararat,
    once called me “Baliozoglu"
    thus implying I cannot be an authentic Armenian
    because I and my ancestors were born and raised
    on Turkish soil.
    *
    Am I half-Turk?
    I don’t know.
    No Armenian does.
    Only racists do,
    and racists don’t even qualify as members
    of the human race.
    *
    To search for a pure-blooded Armenian
    born and raised on Turkish soil
    or any other soil, including Armenian soil,
    is to search for a non-existent black hat
    in a dark room at midnight.
    *
    Question: If you had a choice between being
    a Kurdoghlanian and an Avanakian,
    which would you choose?
    *
    I am reminded of the following exchange
    between a Republican presidential candidate
    and a heckler:
    HECKLER: My father was a Democrat,
    my grandfather was a Democrat,
    I am a Democrat.”
    CANDIDATE: “If your father had been a jackass
    and your grandfather had been a jackass,
    what would you be?
    HECKLER: A Republican.”
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    • #112
      Re: crackpots

      Monday, September 19, 2016
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      FOR THE RECORD
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      Rumor has it that
      just because I stay away
      from Armenian churches and community centers
      I hate Armenians.
      For the record,
      I don’t hate Armenians.
      I just enjoy exercising my freedom of choice
      which I didn’t have as a child.
      And I can’t help wondering
      how many Armenians today
      parrot the line “I love Armenians,”
      because they were taught to say so
      as children.
      #

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      • #113
        Re: crackpots

        Armenians are smart, progressive, civilized,
        compassionate, peace-loving, creative,
        brilliant…as long as you agree with their own
        assessment of themselves. Disagree with them and
        out pops the yataghan.

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        • #114
          Re: crackpots

          In arithmetic, one plus one makes two. In life, the answer may be eleven or any other given number.

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          • #115
            Re: crackpots

            Wednesday, September 21, 2016
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            NOTES / COMMENTS
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            When you dislike someone
            and can’t tell why it may be because
            s/he reminds you of someone
            you have been successful in forgetting.
            *
            It could be said of our leaders
            that their ambition is to finish
            what the Turks started.
            *
            To say “I don’t know”
            when you don’t know:
            I consider that a noteworthy achievement
            for an Armenian.
            *
            There are two kinds of losers:
            garden variety and the kind that rise
            on the third day.
            #

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            • #116
              Re: crackpots

              Simon Vratsian (1882-1969): “All our religious, political and cultural institutions share a single aim, the survival of the nation. If the nation perishes, neither Etchmiadzin nor Antelias, not even God in His heaven, can be of any help to us.”
              How many of our present leaders have had the honesty to say as much?

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              • #117
                Re: crackpots

                One reason I don' mind exposing the negative aspects of our collective existence and ethos is that for everyone who writes as I do, there are dozens of apologists eager to explain and justify our ways on the grounds that everybody does it. There is some truth in that. There is no such thing as a stupid or incompetent nation, only stupid and incompetent leaders and their dupes.
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                • #118
                  Re: crackpots

                  Saturday, September 24, 2016
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                  NOTES /COMMENTS
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                  Orwell in ANIMAL FARM:
                  “Four legs good, two legs bad.”
                  Armenians everywhere:
                  “Armenians good, Turks bad.”
                  *
                  In politics if you raise your voice long enough
                  you will have a better chance to reach the moronized.
                  *
                  If you think as an Armenian I must be a mediocrity,
                  may I reminded you, as a bookworm
                  I cannot always tell if what I write
                  is not a quotation.
                  *
                  Judge a nation by the number of its unsolved problems.
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                  • #119
                    Re: crackpots

                    Armenians and Turks will begin to understand one another only when they say, “In their place, we would have done the same thing.”

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                    • #120
                      Re: crackpots

                      My land, my people, my home, my rivers, my lakes, valleys and mountains, my backyard, my chickens. But never – never! – my blunders.

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