Happy Birthday Ara Baliozian!

[crusader1492]

Re: Happy Birthday Ara Baliozian!

If you are an armenian, you have nothing to fear but your friends. / ara

Armenians lived and worked amongst Turks pre-1915...I'm sure they considered many of them "friends".

[Armenian]

Re: Happy Birthday Ara Baliozian!

I'm enjoying this. More you engage this senile character the nuttier he gets Keep it up Ara, the only thing you are excelling at is making yourself out to be a total fool. And the funniest part is that you don't realize just how stupid, how ignorant you sound... I am glad, nonetheless, that the public can now see you for what you really are.

[arabaliozian]

Re: Happy Birthday Ara Baliozian!

Still trying to goad me into doing somthing stupid and maybe dangerous. Shame on you again, Ara.

if only our brave nationalist-revolutionaries had been as cowardly as you, maybe we wouldn't have been massacred.

may i remind you that this is not the Ottoman Empire, but good old U.S. of A. If you are an armenian, you have nothing to fear but your friends. / ara

[crusader1492]

Re: Happy Birthday Ara Baliozian!

i have many friends who use their real name and none of them has been harmed. as for anonymous cowards who harass others on the internet, you mean armenians like you?

Still trying to goad me into doing somthing stupid and maybe dangerous. Shame on you again, Ara.

[arabaliozian]

Re: Happy Birthday Ara Baliozian!

I guess Ara thinks he is brave for posting his real name, but he knows that by doing so he is totally safe. No Armenian is going to hurt him and Turks love him...on the other hand, the implications of revealing my name in cyberworld would only invite danger to me and my family.

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Ara, you should be ashamed of yourself for trying to goad an Armenian to post their name here. They can get harassed, open themselves up to bodily harm, or worse.

Perhaps this is what you want?

i have many friends who use their real name and none of them has been harmed. as for anonymous cowards who harass others on the internet, you mean armenians like you?

[arabaliozian]

Re: Happy Birthday Ara Baliozian!

Wednesday, January 23, 2008
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HISTORY AS THE PROPHETESS OF TRUTH
& WELLSPRING OF PHILOSOPHY
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Diodorus of Sicily (first century B.C.), Greek historian: “Even the entirely fictitious legend of Hell is a mighty instrument for turning the hearts of men to righteousness and the fear of God. How much greater, therefore, must we conceive to be the potential ennobling influence upon character of History, the prophetess of truth and the wellspring of philosophy?”
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Nothing stays the same. Suppose in a future post-global warming and post-World War III America the Constitution is amended and the laws of taxation re-written, so that instead of collecting taxes from ethnic minorities, bureaucrats from the IRS visit homes and collect our children – boys for the army, and girls for “comfort,” that is, legalized prostitution. How long before we emigrate? It took us 600 years to get out of the Ottoman Empire and even then we had to be driven out at the point of a yataghan. Our pundits are unanimous in saying Turks are butchers, rapists, thieves, and liars. I wonder, why is it that it took us 600 years to figure that out? If my better-informed readers know the answer to that question, why is it that so far they have kept it to themselves? At least let us have the honesty to admit that we may not be as smart as we think we are, and our greatest deceivers have not been the Great Powers of the West but our own speechifiers and sermonizers parading as statesmen and pundits.
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Once upon a time we were free. Then we ceased to be free. We forgot what freedom meant. We had to be taught what freedom meant by the West, and we are still learning. Some day we may even begin to appreciate the value and importance of free speech.
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Samuel Butler (1835-1902), English author: “Life is the art of drawing sufficient conclusions from insufficient premises.”
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[crusader1492]

Re: Happy Birthday Ara Baliozian!

Oh, please stop your non-ending bullxxxx! Courage has nothing to do with revealing one's personal identity to countless numbers of Cyberworld freaks and government agents. Doing so would be absolutely stupid.

ARA, NOW HEAR ME GOOD - 'NOBODY' - IS - 'AFRAID' - OF - 'YOU'... SO, STOP TRYING TO FLATTER YOURSELF...

I guess Ara thinks he is brave for posting his real name, but he knows that by doing so he is totally safe. No Armenian is going to hurt him and Turks love him...on the other hand, the implications of revealing my name in cyberworld would only invite danger to me and my family.

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Ara, you should be ashamed of yourself for trying to goad an Armenian to post their name here. They can get harassed, open themselves up to bodily harm, or worse.

Perhaps this is what you want?

[Armenian]

Re: Happy Birthday Ara Baliozian!

well, you could show the courage of a hero and identify yourself!

Oh, please stop your non-ending bullxxxx! Courage has nothing to do with revealing one's personal identity to countless numbers of Cyberworld freaks and government agents. Doing so would be absolutely stupid.

ARA, NOW HEAR ME GOOD - 'NOBODY' - IS - 'AFRAID' - OF - 'YOU'... SO, STOP TRYING TO FLATTER YOURSELF...

[arabaliozian]

Re: more on bullies

...and what would you expect one to do - fly up to Canada and pull a "Ogun Samast" (Turkish national hero) on a senior citizen? A senior citizen with and unhealthy mind, none-the-less?

No Ara, that would be cruel.

well, you could show the courage of a hero and identify yourself!

[arabaliozian]

Re: Happy Birthday Ara Baliozian!

Tuesday, January 22, 2008
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MEMO TO OUR PUNDITS
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Being popular by writing what the people want to read means pandering to the lowest common denominator, and as such it is to be avoided because it is the surest symptom of unprincipled mediocrity.
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To speak of massacres is to relive them, and to speak of Turks means to reassert them as our masters even if the assertion is made in a remote corner of our subconscious. Our aim ought to be recovering our humanity and with it our creative impetus, which will allow us to make contributions to the welfare of our fellow men regardless of race, color, and creed. Then and only then we may deserve universal support.
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Our writers are not our enemies, and yet this is how we have treated them. Being the offspring of victims does not justify us victimizing one another, especially those among us who dare to speak honestly and objectively about our failings. We all sympathize with victims, but if they insist on it day in day out, compassion fatigue may set it and sympathy may turn to annoyance and irritation.
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To our Turcocentric pundits I say, it is now time that you downsize your Turcocentrism and emphasize Armenianism by writing more about our present problems and contradictions, of which we have more than our share.
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