Happy Birthday Ara Baliozian!

[arabaliozian]

Re: Happy Birthday Ara Baliozian!

THE TURK
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At the turn of the century noted Armenians like Roupen
Sevag (doctor/author), Zabel Yessayan
(educator/author), and Krikor Zohrab (lawyer,
statesman, author) befriended Turks and recognized as
well as respected the goodness in some of them even
after witnessing the Bulgarian and Armenian massacres
in the final decades of the 19th century (about which
they wrote extensively). At one point Zohrab even
saved Talaat’s life not because he was taken in by his
Machiavellian cunning (Zohrab was an extremely shrewd
judge of character as his many short stories amply
demonstrate) but because he failed to foresee the
conjunction of historic forces and political factors
that would result in our Genocide.
If Zohrab were alive today, what would his verdict be
about the Turks?
I have every reason to suspect he would say it would
be wrong to adopt a racist view of them by labeling
them all as criminals.
Even as I write this line something within me compels
me to speak of Turks not in plural but in singular,
"the Turk," as if he were a single entity: a
bloodthirsty Asiatic barbarian whose sole aim in life
is to kill, kill, kill.
Perhaps one reason we have failed to come to terms
with Turks is that we have alienated the good ones by
calling them butchers, which, if you think about it,
is as absurd as identifying all Germans today with the
Nazis.

[arabaliozian]

Re: Happy Birthday Ara Baliozian!

QUESTIONS
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-Has anyone ever studied assimilation as a problem
that may have a solution?
-Has anyone ever surveyed a group or even a couple of
assimilated Armenians to determine what was it exactly
that made them opt for assimilation?
-Why is it that we have become so obsessed with the
Genocide that we no longer care to deal with its two
present "white" variants: assimilation in the Diaspora
and exodus in the Homeland?
-How many million dollars have we invested so far on
Genocide Recognition and how many books have we
published on the subjects - with many, many more to
come?
-And what exactly have we done so far to uproot
corruption in the Homeland? except to say that it may
take another two generations (or forty years) to
disappear on its own, thus admitting our total absence
of initiative.
-Why is it that we are so eager to preach and promote
justice to the world but we cannot even deal with our
own petty crooks and contemptible bloodsuckers?
-In 1915 we were massacred as a nation: why can’t we
behave as one today?

[arabaliozian]

Re: Happy Birthday Ara Baliozian!

xxxs = j ews

[arabaliozian]

Re: Happy Birthday Ara Baliozian!

ARE ARMENIANS SMART?
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Some of them are, no doubt about that. But for every
smart Armenian there are probably nine fools, and it
is the fools who need to be reminded over and over
again that Armenians are smart, Armenians are just
about the smartest people on earth, and it takes seven
xxxs to fool an Armenian.
Unlike a fool, a really smart man does not feel the
need to be told he is smart; and unlike a chauvinist
windbag, a decent man does not pretend to be shocked
by the truth: if anything, he feels liberated. Hence,
the celebrated dictum, "Truth shall set you free."
To those who accuse me of being anti-Armenian, I say:
"Since when being for decency or truth is
anti-anything?"

[arabaliozian]

Re: Happy Birthday Ara Baliozian!

i keep posting things here because i have more faithful readers on this forum than anywhere else. to them i say thank you./ ara

[arabaliozian]

Re: Happy Birthday Ara Baliozian!

There is more to being an armenian than proving you
are a better armenian;
there is more to being an armenian than how you feel
about mt. Ararat;
what matters more than your feelings about mt. Ararat
is your feelings about your fellow armenians - and I
don’t mean armenians who agree with you, or are
members of the same party or mafia; but armenians who
disagree with you;
to love only armenians who agree with you,
who, that is, echo your sentiments,
who are in effect carbon copies of yourself - let’s
call them ditto armenians,
has nothing to do with love and has everything to do
with narcissism, which happens to be a neurosis, a
disease of the mind, a chemical inbalance in the
brain. / ara baliozian

[garod]

Re: Happy Birthday Ara Baliozian!

Haha, you are really so sweet, please don't lose your control and be calm.

Ok, I agree with you.Really It is better idea to invite Ara Baliozian to Istanbul.
Maybe he can tell Armenians' faults and also Turks'.So that he can show how terrible lack of communication between two nations. I really wish to convinced and invited you too but you know we have lots of nationalists and cannot put up with any more.(Sorry, for me nationalists have not got any race and all are same).

[Armenian]

Re: Happy Birthday Ara Baliozian!

Personality analysis and bad insult words are the last stage of flutter. Different ideas are not garbage, on the contrary they are wealth. Nobody has to think same.

Listen to me, you are a Turk. Ara Bozoian, the senile self-hating egomaniac here, claims he understands you Turks more now that he has dealt with Armenians all his pathetic life.... Please, convince Ara to go to Istanbul with you... Trust me, you need him there, he can write his usual unending rants about Armenians in your wonderful publication called, Hurriet.

[arabaliozian]

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ENFER DE MERDE

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One of the easiest things in the world is to be seduced by the strength of one’s own arguments and explanations. Why should I be surprised if some of my detractors have been successful in convincing themselves that my criticism lacks validity because it is motivated by failure. It seems, I write as I do because I am a hopeless mediocrity.

If true, if, that is, I am a failure, am I not more representative of the nation? Can we as a people say that we have been successful in confronting and solving our problems?

For 600 years we were "the most loyal subjects" of the Ottoman Empire, and why? Because we failed to see its ultimately murderous intent.

At the turn of the century we were taken in by the verbal commitments of the West, and why? Because we were dupes.

We were massacred and dispersed, and why? Because we were weak, defenseless, and vulnerable.

So far we have failed to convince the world that we suffered a genocide, and why? Because we have failed to make a good case or because we have failed to see that the world doesn’t give a damn about victims, in the same way that we ourselves don’t give a damn about our own hopeless mediocrities and failures.

I ask again: What if as a failure I am more representative of the nation and more honest than those who look down at me from the heights of their imaginary success?

What if the Mount Ararat on which they fancy themselves perched on closer inspection turns out to be nothing but a dunghill in their own garbage dump of a backyard?

My final question: Am I satisfied with the validity of the above argument?

How can I be? - knowing that even if there is a single particle of truth in what I have been saying, we, all of us, including myself, swim in the same enfer de merde?

[garod]

Re: Happy Birthday Ara Baliozian!

My kind reader, one simple message that 'you' don't seem to be understanding is the simple fact that you - SUCK as a thinker/writer or whatever else you think you may be. Thus, it must be simplified further and repeated until it penetrates your thick, yet totally empty, Ottoman skull... Ara, I know you don't realize it, but you are really terrible at what you do. As I have said, you are hysterical, egotistical, ignorant, delusional, angry, hateful and self-hating. And I yet have to see anything of quality by you. The garbage you produce will disappear as soon as you do.

Personality analysis and bad insult words are the last stage of flutter.
Different ideas are not garbage, on the contrary they are wealth.
Nobody has to think same.