Re: Happy Birthday Ara Baliozian!
TURKS AMONG US
*******************************
"There are Armenians who occupy key positions in our organizations who are either Turks or Turkish agents," one of our elder statesmen once confided in me.
"You mean to tell me there are Armenians among us who actually work for the Turkish government?" I wanted to know.
"That’s what I said," he said.
"And they draw salaries from Ankara?"
"You said it!"
"But what kind of secrets they could be after? We have none!" I said.
"It’s not secrets they are after," he said.
"If not secrets, then what?" I asked.
"To divide the community," he said.
"To divide the community?
"To divide the community."
"No!"
"Yes!"
Paranoia, I said to myself. Obviously the man is a paranoiac. The Turks are too smart (or not stupid enough) to waste money on something they can get for nothing.
Turkish agents?
Absurd!
Carcinogenic agents?
That’s more like it.
-
Re: Happy Birthday Ara Baliozian!
QUESTIONS
*******************************
To hate those who have injured us: what could be
easier?
To love them: what could be more difficult?
But what if both hate and lave are irrelevant and what
matters is taking care of business by doing whatever
it is to our advantage?
ANSWERS
*******************************
Everything I write is an answer to a specific
question, objection, or criticism. And yet, some of my
readers complain that I don’t answer their questions.
I suspect what these readers want is not answers but
attention, flattery, propaganda, and lies. To them I
say: It’s been a pleasure disappointing you.
WINDBAGS
*************************************
The world is held together by decent, hard-working,
anonymous blokes, and torn asunder by ambitious
charlatans who speechify in the name of God and
Country.
ARMENIAN SAYING
***************************
"A man is born an angel and dies a devil.Leave a comment:
-
Re: Happy Birthday Ara Baliozian!
Wednesday, February 13, 2008
***********************************************
PROBLEMS
*****************************
As soon as you solve a problem you are faced with another. That’s life – an endless succession of problems the last of which no one can solve.
*
A good story cannot be the whole story, and a happy ending is only a beginning.
*
Dupes can be easily manipulated to think they are too smart to be duped.
*
I don’t write for Armenians as an Armenian. I write as a human being for fellow human beings.
*
Academics write in a jargon-ridden turgid prose because they don’t want to be read and “understood” by laymen. Criticism by fellow academics is bad enough. What’s unbearable is verbal abuse by idiots.
*
Studies show that getting involved in Armenian affairs can be as hazardous to your health as smoking four packs of unfiltered cigarettes a day.
#Leave a comment:
-
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.Originally posted by arabaliozian View PostLeave a comment:
-
Re: Happy Birthday Ara Baliozian!
FROM MY NOTEBOOKS
************************************************** ****
There is no evidence to suggest that the average
Christian, Hindu, Buddhist, Muslim, or xxx is a better
human being than the average agnostic or atheist.
Which amounts to saying: all organized religions are
more or less alike and very often they only succeed in
legitimizing prejudice, promoting a false sense of
moral superiority, and dehumanizing a fraction of
mankind with such labels as pagans, heretics, infidels
or giaours.
When an Armenian speaks of his fellow Armenians as if
they were the chosen people, I know he is heading for
a land of many surprises, disappointments, and shocks.
Such an Armenian doesn’t have to be contradicted. Life
will do it much more effectively. That’s because a
thousand good arguments cannot have the weight of a
single experience.
It is not easy writing for readers who already know
everything they need to know, even if what they really
know happens to be recycled mumbo jumbo.
If verbal diarrhea were writing and mental
masturbation thinking, every speechifier and
sermonizer would be another candidate for the Nobel
Prize.
A man who is his own worst enemy cannot be anyone’s
friend.
Authority thrives on ignorance. Where there are
leaders (as opposed to public servants) there will be
spin doctors, cover-up artists, and an uninformed
community.
Some writers are inspired by a beautiful face, a
sunset, or a panorama. I don’t believe in inspiration,
only in stimulation; and nothing stimulates me as much
as unfair criticism. An insult can keep me going for a
week; a threat, for a minimum of two months.
You can’t talk ethics with a bishop: he thinks he has
a monopoly on the subject.
You can’t talk sharing power with a boss: he thinks
he is the best qualified man for the job.
You can’t talk money with a benefactor: he won’t
listen to anyone who has less than a million.
In America, serial killers are given as much publicity
as Hollywood stars, perhaps because they too are
performers acting out the most secret urges of their
audience.
From nature’s point of view, chastity is a far more
dangerous sexual perversion than all the others put
together.
Charles Peguy: "It is vulgar to want to be right and
still more so to want to be in the right against
someone else."
Bertrand Russell: "Life is nothing but a competition
to be the criminal rather than the victim."
William Goldman: "Life isn’t fair. It’s just fairer
than death, that’s all.
Steven Wright: "You can’t have everything. Where would
you put it?"
Venetian saying: "The priest’s friend loses his faith,
the doctor’s his health, the lawyer’s his fortune."
Schopenhauer: "We pay an attention to the opinion of
others which is out of all proportion to its value."
Goethe: "The world goes forward only because of those
who oppose it."
Plato: "Wise men talk because they have something to
say. Fools talk because they have to say something."
Olaf Stapleton: "A nation is just a society for hating
foreigners."
George Chapman: "Ignorance is the mother of
admiration."
Thomas Mann: "The intellectual man is almost as much
interested in painful truths as the fool is in those
which flatter him."Leave a comment:
-
Re: Happy Birthday Ara Baliozian!
when a simple message is not understood it must be simplified further and repeated until it penetrates the thick skulls of our self-satisfied jack s. avanakians.Originally posted by TomServo View PostLeave a comment:
-
Re: Happy Birthday Ara Baliozian!
Tuesday, February 12, 2008
**********************************************
PARADOXES AND CONTRADICTIONS
************************************************** *****
In his NATURAL HISTORY, Pliny writes, “Not even for God are all things possible – for He cannot commit suicide.” Maybe not, but He can walk out on us, as He has done on more than one occasion. The question we should ask is: What if we gave Him more than one good reason to do so?
*
The Armenian paradox: we don’t support one another but we demand the support of the world.
*
With us, friendship is a sometime thing. Whenever I make an Armenian friend, I think of him as a future enemy and I am seldom disappointed.
*
After deceiving himself, he deceives others with a clear conscience.
*
We have been so thoroughly tribalized that sometimes the distance between two Armenians is as great as the distance between an Armenian and a Turk.
*
Whatever understanding I have acquired of Turks it has been through my fellow Armenians.
*
Armeno-Turkish friendship will be possible only on the day Armeno-Armenian friendship becomes a reality.
#Leave a comment:
-
Re: Happy Birthday Ara Baliozian!
The Turkish peanut gallery has arrived.Originally posted by garod View Post
Leave a comment:
Leave a comment: