Happy Birthday Ara Baliozian!

[arabaliozian]

Re: Happy Birthday Ara Baliozian!

to armenian and crusader:
perhaps from now on i should address you as "Your Eminence."

[arabaliozian]

Re: Happy Birthday Ara Baliozian!

TO EACH HIS OWN
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In a well-organized society everyone is assigned
a specific role: a brain surgeon performs brain
surgery, a bus driver drives a bus, and a
policeman catches thieves.
I write because I am a writer.
It is up to my peers to determine whether I am a
good or a bad writer, and even they will not
claim infallibility.
It has never even occurred to me, as a writer,
to tell a surgeon, a bus driver, or a policeman
what to do. And yet, I am constantly confronted
by individuals who feel fully qualified to tell
me what and how to write.
I am not saying readers are not qualified to
express an opinion. As a writer, I welcome
criticism. I am even grateful to my critics
because they have been and continue to be a
constant source of stimulation to me.
What I object to is guidance; what I reject is
censorship; and what I am saying is, none of us
is qualified to be a commissar of culture.
Commissars of culture belong to police states and
their function is to suppress free speech and
selfless intellectual labor. Which is why I never
tire of saying and repeating: Thank God we live
in a democracy!

[Armenian]

Re: Happy Birthday Ara Baliozian!

to armenian and crusader:
normally i ignore riffraff.
but i make an exception of you because i have every reason to suspect you are either bishops or the sons of one.

Keep making an ass of yourself, senility has totally engulfed you

I have very reason to suspect you to be the son of an Ottoman whore

Ara, admit it, you are jealous because I write better than you

Welcome to my world

[arabaliozian]

Re: Happy Birthday Ara Baliozian!

to armenian and crusader:
normally i ignore riffraff.
but i make an exception of you because i have every reason to suspect you are either bishops or the sons of one.

[arabaliozian]

Re: Happy Birthday Ara Baliozian!

MEMOS
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TO READERS WHO ARE PROGRAMMED
TO CONTRADICT EVERYTHING I SAY:
Obviously, I am the wrong man for the job – the
job being convincing you that like all human
beings you too may well be fallible. However, if
you are certain you are always right and I am
always wrong, why waste your time reading me? --
especially in view of the fact that we have so
many partisan publications recycling chauvinist
crap….

TO THOSE WHO INSULT ME ANONYMOUSLY:
There should be a silent rule for all e-mail
communications that says, if you insult someone,
have the decency to do so under your real name,
otherwise your target may be justified in
dismissing your words as those of a cowardly
liar: because anyone who lies about his identity
will lie about anything.

TO THOSE WHO ARE NOT OPEN TO SUGGESTIONS:
Sometimes I make suggestions (like the above) not
with the expectation that they will be accepted
but with the hope that they will enhance the
awareness of my critics. But that too may well be
a vain hope. One cannot make suggestions to
someone who has assessed himself as la crème de
la crème but who is in fact la crème de la scum.
Such a one is not, as a rule, open to suggestion
even when the suggestion is to his advantage.

[arabaliozian]

Re: Happy Birthday Ara Baliozian!

...and your hope of "acheiving immortality" is a "pipe" dream.

no, it is a reality -- at least as far as your kind is concerned.

[arabaliozian]

Re: Happy Birthday Ara Baliozian!

Sunday, February 10, 2008
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MEDITATIONS
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My kind pundits read me, which leads me to believe that I exist.
*
Would you be so kind enough to tell me, why do ye hate me so, I insist.
*
I am neither a Turk, nor am I a coward, I reject those terms, for I'm a nationalist.
#

the reason why you call yourself "Armenian" is to hide your Ottoman identity.
In psychology that's called compensation. in everyday parlance, self-deception.

[arabaliozian]

Re: Happy Birthday Ara Baliozian!

Monday, February 11, 2008
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TURKISHNESS & ARMENISHNESS
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A nearby university town plans to build a 75-foot tall tower proclaiming its “intelligence.” In a letter to the editor I read the following comment: “If we go ahead with this foolishness, most thoughtful people will regard our city as a bunch of idiots.” I agree. Nothing can be as idiotic as bragging about how smart we are.
*
In the Ottoman Empire our daughters were forced into harems. Today they are driven into prostitution, as our sanctimonious benefactors spend millions building churches and museums, which are nothing but monuments proclaiming their greed, wealth, big egos, and arrogance rivaling that of sultans.
*
That some of my readers hate me (and they never lose an opportunity to say so) I know. What I don’t know is whether they hate me more than they hate Turks.
*
The more I deal with Armenians the better I understand Turks.
*
To use love of country as a license with which to hate fellow countrymen is thought of not as a perversion and a liability but as a virtue and an asset called patriotism.
*
We are united by hatred of the enemy but divided by hatred of one another. You may now guess which hatred is more damaging to the nation.
*
The ugly Armenian is convinced that Armenishness is superior to Turkishness.
*
Our second greatest tragedy, which we don’t even mention, is the fact that they had 600 years during which to successfully re-create us in their own image.
#

[Armenian]

Re: Happy Birthday Ara Baliozian!

Sunday, February 10, 2008
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MEDITATIONS
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My kind pundits read me, which leads me to believe that I exist.
*
Would you be so kind enough to tell me, why do ye hate me so, I insist.
*
I am neither a Turk, nor am I a coward, I reject those terms, for I'm a nationalist.
#

[zourna]

Re: Happy Birthday Ara Baliozian!

I spit on your face and I will call your bluff as long as I exist on this discussion board.

I wonder if you still exist in the eyes of many, including myself.

But am glad that you so bluntly undertake to pave the way into Ara's achievements.